Is it weird to ask for ice cream cones to be put in a paper bag?

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Treated my DD to ice cream tonight and the girl behind the counter looked at me like I had two heads when I asked if she could wrap them up for me.

When we used to get ice cream cones they were always wrapped up in thin greaseproof type paper and put in a bag so you could take them home- is this not done any more?

What? Weirdest thing I've ever heard. Who takes an ice cream home? Isn't it part of the pleasure of strolling through the park, find an ice cream van and then race to eat it before it melts?

In Northern Ireland, a poke is literally an ice cream. Not the bag itself.

The look on my Scottish daughter's face when my Northern Irish mother asked her for the first time years ago "do you want a wee poke?" 😀

Fascinating.
What’s a nougat cone?

We have a proper Italian ice cream shop where we live on the east coast of Scotland. The cones would get the thin bit of grease proof paper on them and then 2 or 3 cones in a paper bag. The shop is still open now but I've not seen the paper in a long time.

Can't be that common as I've never seen this anywhere in Northern Ireland. Certainly not in my time in North Down or South East Antrim.

Perhaps it's a generational thing before the 1980s or a Italian ice cream van/parlour. Holywood used to have an ice cream parlour in the 1990s (Blue Monkey), but never used greaseproof paper.

Assuming as you say Coia's Cafe you are in the same part of the world as me. I have never in all my years in Glasgow seen anyone either asking for cones to be wrapped, or taking them home to eat.

Even in Baltic Scotland, you eat a cone straight away, or it melts.

I would say it thoroughly depends on the icecream.

All the icecreams I know would not survive even a short trip and start melting quite quickly. Actually 2 days ago it was instantly and started dripping! 😖 maybe their freezers weren't so cold....

Yes , NI. Haven’t come across it for years , my father used to bring them home that way (by car) . I tried to suggest they might have a covering for one I wanted to carry as far as school collection recently (walking 100/ 150 yards) . I think they thought my head was cut. 😬

I've had it done with Oyster cones but never pointy cones.

R00tat00tt00t Even more reason then to make a special event of having it surely.

Never heard of it. Sometimes they come with a small serviette wrapped around them but never in a bag!

I remember this but more on a slider. (But i didn't call it a slider- i can't for the life of me remember what i did call it. When the ice cream van came round someone would be sent round to it and would bring back everyone an ice cream. There would be thin greaseproof paper wrapped round the wafer sandwich. And actually, thinking about it over a cone too to stop the ice cream from each cone touching each other.

We didn't have a freezer though , just a small freezer shelf at the top of the fridge so we didn't store ice cream the same as we do now. We would be more likely to go get a block of (bright yellow) ice cream in cardboard from the shop and cut a slice and it would be finished there and then.

I'm from Fife and this was in the 70s. This has taken me back.

I've attached a picture of a single nougat. For bonus points it is sitting on the greaseproof wrapper. If you've never had one, the nougat part is a rectangle of wafer, covered in a coconut flavoured marshmallow, topped with another waver and surrounded by chocolate. A single nougat has ice cream then a plain wafer on top. A double nougat has another nougat on top. So good. (Picture from pintrest.)

I've not seen or heard of this either, we serve ice cream at work so I'll be waiting for someone to ask now!

Have gone out with a bowl to get scoops of ice cream from a van at a campsite.

The icecream van that came around the streets didnt always come at the time you wanted icecream so you would ask for your icecream cone, wafer, nougat or oyster in a paper bag to put in the freezer for later.

I love those so much. Can’t eat them any longer as I have coeliac disease. 😢

the nougat part is a rectangle of wafer, covered in a coconut flavoured marshmallow,

The marshmallow inside is coconut flavoured? I've never noticed that. It just tastes to me like the inside of a Tunnock's Teacake or Snowball. Have I been going to the wrong ice cream places?

As for the OP's question, I don't think that I've ever seen anyone ask for a wrapped cone. Oysters and nougats are usually put on a tray before being lightly wrapped and placed in a bag but I've never seen the same done with a cone.

Yes thank you! That is the paper.

@DownNative this would have been when I was young so late 90s/early 00s, although I asked my dad this morning if he would still get it and he said yea and he brings them home for the grandkids if they're about.

Not an Italian ice cream parlour, just one owned by a local NI family. North Antrim based, beside the coast.

Wouldn't do it from a van, as you'd either be out and about, so walking and eating, or the van has come close to your house. Would only be if my dad was in town and we were at home and he wanted to bring us back a treat. It wasn't whippy ice cream, so survived the 5 min drive.

The question is if you can afford the difference, why would anyone choose a single nougat when you could have a double nougat? The nougats are so good, much nicer than a little scrap of wafer.

Sometimes if there were quite a few cones they'd lightly wrap the greaseproof paper around the cones and pop the cones into an empty ice cream tub all stacked up on top of eachother... all cones survived!

wtf??? How would they stand up, surely they would become a mess knocking into eachother

Yes OP! I’m obviously older than some people on here!
I’m not Scottish but ice cream vans always did this if you were walking back home (down the street). They obviously didn’t bother if you were eating it straight away.

My grandparents would go out when they heard the ice cream van & put the bags in the freezer. We would eat the ice creams after tea.

Rectangle ice cream sandwiches (ice cream block between two wafers) were always put in a bag.
They would also put the rectangle ice cream cones (with a block of ice cream in them) in a bag.

See pictures attached! 😄

They wouldn't stand up. Say like a big ice cream tub you'd buy for a family (no idea what the size is). You'd have layer of paper, a couple of cones, layer of paper, couple of cones, layer of paper. Laid flat