Ice cream van chimes

[viques]

Ok, first world whinge approaching.

First of all let me say I love icecream, proper icecream that is, not the stuff they sell on vans and I wouldn't buy it but have no objection to anyone else buying it, and I don't really mind that the vans always park outside my house, that's not the issue.

But aibu to scream silently because of the chimes?

Van I plays this: " Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do ,I'm half crazy, all for the love of". Then it stops, no "you", I get caught out every time, will it play, will it give me closure, can I carry on with my life without feeling that something is missing? No. Every time I am let down.

Van 2 is another matter. It plays The Stripper. Yes, yes, come little children, come, be lured by the siren call of an exotic dancer to buy your lollipops and cheap whipped air masquerading as proper gelato. Surely there is something wrong in encouraging children to equate mild sexual titillation with ice cream gratification, isn't this a form of low level grooming, shouldn't I be reporting them to a safeguarding team somewhere?

I remember when ice cream vans played the teddy bears picnic, all the way through,sold proper scoops of icecream ,and that was enough for us.

Don't know what the tune is the ice cream van plays here, but the speculoos and mokka ice cream is great, and the straciatella isn't bad either. I will have to try the pistachio next time. Mr Whippy is unknown here in Belgium - it's real ice cream or sorbets and lovely sturdy cones that don't collapse.

I used to love the 'raspberry' sauce that came on the mr whippys (early-mid 80s) and have been searching for it ever since to no avail. I expect its ingredients are now banned. But if anyone CAN supply me with any I'm willing to pay good money.

YANBU at all.
Missing the 'you' of the end would give me the rage.
I too think the stripper music is an odd choice

YANBU about the music but YABU to be so dismissive of ice cream sold on vans! There is a time and a place for a Mr Whippy as well as for posh gelato

The one local to my DBF plays "Teddy Bears Picnic" which is pretty sinister.

We don't get ice cream vans in the part of London I live in, and I really miss the sound.

Why are all the tunes broken? They sound really sinister.

Ours plays a creepy version of the Popeye theme tune.

I long for Greensleeves.

Ours plays the piece that's the Monty Python theme (don't know its correct name).

Narrows eyes and curls top lip in barely restrained loathing of scareyteachers not so stealth boast about superior icecream van products in Belgium.

Speculoos is the most disgusting thing ever.

The ice cream van at my last house played Rudolph the red nosed reindeer and Jingle Bells ALL YEAR ROUND

Give me a 1970 style Mr Whippy with raspberry sauce and nut sprinkles over speculoos any day.

I've lived on a main road my entire life, as a result, ice cream vans don't stop here. The fella who lives down the hill (in a road parallel, but ungettable to from my house) is the ice-cream man, with a van, who plays his chimes on the way round the corner so his wife can hear and put the kettle on. He's done it every day for as long as I can remember. It's match of the day.

I got my own back on the imaginary ice-cream gods by spending my teens working on an ice-cream van which didn't have chimes. Pulling a Mr.Whippy (ooh-er) is an actual skill.

Smack My Bitch Up here. Won't somebody think of the children?

Match of the day here.

There are no ice cream vans where I live in the countryside. I miss them.

We have an award winning ice cream place in the nearby town but I actually prefer a Mr Whippy with red sauce!

The tune played should match the British mood, like the teddy bears picnic but remixed by Portishead. Upbeat yet depressed.

I had never thought of The Teddy Bears' Picnic sounding sinister but you're right!

Our ice cream van plays Pop Goes The Weasel. I would love to hear it play Flash Harry's theme.

We have had two ice cream vans in the midst of a turf war. I live in an estate of new build flats and houses, and there are literally hundreds of small children in a relatively small area, and a lot play outside as it's mostly pedestrianised. The one that's been here for years plays pop goes the weasel in quite a decent volume, but recently theres been a new one that plays greensleaves at an absolutely outrageous volume. The first time I heard it I actually flinched, and wondered for a full few seconds who's car alarm had been set up to play greensleaved before seeing it pass the window. Pop goes the weasel ice cream van is not happy about noisy green sleeves ice cream van coming on his patch

There are 2 ice cream vans which come round where I live. One has Yankee Doodle Dandy as it's tune,the other is the Colonel Boogey March,probably better known to a lot of people of a certain age as 'Hitler has only got one ball,the other is in the Albert Hall'......

circumlocutor Not in a vanilla ice cream base though, it's lovely, and you get a hint of the speculoos spices and the crunch of the pieces of biscuit.

Viques The flavours might be good, but I do miss a 99. I used to buy the most amazing Turkish coffee ice cream in Cornwall that had bits of coffee bean in it, and a great prune and armagnac one as well.

Lesmgueen - the Monty Python theme is Liberty Bell by Sousa.

Re the ice cream vans that sell drugs - do they sell ice creams as well, or just drugs?

Where I grew up, ice cream vans ONLY play greensleeves, nothing else at all. My children don't believe me!

Mind you my youngest has always complained as the poor pet has perfect pitch and they are always out of tune ...

This one sells Afghan poppy farmers