Ice cream van chimes

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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.

Crankley, the ones I saw came in cartons with UHT fluid inside, similar to a UHT milk carton, that gets poured into the chiller. One of the better ones (Kellys?) include - Skimmed Milk, Cream (15%) (Milk), Sugar, Maltodextrin, Emulsifier E471, Stabilisers E466, E412, E407, E401, E410, Acidity Regulator E331, Flavouring, Colour E160b

You'll be able to compare this to the Haagen Daz.

We had one playing Greensleeves where I grew up ("You can't have one from Fred. He's too expensive.")

The other played the theme from The Third Man. Never heard it since as an ice cream chime.

We have numerous normal ones then one that plays Hitler Has Only Got One Ball. My neighbour once enlightened me that the Hitler ice cream van is the only one that sells ice cream as their core business, contrary to my expectation!

Zilla1, the ingredients for Haagen Daz vanilla are: Fresh Cream (39%), Condensed Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Egg Yolk, Vanilla Extract - I'll stick with that.

DH taught our toddler that ice cream van chimes means it’s sold out of ice slcream🤣

Our neighbourhood is haunted by what I call "the icecream van of doom". It plays "Just one cornetto" (or whatever the fuck it's proper name is) every.single.day between 5pm and 9pm - yes, even in December. I feel like it should be something that's mentioned on a home buyer's report.

Crankley, I agree (unless those E numbers in the Kelly's magically equate to extract of pure Madagascan vanilla and different components of free range, organic eggs.)

Zilla, I would hazard a guess that they don't.