To thing the icecream man is up to something?

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It's January. It's 4c and it's raining.
Surely no one is buying enough icecream to make it worthwhile?
Yet the van is still slogging on, Yankeedoodling his way up and down the street.
We live in a village, there's no events nearby.

White chicks!!

Ha! You're not in Oxford by any chance, are you? I only ask because we have this theory about our ice cream man. He always seems to come around our way at the strangest times, for example, he'll come at around 8.30pm in the winter or in January/February.
Maybe it's just a new thing with ice cream men, but when I was a kid back in the 70s/80s, they only came around in the summer and in the afternoons!
I suppose, really, they're only trying to make a living and get any business they can, but it does make you wonder, doesn't it?

Where I used to live my house overlooked an empty care home (it was for sale) the ice cream man used to park up there to spend time with a girlfriend. I’d sometimes see the van rocking 😮

I’ve never bought from a van since.

The icecream man in our part of pembs is known as a drug dealer.

Ours sell drugs.

Are you in the midlands? Ours has just come past

He came Christmas day one year

In my hometown the ice- cream van is there every night. I can remember fighting with my siblings for the empty Irn Bru bottles to take back😂😂

This thread reminds me of a film from the 80s (?) with Bill Paterson and Claire Grogan about the Glasgow ice-cream wars (an actual thing). Can't remember the title, but was an enjoyable, quirky film.

When I was a teenager I used to buy all my ciggerettes from the ice cream man.

Ours sells a range of drugs, in my child free days ‘Uncle Dave’ was a convenient source of weed, a baggie also got you 50% off any ice cream.

I used to drive an ice cream van as a student job one summer. I wasn't aware of any illicit sidelines!

My dh would 100% go out in the snow to buy a fucking ice cream. I’m sure there are plenty of other idiots who do too...

Had anyone actually bought drugs off an ice cream man? I had the same suspicion because we get them from February at the latest and there's no way they sell much in ice cream in my neighbourhood. But when I googled it, it didn't seem to be a "thing" in the sense that not much info came up? No press coverage etc? Just wondering if anyone here knows for sure?

I can eat ice cream anytime, and he probably sells drinks and sweets.

As far as I'm aware - he only sells icecream. That's all that's advertised anyway. No coffee, or hotdogs or milk - just icecream.

Oh, OP!

The ice-cream is a cover. Most ice-cream vans sell drugs and cigarettes.

Actually the dog next door often goes in the queue for an ice cream too.

He must be on drugs

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The film was Comfort and Joy.

Oh come on OP. Surely you must know what he's up to?

I think Singlebutmarried has it:

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My next door neighbour buys his kids ice creams almost EVERY SINGLE DAY (he bought some about half an hour ago today) which means the ice cream van (which has the loudest jingle I have ever heard) parks up right outside my house 'Yankeedoodling' (thanks, OP) away. He's not interesting enough to do drugs so I know it's not that.

Years ago I managed a Mr Whippy franchise with probably 10 vans. We sold nothing but ice-cream! We had set rounds and went out 363 days a year to keep the rounds from being poached and so that people living there understood that we would be there every day

I think it's likely a CIA or MI5 surveillance van tbh. Or possibly a police stake out.

The ice-cream is a cover. Most ice-cream vans sell drugs and cigarettes.

Really? Either I live in a naice area or you guys all live in dodgy ones! or I'm old

I think this would be a great cover for an invasion in a Doctor Who episode.