Page 11 | £3 for a bloody ice cream!!

Ilovegreentomatoes · 2021-08-22T16:12:14+00:00

Live in south east not sure if that has any relevance. Just doing some walking and stopped of at an ice cream van.Got a small ice cream (one scoop) and been charged £3! Am shocked. Not brought an ice cream from a van for years but are these the prices? And if so how do families with kids afford this?. Maybe I was just ripped of but AIBU to think things like this are ridiculously expensive and how does a family with a couple of kids afford things like this?

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Ilovegreentomatoes · 22/08/2021 23:28

@QueenBee52 you have nothing to apologise for it's the caped crusaders that have done that. Honestly they need to start their own thread.

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QueenBee52 · 22/08/2021 23:29

[quote Ilovegreentomatoes]@QueenBee52 you have nothing to apologise for it's the caped crusaders that have done that. Honestly they need to start their own thread.[/quote]
thank you

and I still believe you were over charged lol 🌸😂

IncessantNameChanger · 22/08/2021 23:29

My kids have £3 ice creams on days out. It's not a every day or every month kind of thing. We arent rich or poor. My dh is currently sole earner.

Unless it's a regular weekly thing throughput the year it doesnt really factor.

My mum is very out of touch and had a tea in greasy spoon years ago and was "more money than sence" it was 90p! She would have a fit in Costa. She is loaded and this is why. Tea at home is about 10p I guess so she expects it to cost 10p in the cafe.

I dont mind paying £2 for a cup of tea once a week.

When we have have been strapped we just dont buy these little treats. They are just treats. No one needs them a on regular basis.

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Ilovegreentomatoes · 22/08/2021 23:30

@QueenBee52 forgot for a minute what the thread was about 🤣

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SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 22/08/2021 23:30

Sorry I shouldn't have suggested it..

But you still say that at your cousins farm, they don’t deliberately impregnate the cows repeatedly, take babies away so the milk can be used for humans, give the babies a milk substitute and they don’t kill the cows when milk production decreases. Maybe your cousin owns a sanctuary? If it’s a dairy farm in Scotland, then it operates as any other dairy farm does, no matter what award they have and it will do the things listed.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 22/08/2021 23:31

Like a dog with a bone fgs

QueenBee52 · 22/08/2021 23:31

[quote Ilovegreentomatoes]@QueenBee52 forgot for a minute what the thread was about 🤣[/quote]

😂🤣

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 22/08/2021 23:32

Ilovegreentomatoes

It’s common for threads to take many twists and turns. It doesn’t stop you complaining about the price of the staple food that is.... ice cream. 🤷🏻‍♀️

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 22/08/2021 23:36

If only the poster hadn’t told lies....

CourgetteGlutTony · 22/08/2021 23:38

Give it a rest FFS

Shallwegoforawalk · 22/08/2021 23:39

@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand

My thinking is that a 99 is an ice cream cone with a flake in it. Can be any kind of ice cream, it's the choc flake that means it's called a 99.

QueenBee52 · 22/08/2021 23:39

My mum is very out of touch and had a tea in greasy spoon years ago and was "more money than sence" it was 90p! She would have a fit in Costa. She is loaded and this is why. Tea at home is about 10p I guess so she expects it to cost 10p in the cafe.

Aww your wee Mum .. this did make me chuckle 🤣

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 22/08/2021 23:43

Give it a rest FFS

Why don’t you tell the poster with her ‘fantasy farm’ to give it a rest? If she hadn’t lied, I would have stopped posting long ago.

QueenBee52 · 22/08/2021 23:45

[quote Shallwegoforawalk]@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand

My thinking is that a 99 is an ice cream cone with a flake in it. Can be any kind of ice cream, it's the choc flake that means it's called a 99. [/quote]

Yip.. it's a 99'er here ... lovely 🍦☺️

PalmarisLongus · 22/08/2021 23:47

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

Give it a rest FFS

Why don’t you tell the poster with her ‘fantasy farm’ to give it a rest? If she hadn’t lied, I would have stopped posting long ago.

So you think that all dairy farms in Scotland do:

deliberately impregnate the cows repeatedly, take babies away so the milk can be used for humans, give the babies a milk substitute and they don’t kill the cows when milk production decreases

Ok...

Well I did a 5 second Google for Scottish Organic Dairy Farms and found several that are unlikely to do what you claim.

If they did, they wouldn't be allowed to be called organic.

Feel free to go have a look and see what they say for yourself.

Tatty bye nah

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 22/08/2021 23:52

If they did, they wouldn't be allowed to be called organic.

Lol... 🤦🏻‍♀️ you do know that’s not what organic means. I’ve been in plenty myself and have A LOT of footage. Cows on organic dairy farms are forcibly impregnated. The requirement for a farm to be ‘organic’ isn’t what people imagine.

Greystray · 22/08/2021 23:54

Ours are still 99p for a 99 (south coast too, though I notice they use different pricing boards when they're parked down by the beaches rather than driving through the streets) maybe I should patronise our local icecream van more often!

PalmarisLongus · 22/08/2021 23:56

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

If they did, they wouldn't be allowed to be called organic.

Lol... 🤦🏻‍♀️ you do know that’s not what organic means. I’ve been in plenty myself and have A LOT of footage. Cows on organic dairy farms are forcibly impregnated. The requirement for a farm to be ‘organic’ isn’t what people imagine.

I see you know better than the association's policing it...

Get all the experts in Mumsnet.

But I am not derailing to argue with a NNNIA

QueenBee52 · 22/08/2021 23:57

@Greystray

Ours are still 99p for a 99 (south coast too, though I notice they use different pricing boards when they're parked down by the beaches rather than driving through the streets) maybe I should patronise our local icecream van more often!

yes I thought ... that was why they were called 99'ers.. 🥴

it cost 99p 🤣 nice to see some places still support it 🌸

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 23/08/2021 00:04

besides being milked... what does the Cow go through?

Now you've done it. You've only gone and put another 50p in the Vegan.

QueenBee52 · 23/08/2021 00:05

@NeverDropYourMoonCup

besides being milked... what does the Cow go through?

Now you've done it. You've only gone and put another 50p in the Vegan.

Sorry 🤣😂

blessedbethechocolate · 23/08/2021 00:12

I live in the south east and the ice cream van that comes round my estate charges £1 for a ice cream with a flake. The one at the park on the other hand cost £4 an ice cream.

SupermanWithTheGreyHair · 23/08/2021 00:22

Yeah, let’s all gang up together against the person who hasn’t told lies and side with the person who has lied. And pretend that organic farms don’t do the things I’ve said. Makes perfect sense.

QueenBee52 · 23/08/2021 00:25

@blessedbethechocolate

I live in the south east and the ice cream van that comes round my estate charges £1 for a ice cream with a flake. The one at the park on the other hand cost £4 an ice cream.

that's a good local ice cream van .. the kids must enjoy it 🌸

PalmarisLongus · 23/08/2021 00:35

There is many ice cream shops near to me, there is one I am really wanting to try. They do a bowl with 6 different flavoured mini scoops in for £3.50
But I hesitate because £3.50 is enough to get a whole tub of Organic Scottish Dairy Farm Ice Cream...