£3 for a bloody ice cream!!

[Ilovegreentomatoes]

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?

@InFiveMins you basically sum up what I'm trying to say.

That's over priced. 1 pound ish over here. We went to butlins and it was 3 pound for 2 scoops of luxury ice cream. The coast was around 2 pounds for 2 tone whippy

*ice. Or maybe an evening with Paul Ince would help too?

@grapewine

I remember growing up in the 80's in a low-income family. Days out and ice creams were a treat, and the ice cream came from the freezer when we got home and not the ice cream van.

But we had clean clothes, food, and a secure home. Perspective is a wonderful thing.

I remember going to a friends for tea in the 70s, they sent a bowl to the icecream van to be filled up. I thought they were ever so posh.

£2.40 in our local park.

I've bought packs of waffle cones, decent ice cream in a tub and a proper ice cream scoop for home, works out about 25p each, and tastes better.

I think £3 is absolutely extortionate for a run-of-the-mill ice-cream van

Our local ice-cream place makes all their ice-cream on site (you can stand and watch them churning it) and you get two scoops for £3.50, including a wafer. 50p extra gets you sauce, sprinkles and a flake.

They do milkshakes, iced coffees (made with their vanilla ice cream), cookie burgers, ice-cream sundaes and none of it costs more than £5 per item.

£3 for one scoop of vanilla is absolutely a rip off, lol.

One hour at basic wage buys 3 ice creams.

Also:- The cost of running a van and the Heath & Hygiene regulations keep increasing.

I didn't even get a flake or a waffle for that!

We too live on SC and this is a standard price for an Ice Cream here really . I was a little taken aback at being charged £ 4.50 each at an Ice Cream shop in a historical town recently!

But an ice cream from a van has always been a big special, last day of holiday sort of treat.

Not an everyday occurrence.

In the 70s/80s eating out at all, for most people was super special. One, twice a year.

Nowadays it's much much more common to eat out, coffee shops etc

I remember going to a friends for tea in the 70s, they sent a bowl to the icecream van to be filled up. I thought they were ever so posh

I would have, too.

When I would ask my mum for an ice cream from the ice cream van 20 years ago she would say no, it's expensive, you can have a choc ice from the freezer.

You can still get a box of choc ices for £1 if it's that important for everyone to have a treat.

My icecream van has the audacity of
Calling single scoops 99s

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

Being made to be continually pregnant, forcibly impregnated so they produce milk for humans rather than their own babies isn’t something I’d fancy, and then there’s having their babies taken away from them too. And when milk production levels drop they’re slaughtered..of course they’re stunned before they’re killed but the stunning often fails......other than though they’re obviously just living their best life.

Basically note to self- never buy again from an ice cream van.

We're in London suburbs and ice cream van that comes to our local park is £1.50 for a single ice cream

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

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

Being made to be continually pregnant, forcibly impregnated so they produce milk for humans rather than their own babies isn’t something I’d fancy, and then there’s having their babies taken away from them too. And when milk production levels drop they’re slaughtered..of course they’re stunned before they’re killed but the stunning often fails......other than though they’re obviously just living their best life.

not on my cousins Farm here in Scotland..

those conditions are not in place.

Daughter sometimes asks for a van ice cream when she hears the plinky music.
I say no.
Then when I go shopping i pop to Heron and get a big tub. Sometimes they have Jude's Ice Cream for £1 a tub. Then she gets 6 days if ice cream for not much money.

234Pepperplant As a child in the 60s ,our School had an annual trip to London Zoo .People who were on free school meals didnt have to pay at all .We were unusual that my DGP helped a lot and Mum worked so we paid .Its 2021 now! surely most children are entitled to a treat ? People saying Ice Cream is a treat as though talking about Smoked bloody Salmon FFS!

YANBU, I often wonder how lower income families manage. OTOH, businesses need to make a profit and pay a decent wage, so its hard all around.

We went to a Mr Whippy ice cream van last week. No prices were displayed on the van.

We had 3 x 99s cones with sauce and nuts, 1 fruit lolly, 2 tub things with Mr Whippy soft ice cream and a small mini milk sized type fruit lolly stuck in the top with a flake on the side and sauce on top of each, then 1 more Mr Whippy ice cream tub with nuts and sauce. It came to £10, which we thought was a bargain as we were expecting £15 to £18 or more. Also, each one had a standard 1 measure of the soft ice cream as far as I could tell.

At those prices it is something I'd do much more often, as I felt ripped off last time I'd used one.

We're in the SE, but I was at a friend's house which is in a rougher area as I'd had ice cream earlier in the year but from outside where I live, which is a nicer area and right near a park (which may inflate prices, I don't know).

I couldn't say if it was the same van it not, but that was £3 per 99 cone and minimum £3 per tub with prices upto £5. Prices were displayed.

@Ilovegreentomatoes

I guess just feel sad that is the way it has become.An ice cream out shouldn't be an unaffordable treat for a low income family it just highlights how bad it is.

That’s nothing new. I was born in the early 1970s and we were a family of 9 on one wage. We never had ice cream from a van or a shop. We would have it from a tub from a supermarket when it was someone’s birthday. We didn’t go on holiday either or have “days out” unless you count going to the local park to play on the swings as a day out. Child poverty is nothing new.

@QueenBee52

Your cousin's farm sounds like a non-standard dairy farm. Most milk is intensively produced. I'm not vegan myself but there's no denying how milk is produced.

Reminds me of buying 2 glasses of Sauvignon Blanc in a pub in Barbican, London a couple of years ago. I handed over a £20 note (would have expected to pay about £6 per glass in WM) and they asked for another £8! 😱

@Ilovegreentomatoes

Nmw should definitely be £10.50 + to deal with the real cost of living.

And how much do you think these treats would cost then

not on my cousins Farm here in Scotland..

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