£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?

@Ilovegreentomatoes

Shoukd of checked but just handed over a fiver expecting £2 max.And this was a tiny ice cream didn't even get 2 scoops for that. I guess I started this thread as generally baffled how low to average income families afford days out with children now when you factor in the price of these kind of extras.

Ah but no one HAS to buy ice creams!

I used to tell mine the jingle meant they'd ran out of ice cream, they never believed me.

@Ilovegreentomatoes

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

I was going to ask if there was a flake in it. That ramps up the price.

I live in a coastal town in SW. Here it is generally £2.50 for one scoop, £3 if you want a 99, can't remember what two scoops cost. When I have all the GC here, six of them, we have ice creams at home, I take drinks and some sweets to the beach. I can't bear Spending £20 on a few icecreams.

I make it fun to have them at home, I have chocolate sauce and sprinkles and flakes so they make their own and have a ball.

She didn’t say it wasn’t a dairy farm, she said it was a non-standard one. I do drink milk but there’s no point denying that most of the dairy products we buy are from intensively farmed animals living in relatively poor conditions, not your cousin’s farm in Scotland.

@Kanaloa

She didn’t say it wasn’t a dairy farm, she said it was a non-standard one. I do drink milk but there’s no point denying that most of the dairy products we buy are from intensively farmed animals living in relatively poor conditions, not your cousin’s farm in Scotland.

his animal welfare is his priority 🌸

@QueenBee52 I said it was a NON-STANDARD DAIRY FARM.

Most milk is produced the way the other poster described.

[quote lannistunut]@QueenBee52 I said it was a NON-STANDARD DAIRY FARM.

Most milk is produced the way the other poster described.[/quote]

why are you shouting 🤣

Because you didn't read it properly when I wasn't shouting

To be fair, if it really is out of whack and there’s huge demand from people at a lower price, someone would set up in business next to him, charge £2 a scoop and clean up. The price probably reflects his costs and the costs of his time to make a living etc. He presumably has bills to pay etc.

I've just had two tiny scoops for £4.50 in a pot. I felt cheated! I expect it to be bigger and in a waffle cone for that.

I can send you the Farm address

If you want to you can. I have many friends involved in animal welfare, animal activism. They’ll know the farm I’m sure. Many have worked on farms throughout the U.K. to gain footage of the conditions there.

@hashbrownsandwich

First world problem.

For you maybe.

@lannistunut

Because you didn't read it properly when I wasn't shouting

Non-Standard Dairy Farm..

is still a Dairy Farm .. his practises are welfare led.. and he has won many awards..

it's still a Dairy Farm 🌸

I think you are a wee bit out of touch. I am from a low income family and "became" a low income family with dd when I became disabled and unable to work.

I well remember my parents refusing repeated requests for ice cream from the van in the school holidays it was a rare treat if we'd been super good or it was a special occasion like a birthday. We lived in the midlands at the time and I remember a Cornetto was 50p which with inflation is worth about £2.25 now so not that far off the £3. Plus there were 3 of us kids plus them so when I think of it being at least the equivalent of £6.75 a go I'd have bloody well said no too!

And even with just dd I also mostly said no it is very much a luxury like costa (pretty crap actually) coffee.

But to the pp with choc ices offered - you were posh we didn't even have a freezer at that point! There was a frozen shelf in the fridge which contained a rectangle of vanilla ice cream in a cardboard wrap from bejam and we made wafers - or if we were lucky - nougat ice cream using that.

I did similar with dd except by the time I had dd having a freezer was normal and supermarket Ice cream and lollies were considerably cheaper! A fact I pointed out to her as a small child, partly as a maths lesson, party a lesson in being a savvy consumer! (I was kinda militant on that score, dd is now 20 and there's still a standing joke between is I'll say "what are adverts for?" She'll reply "to make us buy rubbish (she is now allowed to say "shite/crap" barely - ) we don't need")

I taught her from an early age not to be sucked into buying unnecessary items by "special offers" and to check whether such offers are actually good value for money.

I'm also rather bored of the "the south east is the most expensive part of the Uk" which is not entirely true indeed one recent survey of house prices found there are at least 4 parts of the country which are far more expensive.

I've lived in London as a poor waitress and I still have friends there who aren't on high wages and they manage. It's all about priorities

This is what they cost in Crystal Palace Park.... but my local ice cream van in SE26 is way cheaper.

I was in Stratford upon Avon last week by the river and the 3 nearest ice cream places were extortionate.

Icecream van: cheapest icecream was a small (I mean small!) mr whippy with a flake £3.50!!! No.

Icecream boats: mr whippy but with a sauce swirled through it. Option not to have a flake and to be fair it was pretty big but £3!! Did go for this. Desperate times.

When you're buying for a small 1 year old you just want a tiny bit of Icecream on a small cone and really it should be £2 or under!

But even if his farms isn’t an intensive dairy farm, the fact remains that most milk is produced in the way I described. The animals suffer.

You're definitely out of touch, OP, to use your own words. Even here in the Northeast you'd expect to pay nearer £2.50 for an ice cream (although you will usually get good quality and choice).

Even a large latte from Greggs is £2.60 now, you know!

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

But even if his farms isn’t an intensive dairy farm, the fact remains that most milk is produced in the way I described. The animals suffer.

yes and there are good Farmers out there who care and are farming with animal welfare at the centre of excellence.

Oh Yes they will know his Farm.. its award winning.

One thing I’ve learnt through being involved in animal welfare is standards and awards don’t mean what people think they mean.

It’s still not relevant to the general dairy production. Most dairy purchased in the uk will not be ethically produced. And even if it is ‘ethical’ there’s a massive discourse on whether or not you can ethically kill animals.

And I think having animal welfare at the centre of farming is a bit of an oxymoron. You’re really just doing the best of the worst.