£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?

Have I missed your post with the name of the farm @QueenBee52?

@Ilovegreentomatoes

I get angry that in London and south east things are triple the price but wages are not necessarily better.

Same price as an ice cream in my Midlands city. Not just a SE thing. I think an ice cream was probably £1-£1.50 when I was a kid 30 odd years ago.

Well they can't keep their prices low and make a loss because some people can't afford it. Can't afford it don't buy it...

Send me your Address.. I'll send you his Farm address

Just send you my inbox on here.

*to my inbox

This was a basic ice cream-one scoop no fancy bits nothing.And not a branded ice cream either.Im starting to feel like my dad moaning about the price of things! But honestly I was genuinely shocked at the price although the vast majority seem to think that sounds right so maybe I am being unreasonable?.

Did you not even get a flake with that, op? I prefer to buy ice creams eg bulk pack of Magnums in a supermarket. Way cheaper. But tricky if you're out and about though and the kids spot Mr Whippy.

Now OP, you know that living in the south east of England means you have to pay £10 just to go out your front door, don't you?

It's all very well people saying 'well these are the prices', but if everyone refused to pay them the prices would have to come down 🤷‍♀️

Ice creams probably aren't much less than £3 here in Leeds, I've certainly paid that for Yorkshire dales ice cream in a small cone at a fairly touristy reservoir.

I paid a little less for a Mr Whippy at a city park but it was very small and very soft ice cream, which indicates lots air and less ice cream. No flake or sauce and only the basic wafer cone.

We also have a fancy ice cream farm nearby and if you aren't careful with the extras it can come to about a fiver for the biscuit cone, flake and more than one ice cream flavour.

I was recently charged £8 something for two ice creams from the van. The prices were not listed so pretty sure I was charged price of ice cream + some sort of middle class premium (or whatever they felt they could get away with). Kicked myself for not asking the price beforehand. Lesson learned.

Ice cream from a van has always been a treat That's the point of it.

Compare it with other prices nowadays - eg the price of a newspaper, a cup of tea or a coffee - and £3 doesn't sound out of kilter. And I'm bloody tight! 🤣🤣🤣

It sounds expensive to me , but then I haven't bought ice cream cones or whatever for years.
How a family manage on a day out I don't know as kids see these things and then they want one ( of course )

We got a 99 and an oyster from a van in north Berwick, £8.50

It's all very well people saying 'well these are the prices', but if everyone refused to pay them the prices would have to come down 🤷‍♀️

I really don't think people realise how much iverheads are. So while everyone argues taht wages need to go higher, people simultaneously argue that someone's wages need to go down "cause ice cream for everyone, innit"

@Ilovegreentomatoes

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

Well yes, but then you have to put the cost of the ice cream up to pay the wages of the ice cream seller.

@Ilovegreentomatoes

I get angry that in London and south east things are triple the price but wages are not necessarily better.

I live in the north east and £1.50 will get you a single scoop and some strawberry sauce (aka monkey's blood) maybe a spare crushed end of a flake from the local vans that come round, I'd expect to pay about £3 on a day out for one and it's been like that for years now. £2 max as you expected would be very unusual on a van on day out.

I grew up in a low income family and 35 years ago, food on days out was expensive, including ice cream. We just didn't buy it. Off the local van or on days out. I went without many things, things I actually needed so an ice cream from a van is not something I can say I feel hard done by in not having.

about the right price for car boots etc round here and though its cheaper to buy some from supermarkets to be honest its not the same is it?

How many days do you reckon the van person has managed to sell a decent amount of ice creams with the lockdowns and terrible weather we've had this year? It's not a charity

its all relative really,ingredients,transport & continuous fuel to keep the stuff cold,& i don't know anyone who works for zero

I paid £4.50 in Southbank

This is average where I live but I paid £10 for takeaway fish and chips last night. That took my by surprise. Cheap treats are not very cheap these days.

It's not bad here in rural Wales. Ice cream van charges about £1.50 for a single Mr whippy cone and the local cream shop between £1.70 - £2.50 for a single scoop depending if you want a normal cone or a waffle cone. They charge 20p-30p for additions such as sprinkles, flake or fudge stick.

This was not a day out.It was in my local park.