£3 for a bloody ice cream!!

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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?

@Blankscreen

At a National Trust place in Surrey today it was £2.75 a scoop. 75p for a flake I was a bit shocked but bought them anyway what do I think it was worth?

I guess if you can afford to spend £1.75 for example on an ice cream the you can afford £2.75

iMO The extra £1 extra doesn't make it affordable or unaffordable it's just our perception of what an ice cream is worth.

If money is tight I wouldn't be buying any ice creams out in the first place

I was told that there was a national shortage of flakes. I don't know if they've caught up yet though. Perhaps prices of flakes have been pushed up as a result

What was the location/area?

How low do you think low income is? 10ph is min wage.
Its a third of an hours work.
40 hours = 400 pw
1600 pm is min wage.
Im low income and I spent £25 at an ice cream van last week. Really your priorities are way off.

I'm in London (zone 3 so not central) and that sounds about right....£2-3 Sounds right. If you think it's dear, maybe get a tub.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

My parents never ever bought an ice cream from a van when I was growing up and we were well off. I earn plenty enough to afford it but don't, I just buy tubs for the freezer.

Awwww, how sad. I feel bad for you.

Running up the road after the ice cream van, clutching the money for an ice lolly, is a rite of passage for many children.

You seem to have the attitude in your post that your family is a bit superior because you never had ice creams from the 'ice cream man.'

I actually find it somewhat sad and a bit depressing.

At least you managed to tell us all that you earn plenty of money though, so I am sure that will make you feel a bit better...

I'm currently on holiday in a remote part of Wales. An ice-cream cone seems to be £3. But the ice-creams are spectacular ( made in local farms) and enormous.

Minimum wage is £8.92 ph.

For the post that said it was £10 ph.

In Leeds, £2.50-£3.00 is standard, although you can add sauce and sprinkles. I hate ice cream so I cannot judge if this is extortionate or inflation. Crisps certainly were 10p growing up.

I'm in the Midlands and a van comes round regularly. A small cone is £1 and they're absolutely huge (I struggle to manage one) that also includes any sauces and sprinkles.
I wouldn't be overly surprised at £3 though, especially in the South East

I wouldn’t say it’s sad and depressing if someone’s never had an ice cream from a van. And I don’t think it’s a rite of passage either, it’s just a treat some people have and some don’t. I’m sure those that have ice cream from the freezer do other things that the ice cream van children don’t.

I generally avoid ice cream vans. We passed one at a charity day yesterday and my children (I have five) asked for one, but a quick glance at the prices showed Mr Whippy's to start at £2.60. We popped into Tesco and I bought three boxes of fake Magnums, Cornettos and lollies for £3. I know all the local good value ice cream parlors though and can generally get children's cones for £1.50 and basic adult cones for £2-£2.50. There is a lovely lady with a van who does children's whippy cones for 80p and always gives my youngest a free one. I cringed the last time I went to a NT trust property and spent the best part of £20 on tiny tubs of ice cream.

A ‘99’ is an ice cream in a cone with a flake. It can be Mr Whippy, a scoop or posh ice cream - if it has a flake stuck in it, it is called a ‘99’.

We're in the north west, an ice-cream from a standard Mr Whippy van is around £1,50.
At a local farm you can get two large scoops in a pot or on a largeish waffle cone for £3, extra toppings at that farm are 25p each.
When we on a very low income I'd save on lunches by taking sandwiches from home so we could treat the kids to a luxury ice-cream at the end of the day.

@hashbrownsandwich

First world problem.

The response of the sanctimonious idiots.

Why is it anybody's responsibility to do the hard work of sitting in an ice cream van all day selling ice cream at a charity rate? What about that person's children? Who subsidizes them?

Last week in France we were paying 3.50 EUR for 1 scoop (but nice cone) from one place, and 4.50 EUR for 1 scoop from a more artisan type place.

@FlibbertyGibbitt

My dad would say 60 shillings ! 🤣

He sounds like my late mother, I often wonder what she's make of some of the things I buy when translated into 'proper money'!

I moved from Leicester where prices were 80p-1.00 for single cone flake and sauce depending on the van, to Tunbridge Wells where the price was 3.99.

That was a fucking shock.

Yep my kids have learned you can get 8 ice creams from the supermarket for the price of one from a truck and don't ask me any more.

Not sure I'd get worked up about this. It's not as though you're buying them daily?

@SupermanWithTheGreyHair

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??? Not sure what’s going on. I don’t have the address that you’ve offered though.

Sorry @SupermanWithTheGreyHair

I asked for it to be removed... as it would be self identifying .. and I don't wish myself to be identified .. 🌸

Christ the comments on here.
OP, I agree with you, it is ridiculous. Ignore the bitchy comments, something in the water tonight clearly x

@Boatonthehorizon

How low do you think low income is? 10ph is min wage. Its a third of an hours work. 40 hours = 400 pw 1600 pm is min wage. Im low income and I spent £25 at an ice cream van last week. Really your priorities are way off.

There are people living on way less than what you have quoted here.

Me and daughter live on less than £1000 a month and once rent and council tax is paid we have very little left.

"How low do you think low income is?"
Because I can tell you, it's a lot lot lower than you evidently think.

Some ice cream maths for you

£21 + vat for 5ltr tub of farm made ice cream. 34 scoops from a tub. 62p per scoop

Wafer cone 3p approx
Waffle cone 20p
Flake 9p.

So it's costs £1.10 to produce an ice cream for our shop. This is very good quality locally made ice cream from a farms own milk.

We would sell that at £2.80.

Wafer cone with wimpy costs about 10p but then you need the van and the machine.