To be annoyed at staff asking my kid what she wants?

[YourIcyGoldOrca]

Went to get ice cream, and ordered a icecream for my kid.
The member of staff then asked my 9 year old if she wanted a flake, but no mention of the extra cost (£1 extra on top of the £4 icecream). Just really annoys me, feel like they should ask the person paying not the kid who will not take into account or be aware of the cost.

Asking if you want a flake is pretty standard convo at an ice cream van. I’d also expect a server to ask the child if they wanted a flake, in much the same way they ask do you want sauce if it was clear they were the intended recipient. Yes, there may be an extra cost involved but if I couldn’t afford any extras I’d of specified that at the point of ordering.

I agree about kids asking for things themselves. My DS has quite a lot of anxiety and was very pleased when he could ask for his own ice cream!

If you are already spending £5 on an ice cream then another £1 isn’t much. (Still cheaper than Padstow!).

I like when people address children rather than talking through the parents. We can’t expect children to respect adults if we show them no respect or kindness themselves.

I went to a funfair yesterday it was £5 ago for one go on hook a duck.
It use to be a £1.
And all other games on there was the same price apart from one that was £4 to play darts.
I felt robbed i really did but i did win a teddy.
Thank god i dont have kids.

Ooh I love baby goats

That’s not so. I used to get a 99 quite often and it was nowhere near 99p. (unless you are just kidding on)
PP is correct with the 20p.

YABU she’s 9!

Not true.

99 Flake - Wikipedia

And they'd been around since the 1930s (my granny remembered eating one on the beach before the war) so unless in the 1930s they'd predicted correctly decimalisation and that 99p would be the right price for the ice cream with inflation....

When I was little the most expensive ice creams were Cornettos and they were 45-55p. They'd have never taken off if they'd been double the price of the most expensive ones.

I always had a Zoom. They were 20p.

Oh I love baby goats, have you got any pictures?

Missing the point but our ice cream van sells ice cream with flake, sprinkles & monkeys blood (strawberry sauce) for £1.50. I'd be bankrupt by now if the DC were getting £5 ice creams.

Missing the point but our ice cream van sells ice cream with flake, sprinkles & monkeys blood (strawberry sauce) for £1.50. I'd be bankrupt by now if the DC were getting £5 ice creams.

They existed a long long time before decimalisation so no, they weren't called 99s because they cost 99p. I seem to remember a cornet being 6d and a 99 being 9d, so the Flake cost 3d. I can remember my parents grumbling about that.

From the Cadbury website: An Ice Cream served in a cone with a Flake 99 is the UK's favourite ice cream. In the days of the monarchy in Italy the King had an elite guard consisting of 99 soldiers. Subsequently anything really special or first class was known as "99". When Cadbury launched its small Flake for ice creams in 1930, the UK ice cream industry was dominated by ex-pat Italians. So, to appeal to Italians we called our superb Flake a "99".

There is no right or wrong here. Just the way you prefer it to be done and the way the server did it.

I thought I was going to get a strip to en
off me lol. 😊. It’s odd that I find ‘my kid’ (singular) offhand and uncaring; but ‘my kids’ plural I find acceptable 🤷‍♀️ Perhaps I’m the weird one! Either that or it’s a semantic mystery 🤣

I’m 66 and they’ve always been 99’s even in the dark ages

I don't think they were called 99s because of the price. I mean, there has never been a mandated price for ice cream sellers to sell at! Must be another reason

I agree with you but ice cream parlor attendant doesn't sound like a job that comes with a lot of training so you may not always get a high degree of correctness.

I'd just answer for the child, if your answer is "no." Or ask the child yourself, if you don't care either way.

And those flakes these days are only a blip of the size they used to be.

Oh my God - yes there is an ice cream van there in the middle of nowhere charging prices like daylight robbery!!!

Most sensible thing is to address the parents and say "what can they have?". No dithering from kids so it speeds things up, and no awkwardness when kids order things that they are not allowed

Calm down Karen, the world’s not going to end if you have to insert yourself into the conversation and tell your kid “no” they can’t have the flake.

That’s of course assuming that you’ve previously told your kid “no” at some point previously in their lives.

Your kid is 9 not 2! Why are you babying her? Like fair enough to have said to her beforehand if you didn't want her to order a flake because of cost, but very strange to not want your 9 year old to order her own food. At 9, if my kid had wanted an ice cream and I didn't, I would have stood in sight of the queue and let him queue up himself!

There's really no need for rudeness and misogyny!

ODFOD