to think ice cream vans are unnecessary in this day and age

[AlaskaNebraska]

and to look DAGGERS at anyoen who buys therefrom?

Bibbity- you can make cider ice lollies, just make sure dh & dcs don't find them!

Our ice cream van comes up every night at tea time and usually 2 or 3 times a DAY in the holidays. Its quite cheap though and when you live up the top of a steep hill 20 minute walk from the shop you can quite appreciate it.

I liked it when they used to sell fags. don't anymore cos they kept getting robbed.

whats the problem if you don't like them don't buy from them...or are you having a problem saying "no" to your little dahlings.

My mum used to always buy the dog a cone from the icey.

Oh and the ice cream man where I used to live got shot!! I'm now looking at all you ice cream van haters with suspicion....was it you???

I love them as we never got ice creams as kids due to my mum saying " he plays music when hes run out !!"

I love it when the ice cream van comes round every Saturday. My ds Wilf is deaf and for the half hour preceding the ice cream vans arrival he constantly keeps saying "i cree 'an ere et?" The other thing that amuses me is that it plays the Blue Peter tune very loudly and Peter Purves lives 800 yards down the road and must think he is being tormented!! [wink

WE used to give the ice cream man out side our school as much money as we had, so if we only had 5p, we jsut got aa pea sized ice cream dripped on the cone,

An alcohol van would be good...the housewives could rush out for a G&T.

YABU and also very miserable

Hahaha at Peter Purves being tormented! (:

lol Jaffa I have a few friends and rellies who still say that - so mean!
I think it's a bit rude to say only "common" people buy from them tbh. I love going to the icecream van - they're cheaper and closer than the shops. AND, really nice to have a proper icecream on a cone - we don't have an icecream parlour where I live - we have to drive nearly 10 miles to the nearest one, so it's nice to not have to wrestle it out of the tub once in a while

Commone people?

Well I have a tattoo so I can obviously slurp down a Mr Whippy with no concerns. Ice cream vans do the best ice creams, YABU.

I had a boyfriend from Belfast whose dad had an icecream van. But his dad was involved in all sorts of enterprises, some of them borderline dodgy, some of them decidedly dodgy including smuggling things over the border. I can't remember what it was that used to get smuggled across the border in Ireland, would it have been that home-made whisky?

YABU - I have just had to eat half a tub of Ben & Jerry's because you said ice cream

I used to hate the ice cream vans coming round and waking my DD up from her lunchtime nap without fail every day during any school holiday. It used to drive me crazy! Soooo LOUD! I felt like driving up outside his house in the middle of the night and blasting music really loud (PND maybe)?! BUT I don't mind them so much these days (now the nap isn't so essential)and actually bought an icecream from one the other day

We have one outside school and have an ice-cream every single day. Must be common as muck! It's italian though, not mr whippy. I also love the one that drives down our road playing tinkly music at 3.15 on Sundays.

Alaska of course YABU VVVVVVU tbh, you misery you really are . When I hear the ice cream van it brings back many many happy memories of my childhood. Did hear the ice cream van when it was cold weather though, that was pointless tbh.

I love ice cream from a van - it brings back childhood memories - espcially if it is the good Italian stuff (there used to be one by the transport museum that does "good" ice cream - hope it will get a spot close to the new museum).

But I have taught ds something that I learnt on here: "the music means that they have run out of ice cream"...... evil

OP You miserable whinger.

AIBU to think that a lot of people on AIBU ATM need to unclench?

Bibbitybobbityhat (hope i got that right)! The big supermarket beginning with A (fairly knew to this, and not sure if allowed to say store names) Sells cider lollies!!

Oooh thanks Isobelsmom. Yes, you are indeed allowed to say Asda. And Waitrose.

jaffacake 2 - I used to say that to my DCs when they were small. They don't believe me anymore but still don't nag for ice creams when he parks near our house, so it was obviously good training!!

They do always ask for one when we go to a local forest for a walk though. It's a good spot for the ice cream van - doesn't even have to drive around and gets loads of business!

It's not the van I object to more the quality of the ice-cream.

Lol, thats good to know!! Yes indeedy it was only a fortnight ago that i bought some!

Ha! When DD was small was never had an Ice cream van come round -oh no. It was a Music Van that simply drove round dispensing lovely music for us to listen to