Your ice-cream van growing up

Intox

Still have the same ice- cream van in my area for the last 25 years

On top of selling cones, 99s, and boats, it would also sell the likes of chomps, wham bars, desperate dan bars, roy of the rovers, banshee bones, hot lips etc - pretty standard stuff.

For a short period in the mid to late 90s, there was a rival van who would come around and sell playstation 1 games! had them taped to the sliding window facing out

Was there any oddities that your ice-cream van sold over the years?

van in the estate over used to have the match of the day theme for its siren

maximoose

Cigarettes, bangers and fireworks.

rubadub

I heard rumours of hash in one estate near me, and how it would come along with the cheery bell ringing and a bunch of lads in their late teens & 20's would come running out like little kids.

Rory Gallagher

rubadub wrote: »

I heard rumours of hash in one estate near me, and how it would come along with the cheery bell ringing and a bunch of lads in their late teens & 20's would come running out like little kids.

An estate near me had similar accusations drawn towards it.

One van was rumoured as having the ice cream men in it that spat in the Ice Cream.

rubadub

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

One van was rumoured as having the ice cream men in it that spat in the Ice Cream.

I rarely believe these stories, well not to the extent that people make out, it doesn't make sense why the food industry would be such a magnet for such low-life scumbags. When you go to study at cathal brugha street you'd swear there's an entrance exam to make sure you're a degenerate with no morals!

The ice cream men presumably might want to eat some the odd time.

L1011

My mother wouldn't let me use them on claims of poor hand hygiene, and in the knowledge that even if she gave me the money to go get one from the real shop it was too far to bother walking. Using my own laziness as a weight control method...

steveone

I did a show on radio about songs that should be converted to whippy van chimes- went brilliant