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as I sit here savoring my Frito pie and ice cream, I can't help but wonder how many of you still get the ice cream truck rolling down your street.

my street has several trucks that roll down every day & night. makes me happy seeing a bit of healthy competition.

does he visit you? I've always wondered if this is more of a regional thing, or whether everyone gets ice cream trucks.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Sadly the truck would be the one we head into town when buying some. You miss a lot of stuff living in the sticks.

 

[Coconutt]

Yes I live in a Hispanic dominant neighborhood on the poorer side of town and we get ice cream trucks and carrots people with tamales and elote

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Yes, every late spring/summer like clockwork.

 

[EverydayBeast]

As many neighborhoods I lived in just once had an “ice cream man” last I remembered, getting ice cream like that feels special.

 

[Mistake]

The water trucks that sprayed roads in china would always play the ice cream song. Annoyed me to no end

 

[Salz01]

Yes. Still get ice cream trucks here in Texas. Blows my mind.

 

[ReBurn]

No, but I'm in a more rural area.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Nope. Live on a quiet residential street. The only thing that comes around occasionally (probably gone by now as I dont think it's come around for years)...... DING DING DING! A truck goes around seeing if anyone has lawnmower blades or garden shears needing sharpening.

As a kid, we used to get Dickie Dees and Good Humor teens on bikes selling popsicles for 50 cents. That was the 80s and maybe 90s. That shit all disappeared long time ago. Maybe they went broke. I remember awesome strawberry shortcake, bloody dracula, and the ghost with a gumball as a nose.

 

[bad guy]

In the summertime we have one in our (German) neighborhood, he's Italian, they make the good stuff.

 

[GymWolf]

In sicily we have different types of ice cream trucks, they don't sell pre-packaged ice creams, they sell this stuff and they are around all year, not jist in the summer, believe it or not, a lot of people eat cold things with cold weather

If you go in full piggy mode, we have one called ferrari that is basically 1 brioche with ice cream inside fused with another brioche with ice cream inside and covered in whipped cream, lizzo was 50 kg before eating one of those...

 

[MudoSkills]

Yes, a drug dealer driving an ice cream truck shows up quite often in summer.

 

[HRK69]

Every summer

But I live near a large square that features an expansive children's playground

 

[T8SC]

No, it's January.

 

[N0S]

 

[Chuck Berry]

Literally looks like a shit sandwich

 

[Hookshot]

Yep.

 

[sono]

from time to time in the summer

 

[Laptop1991]

Every day in the summer especially.

 

[Putonahappyface]

All year round regardless of the weather.

 

[GymWolf]

Literally looks like a shit sandwich

I didn't had time to find something with lemon and strawberry

I assure you it taste better than most of the "ice cream" you can find in us

 

[Chuck Berry]

And yet It probably taste better than 95% of food you've eaten in your life

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[John Marston]

No but in spring/summer we still get an old Portuguese dude riding his knife sharpening cart down our streets

 

[GymWolf]

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I edited, but yeah, you can bet on it, unless you hate ice cream or sweet stuff in general (like me).

 

[Chuck Berry]

I edited, but yeah, you can bet on it, unless you hate ice cream or sweet stuff in general (like me).

Yeah Im sure I'd inhale it lol

 

[winjer]

There used to be an Ice Cream truck that passed by my street, maybe a decade ago.
But it didn't sell individual ice-creams. It sold packs, with a ton of variety. It was great and it was cheaper that way.
So I usually bough enough for a month and put then in a big freezer we had in the house.
But eventually, it just stopped coming by. Don't know the reason, maybe it wasn't selling enough to maintain the service.

 

[GymWolf]

Yeah Im sure I'd inhale it lol

What?

 

[Chuck Berry]

What?

Im saying Im sure Id eat the hell out of it lol

 

[Putonahappyface]

Literally looks like a shit sandwich

2 girls 1 cup ptsd right there.

 

[AJUMP23]

I actually have ours come down the driveway. It is abou 600 to 700 feet long and he drives down every Thursday to sell.

We missed last night because we were at soccer but I have it on video.

 

[Chuck Berry]

2 girls 1 cup ptsd right there.

All I was thinking as I was typing the comment

 

[drganon]

Occasionally during the summer.

 

[Stitch]

yeah in summer his broken screeching speaker always gives me a jump scare

 

[TintoConCasera]

What is this and how can I get one.

 

[cormack12]

We have one inconsistently, looks like this

 

[GymWolf]

What is this and how can I get one.

Travel to america

 

[BennyBlanco]

Constantly. One regular one and one that you have to order by app hours in advance.

^you literally can not approach this truck with $20 and walk away with ice cream. It’s the dumbest shit. They drive around the neighborhood playing the music too. Like if it’s by appointment only and you don’t accept what are you playing music for?

 

[GymWolf]

Constantly. One regular one and one that you have to order by app hours in advance.

^you literally can not approach this truck with $20 and walk away with ice cream. It’s the dumbest shit. They drive around the neighborhood playing the music too. Like if it’s by appointment only and you don’t accept what are you playing music for?

Scream truck? Who is the owner?

 

[TintoConCasera]

Travel to america

Damn, I'd be shittin' fire for weeks after eating that.

 

[GymWolf]

Damn, I'd be shittin' fire for weeks after eating that.

Maybe something less hardcore on the ass (but you would probably get an heart attack instead)

 

[V1LÆM]

i can't remember the last time i seen (or heard) one. used to get them all the time as a kid in the 90s but seems like they disappeared. i've heard some people mention them so they must still be around but i haven't seen any for a long time.

 

[Trogdor1123]

During summer, yeah. Rockets are one of the best ice creams ever

 

[touchfuzzy]

In the summer yes, we live on a pretty main street. No one coming around with ice cream now in -20 C

 

[N0S]

Travel to america

 

[jason10mm]

We get a couple every now and then. Some are legit trucks with all the usual sundaes and whatnot, others are more sketch with basically an igloo cooler in the back of a SUV and some magnetic signs on the doors.

And a knife sharpening guy, that would be awesome. I'm not great at getting all the right angles across all my various types of knives.

My grandma used to have a dairy guy so she'd get a quart of milk, some butter and eggs, maybe some bread and bacon delivered every few days. Wish I could get enough neighbors interested in a service like that to make it feasible.

 

[Peggies]

No, we don't have them. I only know them from Horror movies.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Nope and Im not so keen on buying from one either. Those trucks dont have permanent cooling and defrosting and refrosting stuff is..not very healthy.

 

[Tams]

Very occasionally. They aren't as common as they used to be.

When I was at uni in Scotland, there was an ice-cream van that used to go around in the depths of winter in the evenings. Needless to say, it wasn't just ice-cream they were selling...

 

[Judge Death]

I live by the sea so I can go and get one of these whenever the fuck I like.

 

[Badlucktroll]

What about a gelato cart?