Posted on 07/08/2021 6:17:37 AM PDT by mylife
Surely you have already heard the siren call of the ice cream truck as it makes its rounds this summer. Over and over it plays its slightly out-of-tune glockenspiel (?) song, calling children and adults out of their overheating apartments to purchase a treat that will spark their imagination, remind them of the fleeting nature of pleasure, and imbue them with a caloric and spiritual strength that they do not deserve but so desperately need. Its song is a Pavlovian haunting, a call to frivolous vice, a reminder of a childhood to which we can never return. Will you resist it, turn up your air conditioner, and suffer through another obligatory glass of water—or give in to the song of the ice cream truck?
Recently, the vast assembly of “The People on the Internet,” an unwieldy and unknowable communal force across social media platforms that is more cacophonous and ridiculous than a meeting of British Parliament, was puzzling over this meme, which questions us to do the unthinkable and choose, once and for all, the best ice cream truck treats. What seems like a simple question is undone by the very subjective nature of ice cream choice, but please allow us to try and rank them once and for all.
(Excerpt) Read more at thrillist.com ...
I got bim bam banana pops, dixie cups
All flavors and push ups, too
I’m your ice cream man
Stop me when I’m passin’ by
They say all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy
its on the list
Chocolate Eclair. There is no other contender. My dog votes for whatever that magic truck person passes out the window! She hears the music jingle and she’s out the dog door, patiently waiting at the curb long before the truck is in sight.
Slojo
You could hear that music from blocks away and we'd all rush home to collect whatever nickels, dimes and quarters we could scrounge up so we would be ready for when it came down our block.
You still see them in urban areas but almost never in the suburbs. That's probably because the kids in the suburbs never go outdoors!
You don’t see those on ice-cream trucks.
Yep. Chocolate eclair!
My freshman and sophomore years in high school I spent the summers driving an ice cream scooter for my uncle. My number one seller was always the fudgesicle. Ice cream bars came in second and Dreamsicle’s came in third.
Ed “Mister Frosty” Markey ruined ice cream trucks forever.
We still have 1 ice cream truck that makes the rounds July-August and plays that classic music. I make sure there’s some slush funds on hand for the kids when he’s on our street. They might be the last generation to have those memories.
It's between this:
And this:
Call in the Google maps embedded Good Humor Truck App. It sends an alert via text message to indicate the ETA to your street, so you can spend maximum time on Facebook and still get your ice cream fix.
Whatever happened to the Good Humor ice cream trucks, and Mister Softee? I haven’t seen any of those around in decades. But I’ve seen beat up old vans selling ice cream and popsicles in recent years.
I remember my mom being so mad at my aunt for finally showing me at 10 years old what that mysterious music really was haha
The good humor man had a distinctive truck and jingling bells. We loved him.
Later came a soft serve truck. And music.
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