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.
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Didn't even have to remove my shoes!
“Whatever happened to the Good Humor ice cream trucks, and Mister Softee?”
We have Kelly’s Cones and she is NOT guilty.
South side of Chicago, we had Uncle Charlies growing up. White ice cream van with bells, my the kids came running. Orange pushups were my favorite.
Choco Taco is the king of them all.
This is what I grew up remembering. The truck with two freezers and no inside service station.
-PJ
Seems like those were called Bomb pops in the 70’s.
Bomb Pops were my favorite.
What’s funny is minimum wage was about 1.25 back then and I was makin 20 to 25 dollars a day.
Well, I never! Here I was waxing about your long-suffering labors as a poor child, any you were cleaning up! Lol.
By the time school started back up I had very little to show for it but I did have a good time. Did buy an old Ford truck and that managed to get me through high school. Had a 6 cylinder in it an burned a quart of oil about every 100 miles but if you kept oil in it you were good to go.
Toasted Almond Bar, that was my favorite. The ice cream man would also occasionally give us a piece of the ‘magic ice’. Froze stuff good!
We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
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