Is That The Ice Cream Man Hear?

[Wee67]

What was your treat when the Ice Cream Man came by? I mixed it up between bomb pops, drumsticks, vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles and even the occasionally toasted almond bar. The one I went to the most often, though, was the Screwball. I loved Italian Ice (Water Ice in my Philly 'hood) and always liked getting the gumball in the end. The gumball was frozen into a chalky flavorless-ness, but I loved it just the same. So what was your standby back in the day?

[PNGwynne]

We didn't have an ice-cream man, but I liked drumsticks and eclair bars, especially the strawberry ones.

[LonnieFisher]

I thought the Ice Cream Man was just for the ladies...
At least, that's how it seemed to me.
We didn't have an ice cream man who came around, but we did have a milkman who delivered milk once a week.

[Marvelmania]

Loved hearing that music they played. My friends and I would run screaming inside to grab some cash from our parents then speed back out and line up to be served!!! Too bad that pretty much ended for kids but then again you hardly ever see kids outside playing anymore.

[Brown Bear]

I was just telling my kids the other day how my all time favourite treat as a kid was Buried Treasure ice cream bars.
I wish there was somewhere to get these today.
Screwballs were up there too.

[Hector]

American: Vanilla soft serve. Occasionally chocolate soft serve...but I preferred vanilla. Followed by drumsticks and eskimos.

Mexican: Paletas de pińa y coco...and raspados de fresa con lechera. Followed by Mangonadas.

[Nostalgiabuff]

the ice cream truck does not come though my neighborhood anymore but I hear it all the time in the apartment complexes to either side of my neighborhood. you would think the dickhead would come through my neighborhood too, there are tons of kids

I don't really remember what I got as a kid, but now, when I do chance upon the ice cream man, I love me some Choco tacos

[EmergencyIan]

I used to like the Superstar Fudge bars (chocolate and banana flavored fudgesicle. That was in Indiana.

Today, I’m in NYC and when the ice cream truck is parked across from my building I get the vanilla soft serve in a cone. Here we have Mister Softee trucks.

- Ian

[TrekStar]

Haven't seen the ice cream truck in my neighborhood in years, but they came around often back in the day, and I enjoyed
getting what was called a circus suprise, it was orange or raspberry sherbet on a stick and when you finished, it reveled
a circus clown or circus/zoo animal, I would wash the stick and try to collect the set.

[Klosterheim]

I want my ice cream man to be the guy from Phantasm!, ha!, ha!, ha!, ha!, ha!

orange push ups
pink feet

from the store:

fudge sticks
scooter crunch
ice cream sandwiches

[LordMudd]

We still have one in my neighborhood, which is great for the kids, but I hate that music.


CCC.

[palitoy]

Ours were on bikes and they were called "Dickie Dees" I don't know why. They sold this thing called a "Dracula Delight".

They went under in the late 1980s, in the 1990s I was at my friend's girlfriend's place and it turns out her uncle ran the Dickie Dees. They took me to the space freezer and I had possibly the last Dracula Delight in the world. It was magical.

[PNGwynne]

Your'e always in the right place at the right time lol. What was the treat like--"bloody" cherry interior?

[palitoy]

Your'e always in the right place at the right time lol. What was the treat like--"bloody" cherry interior?

Oh man, the fates were smiling that day, always ask questions, it was purple on the outside, vanilla with cherry blood interior.

[PNGwynne]

As a kid, I would have loved that.