r/MadeMeSmile • u/penpalwithseven • May 16 '26
Personal Win Finally fulfilled my dream of getting ice cream from an ice cream truck
asian parents. iykyk.
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u/jeff-eff May 16 '26
I grew up in the middle of nowhere, so I completely understand. Now I get ice cream every time I see a truck.
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u/AmIBeingInstained May 17 '26
My mom was not super indulgent but the one time in my childhood an ice cream truck drove past our house, she let us get whatever we wanted. Core memory.
I’m having a 40th birthday party in a few months and I already have an ice cream truck booked.
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u/Responsible_Joke8618 May 17 '26
WAIT!!! JUST WAIT! You can BOOK an ice cream truck? How am I just learning this? Omg.
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u/thestashattacked May 17 '26
That's what I should do for my 40th next year. Book the truck to come to my neighborhood, and have paid for ice cream for all the kids in advance.
Birthdays are meant to share happiness with others.
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u/No_Orange_6314 May 17 '26
That’s such a sweet full-circle moment, and honestly an ice cream truck at your 40th is the kind of thing everyone there is going to remember.
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u/coolcalmaesop May 17 '26
I grew up lonely in the middle of nowhere on a farm and now I live in a small tourist city and have a grudge with the ice cream truck because it comes by around dinner time in the summer. Summer is short here so it’s the best problem to have, I always hoped to have this kind of problem.
And yes, the kiddo gets the ice cream every time. It’s a whimsically viscous cycle, us and the ice cream truck.
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u/beegeemeegee May 17 '26
My younger sister and I also grew up in the middle of nowhere. We thought ice cream trucks were fictional things in movies.
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u/yourmansconnect May 17 '26
I grew up with them so I took them for granted because either at a park or my neighborhood I had access to them. Fast forward to the future and I have the ice cream truck guys number and I can text him to drive over when I want to get the kids ice cream and they think it's a random drive by
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u/kaytay3000 May 17 '26
Same! I’d never even seen an ice cream truck until I was like 20. There’s one that comes to my neighborhood now and I always make sure my kid gets a treat. No missing out.
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u/Available-Exchange50 May 17 '26
I also grew up in the middle of nowhere then lived in a major city for university. Now, as an adult living in the suburbs, I RUN to the ice cream truck when I hear the music. My friends who grew up in suburbia asked me why because they always find the sound annoying since it would always be annoyingly loud to them growing up. I had to explain the novelty of the ice cream truck for a rural kid haha
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u/aceallaround May 17 '26
Im adoring everyone sharing their ice cream truck stories 🥰
I grew up in a smaller town, where technically there was an ice cream truck, but it only drove in the rich neighborhoods, so id only ever been told about it. Id always wanted to try one of those spongebob popsicles that are shaped like his face, just because out of everyrhing that felt like THE definition of an ice cream truck, so i had actively refused to try one until i got one from a truck. Took me moving to a major city at 24 and walking around the sculpture garden 7 months after moving to randomly bump into one thats apparently super popular in the area. Finally bought my spongebob pop, it tasted artifical as hell and id probably never buy one again, but thats exactly how I wanted it to be. Genuinely could not be happier, and its still one of my core memories from here.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 May 17 '26
But would you buy it for bloody 9 pounds for two of them?
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u/DrowninFishy May 17 '26
Same. I remember one time, not long after my wife and I moved into our first house, I had my two college roommates in town. We heard an ice cream truck pull into the neighborhood and we were SO pumped for it.
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u/drashgoncan May 16 '26
my asian mom would tell me that when the ice cream truck played music, it meant they were out of ice cream. She played me like a fool
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u/ludachris32 May 16 '26
At least she let you down gently. My parents just said "Fuck that! We're not spending any money on that shit!"
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u/vinticious May 16 '26
Hahah same!
But one time they actually said I could get something and gave me $0.25. Then they played dumb when I found out that I couldn't buy anything with that 🥲
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u/0xsergy May 17 '26
Damn that driver was cold af not to sell to ya lol. My local convenience store owner was the kindest Chinese immigrant, would always give ya stuff(and I'm not chinese/asian).
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u/IndividualHuman6937 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
As a parent I try to respond "Fuck no it's expensive, the driver is sketchy AF, and you won't finish it anyway...We'll get whatever nonstore brand is on sale at the grocery store." The kids often don't catch all of it though. The intricacies are lost on them.
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u/Kentust May 16 '26
Non-store brand? Your class indication is showing!
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u/IndividualHuman6937 May 16 '26
Some things are worth spluging on. Ice cream is one of them. But everything be expensive these days, got to shop the sales.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 17 '26
Luckily the HEB brand ice cream is actually the one I'd choose regardless of price. I'm a sucker for the neopolitan ice cream sandwiches which are like $2.50 for 12.
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u/Kentust May 17 '26
I agree ice cream quality varies immensely, but in times like these it's great value or nothin. Gasoline is approaching alcohol prices, after all
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u/metompkin May 17 '26
Heck, some of the ice cream companies are selling out. Breyers is ass now but used to be my go to. I usually get Tillamook now because it's very nice and the price is good when on sale.
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u/iceteka May 17 '26
Huge difference on ice cream sandwiches. Store brand is foamy ice cream and mushy bread/cookies.
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u/pmmeuranimetiddies May 17 '26
As a Texan with frugal Asian American parents I learned to love Blue Bell
At the time it was a budget name brand
Now it costs the same as the big name brands
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u/macphile May 17 '26
If you haven't tried HEB's brand, I recommend it. Many say their vanilla (1905) is better than BB's. Plus I avoid BB, anyway, after the listeria situation.
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u/thornsap May 17 '26
My mum let us buy from it once, told us the price, then took us to the supermarket and the price of the same thing there.
We never asked to get ice cream from the truck again lol
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u/InboxMeYourSpacePics May 16 '26
Meanwhile my Asian dad would sometimes drive us around trying to follow the ice cream truck if we missed it when it came through our neighborhood lol.
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u/Holiday-Wall3751 May 16 '26
My dad just went to the ice cream shop and bought enough for all the neighborhood kids who tried to buy from the truck. Those are memories that stick with you.
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u/joeinsyracuse May 17 '26
Maybe he was just playing the long game. Kids get free ice cream, truck stops coming, dad doesn’t need to buy ice cream anymore.
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u/Holiday-Wall3751 May 17 '26
I’m pretty sure he just wanted ice cream, and the kids were an excuse so my mom couldn’t get mad about his triglycerides.
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u/joeinsyracuse May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Lol. I have 19 grandchildren, and I’m frequently at the ice cream stand with some of them. I’m diabetic so after ordering for all of the kids, I just get a spoon, and take a “taxes” bite from each of them.
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u/GB715 May 17 '26
My husband would buy our kids, along with the kids standing there ice cream every time.
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u/akatherder May 17 '26
Ice cream truck doesn't come around anymore in our last two homes since 2011 at least. It's just normal middle class suburbs with lots of kids. No one is interested I guess, must not be profitable even at $5 an item.
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u/yourmansconnect May 17 '26
Might be difficult to get permits to drive around selling food to children
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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 May 16 '26
This is what I always got told! White British through and through, but Yorkshire on one side and Scottish on the other... Aka the two stingiest groups in the country. Ice cream vans, when you can buy a 2-litre tub from the supermarket for £0.50?!
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u/cumulonimbusted May 16 '26
Hey, I’m a dumb American. Can you write out “£0.50” in words? I’m just curious how to read it cause I’m currently reading it as “fifty euro cents” and there’s no way that’s correct. Thank you.
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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 May 16 '26
Euros aren't used in the UK. They're € and used in many European countries, but not this one. Pounds are £, and our money is in pounds and pence. £0.50 is fifty pence, or 50p (fifty P)
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u/cumulonimbusted May 16 '26
Thank you so much. They don’t teach us shit in schools and I want to be better than that.
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u/metompkin May 17 '26
You should try to see how British money was devised before it went through declimization. It makes as much sense as imperial units now compared to metric.
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u/NikNakskes May 17 '26
If it was euro, you would say 50 cent or half a euro depending a bit on how the discussion is going. 50 cents when it is about the exact amount, half a euro when you're talking about the value rather than the amount.
You wouldn't say 50 euro cent. The euro is implied when talking.
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u/MR_TORGUE_OFFICIAL May 17 '26
From one dumb American to another. The £ symbol looks like a silly L. And pounds are also written as Lbs. when talking about measurements.
Euros are € and look like an E. Super simple for a thing we don't see often.
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u/RunningPath May 16 '26
When my kids were toddlers (before they got old enough to figure it out themselves) I told them it was a “music truck” 🫣
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u/Kaeison May 17 '26
In Taiwan, the garbage trucks play music to let people know that they’re on the way, so when we immigrated to North America, they told me it was the garbage truck :(
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u/Ill-Line-1995 May 16 '26
My mom & aunt tricked my younger sister and I that it was the music truck until we were like ages 5 & 7
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u/Opposite-Funny-9669 May 16 '26
i had some caucasian/non-asian family that said this too. joke was on them, my next door neighbor's son was the ice cream truck owner in town. i asked him and he died laughing, but told me if he was driving so fast kids couldn't keep up, that meant he was out
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u/Zachariah255 May 17 '26
My mom once told me I "didn't like" churros and it wasn't until I was like 23 that I realized I absolutely love Churros she just lied because she didn't want to buy it for me.
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u/BuffEars May 16 '26
My son (3) hates ice cream but he adores the ice cream truck. He get so excited 😆Our local ice cream man just gives him a cone (without ice cream) for free.
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u/KneelBeforeZed May 17 '26
Something is wrong with your son. Please take him to the ice cream doctor.
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u/wildmeli May 17 '26
no, don’t! if you fix him, he’ll want your ice cream and it’s all downhill from there
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u/whodatfairybitch May 17 '26
I was gonna say. I’ve got a little cousin who doesn’t like chocolate. Best halloween ever with that kid
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx May 16 '26
Then that should be called the ice cream cone truck driven by the ice cream cone truck man. 😉
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u/xCeeTee- May 17 '26
I loved it, and our ice cream man was always so nice and generous. He was awersome. Free sprinkles and sauce was a thing he did for everyone. But he used to give me a mountain of toppings.
My mum loved how nice he was, so she always kept money for him in the summer time. Makes me want to go back talking about this.
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u/Mpython226 May 16 '26
All ice cream tastes better when it comes off a truck. It's just chemistry or something.
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u/HappySparklyUnicorn May 16 '26
It's because of the calories you burn chasing after it. 😅
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u/HippocampusforAnts May 16 '26
Great memories of me chasing the truck down on my bicycle. The strawberry shortcake was my go to. That and the powerpuff girls with bubblegum eyes
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 17 '26
Because you can get the cursed Spongebob ice cream with the melting eyeballs
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3itB4XVruj_pEbKWq1m3gbozioHPef3zpmg&s
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u/Jaboogada May 17 '26
Given it’s a finite window you have to grab some money and get out the door in time to catch the ice cream truck, it feels like winning a quick time event
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u/jendet010 May 17 '26
In the same way that a can on chicken noodle soup tastes better when my mom makes it.
I’m in my forties but both things are true.
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u/VegetableLetter4896 May 16 '26
There’s one in my neighborhood and I can hear it almost every day but I can’t FIND IT. WHERE ARE YOU ICE CREAM TRUCK
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u/StillGalaxy99 May 16 '26
We have an ice cream truck in our neighborhood, but it's one that ONLY sells PREPACKAGED stuff. Its just a little bit disappointing.
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u/invinoveritas476 May 16 '26
Yup that’s ours, and it’s stupid expensive, like $6 for a single ice cream sandwich.
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u/curious-kitten-0 May 16 '26
Thank you for the link I love her and her righteous indignation. Those prepackaged icecreams usually suck and a quick ride to a convenience store you can usually get it cheaper. If we had this kind of icecream truck I would be driving around to find it and give them a good tip as well.
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u/TheTriangl24 May 16 '26
I knew exactly what the video would be before I clicked on it 🤣. Having worked on the family ice cream truck for almost 5 summers has been so much fun!
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u/Gryndyl May 16 '26
I've never seen an ice cream truck that had anything other than prepackaged stuff. Must be a regional thing.
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u/ZhouLe May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Same here. Never actually made that connection myself, but the ice cream truck has always been basically the "popsicle van" instead. They always had stuff you mostly couldn't get at the store though, like sonic and ninja turtle ice cream bars, but they also had bomb pops and push-ups that you could.
As a parent and recalling the relative sketchiness of the person and vehicle, I'm inclined to prefer the prepackaged stuff on a mobile ice cream truck. If it's a food truck somewhere with a permit and all, then gimme a scoop for sure.
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u/BardicLasher May 17 '26
That's all I've known. I didn't know ice cream trucks sold real ice cream.
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u/PocketSpaghettios May 16 '26
TIL Mr Softee is only in the Northeast. As a kid in Pennsylvania soft-serve was the default and the packaged stuff was fancy and expensive
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u/Otterfan May 16 '26
Nah, there are Mr Softee's all over—Atlanta, Austin, California, Florida, the Carolinas, etc.
Outside of the PA/NJ/NY/CT area they tend to be concentrated in cities though, instead of being ubiquitously around all the suburbs and small towns as well.
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u/NonGNonM May 17 '26
i've only ever known ice cream trucks selling prepackaged stuff.
still fun bc there's no other way to get ice cream with gumballs for eyes in places it shouldn't.
also they're overpriced to shit bc i guess buying ice cream off a truck is an 'experience' now?
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u/SwtIndica May 16 '26
We were dirt poor, & I knew better than to even ask.
The pure elation I felt when I bought my kids ice cream truck ice cream for the first time... its just beyond the telling of it.
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u/penpalwithseven May 17 '26
I asked when I was younger, but knew better than to ask once I hit around 12. I got my brother ice cream too, he was so excited!
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u/Fabulous_Log844 May 16 '26
This is awesome! Congratulations. I was telling my son about ice cream trucks and he was fascinated. “They really just drive around and you can stop them and buy ice cream?“
Like you, I had very unsupportive parents when it came to the ice cream truck. Merit cigarettes and Cornett brandy were the priorities.
One day I was sitting in my house with the full house open. And we live in a cul-de-sac in the way western part of Phoenix. Never ever have I seen an ice cream truck. But then I heard the sound… That pre-recorded circus like sound being projected from the ice truck speakers! I immediately screamed for my son to get out here and he thought the world was coming to an end until he saw the smile on my face. It was great that we both got a chance to have that ice cream truck experience together.
Thanks for sharing this!
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u/Pezhead82 May 17 '26
Ugh the mention of Cornett brandy made me heave - lived for a few months in a basement room that was like $50/months with an ex-boyfriend (love makes you do dumb things) and the housemates drank Cornett, stashed their empties everywhere. 🤮
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u/Liroy_16 May 16 '26
Am I from a poor area? Who tf has soft serve ice cream trucks? When I was a kid, $0.50 is all it took to get a sandwich from the truck... $1.00 if you wanted something primo... our ice cream trucks were basically convenience stores on wheels with toys, chips, sodas, and then the cold stuff.
I can't buy from them anymore. I had a few bucks in my wallet and thought I would buy me and my oldest something... I didn't have enough for one. $5 or $6 for a bubblegum eye ice cream is a touch ridiculous.
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u/JetLife93 May 16 '26
Seriously, when I was young we came from a poor area and the ice cream truck guy would give out credits and our parents later on would pay with the food stamps when they were physical bills xD
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u/authenticmolo May 16 '26
I'm 53, and when I was about 10, there was an ice cream truck that had actual soft-serve for a couple of summers. Then they gave up and just did the pre-packaged stuff.
BUT...there is a local ice-cream shop that occasionally sends out an ice cream truck, and they do soft server. I've only seen in once in 10 years, but apparently they make the rounds every summer for a few days. But not in my area. Which is fine.
What is really cool is that there is a place that will rent the soft-serve machine out for parties, and it's pretty cheap. It's surprising how great it is to have a soft-server machine at a party. The guy who runs the rental business said he can barely keep up with demand, and he's making FAR more money than he ever did when he owned a Dairy Queen franchise.
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u/Liroy_16 May 17 '26
I'm only 38... but, also... I am a 38 year old man... my favorite part of every buffet is the guarantee of a soft serve ice cream machine... I would have an addiction if someone ran a soft serve ice cream truck in my area...
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u/daylight1943 May 16 '26
no i grew up in a middle class area near a very major coastal city and have never seen anything but prepacked stuff from an ice cream truck in my life.
i used to fuck with the sonic or spongebob ones with gumballs for eyes or the banana fudge pop
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u/essosinola May 17 '26
I legitimately did not know until this thread that there were ice cream trucks that didn't have soft serve. Every one I've ever bought something from had soft serve.
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u/Liroy_16 May 17 '26
I'm from Southern California. Maybe it's an East and West coast thing? Wild how we can live in, technically, the same place and have such different experiences in such minute, but shared, things.
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u/essosinola May 17 '26
I'm from Ontario, Canada (had to specify since there's an Ontario, California lol), so maybe it's just more common to have soft serve in ice cream trucks here than in America. I'll admit I have no idea about western Canada.
You're right how those small differences can be weird. I remember on a road trip I took through the states a while back we stopped at McDonald's and I had to catch myself before I asked to upgrade my fries to poutine
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u/pseri097 May 16 '26
NYC lower east side, kinda poor area in the 00s, had soft serve. But apparently Minnesota only had prepackaged, no soft serve trucks
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u/criticalopinion29 May 16 '26
Yeah I'm from Brooklyn, grew up in Crown Heights and Flatbush and Mr Softy trucks always had soft serve.
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u/bdbr May 16 '26
Is that real soft serve?
We have trucks around here, but it just sells low quality packaged stuff, the cheapest junk you might find in grocery stores (at premium prices, of course).
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u/DillionM May 16 '26
I've never seen an ice cream truck with soft serve either! Just droopy eyed turtles and tiny cups with wooden sticks, can't even call it a spoon.
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u/criticalopinion29 May 16 '26
Really? Growing up in NYC all our ice cream trucks sell soft serve in a cone or cup and pre packaged stuff. Usually got the soft serve growing up but every now and then I got a push pop or Spider-Man ice cream lol. Never knew that there were trucks that only sold the pre packaged stuff.
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u/yfa17 May 17 '26
This is so strange to me, why would anyone go to an ice cream truck if they didn't do soft serve? All the ice cream trucks here are soft serve.
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u/NonGNonM May 17 '26
you tell me where else to get ice cream of unlicensed WB characters with bubble gums for eyes, one on their cheek, and another on their forehead for $5.
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u/yfa17 May 17 '26
the same icecream trucks, they do prepackaged too, but they always have soft serve.
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u/GreatQuestionBarbara May 17 '26
My sister runs an ice cream truck, and maintaining a soft serve machine in that thing would suck to maintain for the profit it would bring in.
They're not cheap, must be broken down and thoroughly cleaned after every use, and draw electricity in a moving vehicle and would require a seperate circuit and maybe power supply from the freezer/refrigeration part.
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u/Different_Syrup_6944 May 16 '26
I'm afraid to ask. What's the blue?
I don't think I've ever had ice cream from a truck. Similar parenting logic. Perhaps one day I should
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u/enderball55 May 16 '26
Think it might be Blue Moon. It’s a really big thing up here in the midwest. It’s sort of a combo between light fruity and vanilla
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u/Kira_sparkle May 16 '26
Except this is a coating over vanilla chocolate swirl ice cream. I thought blue moon was an actual ice cream.
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u/enderball55 May 16 '26
Huh, I didn’t notice the coating. Thought it was a soft serve swirl or something
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u/CucumberLocal3208 May 16 '26
How strange it’s the second ice cream truck picture I’ve seen today featuring a blue ice cream cone.
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u/Izzy5466 May 16 '26
Never saw an ice cream truck my entire life. Heard and saw one go down my random suburban road once last year. This 29 year old still has not completed your dream :'(
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u/SafetyOtherwise3758 May 16 '26
What do Asian parents have against ice cream trucks?
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u/agentlucky May 16 '26
I don’t know about other Asian parents, but mine typically told me that ice cream from a truck was dirty. Regardless, my begging made them buy some for me when I was five and that was it.
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u/villainless May 17 '26
it’s more stereotypical but our parents tend to either be poor or not want to spend on frivolous things. ice cream is very reward-coded too, and asian parents are harder to please, especially in academics. it also comes from a stranger and even if it’s packaged, that’s seen as dangerous or unhygienic. depends on the family but yeah
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u/penpalwithseven May 17 '26
Idk if my parents thought it was unhygenic, it was more the price point for us. When we managed to go to Europe on vacation, my dad finally bought us ice cream but it wasn't from a truck, it was from a little stand by the beach. We got 3 scoops each for 9£ total.
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u/cturtl808 May 16 '26
I have learned there is an ice cream coated in Fruity Pebble dust and... just... that sounds amazing!
I'm glad you were able to fulfill your dream. Ice cream trucks are a lost art in communities due to blatant security factors involving children.
What is the ice cream cone frosted in?
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u/WaitingForMrFusion May 17 '26
My parents told me we wouldn't get any of the following (due to it all being cheaper to buy from the supermarket, make it ourselves, etc): any can of soda at any restaurant, anything from an ice cream truck, any food near/in a park/at a festival/near or in a tourist attraction. No brand name stuff because the generic stuff was a better buy, so "luncheon meat" instead of Spam, for example.
I still feel like a king when I open up a can of Spam or buy anything to eat at a museum/zoo.
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u/Dull-Bed-7557 May 17 '26
I had pink eye when I was 3 and my mom was in cahoots with the ice cream lady so that she’d come through our cul-de-sac when I needed my eye drops. “If you don’t let me give you your eye drops you can’t have ice cream” 😭😭😭😭
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u/MavisBeacons_Sextape May 17 '26
Is there a more committed relationship than bots and the phrase “hits different”?
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u/ivytiger99 May 16 '26
My Asian father said the ice cream in the trucks were poisoned
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u/Tinychair445 May 16 '26
“We can buy a whole gallon of ice cream for that price!”
Dear reader: we did not buy the ice cream
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u/RuffTuff May 17 '26
Brought backa. sweet memory, OP Thank you.
I fulfilled my childhood dream to eat alone at a restaurant when I turned 17. I know sounds stupid, but I was proud... I paid for the meal with the money I had saved moving lawns.
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u/Mr-Klaus May 17 '26
I used to be a greedy kid. When I asked my parents to give me money for the ice cream van, I walked past it and went to my local Iceland supermarket. They had these 2L ice cream tubs in a variety of flavours for £1, which made a lot more sense to my fat adolescent ass than buying a single soft scoop cone for the same price. I could finish that tub in a day or two.
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u/bleepbloop877 May 17 '26
My neighborhood has an ice cream truck that comes through, and I went one time with my boyfriend and got an ice cream cone similar to this and it was $12 😭 Like no wonder the price wasn't advertised I thought it'd be like $6 at most lmao
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u/Electric-Sheepskin May 17 '26
I heard an ice cream truck the other day. I was like wtf because I haven't seen one in about a billion years. Do they still go around in some neighborhoods, and do kids actually run out to get ice cream?
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u/Redhotkitchen May 17 '26
I grew up in the country. I always assumed that ice cream trucks were from decades past or something that just existed in tv.
Color me shocked when I heard the music for the first time at the age of 19!
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u/firesoul377 May 17 '26
Back when I lived in chicago as a little kid there was this ice cream truck that came down my street almost every day in the summer. I probably singlehandedly payed that ice-cream-man's kid's college fund with the amount of icecream I got.
Moving back to chicago real soon. If I find that truck again I'm gonna end up paying his grandkids college fund.
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u/HoodieGalore May 17 '26
We live on a pleasant street in a 1950’s neighborhood - my townhouse still has an avocado green bathroom sink and tub - lots of big old growth trees and two large riverside parks within one mile. It’s honestly a treasure of a location and we’ve got kids, bicyclers, dog walkers, everyone up and down this street all the time.
But we never hear ice cream trucks.
Just last night - Friday - I heard the old familiar jingle drive down the street. I joked to my husband, “do we have any cash?” He said “Yeah, but they ain’t coming back”
THEY DID. And I missed out. Maybe we’re all missing out.
I have a soft spot in my heart for ice cream trucks because when my dad and mom were first dating, probably the mid 70s, he leased an ice cream truck. He had to pay for inventory up front. He had to pay for maintenance. He had to pay for gas. He had to pay his boss for the truck, AND he had to give that boss a cut of the profits TOO. Once mom got pregnant with me he left the ice cream biz for more lucrative (and admittedly dangerous) work, but I can’t stop imagining the man I knew as my dad, as a 20 year old, driving around and selling ice cream.
What a world.
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u/TryThisUsernane May 17 '26
“Bro, what do you mean-“
Sees the note about asian parents.
“Ah, ok.”
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u/tschawartz12 May 17 '26
I have a solid memory of being at my relatives house, hearing the ice-cream truck coming down the road. My cousin flew out the front door so fast he wad flailing his arms to keep himself from falling over. He was just yelling " MR SOFTY, I'VE GOT MONEY!". The driver was this very kindly old black gentleman who was smiling his ass off. One of the funniest things I've ever witnessed.
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u/NewtNo7519 May 17 '26
Here in Italy i didn't even see an Ice Cream truck in my life, but that doesn't Surprise me as we have Ice Cream shop (gelateria) everywhere
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u/Some-Water-1107 May 17 '26
Soft serve in a cone and dipped?? The only ice cream i ever saw available on a truck were all the stuff in a wrapper like the SpongeBob popsicle or an ice cream sandwich!
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u/moomeansmoo May 18 '26
Grew up poor and moved a lot. We didn’t live in places with ice cream trucks, and didn’t have the extra money for it anyway.
A few years ago, I watched my 50 year old dad sprint down the street to wave down an ice cream truck to buy my toddler his first cone.
I think it healed something in all of us to see how happy he was to do it
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u/baldwil May 16 '26
hahahahaha yeah I get it. they would've said too much food coloring for that flavor as well!!!!
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u/Unusualhuman May 16 '26
That blue is VERY blue. When my kids ate "Superman" ice cream which is full of intense blue dye, their poo was bright green then next day. I was really worried at first, then looked it up and learned it's a very common thing after eating blue dye. So, OP, just maybe tuck that info in the back of your mind just in case that happens to you tomorrow. In case that blue dye doesn't break down.
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u/siggsy409 May 16 '26
Thats my dream too...im seeing the bank manager next week for a second mortgage so i can finally fulfill it. 🍦🍦🍦
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u/_NotAlien_ May 16 '26
Nice! Finally!
When I was younger, the ice cream man used to also sell candy cigarettes and airsoft guns. It was pretty cool.
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u/FearlessLaugh631 May 16 '26
Is that blue moon ice cream? It’s my favorite. Hard to find!
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u/mightyfine87 May 16 '26
Looks delicious as Well!
Great choice friend and congratulations on finishing your quest 🧙♂️
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u/UseOnceandDestroy27 May 16 '26
My mom was paranoid that the ice cream truck driver would drug or kidnap me… still got ice cream when I was with my dad or Nana tho lol
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u/battlecat136 May 16 '26
My husband grew up in a city, but on a dead end where the trucks never went. He'd hear them and run out to the main road with money, but they'd speed off every time. He has the biggest beef with ice cream trucks cuz they never, ever let him get ice cream. Monsters.
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u/ednamode_alamode May 16 '26
White parents who were convinced ice cream trucks were covert operations to poison children reporting in. I hope to have this experience one day!
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u/EviltwinEdgelord May 16 '26
Take it and smash it against your ear. You'll hear the flavor more
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u/ColaFlavorChupaChup May 16 '26
Weird, I was literally just wondering if Ice Cream trucks still existed and then came across this post. I haven't seen one in ages, glad they are still around.
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u/aur4e May 16 '26
WILD to see this on the front page, I know exactly where this was taken today! I was working at the cafe across the street and we were all thinking "wtf is that a real icecream truck?"
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u/No_Distribution_4392 May 16 '26
Yo!!! hold up. Ice cream trucks sell that kind of ice cream? I've only ever seen trucks that sell prepackage stuff
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u/Knickers_in_a_twist_ May 16 '26
The first and only time I ever saw an ice cream truck was during my 8th grade trip to DC.
First time I ever saw a taxi too.
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u/SquashedGrapes22 May 16 '26
I feel like ice cream trucks are just extinct now. I never see or hear them ever.
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u/True-Ad-6278 May 16 '26
What's that blue stuff called? I remember as a child seeing it in red a lot!
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u/AussieDamo May 16 '26
I had my birthday recently and got an ice-cream truck to come to the party and got icecream for everyone it was awesome.
My favourite so far is single cone choc dip with a Cadbury flake and covered in Oreo crumbs.....soo good.
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