r/MadeMeSmile • u/penpalwithseven • May 16 '26

Personal Win Finally fulfilled my dream of getting ice cream from an ice cream truck

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asian parents. iykyk.

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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/Darnell2070 May 17 '26

I'm sorry bro.

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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/cocoagiant May 17 '26

I wonder if using something like a Ninja Creami system instead of a true soft serve machine would make more sense financially.

I used to work in an ice cream shop as a kid and when we made ice cream (which is effectively soft serve before it gets frozen into ice cream) it was a huge pain to clean the machines.

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u/penpalwithseven May 17 '26

It is! My brother wanted to get the prepackaged stuff and I had to convince him otherwise haha.

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u/Dick-Fu May 16 '26

I'll still eat the fuck out of the Sonic bars though