My Mum and Dad used to tell me that the ice cream man was really "vinnie Green the naughty children collector" and if we saw him coming or heard his ringing bells you had to run away before he caught you and took you away to france to eat frogs legs
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- That the tooth fairy drove around in her green Volks Wagon Collecting teeth from all the children.— Wanda Trytten
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon