I believed that the ice cream man had a face made out of boogers and that is why he couldn't eat the ice cream so he would give it to little kids to eat in the form of ice cream.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that ice cream is made up of only ice and cream on top— Umme Hani
- "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
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My dad would tell me that if the ice cream van was playing a tune it meant that he had no ice cream left. Duh!Anon
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea