My mum used to tell me that when the Ice Cream van came round, it was for "children whos mummys couldn't afford a freezer", so that I didn't get her to buy me anything.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- 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
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- "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