When I was in third grade, I started walking to school on my own. Each day after school, several ice cream carts would be out, selling ice cream to kids who were going home. To protect me, my mother told me not to buy from those carts, because "Mexicans put drugs in the ice cream, and it's not safe." (She did let me buy from the vans though.) I was so worried after that, I'd hastily walk by each cart pusher to get home.
Sadly, this misinformation (along with a few others) led to a fear of Mexicans that I still struggle with in my adult years, knowing much better than I did then.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- 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
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - 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