My mother always told my brother and I the ice-cream from the ice-cream truck or the "Dicky-Dee Man" (as we called it in Canada) was poisoned and we would get sick if we ate it. This was her "being cheap" effort to never buy it for us. But funny how when another kids parent from the neighbourhood bought it for us we never got sick or died???!!!!
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon
- I used to believe that if the ice cream truck was playing music, it had sold out of ice cream.— Deprived of ice cream
- If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means they are out of ice cream.— Virginia
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.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
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon