My family was really poor, so growing up my parents told me the ice cream man was the music truck who brought lovely tunes to all the children. Every time the ice cream truck went by my mom would yell "The music man, lets go out and listen with all the other children"
They probably saved so much money.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
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- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon