I used to believe that when the ice-cream van man came around the neighbourhood, the jingle meant that he had run out of ice-cream. This is what my parents used to tell me. Is this bad parenting I wonder?
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
you weren't the only one
121 of you believed this
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's 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
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My Mum told me that when the icecream man played his music it meant that he had run out of icecream!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 mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon