It's a hot summer day, You and your friends are outside playing, You hear the music--it's the Ice Cream man. I always

[debm55]

got a Drumstick. What was/ were your favorite/ favorites?

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I have to go with Drumstick too

My favorite part was the pointy end of the cone, where a hidden ‘plug’ of chocolate resided 🤤

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3. YES, I remember the end of cone too. Thank you EYESORE 9001..

[CanonRay]

2. Absolutely the Orangecicle

Got one every time!

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4. Thank you, Canon Ray. The Orangecicle was good too.

[LakeArenal]

79. This?

[CanonRay]

83. That! Yummmmm

[LakeArenal]

84. Please check my response #78. Yum!!!

[birdographer]

5. Italian Ice!

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8. I remember them them and the Ice Ball that came in a paper cone. Ice Cream man would add your choice of colors. flavors.

Thank you birdographer for the memories.

[elleng]

53. for dessert tonight!

[Traildogbob]

6. We never had ice cream trucks

Just tankers spraying pesticides to kill mosquitoes.
Fun to run in the cool mist. 😩😵‍💫🤢
Rural MurKKKa in late fifties early sixties.
“We ain’t goin back”
I love ice cream so much.

[debm55]

9. Thank you Traildogbob that was dangerous running through the pesticides. I remember kids running down the street to get

their place in line. The music was sort of a calliope sound. In our area any how. I no longer see them

[yorkster]

12. Calliope - exactly.

[Traildogbob]

14. The Pest trucks

Could have at least threw out candy like Santa Parade's.
Those pesticides could be the reason so many old folks bow to trump.🤔
But it is so great to be adult, with an extra buck here and there and stand in front of the ice cream cooler at the grocery store and just be confused and thrilled at all the options.

[debm55]

15. Thank you very much, Traildogbob. I remember it being a quarter or dime. Yes, I look at the store and buy a box of

Drumsticks.

[LakeArenal]

80. I was the sissy the wouldn't drive the bike in death fog.

But I do remember the big clear ice chunks we got from the milk man when it was hot.

[debm55]

85. Thank you LakeArenal. That sounds so good.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. ice cream sandwich bars and popsicles . lol havnt heard of icream trucks in many many moons dbm

yet their sig tune is burned in my brain. now if u remember helms bakery trucks uve got something there .

https://archive.org/details/the-ice-cream-truck-song-360-p

[debm55]

11. Thank you AllaN01Bear. We also had the Vienna Bakery trucks that sold pastery--pies all kinds on dougnuts.

[Elessar Zappa]

57. We still have ice cream trucks in my little southwest NM town.

I’m always tempted to check for change under the sofa and run out to get a fudgesicle!

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65. Thank you, Elessar Zappa. You are so lucky. Go For It!!!!!!

[yorkster]

10. Creamsicle or a "Chocolate covered".....

ie, an ice cream bar.

[debm55]

13. Thank you yorkster. Did you get the Captain Crunch bar that came in chocholate or strawberry?

[yorkster]

23. No Ice cream trucks on the street we moved

to by that time...but there was a corner store!
Ice cream aaand penny candy.

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24. Oh, penny candy. Yummy. Thank you, yorkster.

[hedda_foil]

16. I always got the toasted almond ice cream bar.

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17. OH , that sounds good. Thank you hedda_foil.

[elleng]

54. YES!

[arkielib]

18. We didn't have an ice cream truck in our town when I was a kid. Not that came through my neighborhood anyway.

But one has appeared this summer where I live now. The first time I've seen one in a long time. My 5-year-old grandson was visiting a few weeks ago and we heard the truck heading our way. He was so excited! He had never gotten ice cream from a truck before. He got a Sponge Bob Square Pants on a stick variety. (I can't remember the flavor). I had as much fun as he did!

[debm55]

19. Thank you arkielib. Did you get one too?

[arkielib]

35. I didn't.

Not sure why. But I wish I had!

[consider_this]

20. the ice cream tune 'round here:

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21. Different, Ty

[consider_this]

22. yo, deb...

play it all the way through - get to the guitar solo and rock out!

[debm55]

25. Will do.

[bif]

26. The Music Truck?

My neighbor told her kids when they were young that it was the Music Truck. They had no idea that it served ice cream! Brilliant move!

[debm55]

28. That's sad., bif.

[The Polack MSgt]

27. Creamsicle

Vanilla Ice Cream covered with frozen Tang on a stick

[debm55]

30. Thank you, The Polack MSgt. I remember them. Very popular in my neighborhood growing up.

[LakeArenal]

82. Here ya go

[The Polack MSgt]

87. That's the one... I thought I may've misremembered

Glad to get confirmation

[a kennedy]

29. Sorry, this made me laugh, kids playing outdoors......you're kidding right??? Oh ya mean when we were kids...

I loved the push-ups…..whatever flavor they had I got. Talking of kids being outdoors…..my mom would ring our cowbell when it was time for us to come in. All the other kids would laugh and make “moo” sounds. What was that movie???
Oh right:

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32. Thank you a kennedy. . And yes as a boomer we were never in the house during the summer.Unless it was lightning and

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thundering. We stayed out in the rain. Very refreshing on a hot summer day. I don't understand your post.

[pdxflyboy]

31. From the Good Humor Ice Cream Truck...

Strawberry Sundae in a cup, or a chocolate eclair on a stick.

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33. pdxflyboy. that sounds good. Thank You.

[Wicked Blue]

34. Italian ice

I drove an ice cream truck in NJ in the summer of 1970.
Couldn't even look at ice cream for years afterward.

As a side note I was probably the first female ice cream "man" in NJ.

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37. Thank you, Wicked Blue. I can see why you couldn't look at ice cream.

[MiHale]

36. Push-up...it was orange sherbet in a tube...

on a stick you ‘pushed up’ the sherbet as you ate. No mess, so you didn’t need to lick your fingers. As a kid I never had time to wash my hands, biggest reason I’ve always had dogs around.

[debm55]

38. Thank you MiHale. We had the Push-up too. Always in orange sherbet. Thank you for your post.

[woodsprite]

39. Either Dreamsicle or lime water ice!

Now I want a Dreamsicle. I haven’t seen them around in the stores for awhile.

[debm55]

40. Yummy. Thank you woodsprite. Dreamsicles were a favorite of mine too.

[KarenS]

41. A Fudgesicle,,,,, ice cream truck had the bigger ones :)

[debm55]

42. Thank you, KarenS. I forgot about the Fudgesicle. YUMMY

[surrealAmerican]

43. There were a lot of good choices. Sometimes my decision was based on whim ...

... sometimes on the type of truck, sometimes on how much money I had in my pocket.

Fudgesicles, ice cream sandwiches, Italian ice, popsicles, whatever they called those good humor bars with the chocolate on the inside (eclairs, maybe?) - all were possibilities for me.

[debm55]

44. surrealAmerican. thank you. All great choices. I forgot about the ice cream sandwiches. Your list is yummy.

[BluesRunTheGame]

45. The first "ice cream truck" that I remember was the Good Humor Man on a 3 wheel bicycle.

I can’t remember which product we got. Dad paid for it and I ate it before we got back to the front door.

Later, we were in a neighborhood that was served by an actual truck that played “pop goes the weasel”. Mostly, by that time the family freezer was well stocked with ice cream in the summer. On the the rare occasion when ice cream was purchased from the truck the kids across the street (freezer also well stocked) would stand in their doorway and chant “ice cream man sells dope” until the truck moved along down the street.

Moral of the story: “Pop Goes The Weasel” makes ice cream taste better and makes the neighbor kids envious.

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50. Thank you BluesRunTheGame. I guess even back when, some folks were jerks like your neighbors.

[BluesRunTheGame]

51. I'm in touch with those kids to this day.

They’re all Trumpers.

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52. I thought so they may be today"s trumpers.

[Different Drummer]

46. I never had a Good Humor Man in my area.

However, if I had, I would have asked for a vanilla cone.

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49. We never had a Good Humor Man in our area either. I forget the name of the owners. but I still remember the music and

kids running to the bottom of the street.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. No Ice Cream Man

When I was a little kid, an outfit in town had these coolers on the front of a bicycle. They hired HS kids to pedal through the neighborhoods.
We didn't have an ice cream MAN, but ice cream KIDS!
I more than likely got a Fudgecicle or a Push-Up.

[debm55]

48. Thank you ProfessorGAC. That is interesting you had kids on bikes.

[elleng]

55. GOOD HUMOR MAN!!!

in Brooklyn, and Italian Ices in paper cups in little deli around the corner on Myrtle Avenue! THAT's my dessert tonight!

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56. Thank you, elleng . We didn't have a Good Humor Man. In fact, I don't know what kind it was as it was plastered with

signs and prices of everything he sold. OMG I can't believe after all these years I still remember that.

[happybird]

58. The Mickey Mouse head or Snowcone

An ex and I were flabbergasted when we went out of state to college and the ice cream truck there had soft serve. It just ain't right, man!
(Not that we didn't looove when that truck came up our street and run
our stoned asses out there, every time, lol! )

Edit: was looking for a pic of the Mickey Mouse bar and found this Pinterest page with lots of stuff I had forgotten about. Ah, nostalgia!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/439945457325789652/

The ice cream pictured there is a little different than I remember. The ones we had didn’t have such defined facial features, especially the mouth, and the eyes were small gumballs. Half the fun was opening the wrapper and seeing how hideously distorted the face was. 😁

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67. Thank you happybird. That Mickey Mouse bar is great.. I love the line about Mickey's face being distorted.

[happybird]

90. Lol! Watching John Oliver's new episode and I guess the Sponge Bob

ice cream is the new Mickey Mouse head. There’s a small bit, with photos, about the nightmarish SpongeBob faces.

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91. Thank you happybird. Sponge Bob faces distorted. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAH

[subterranean]

59. When I was very young -- Mister Softee soft ice cream.

I believe that was the only offering available from the Mister Softee truck, but it was good!

Later on, I enjoyed the Good Humor strawberry shortcake bars and Bomb Pops (firecrackers).

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68. Thank you subterranean, My Ice Cream Man sold the strawberry shortcake bars, but it wasn't Good Humor. I never got ice

cream cones because they came in soft cones. I liked the hard sweet cones. that is why I got the Drumsticks. Yummy.

[AllaN01Bear]

60. friend of mine lived in santa cruz ca when a boy. the driver of the ice cream truck would give him grape popups .

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69. Thank you AllaN01Bear. Wow, I didn't know they had grape popups. I really liked the orange ones.

[Mad_Dem_X]

61. Chocolate Eclair or Toasted Almond bar

Dang, I want some ice cream now! LOL

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70. Thank you Mad_Dem_X. Treat yourself and have some. Yummy.

[hunter]

62. Most trouble I ever saw any of my siblings get into, and damn that's been a lot...

... including bailing them out of jail, or them rescuing me myself from feral homeless human situations.

As little kids playing in the street we heard the ice cream man and one of my brothers ran into the house and took a dollar out of my dad's wallet and then flagged down the ice cream man and bought ice cream for just himself, taking 95 cents in change!

The rest of my siblings and I ran to my dad, who was gardening in the back yard, and told him of this great injustice.

My dad immediately herded us all into his car so we could chase down the ice cream man. We caught up with him and my dad told us we could buy anything we liked. Even two ice creams!

Except for my brother. He had to return the 95 cents and stay in the car.

Another lesson learned, my brother grew up to be one of the most generous people it's ever been my privilege to know.

Practical justice, thank you Dad.

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66. Thank you hunter for your post. Practical justice indeed.

[JoseBalow]

63. I love Bomb Pops

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64. Thank you, JoseBalow. I have seen those in forever.

[Tree Lady]

71. Bought them all but I liked this cup

you would peel off that was chocolate malt ice cream.

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72. Thank you, Tree Lady. That sounds yummy.

[malthaussen]

73. Popsicles. Any flavor, but lime best.

Partly, that was driven by finances -- popsicles were a nickel, most of the more glamorous things were a dime. But there are still times I long for a lime Popsicle.

And you could share your popsicle with a friend. When two only have one nickel between them, that means something.

-- Mal

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74. Yes sharing the popsicle.Breaking it so each got a part. Thank you, Mal , I remember that. I liked the blue popsicles, I

haven't seen lime in a long time,

[malthaussen]

75. Pinboy3Niner told me in SoCal, they also had pastry trucks...

... buy donuts and snack cakes right off the truck. Boy, did that make me jealous!

I was the Ice Cream man myself for a few months in 1975. But the most popular brand then was bootleg cigarettes sold outside of high schools. I didn't do that myself (no high schools on my route), but people were cleaning up selling cigarettes at a buck a pack when they were like 35 cents in the store.

-- Mal

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77. Yes, were I lived, a local bakery. Vienna Bakery , had a van that sold backed goods. They always came in the morning.

[SARose]

76. Creamcicle or Popsicle

Deb - ice cream man still comes by in my neighborhood. Guess who stood in line with all the kiddies? We were all so excited!😂

[debm55]

86. Lucky you! Thank you SARose. So what did you get?????????

[SARose]

96. A red popsicle

And it was sooooo good!😊

[debm55]

97. I bet it was.

[LakeArenal]

78. Mr Lake's dad was the refrigeration supervisor for the ice cream factories in several states.

Seven kids in his family eating all those goodies for free.
Drumsticks, popsicles, fudgesicicles, sandwiches, heath bars, Eskimo pies, Creamcicle, every kind was available to them including all ice cream flavors.

Back when America was great!!!! For seven kids in Wisconsin.


I’m not a great fan of ice cream. But Mr Lake is.

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88. That is wonderful. Thank you, Lake Arenal. Eskimo pies. We called them Klondike bars, here.

[sanatanadharma]

81. Yes, I remember some of the sounds of youth and seasons and the normal of my growing-up

Yes, I remember some of the sounds of youth and seasons and the normal of my growing-up.
Others growing-up may and indeed is just about guaranteed to have been different.

For the kids in Montevideo, Uruguay, that beckoning sound signals the arrival to the barrio of the slowly moving camioneta (small truck) carrying 13.5 kilo garafas of cooking gas. So one runs out and flags it down.

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89. Thank you so much, sanatandharma for a different cultural view of life.

[Kazzy]

92. I always liked getting

a Choco Taco!

Now I feel like having one today!! 😂

[debm55]

94. Thank you, Kazzy. I remember getting one for my son. They didn't have them when I was growing up.

[lark]

93. I had several favorites.

Banana pops were probably my most frequently chosen
Choclate pops were 2nd

[debm55]

95. Oh boy, I remember them. Thank you very much, lark.