Do you remember your favorite treat when the ice cream man stopped near your house???? mine was Nutty Buddies. What

[debm55]

were yours?????

[CincyDem]

1. Please...you NEVER forget your first...

...Cap'n Crunch Bar.

[debm55]

12. HAHAHAHHAH. I liked the strawberry one. Thank you very much for sharing.Cincy Dem.

[Mz Pip]

2. Cremesicles

Vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet.

[rubbersole]

7. Also.

The Mr. Softie truck was the highlight of many a summer evening in Decatur, IL.

[debm55]

15. Thank you very much rubbersole. It was in my neighhood.

[debm55]

14. Yes, thank you very much, Mz Pip, I enjoyed them too,

[chowmama]

69. Oh, yeah.

The orange pushups weren't bad either. And fudgesicles. But creamsicles were the best.

[enid602]

76. Cremesicles

I think ours were called Dreamsickles. And Orange Sherbet Push Ups!

[debm55]

77. Thank you very much, enid602

[JT45242]

3. Choco tacos...but when my kids were young we had a soft serve truck

Mr Softy was the soft serve truck. Rarely came to our neighborhood in Reading. Had a student from a different part of Cincinnati that it came to her neighborhood almost every day. So I nicknamed her, Mr. Softy.

I wish we had a Mr Softy truck where we live now.

[subterranean]

8. Mr. Softee was the best!

I have fond memories of it coming to my neighborhood (also in Cincy) when I was very young. Many years later I was surprised to see one in China!

[debm55]

19. Thank you very much, subterranean. That is neat, that they had in China. I liked the music they played coming to the

Neighbood.

[debm55]

16. I haven't very many in a long time. the treat of the day.

[D. Spaulding]

4. Chocolate eclair bar from

the Good Humor truck in Chicago

[debm55]

20. My ice cream truck didn't have Chocolate eclair bars. I am bummed. Thank you D. Spaulding.for sharing

[Colorado Liberal]

67. I'm not from Chicago...

but those were THE BEST!!!

[mwmisses4289]

5. I liked to try different things.

Except for anything with peanuts on or in it.

[debm55]

21. Thank you very much mwmisses4289, Thanks for sharing.

[Moostache]

6. Orange sherbert 'push-ups'...

Came in that toilet paper roll cardboard with the plastic endcap and a push stick... You could get the orange or the raspberry...

[debm55]

23. Thank you Moostache.I remember buying the raspberry push-ups

[CanonRay]

9. Orange Dreamsickle

Hands down!

[debm55]

42. Thank you very very much, CanonRay for sharing.

[PikaBlue]

10. Fudgecicles

These days, the only time I go jogging is when the ice cream truck blows past my house.

[debm55]

43. HAHAHHAHHAHHAH Thank you very much, PikaBlue.

[flor-de-jasmim]

66. Yes to fudgecicles and to jogging.

[debm55]

68. Thank you flor-de-jasmin. That is funny.

[Traildogbob]

11. Never had one near our

hood. Just mosquito trucks Spraying aerial poisons.
Kennedy would tell you running in that mist was better for your health than eating poison sugars in ice creme.

Why I love ice creme so much. Almost never got any as a child in our economic situation. .
If I had the money and access, I would chase that truck for miles for butter pecan.
Good thing they don’t come up here on my mountain side, but I guess I could run it all off.
Especially with the hills.

[debm55]

44. Thank you very much, Traildogbob. Butter Pecan is my favorite.too

[Wuddles440]

13. Any frozen delights from the Good Humor truck...

but especially the Chocolate Eclair and Strawberry Shortcake.

[Zackzzzz]

32. Raspberry Ice Stick

[debm55]

65. Zacjzzzz thank you very much.

[debm55]

45. Thank you very much Wuddles440, I loved the Strawberry Shortcake. yum

[debm55]

71. Thank you Wuddles440

[House of Roberts]

17. Regular ice cream sandwiches with vanilla inside the chocolate.

I even lived on those in my high school cafeteria in my sophomore and junior years. I used to get two and board the tech school bus and eat them so I never missed the bus.
Nowadays it would be a Heath Bar treat like a Klondike bar.

[debm55]

28. What wonderful choices House of Roberts. Thank you for sharing with us.

[catbyte]

18. I had a deprived childhood because I lived in the middle of nowhere

and ice cream trucks were something I only saw on TV. But I did live on both Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix, so there was that...

[debm55]

27. Sorry , catbyte. did they sell ice cream at the beach?

[catbyte]

37. Nope, not at the beaches I had access to. If I wanted ice cream, I had to go home and hope my folks

bought some.

[debm55]

46. ,,,,,,,,,Sorry,

[pdxflyboy]

22. The Strawberry Shortcake vanilla ice cream bar from

The Good Humor Man in Norwalk, CT.

[debm55]

24. thank you pdxflyboy. I bought them when they ran out of Nutty Buddies. Thanks for sharing.

[purple_haze]

25. good ol' strawberry PushUp

[debm55]

26. Thank you, purple_haze. I liked the pushUp. My favorite was raspberry. thank you for sharing with us.

[murielm99]

29. I liked orange sherbet pushups.

[debm55]

47. Thank you very much for sharing with us, murielm99, I like the strawberry/raspberry pushups.

[Pachamama]

30. Good Humor Almond Eclair

Loved those

[debm55]

48. Thank you very much, Pachamama. We didn't have those(bummer) Our ice cream truck was Tasty Creme

[LoisB]

31. The only ice cream truck I remember is Mr. Softee. I do remember the homemade ice cream

my grandmother made in my childhood. Delicious even though it was always vanilla and I'm a chocolate ice cream person.

[debm55]

49. Homemade ice cream is the best. But when your wanting chocolate ice cream, your wanting chocolate. Thank you, LoisB

[MIButterfly]

33. Drumstick, a vanilla cone covered in chocolate and nuts.

Did that come from the Good Humor man? Wasn't there also some kind of coconut ice cream on a stick or am I misremembering everything about it? I remember hearing the music from the truck coming down the block and runnng like the wind to go home and get a quarter (or however much) before he got close to my house.

Creamsicles were wonderful too. Do they still make them?

[debm55]

50. Thank you very much, MIButterfly. We had Tasty Creme.When I left in the morning, I always included a quarter from my

money sock. Ice cream man had specific stops. I ran toward the stop on the end of the street. Otherwise there were mobs of kids, Mr. Tasty Creme would yell to get in a line. I had first dibs as I didn't have to go home to get my money. Nutty Buddy was my first choice. But I ate others as well. They use to sell them in a local store around here. I would buy for my son.

[Dorothy V]

34. Probably the ice cream sandwich. I also liked the drumsticks. But what I really miss is the fact I could buy an ice

cream for only one thin dime!
Nowadays I can't think of a thing that costs only 10 cents.

[Bmoboy]

35. Fudgesicle

Pronounced - "fujjikle"

[justaprogressive]

36. HAHAHA

None ever in my rural neighborhood.

I didn't even know ice cream companies made anything other than vanilla until I was 12
('cause that's all my dad would let mom buy!)

[rsdsharp]

38. What is this ice cream man of which you speak?

In the town in which I grew up, Ralph Bartlett, who owned the creamery where my sister worked, would have stoned the proprietor of such an enterprise.

I don’t think he was any too happy about the Dairy Queen, either.

[debm55]

72. As a child that is what we called the guy that worked in the Tasty Creme van. As city kids , we had no other name to

give him as we were a Steel Mill town. With only A&P and Isley to get ice cream from. We had no farms and milk was delivered by the Milk Man. Thank you

[rsdsharp]

74. I was attempting humor. We had no ice cream trucks in our town.

[debm55]

75. Thank you rsdsharp. I like you. I wonder why not. I am a Bommer and there were tons of kids that would go runnying when

we heard the music,

[rsdsharp]

78. I'm an older boomer than you by a year, but we didn't have the Good Humor man,

or any other ice cream truck in my small midwestern town. If you wanted a cone, or a sundae, or whatever, you went to the Creamery, Dairy Queen, or one of the two drug store soda fountains.

Oh, and I like you too, debm55.

[debm55]

81. thank you very much, rsdsharp

[JoseBalow]

39. Bomb-Pops!

[debm55]

73. i remember them ,Thank you JoseBalow. Where a great seller around the 4th of July.

[surrealAmerican]

40. either chocolate ice cream sandwiches, or Italian ice

.

[debm55]

70. Thank you very much surrealAmerican

[JMCKUSICK]

41. The Choco Taco

Was OMG amazing.

On a side note lol, I drove an ice cream truck one summer. Other than the stupid music, I loved it

[debm55]

52. Thank you very much John.Yes, the music was hypnotic,

[Ritabert]

51. Creamsicles

[debm55]

64. I do, Ritabert. Thank you for sharing. Yummy.

[johnp3907]

53. Anyone remember Scooter Crunch?

I like the strawberry ones.
Nutty Buddies were a close second.

[Dulcinea]

54. Chocolate Scooter Crunch was my favorite!

Nutty Buddies were fine too!

[debm55]

63. Thank you johnp3907 for sharing. I liked the strawberry crunch bars. YUMMY

[AllaN01Bear]

55. regular ice cream bars and pop ups !!!!!

hem.

[debm55]

62. Thank you very much AllaN01Bear.

[malthaussen]

56. Popsicles. About all I could afford.

And you could share them with a friend. My favorite flavor was lime, but there were many other valid ones.

Ironically, when I became The Ice Cream Man in 1975, nobody was buying popsicles anymore. But I had as many as I wanted.

-- Mal

[debm55]

59. , Thank you we had the popsicles. I like the blue ones, but it stain your teeth and lips.

[elleng]

57. Toasted coconut

P.S., Picked up orange & ice cream few days ago and was BAD!!!!

[debm55]

58. HAHAHAHAHHA. thank you very much elleng. Did you finish them??

[elleng]

60. NO! Orange + van ice crem still in freezer!!!

[debm55]

61. HAHAHAHAHHA. Thank you very much elleng. for clearing that up for me.

[debm55]

82. HAHAHAHAHAH. thank you winnie11

[Emile]

80. Orange push up.

[debm55]

83. Thank you very much, Emile, I enjoyed them also.

[Wicked Blue]

84. Blue Italian ice

It made your lips, tongue and teeth blue

[debm55]

85. Thank you very much Wicked Blue