There's always been a regular van round here .... " Yankee Doodle Dandy " but in the past few days I'm hearing " Clementine " , " Knees Up Mother Brown " and " Camptown Races " ..... all day long . I thought they were all very territorial , and a bit "precious" about their patches . Did there used to be gang wars in one of the Scottish cities over ice-cream vans.... or am I just imagining that ?
Yes in Glasgow for sure, but also many other areas too. I am sure other DF intellectuals will post far more interesting details soon. Francis Rossi of Status Quo was of an ice cream family, Rossi’s, in Southend I think?
When I was a kid, our ice cream man was also the local cannabis dealer. It sometimes led to some interesting sprinkles
In Glasgow it was a drugs thing. But that aside icecream van wars, over icecream, did go on. My dad's first van played "Greensleeves" and "Harry Lime"
I think they just stack you up in a chiller for a few days and if you can resist a choc ice after that, you've licked it....
Old ones are the best but .... ‘when the music plays on the ice cream van it means it’s ran out of ice cream’ that was either a Scottish dad to his lad or a Yorkshire dad.
My Mum used to tell us that when they were playing theeir jingle, it was cos they had run out of ice cream!
