What is the “Jingle” on your local Ice Cream Van?

Hitler Has Only Got One Ball..

Home of the Jumbo Cod?

Kerrect!

Never could work out if “Jumbo Cod” was a big fish from the chippy downstairs or some sort of specialist service/beating from upstairs.

I’m just trying to get over the fact that ice cream vans are able to play tunes other than Greensleeves!

… and am reminded also of the Ivor Biggun song about the Ice Cream man.

“Match of the Day”

I hate it 🙁

Doo doo dooo, doo doo dooo, do doo do doo do do dooooo.

No one here buys ice cream from the ‘van’, because our local town centre has a home made ‘gelato shop’. Only £2.50 for a small ‘baked’ cone. At least 8 flavours on any given day. Queues out of the shop at the weekend, in this scorchio weather.

A Team by us as well – which means the van does quite a patch if they do whitefield and right to the other end of prestwich; I wonder how the sales patches are agreed, is it a council managed scheme or do they have some form of secret meeting place with a mafia Don Whippy ??

Never could work out if “Jumbo Cod” was a big fish from the chippy downstairs or some sort of specialist service/beating from upstairs.

Just don’t order the Red Snapper.

That’s all I’m saying.

Or a battered sausage.

😀

Sandwich van at work plays the test match cricket theme!

‘Match of the day’ this weekend!

RE the chippy connection – coincidentally the knocking shop is next door to the chippy. The same guy owns both.

When I was kid growing up in Bolton, Manfredi’s was the local ice cream ‘big noise’. Local schoolkids used to nip over his yard wall and force the van windows open to steal stuff overnight.

Good job they didn’t get caught as the Manfredi’s could be a bit ‘hot headed’…

Manfredi was previously jailed for arson with intent to endanger life and false imprisonment in 2004, having set a man he caught trespassing on his business on fire in October the previous year.

Darren Matthews was held in a car inspection pit at the Lifford Street ice cream factory before Manfredi doused him in white spirit and flicked a cigarette he had been smoking at him.

The victim suffered 60 per cent third degree burns, was unconscious for three months and had to undergo more than 20 operations following the incident.

It was a Manfredi van that my mate Sandeep let the tyres down on before being dragged through the hatch!

Jingle was “Pop Goes The Weasel” IIRC.

Teddy bears picnic here too

Ours plays “I’m for ever blowing bubbles”. Annoys me, because once I hear it, I find myself whistling it for the rest of the day, which makes me sound like a West Ham fan. Hate West Ham.

Raindrops keep falling on my head.

Just outside now

Anyone playing Greensleeves should be boycotted.

I reckon ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ is where it’s at.

Having direct experience, this is a cut-throat business. We had 3 different prices, depending on how rich/poor the area was.

I wonder how the sales patches are agreed, is it a council managed scheme or do they have some form of secret meeting place with a mafia Don Whippy ??

Well the Trillos of Whitby owner was up before The Beak a few years ago for attacking a van owned by Mr Trillo who he’d bought the business off:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire-post/20150513/281754152895239

Their Whitby Gothic flavour is good though (blackcurrant and liquorice). No jingle but a fixed spot on the top prom here.

I so want to hear someone use a true ice-cream man tune…

Tom Waits…

Throbbing Gristle – Hot on the Heels of Love

(It’s really Match of the Day, of course).

Playground Bang Around by Ryc Spangle

The one that comes round here hasn’t been lately, and I can’t remember what the tune is. His ice cream is that horrible ‘plastic’ stuff that extrudes out of a machine. I prefer the proper solid ice cream that has to be scraped out with a proper scoop!

When I was a kid, there was a van came from Bristol, did wonderful ice cream, it was very creamy, and I’ve never found any other ice cream that tastes like it. Can’t remember the name of the company, sadly, it was around sixty years ago…

I can get tubs of Marshfield Farm Ice Cream from the farm shop just outside of town, though – their honeycomb one is superb, as is their chocolate with chocolate chunks in, and the lemon sorbet is outstanding; it’s very difficult to stop myself from scoffing an entire plastic tub at one sitting.

Ride of the Valkyries might have been appropriate for this lot.  Typical weegies 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars

I couldn’t remember until it came round just now.

It’s Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 1.

No one here buys ice cream from the ‘van’, because our local town centre has a home made ‘gelato shop’. Only £2.50 for a small ‘baked’ cone. At least 8 flavours on any given day. Queues out of the shop at the weekend, in this scorchio weather.

Ours plays Greensleeves and cynically hangs around outside the local school at kicking out time like the chid catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. No-one here buys ice cream from the ‘van’, because the town centre has a vape shop and the local kids prefer destroying their lungs to lining their arteries with god-knows what godforsaken artificially created, super-saturated ultra-processed fat derivative.

I bet you lot have eco-friendly, home-made, organic vapes with at least 80 flavours on any given day  😉

One of my pals told his kids

“oh, sorry kids, they only play that music to signal that they’ve run out of icecream”.

My girlfriend tried to pull the same trick on me (not English) told me music was when they ran out and was going home.

Dont know what current ones tune is but years ago we had one using The Good the bad and the ugly theme, was so good, i miss that every summer