| Comment | Ice cream van or 'the icy' when I was growing up.
We had two vans though. The ice cream van was a converted transit with a window on the side and that sold mostly crisps and sweeties, but also did a few other things like pot noodles, tampax and fags. That van being the ice cream van played a chimey jingle when it showed up.
Then the other one wasn't an ice cream van, but more a mobile shop which had a wee porch bit at the back of the van that you stepped up onto to a glass fronted counter. No jungle, just tooted his horn. That was just 'the van' and it only came round in the mornings then went off the road at lunchtime. That one sold the papers, morning rolls, cold meats, tins of stuff, bags of tottys, fresh cakes, all manner of stuff.
'The van' started early AM until lunchtime, or just after. The ice cream van started its run as the schools came out and kept going round till around 11pm or so.
Maybe, you come from an area that only had the second kind of van and didn't get an ice cream van? |
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