Ice Cream Vans

They were great, we can't understand why they don't do that down here!!

The ice cream vans round here only sell ice creams & lollies etc. Would love to see their face if I asked for some tampax!!

Lol i didnt know that! i thought all ice cream vans sold everything! Can tell i dont leave scotland much!

My OH used to work in a van in Paisley and he said that is was great fun. I'm sure you could even get toilet rolls and you could get a single cigarette

Im not far from paisley, in greenock. i remeber the single cigarettes think it was 20p for 1! prob be about £2 for 1 now tho! did you call it the Tally van? or is that a greenock thing!

I think we used to call it the "icey".

I'm in Northumberland, don't personally remember them but i remember being told they used to sell sweets and fags not sure about the tampax though. I have friends who live more out in the sticks who have a chip van round on a Friday, sounds like a good idea to me mmmm

Our ice cream vans only sell ice cream! Blooming expensive Ice Cream at that.

Whilst we are on the "diffirent in Scotland" idea- can you still take glass bottles back to the shop and get 20p for them. Went to Cupar once in Fife and was genuinley amazed at this practice!

I think if I remember rightly it's about 50p per bottle - but I think it's because it's more expensive to buy the juice now ?

Vm,yep you can still take the glass bottles back. Our ice cream van used to sell everything as well. Not so much these days. We used to have two parked outside the high school and you could buy your single cigs from it.

Like Lulu I assumed everybody's ice cream vans sold bread, milk and ciggies. And I have heard it called the Tally van, although only a couple of years ago when my brother's mate used the phrase and it took me a good ten minutes to work out that he hadn't said the Taliban was outside. His enunciation was not the best.

Ours used to sell pop and sweets but not bogroll or tampons!?

I bought 3 ice-creams in Stratford recently and it cost me about £8. I thought it would be about £3. It has been a long time since I bought owt off the Ice-Cream man. I had one at my hen though

When I grew up in the 70's and early 80's ours used to sell ice cream, sweets, pop and Hot dogs!

but definately nothing else household

My Dad was an ice cream man! when he did 'the rounds' he used to sell pop, but when he had his pitch, at a regular place, we only sold ice creams and lollys as it would have peed off the other business', such as the cafe if we also sold drinks.

Never heard of household items, though there was a 'rival van' who got busted selling cannabis out of her van. Shocker in the ice cream community!