Feel bad for these guys, I knew a guy who used to drive an ice cream truck. He was a Vietnam veteran, apparently he saw a lot of really messed up stuff we were doing there and when he got back all he wanted to do was bring joy to people so he bought an ice cream truck and did that all the way up until he died a few years back
@@krunken_isok he was he lived just a block away from me and during the weekends when I was younger he would pay me to mow his grass and water his tomatoes, gave me 40 dollars for just a little over an hours work, looking back on it that's a really good deal.
As a new york resident, I saw the trucks everywhere. Parked in front of schools, in front of playgrounds, them playing music to get children lining up. I still see them strolling around, however the prices have risen from around 2.49 to 4.15 depending on what you get. Flavors taste very different and the quality has decreased. For instance, the chocolate ice cream was my favorite flavour, however recently just changed to a bitter coco powder taste. Truly heartbreaking, it was part of my childhood.
As a person that lives in a small town in Oklahoma, every summer we actually have ice cream trucks strolling around. Wasn’t until my favorite vanilla soft serve doesn’t taste like it used to, and it rose from 2 dollars from when I was a baby to last year, to around 5 dollars. There goes my childhood.
Yeah I remember when I was 10(6 years ago) I used to run outside when I heard the truck, I still see it now but I got kinda scared to approach it because the trucks here look like exterminator vans their all black and theres like no color on it
Getting ice cream from a van was the best thing in the world when I was a kid, but it almost never happened cuz I was always told that it was too overpriced, that we could buy an entire tub of ice cream at the store for almost the same price, etc etc. That being said, I still cherish the few memories I had as a kid sprinting to the truck yelling “ICE CREEEEAM!!!”
I remember we had an ice cream truck come through our apartment complex as a kid, but it was like. Super broke area, so the most expensive thing at that truck was only about $3-4 for the super nice ice cream bars. But they had a dollar menu for the kids whose parents just couldn't afford it.
That's what my parents would tell me whenever the ice cream truck came around. Though, they'd still give me some money and let me go buy some from time to time which I remember over 20 years later. I think the experience itself is worth more than the ice cream ever could be.
@@thebalderthor4884 I always make sure to tip him. Hopefully others do the same and it allows him to keep his prices down. Also people tend to buy more from his truck then the others who have raised their prices too high. So Alex must know what he's doing and it must be working since he's still in business. He's the only OG truck that still passes by our neighborhood.
"The Ice cream truck is becoming a thing of the past." Not for the right reasons though. The economy just jacked up the cost of their resources. We can only hope if the costs lower, we'll see the return of this American staple.
I feel sadness all around at this news. I feel for the truck owners, AND the children who may never know the thrill of this fine icon- the ice cream truck. I still have fond memories of summers in New York when we'd hear that tune and lose our minds trying to get mom to throw some money down (from the window; it was quicker) so we could race to that truck. My favs were the Bullet, Banana Splits, Strawberry Shortcake Bars, and Italian Ices. I remember that thrill as if it were yesterday. I'm 63. Ahh, good times. 🥰🥰🍧🍨🥰🥰
When I was in college and urban exploring, we happened upon a bunch of abandoned ice cream trucks down this hill in TN. This was back in 2013 probably. Now it really is about to happen everywhere.
Very fond of the memories of playing at a park with my parents and siblings and running to them for money when we hear the ice cream truck. Will never forget those memories of pure happiness.
The sad part is most of the so called inflation is actually corporate greed. I have noticed in the big name stores the price of things have gone up but I go to stores in my area that sell local items from within a 200 mile radius and make arrangements with farmers and meat packing facilities. I just bought a pound of all natural bacon for $6 but the national brand has gone to $10 and I get a dozen organic omega-3 diet eggs for $2 so don't tell me it's all inflation
@@ValerioRhys that's why I used mine to do repairs around the house and to my equipment for my business. I didn't go and buy a flat-screen or rims for my POS. Invest responsibly and to hell with the stock market, it's just another casino
Your paying for the convenience of it driving to your house. Kinda like buying things at a gas station just to avoid waiting in a long grocery store line for a couple of snacks & drinks.
I don't. They're creeps. I actually called the police recently because there was an ice cream truck behind my house on a street that just kept sitting there and playing music very loud for about 45 minutes.
A BIG shout-out to my icecream truck lady Sandra in the UK. Always so friendly and hands out small cones whenever my dog comes out to greet her. Sandra always waves it off saying that she loves my dog and wants to spoil him but I always pay for the cone and the rest of the ice-cream.
Wealthy people still hire ice cream trucks for kids parties. My nephew got an ice cream truck at his birthday and they parked it there and everyone helped themselves to ice cream and you pay the bill afterwards. They also show up at the beach in summer and parked outside public parks.
Come to East L.A, Rodrigo and Elena still cruise around in their Soft Serve Ice Cream Truck…every evening…I’m sure Bidenflation is affecting them noneless.
It did. They just want to fear monger and think that unless big corporations get more handouts and opportunity to wring the everyman alvie that it'll be small businesses and "American staples" that go under.
There is still one in my city. Where you from??? He goes around just my city though, not sure about surrounding other cities though. But yeah he is great. He plays the music and everything. You can buy anything from popciles, ice cream sandwiches, cookies & cream...etc. He has a big following
I buy the Häagen-Dazs cream bar box of 12 for $10. So when my kids hear the jingle I tell them to grab one before it the truck passes so they can feel special. 😂 kids don’t care where it comes from.
Parents who grew up with the ice cream truck always said "We have ice cream at home" have let this happen. Saying no to a child is why this happened. Not giving a child $5 to run around with outside and spontaneously spend.
Living with a type 1 diabetic, ice cream was truly a treat. He was diagnosed at age 4, so trying to find places that had sugar free treats was a hunt in and of itself. Besides, the ice cream truck never sold actual ice cream, just those frozen popsicle style desserts with artificial flavors and gumball eyes. It wasn't worth it.
I always loved the idea of an ice cream truck and the ones you’d see in cartoons. In reality, most ice cream trucks don’t even serve ice cream- just those weirdly misshapen, half melted character pops that were way overpriced for what they were.
@@wileecoyote5749 Yes, it use to be called, "juvenile diabetes" but it can come in your teens or even young adult life, like Nick Jonas and Jennifer Stone from Disney Channel. It's an autoimmune disorder where your pancreas doesn't work at all. Type 2 is more like your pancreas doesn't make enough insulin, or you're insulin resistant.
Twice in the past week I’ve gone out to get ice cream for my brother and I. The man is so nice, and I know he doesn’t get many customers. It’s sad to see part of my childhood fading.
I remember being a toddler and getting a spongebob ice lolly from the ice cream truck parked outside my old house. It's sad seeing such a nostalgic part of so many people's childhoods starting to become a thing of the past.
Last year I moved to a city that has a weekly soft serve ice cream truck. I had never seen such a thing. My family and I visit it every time we see it. That being said, in the past year, we’ve seen prices increase by 20% and it doesn’t come every week now. This truck brings the neighbors out to socialize and kids running down to catch the truck. It makes me so happy. I hate that this isn’t going to be around much longer.
If 75 cents increase in coffee is pricing you out, than maybe you’re not making enough in the first place to be buying $4 cups of coffee every morning.
@@yomer355 no they dont. They living gooood. I have relatives owns 1.5 million dollar homes. $3000 bottle of the finest cognac. liquor bottle everywhere on the counter like a fkin bar. Marble floors, drive nice luxury cars, the list goes on. What chu talkin about willis?
@@eredinbreaccglas3935 this is a very simplistic idea of what good life is. When you have all that, you get used to it and start having other troubles. Your lifestyle would also be considered heaven on earth for some poor person in Bangladesh. But yet you don't seem to be satisfied with it, you crave for more, you think of nice luxury cars and the finest cognac. Whereas some starving person from Bangladesh doesn't even dream of that, he'd be happy to have a bowl of rice at least once a day. He'd also think that you have no worries in life.
There is still one in my city. Where you from?? He goes around just my city though, not sure about surrounding other cities though. But yeah he is great. He plays the music and everything. You can buy anything from popciles, ice cream sandwiches, cookies & cream...etc.
I used to see a few around where I live by that was years and years ago. I actually heard that there was one in my hometown a few weeks ago but never saw it.
The dying off of ice cream trucks brought tears to my eyes because I was a child that lined up in 1960s. I haven't lived in a large city in decades so I haven't even seen one in that long. But the memories and thoughts that other children were enjoying the experience gave me happiness for them. Now that is dying off. So sad.
i remember getting berated by customers when i worked in fast food about food prices, them claiming i was adding things onto their order, i would try to explain inflation but to no avail
Years ago the problem was there were way too many trucks on the streets in my area. Thankfully most have gone out of business. Which is wonderful for me.
I remember it being like 2-3$ per frozen treat with an ice-cream truck, in my town when I was a child. Really shows how sad of a state we're in if a cone or frozen treat is about six bucks each.
The ice cream truck in my neighborhood never had soft serve ice cream like that. We always had freaky looking Micky Mouse on a stick, or fudge bombs. And those were for the rich kids. The poor ones (like me) got flavored ice pops.
Yeah! That is what the ice cream guy in the truck that i know of in my city sells. He still sells fudge sticks, 50/50s, missles, drumsticks , ice cream sandwiches...etc
Feels bad to see the world coming to this. Although none of this is effecting me personally since i do diet and don't eat sugar , its still sad to see where the world is heading to
@Kirsten A What's worse is that a lot of times is they aren't even changing the price on the shelf. I tried to stock up on Reese's today. Picked up four of the Fun Size 12 packs. The price on the shelf was $2. Went to the register and they were almost 2.50. 20% increase overnight. So I put two of them back. Spent $5 instead of $8. And less poison for my body. Win/win Even with inflation I spend less on groceries than I ever have. I snack a lot less now. If I think something too high I buy less or just stop buying it altogether. One of the things on my list today was ground chicken. It was $3.50 last time I bought it. They wanted $6.50. I just chuckled (inside) a bit and kept moving. They can only price gouge you if you let them. I'll eat today. It just wont be chicken. No skin off my back.
I hope the ice cream truck doesn't become a thing of the past. I love ice cream trucks. I love watching the joyful faces of children whenever they see and hear the ice cream truck approaching. Hopefully, the costs will go lower, and we'll be able to save this icon so that other generations of children will enjoy them as much as we did.
I grew up in Queens and to this day, our Mr Softy truck comes around at 10 :30 pm every day like clockwork. I know that man ain’t just selling iced cream at that time of night.
You know... Before COVID, I stopped a ice cream truck on my street. I went to the window and looked at the pictures of different ice cream that had NO PRICES listed. I got 3 ice cream goodies for me and my kids and just about fell over when the price was over $20. That was the last time I ever stopped a ice cream truck.
it was my mom's dream to have an ice cream truck, she even was about to buy one six years ago, but it never happened. probably a good thing in the long run...
A Mr Softee truck was stopped near the park at my house. My daughter ran up and eagerly ordered a cone, I was right behind her with a fist full of dollars. The person behind the counter told me that the truck is reserved for a birthday party and they couldn’t sell me a cone. My daughter cried, and that was the last time we did an ice cream truck. ( I take her to the ice cream shop down the road instead)
damn that sucked. if i was for the party that rented it, i would have said you could have one. how come the other person that rented it didn't let her have one?
1:43 DUNKINFLATION is self created. Franchisees throw out massive amounts of donuts each day that could be sold as a 'day old bakery' item, or given to food banks. Wasteful.
That would increase the price of things Chris, not decrease them. The reason the market no longer produces those things is because the U.S lacks a competitive advantage in them, meaning to produce them by definition would cost more.
Mad lad reporter went through the Dunkin Donuts to ask if the prices went up through all of the DD stores, and when he got his answer, he straight up drove away 😂😂
An ice cream truck actually came through my neighborhood a few days ago and I was super excited because It hadn't been around here in a LONG time but when I got there I saw they didn't have much options and with the options they did have it was really expensive for ice cream I really and truly feel bad for them because most of them depend on they're ice cream for money 😢
This is one of those things by the end of my lifetime, let's say I'll live to 90, I'm almost 30 now. This, this right here will be nothing but a memory. I'll be telling my grandchildren about things like this in the far future and they'll think I'm crazy. I feel bad for future generations. You won't know the excitement you got as a kid screaming out "ICE CREAM MANNNNN!!!!" and rushing to your parents for some change.
I thought he was going to say the sandwich was $8-$10. For a small store I’d definitely pay $5 for a sandwich like that. Not at a fast food chain though.
I'm seeing the price differences and honestly I'm surprised that it's a reason for people to complain. Where I'm from if we had those price differences we'd be very very happy.
@@abbynguyen5923 The pandemic is an excuse for everything. Can not see a dentist? Blame pandemic. That is I ever see. Now they blame war in Ukraine for things that were happening years beforehand. Always excuses as to why stuff happens.
Ice cream trucks used to be a big hit when I was a kid. Not anymore. I don't see as many customers either, same issue with trick or treaters on Halloween. I think there's a larger issue where we live in a time where people just don't trust their neighbors anymore.
If they want to exist long term they’ll eventually need to switch to electric (or possibly natural gas) trunks ideally with solar panels on top as well. It’s a lot upfront but operating costs will be way lower. It will also be more reliable.
EV won't work for this. They're not designed to be operated 12 hours straight and the solar on the roof wouldn't generate enough to keep them going. They'd have to recharge several times a day.
Darn You Inflation & I'm Gonna Miss this Classic Ice Cream Truck Jingle PS: Its Really our US Government & Our President Fault! If they got Right in the ball and Try to Fix This Inflation about 1 or 2 Years ago. We might not be in this Mess! Its The Truth
Why would they fix something they wanted, when do you think was the last time joe Biden picked up a gas pump nozzle? He did this same thing when he was vp for the Obama administration this is his grand plan
A lot happened in between those 2 presidential elections to the entire globe regarding funerals, jobs, hospitals, gas. I was paying 8k a year for gas when Justin was prime minister in 2015 and I am paying 14 k in gas and Justin is still prime minister 7 years later. Do yourself a favor quit idolizing old men who should have retired at age 65 and choose to work in their late 70s and 80s and won't let a cognitively healthy person 50 or under run to be a president.
If you replaced ice cream trucks with trucks selling street tacos and playing the Mexican hat dance, it'll be us adults running to the trucks with smiles and handfulls of cash.
I would have figured it was because most parents don't trust the shady-looking trucks that pass by these days. We avoid the one in my neighborhood because it looks decrepid and the driver looks filthy. I have taught my daughter never to run up to a truck, even if she thinks they have ice cream. It's sad, but now we just listen to the music.
Our ice cream truck driver smokes cigarettes while he's handling the money from kids and the ice cream cones, then blows the smoke in the kids' faces. No gloves either. Eeew.
I'm 42 and have been a fat kid all of my life,couldn't run 10 ft until I heard that music playing then I could run several blocks like bee's were after me,the thought of no more icecream trucks hurts my heart
Streets also used to be filled with kids 20 years ago. Today not so much. Ice cream trucks have been on decline way before pricing increases. This will just probably be the nail in the coffin.
