Whatever it is, he’s out at 9:30pm and I’m convinced he’s not selling anything legal.
look at this guy, never bought an icecream at night. You get the best deals that way!
And the best meth…
hah! *slaps shoulder* yeah!
The Entertainer
Hello? and Im not the biggest fan. First time I heard it I was doing yard work with my headphones in and thought someone was trying to get my attention.
That’s the one they play in my area in Michigan, I really hate it
In my hometown they played the entertainer most of the time:
I was hoping for Adele.
My disapppintment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Just dropping by to share the legendary
lmao, actually slapped
LMAO, my man co-opted an old racist tune. You go on with your bad self.
Greensleeves boooooriiing
I fuckn love Greensleeves! Greensleeves is my JAM
Yeah, if you’re riding to Canterbury!
Greensleeves is the only ice cream van song I’ve heard in Australia.
Mr. Sandman just like this one.
Hush little baby, don’t say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Must be a benelux thing? Same thing here
I live in a weird ice cream van black hole. The last place we live had them and that was only 5 blocks away (as the crow flies). Every year more families with kids move into the neighborhood and every summer I think the vans will expand their territory to cover us, but 10 years in and it hasn’t happened.
I need to start using “as the crow flies” more
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I thought it was just in movies or the 50s or something
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song
Hemglassbilen!
Match of the Day theme where I live. (It’s probably playing in your head now, sorry).
It was Greensleeves where I grew up, halfway around the world.
Same result: synchronised yells from nearby houses of “Muuuuum… iiiiiice creeeeeeam!”
never apologise for a good song
The Merry-Go-Round Brook Down.
The song that comes to mind for me is “Do your Ears Hang Low?”
I think there are mainly two competitors in Norway. The oldest and most recognisable is Isbilen (recently rebranded to Fråst) which plays Norwegian dance no. 2 by Edvard Grieg https://youtu.be/GFQLAVpataA
Diplom-isbilen is a lot newer, however lately i have mostly been hearing them driving around. https://youtu.be/6xXp-11Swcc
Hjem-is no longer operates in Norway, but they used to just ring a bell. I think they’re still around in Sweden under the name Hemglass
The first one is really fun with that periodic trill which peters out. The second one I have to say I’m not very fond of, maybe because it sounds overproduced in that advert. Still, beats a ringing a bell!
Apparently that turkey in the straw one is super racist- or rather the lyrics of the version that took off and led to ICT fame. I swear ours still plays it… I’ll have to listen closely next time I happen to hear it.
The first and natural inclination, of course, is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to “Turkey in the Straw,” but the melody reached the nation only after it was appropriated by traveling blackface minstrel shows. There is simply no divorcing the song from the dozens of decades it was almost exclusively used for coming up with new ways to ridicule, and profit from, black people.
Perhaps I’m naive. I looked up the lyrics and found one spot in them where, yes, for sure, that’s racist. However, it’s akin to Enie meenie miney moe, where a slight change could make the song suitable again.
I already posted the relevant bit above. The history of this song in ice cream trucks was absolutely racist.
Something isn’t meshing with my app, or whatever. I swear I saw your comment but it disappeared and the one I replied to remained.
Ok, so we are both right it turns out: Turkey in the Straw is as I described (one racist passage), but was used as the tune for the ice cream truck song which was a bajillion times worse, Holy cow.
Fuck things were bad back then.
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Chile?
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You have seen some shit, my friend
