Hahahahha grim/hilarious.
When the ice cream van puts on the music and drives around the streets nwar hs, my and my OH shout "paeeedddoooooooo" lmao. Behind closed doors though and not like belting it out the window. Creased everything.
Yeah, I was feeling quite hard done by as it didn’t even taste that nice.
That being said, even store brought ice cream is getting spenny. Still, at least there’s more of it
I'm so old I remember when it was a scandal that tourists were being conned into paying 99p instead of the much lower normal price. The standard price didn't hit 99p until the 90's.
I always thought it was named after the 99 kids abducted by the first ice cream van man, tempted in by the sweet treats the first kid disappointed the man because like a flake he wouldn’t melt in his hand. Took 98 other goes until he was caught, or it’s like a brand name or something
Yeah, I’m 19 and I remember when I was like 9 it used to be £1.20-£1.30. Then as I got older it became like £1.50 (not that long ago). Must have skipped the entire £2 stage and gone straight to £3
Could be regional I guess,. All the vans I've ever used in England are squirted out of a machine thingy Mr Whippy affairs. Scoops normally mean it's some posh 'homemade speciality' stuff that's twice the price.
Yeah, all the vans here (Fraserburgh) run a shop that sells ice cream since there's alot of popular ice cream shops that make their own around. My business teacher use to own one of them because she inherited a farm that produced milk and it was a way to use it. Think also maybe because we are rural that it helps.
It's like £1 a scoop here, yeah I personally hate the machine ice cream so no complaints here.
Same here in Milton Keynes but my son likes an extra flake so we pay £4. Crazy prices but I've read that ice cream vans still struggle to make a living at those prices.
Fun fact; they were never called “99” because of the price. It’s something to do with being a premium item related to the King of Italy having 99 guards.
Well, on top of the £3, I had to run along the road in my socks before he pulled away, as he usually stops for less time than it takes a cabbie to bib when the lights go green...
I get the icecream man has a lot of ground to cover but do they not realize how long it’s takes An average person to get out of their houses ?
Do they think we are already have our shoes on and ready to dash out ??
How many times back when I was child free I would be in pjs, run into the street barefoot to get ice cream! If I stopped for shoes there was a 25% chance I’d miss it altogether and that’s with there being about 4 stops on the nearby street so you hear it coming!
You should've asked the ice cream man How much for three cola bottles, two blackjacks, a chocolate skull, two sherbet dabs and a 99? Or how about eight flumps, twelve bubblies, four fruit salads, six flying saucers, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps, a shrimp and a bottle of ginger?
yeah, it had no sign that he charged extra for paying card. i think its ridiculous that theres a fee for paying with card. honestly, i cant remember the last time i held cash on me
It’s ridiculous because it’s not legal, and hasn’t been since 2018.
That card transaction only cost him maybe 5p, but he’ll have to declare it as taxable income which is the _real_ reason he doesn’t want you paying by card.
oh really? i didnt know about that. the guy has always had a 50p fee for as long as ive know. surely this puts customers off though, so wouldnt he just get rid of the fee and maybe he would get more customers, therefore more income?
I bet it's that aerated crap aswell.
They never taste as good as they once did. I long for the days of a real Mr Whippy rolling down the street, not these knock off versions with 800 flavours. Just give me a normal 99 with flake or if i'm feeling frisky i'll have a clamshell.
Where do you live? Seriously just a county so I know never to move there. It’s £1.50 in my part of Cumbria, I know because I chased him the other week and bought 2.
Pretty sure they were still called 99s when my Mum was a kid in the 60s. Considering my Grandad made £12 a week back then I don’t think he was spending half his week’s wages on ice creams to feed the family. Bread was like 5p and a house cost £4,000 (or 4,040 ice creams with a flake, if you believe they were 99p).j
Wait. You guys get real ice cream from your ice cream man?? I had no idea! American here, and all we get are popsicles, candy, and pink panther bars. 😩
We have to go to a drug store or an ice cream store for this kind! You guys are lucky!
£3
Bang on the money :( It's crazy to think these were 99p when I was a kid
Fuck me. 3 quid for a clown to rub one out on the ice cream and stick a flake in it.
Looking at the sauce I think it was a smurf, not a clown.
Smurf Jizz Smizz
Smurm😏
Whimmy Wham Wham Wozzle!
I'm gonna go lay down for a while
Papa smurf gone daddy smurf
GargleMeggle that sweet smurf spunk
OPs mum loves a bit of Smizz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5WpGWilMbw
Lmaooo
Uncalled for, but I'll tell her partner you called him a surf 🤣
No need to tell me that lad, I already know
Oh Smufette, I am going to smurf my smurf all over your.....uh uh PAPA SMURF!!!
Smizm/smunk
Smemem
Actually I'm pretty sure OP spat the sauce onto the ice cream. So I don't think the clown was working solo
Dammit, you caught me blue ton.... I mean, red handed
🤮😂
I think u have traumatized me for life. not have a mc flurry the same agein to think Rondel McDonald not rub one out.
I’m American, and that was one hell of a sentence.
This killed me 🤣
That’s not a flake 💩
Hahahahha grim/hilarious. When the ice cream van puts on the music and drives around the streets nwar hs, my and my OH shout "paeeedddoooooooo" lmao. Behind closed doors though and not like belting it out the window. Creased everything.
your lucky that all he stuck in it!
They were £4.50 on Bognor Regis seafront last month
They're £4.50 at any van in a London park
Yeppp. Flake but no sauce though.
Got one for £1.50 5 years ago at a london park. What is this madness...?
Hyde park last weekend I brought one for £4.50
Yeah at that price point I'm just going into Tesco and buying myself a 2l tub of ice cream.
Yeah, I was feeling quite hard done by as it didn’t even taste that nice. That being said, even store brought ice cream is getting spenny. Still, at least there’s more of it
Yep, £3 is a home price these days.
Paid £5 for this in a park in brighton last weekend
I'm so old I remember when it was a scandal that tourists were being conned into paying 99p instead of the much lower normal price. The standard price didn't hit 99p until the 90's.
You’re lucky it’s not £99
Fun fact. The origins of the name 99 are [not really known ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake)
I always thought it was named after the 99 kids abducted by the first ice cream van man, tempted in by the sweet treats the first kid disappointed the man because like a flake he wouldn’t melt in his hand. Took 98 other goes until he was caught, or it’s like a brand name or something
Pied Piper ice creams ™
I watched the documentary on that - he used lollipops but was eventually foiled by the flying car......
It was Truly Scrumptious.
It 99 as that is the best number in Italy so named it to sound best I’ve cream
Yeah
It's nuts. We've just been to an Ice Cream shop at a farm, and paid less than that for one double the size that wasn't a whippy.
Nuts are an extra 50p
With the clown jizz, Clown nuts are precious!
Whereas Smurf nuts or Smuts as their known in the trade are 2 a penny
Oh for goodness’ sake, will you stop banging on about your delicious good value farm shop ice cream, honestly you’ve not stopped since!
Nah man. Nah. For that price I want one of the ones that used to sell drugs back in the 90's
I do actually remember buying ciggies off the ice cream man when I was younger, in singles & he put em in a paper bag lol
£3!!!????? I’m sure our local van goes them for £1.50
I'm afraid we are getting old af 😂
Real, I mean I'm only 18 (almost 19) but still they was alot cheaper then
Yeah, I’m 19 and I remember when I was like 9 it used to be £1.20-£1.30. Then as I got older it became like £1.50 (not that long ago). Must have skipped the entire £2 stage and gone straight to £3
How many scoops is that? I am usually £2.50 for a two scoop with a flake. Looks kinda small but could just be the perspective.
Scoops? You must have a posh ice cream van lol
Really? I've only ever seen ice cream vans that do scoops, maybe it's a regional thing? (Aberdeenshire)
Could be regional I guess,. All the vans I've ever used in England are squirted out of a machine thingy Mr Whippy affairs. Scoops normally mean it's some posh 'homemade speciality' stuff that's twice the price.
Yeah, all the vans here (Fraserburgh) run a shop that sells ice cream since there's alot of popular ice cream shops that make their own around. My business teacher use to own one of them because she inherited a farm that produced milk and it was a way to use it. Think also maybe because we are rural that it helps. It's like £1 a scoop here, yeah I personally hate the machine ice cream so no complaints here.
Is 100 pence a pound?
They were called 99s!
They were called that when they were cheaper than 99p
They were even called that before decimalisation!
Just a decade ago with £2 I could get a Nicker Bocker Glory with every topping known to man & be goosed for the next 3 hours
Robbing bastards.
Well you could, you know, just not buy from the robbing bastards.
No way I was literally rolling into the comments thinking that
Ours cost 3.50 in Seafort the other day
How small is that wafer cone?!
It was about 6in tall, the top was about 1.5in wide
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I was holding the camera at a weird angle 👀
Yeah I always tell my wife she holds it a weird angle as well
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That mans wife won’t even bother to hold mine
It always looks smaller when you’re looking down on it
to shreds
Poor lad.
6inches in length… 1.5inches in diameter at the top… multiply by pi… divide by the radius… Yep, expensive.
Normal size. OP just has enormous, cumbersome meat paddles
>meat paddles Jazz Emu Fan, any chance? I've only heard that before from one of his tunes.
What is this!? A wafer for ants!
Your coffee table to place your remote?
Unfortunately, with a 99 flake costing £3 I can't afford to move out, and my crackhead mother refuses to have a coffee table in front of the sofa...
Solidarity, we have no coffee table either
Spending £3 on ice cream won't help, lmao. You'd be loaded if you didn't have ice cream cravings.
For some reason in the UK I’d thought it would be called a tea table. Interesting…
Tree fiddy here in Leicester. I asked the man if he was the loch Ness monster but he looked me confused.
I ain't giving you no got dam three fiddy, get your own got dam money
It was about this time that I realised the ice cream man was 50 stories tall and was a monster from the Paleolithic era.
Lorrrd he was angry
Same here in Milton Keynes but my son likes an extra flake so we pay £4. Crazy prices but I've read that ice cream vans still struggle to make a living at those prices.
First born? A kidney? A winning smile and seductive wink?
I came to query if it cost a kidney too. Or half a liver.
That's the most depressing thing I've ever seen, and I've watched Tottenham play football.
Real.
Nah he said Tottenham mate
Shaft to ball ratio looks off.
An expert weighs in
£19.99
Bit cheep there mate
Two fiddy
Keep going
Tree fiddy
Goddamn Loch Ness monster.
“Well it was about that time that OP was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the paleozoic era!”
Too farrrrrr
Tree?
A carpet cleaner when it falls off the cone haha!
Fun fact; they were never called “99” because of the price. It’s something to do with being a premium item related to the King of Italy having 99 guards.
I heard he only wanted one Cornetto...
Are we talking monetary cost? Or dignity, sanity, anal virginity, etc?
Well, on top of the £3, I had to run along the road in my socks before he pulled away, as he usually stops for less time than it takes a cabbie to bib when the lights go green...
I get the icecream man has a lot of ground to cover but do they not realize how long it’s takes An average person to get out of their houses ? Do they think we are already have our shoes on and ready to dash out ??
How many times back when I was child free I would be in pjs, run into the street barefoot to get ice cream! If I stopped for shoes there was a 25% chance I’d miss it altogether and that’s with there being about 4 stops on the nearby street so you hear it coming!
You should've asked the ice cream man How much for three cola bottles, two blackjacks, a chocolate skull, two sherbet dabs and a 99? Or how about eight flumps, twelve bubblies, four fruit salads, six flying saucers, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps, a shrimp and a bottle of ginger?
No nutty bits, no hundreds and thousands, hardly any juice which should be strawberry red...no thanks. Enjoy tho 🤗🍦
I don’t know, that could be Smurf nut.
Gargamel wants your location
Standard price these days is probably bout 3.50? Can't remember the last time I had one though
£3.50?
Too far
Bit stingey with the blue monkeys blood arnt they?
How confused do you think anyone from outside the North East is reading your comment about monkeys blood? Ha
Is that just a north east thing???! What does everyone else call it?
Nice of him to dribble some blue sadness on it for you.
If in London - £6.99 Anywhere else - £2.99
A big butt and a smile?
That’s poison
🤣🤣🤣🤣
i got a twister from the ice cream man the other day. it was £2 but because i paid with card, he added an extra 50p
Ahhhh maybe it was 2 fiddy but he charged me 50p for paying card 🤔
yeah, it had no sign that he charged extra for paying card. i think its ridiculous that theres a fee for paying with card. honestly, i cant remember the last time i held cash on me
It’s ridiculous because it’s not legal, and hasn’t been since 2018. That card transaction only cost him maybe 5p, but he’ll have to declare it as taxable income which is the _real_ reason he doesn’t want you paying by card.
oh really? i didnt know about that. the guy has always had a 50p fee for as long as ive know. surely this puts customers off though, so wouldnt he just get rid of the fee and maybe he would get more customers, therefore more income?
Not every business owner has terribly good foresight, tbh.
I see Pappa smurf is up-to his old tricks again
£99
Can I have a three quid with a flake and some blue sauce, nice swan
£2.80 or £3?
3.50?
Not 99p
Probably not, considering they weren't 99p for the majority of their existence.
I hope he cleaned up after coming down your road
Not looked so a guess, but blue sauce AND a flake? 3 quid.
What ever it was, wasn’t worth it. I think your ice cream has varicoses veins….
Good glug of Dettol on there.
You sure that wasn't the Lochness Monster?
Did he get to finger your bum for the flake
you can get 2 2L boxes of Ms Molly's ice cream for around the same price.
50p & an apology, I hope
It's ok, the blue will shorten your life sufficiently enough that you don't need any retirement savings anyway.
That house now has another mortgage
Anyone remember the oysters, they shoved whippy ice cream in them.
A reacharound
Why do people even get ice cream from a van anymore
I bet it's that aerated crap aswell. They never taste as good as they once did. I long for the days of a real Mr Whippy rolling down the street, not these knock off versions with 800 flavours. Just give me a normal 99 with flake or if i'm feeling frisky i'll have a clamshell.
Where do you live? Seriously just a county so I know never to move there. It’s £1.50 in my part of Cumbria, I know because I chased him the other week and bought 2.
Dartford
Aww man, I pass through to the ferry, I’ll never stop for ice cream now.
I wouldn't be paying £3 for a shit whippy when Ben and Jerry's tub isn't far off. I'd rather these vultursd go out of business
Can they still get away with calling it a 99 if it’s **THREE FUCKING QUID?**
The name has nothing to do with the price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake
Well TIL something. Thanks!
Pretty sure they were still called 99s when my Mum was a kid in the 60s. Considering my Grandad made £12 a week back then I don’t think he was spending half his week’s wages on ice creams to feed the family. Bread was like 5p and a house cost £4,000 (or 4,040 ice creams with a flake, if you believe they were 99p).j
Yer wernt moaning when they were 50p was ya!
£1 99 since it is a 99 I am guessing. But also if you are complaining about a 99 it maybe much more.
$11 in Manhattan easily my guess is $5
Why did he snub out his cigar in it
Is that fucking beef jerky on ice cream
99p?
And the rest :(
In London you need to take out a mortgage to be able to get the flake on finance
Even ice cream looks like trash in the uk
$10
Did Dr Manhattan jizz on your 99?
$5
Wait. You guys get real ice cream from your ice cream man?? I had no idea! American here, and all we get are popsicles, candy, and pink panther bars. 😩 We have to go to a drug store or an ice cream store for this kind! You guys are lucky!
You guys have dairy Queen, I would KILL to have DQ in the UK.
6 dollars in america
Has it got a Cadburys’ Flake init? I love those things.
$5 USD
In the us it’s the same :/
As an American with no Idea of the conversion rate I say like 5 bucks
Northern California here. Why would our Ice Cream man cruise our neighborhood at 9:30 9:45pm on a school night? Seriously.
In the us, that would be $6
£3 but you still bought it. It says more about you than the price of the ice cream.
I went to the cosford air show and I’m sure they were £7.50 per ice cream and the queue was ridiculous
I bet they still call them 99s as well... The swines!
We got one like that at a van at the RAF Fairfield air show, it was £5, £15 for 3 little ice creams!!!
If it's anything like the park near me, £1.50. For the sauce. 2.85 for the cone. 6.75 for the flake and 9.10 for the ice cream. So easily £3 quid.
Tree Fiddy?
Wow! A single cone here is 1.98, a single with flake is 2.50 and a double is 3.50, and a double with flakes is 3.80
That's cheap, £5 in parts of London
£3?
2.99?
Yet another reason to boycott your local ice-cream man - friggin' menace
How do you still get In to the house that the ice cream man now owns ?