Ice cream in bowls?

[Seventies Child]

How come no one takes bowls out to the ice cream man to be filled these days?

[drexl_spivey]

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Not sure why. Do you remember queueing for an ice-cream only to discover the vendor only sold small blocks of ice-cream in a wrapper that had to be inserted into an oblong wafer thing? Very precarious and such a let down

[kazboot]

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I've never heard of doing this either, was it a Northern thing?

[The Low Country]

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Oh goodness thats an other forgotten gem. We used to run out to the ice cream van clutching a bowl from the kitchen. Don't have a clue if it was cheaper like that 'cos the vendor saved on the waffers or what, but I don't think it can be a northern thing 'cos I'm in South Lincs and we did it here.

Keep the posts coming, they may jog my memory on other things from the distant past. LOL :-)

[sixtyten]

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Not a Northern thing, we used to do it in the 70's in the South too
Happy Days

[The Low Country]

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Especially if you were lucky enough for the ice cream man to stick a broken flake in the top as a bonus!!

Not a Northern thing, we used to do it in the 70's in the South too
Happy Days

[Grosh62]

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How come no one takes bowls out to the ice cream man to be filled these days?

My Nana used to send me across to Caddy's Ice cream van with a bowl. Caddy's had a big school bell to let you know he was there and had an Ice Cream parlour (like an American diner) in Dewsbury, W.Yorks. It closed in 1980 after a compulsory purchase order bought the building to make a Car park. The Gorgeous recipe died or will die with Mr Cadamarteri because he stopped making it in disgust. BIG SHAME.

[sixtyten]

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We used to have regular ice cream man Popeye & Tonibell, but there was a few occasions when a van came round with a strange Italian ice cream.. we used to get a huge bowl of it. Never tasted ice cream like it since

[AmethystWitch]

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I definatly don't remember anyone going out with bowls lol that sounds so funny!

[Heather74]

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It does, it just wasn't the done thing in our area, you had ice cream in a cone, tub or in between two wafers

[HG]

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We used to get ice cream in bowls too, much easier than carrying 3 or 4 cones.

[Grosh62]

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We used to have regular ice cream man Popeye & Tonibell, but there was a few occasions when a van came round with a strange Italian ice cream.. we used to get a huge bowl of it. Never tasted ice cream like it since

There You go with the Italian ice cream! I bet it was like Caddys. It was sublime and I've never tasted anything as good since, damn, I'm filling up thinking about it. My Nana used to get it as a dessert for us all after Sunday Dinner cos she didn't have a Freezer back then. That or she made an enormous homemade rice pudding with a gorgeous skin on that I could always have. :cry: I wanna be 10 again.

[memoman]

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I think it's a food hygeine law thing plus the cost would be expensive.I remember people taking bowls to my local chippy when i was a kid.I remember them using newspaper but that got banned down to food safety laws because of the print on the newspaper.But even as a kid i never saw anyone take a bowl to a icecream van.More of a case of the kids asking for some money to fetch an icecream.

[Austin Maxi]

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Stuart Maconie talks about people taking bowls to the chippy in his 'Pies & Prejudice' book. I don't recall ever seeing anyone taking bowls to an ice cream van, but as I'm from Kent, it could be something to do with that. Besides, I usually asked for a Toffee Crumble ice lolly, and that would've looked ridiculous in a bowl!

[Jingbang]

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I cant remember peeps taking bowls to the Ice cream van either, i remember people taking Jugs to the pub getting them filled with lager then going straight home with them though, when i was a kid.