No - it's not Popeye that must have been anotherb one from my childhood. It plays the 'Just one cornetto' tune.

 

This'll stir a few memories for you.

 

I am humming the tune mine used to play now, but I've no idea what it's called.

 

it went ... Du du du du du du du du du du da da de de de du du.

 

(I really did sing that aloud as I typed it!)

And I tried too  I got The Archers tune - that can't be right

I can't remember exactly - would know it if I heard it  - but Greensleeves was definitely one of the tunes. 

Thanks El Loro...  that really brought back my childhood 

 

 I have the urge to run outside!

If you do just remember this:

 Green Cross Code Man... gulp... Yessir!  

 

 

I really can't remember what tune the ice cream van played, and you'd think I would seeing as the ice cream man was my best friends Dad.  (And let me tell you she was the only one of us that ever got knocked over after running out from behind the ice cream van).  

 

Anyway, the Green Cross Code man, made this pop in to my head.  Can anyone remember?

 

I remember Tufty

 

 

Please, please don't click on this if you're easily offended.

 

Well never in all of my life have I ever been so offended 

This ice cream van malarkey reminds me of my son when he was younger. He was emphatic that he was gonna be the Prime Minister when he 'grew up'. I told him that you just don't become Prime Minister you have to have a job first. He thought for a bit and said 'OK - I'll be an ice cream man'.

 

He is 32 now ...........I'm still waiting for him to grow up.

Pretty sure we had one that had Greensleeves and one that had Pop goes the Weasel.      My mate always talks about how her Mum used to tell her that when the chimes were going it meant that he'd run out of ice cream.    She used the same ruse on her kids for years!

The A Team theme tune

OMG thats awful  

I've used that one on the boy before.

Our local one used to play "Popeye the sailor man!" They were a great Italian family based about 200 yards from my house. I always think of Alex Salmond as being the missing brother.
Everything was spoilt when Mr Whippy and his appalling produce appeared on the scene. It's only in recent years that decent ice cream has re-appeared.

I agree Joe, Mr Whippy is inferior. Ours had a little factory down the road and made their own, they won awards for it. It was great when they were prepping for a competition as we were recruited as tasters. My first paid job was serving on one of their trailers next to Baths Bridge on Durham river banks. 

Somehow.. that doesn't surprise me 

I'm sure someone told me that Maggie Thatcher invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

It's probably why she stole all the milk.

Where i grew up (Enfield) a pink Tonibell van came round our street - i can remember the tune - but i have no idea what it is called.

ours was a bit rubbish, the guy just used to lean out of the hatch and blow a whistle ! Brilliant ice cream though .. Crollas . 

Over my childhqqd there've been a few different ones. 'Greensleeves', 'Popeye the Sailorman' and 'The Isle of Capri', are the only ones I knew the name of, but I know there were a few others as well.

Biting a hole in the bottom of the cornet but making sure you licked up all the ice cream before it seeped through.

 

Oh come on… surely I wasn’t the only one?

Biting a hole and then sucking the ice cream through it like a straw.

 

Pushing the chocolate flake down to the bottom so the last mouthful was actually the best with the tail end of cornet a 'blob' of whippy ice cream and a chunky piece of choc!!

I bit the top off the flake, then bit the bottom of the cone and sucked and where I went next was anybody's guess 

Was it like this Sprouty??

 

 

LOL Nope! although I did try to get as much of the flake in my mouth as was humanly possible 

Kaffers, I used to tell him when he asked "when can I do that?" The answer was always 36. So, when can I have a girl friend, 36. When can I drink beer, 36. When can I wear high heels, 36 (if you must). When can I drive a car, 36. You get the picture. This was all during his Threes, the age when it's always when and why. 

 

So, a while later, he was still either 3 or just turned 4, the Lucky Insurance ad came on the TV, the one where the dog is driving the car. Master Cinds saw it and said to me "that's not right", I'm thinking he gets that dogs cannot drive cars, then he said "That dogs not 36".

 

probably funnier if you were there

I always shoved my flake to the bottom of the cone, then ate the ice cream off the top, then start on the flake from the bottom up.

 

^ THIS ^

 

It's the only way to eat a 99 

Nope, a regular occurrence over here!

The ice cream van stops outside my house everyday (live next door to a school) and I've been trying to work out what the tune is since you started this thread and I still don't know

Then you simply have to ask him. I wont rest until I know

       
       


his name is Angelo and he also sells drugs after dark

Well, don't dob him in until you find out what the tune is, or....(if you're brave enough) threaten him with the dobbing if he DOESN'T tell you what the tune is!

One of the ice crream vans which goes down my road uses the theme from the film The Third Man (1949).

Poor quality sound.