I don’t recall ever seeing an ice cream truck on the streets when I was growing up in south Minneapolis. Here in Scarborough, ON, there’s one that regularly prowls the side streets playing “Turkey in the Straw.” I’ve been tempted to buy a parfait or something from it, but I don’t normally carry cash. 
The final verse to the latter is:
*Do they make a rusty clamor
when you hit 'em with a hammer?
Can you do the double shuffle
when your balls hang low?" * 
IN our neighborhood and most others around here it’s Kona Ice. Kids go bonkers for shaved ice and some cheap food flavoring. My daughter loves it.
But when I was a kid we had milk and eggs delivered to the house but no ice cream trucks.
We had milk delivered, and chickens and eggs delivered by a local farmer. And we also had ice cream trucks. The treats were cheap then, with more variety.
Were they cheaper, proportionately?
I mean, someone above quoted that one of these treats today cost $2.50. I don’t have any experience in buying this type of thing (yet), but I know my grocery store flyer last week offered a box of ice cream sandwiches, eight I think, for something like $2.99. So, one from an ice cream truck costs near the same as eight from a grocery store today, while on sale.
Whatever that ice cream truck treat cost at a particular time in the past (I’ve seen people cite everything from a nickel to $1.50) how did that compare to store purchases at the same time?
Inflation is powerful stuff. I always remember that the first time I bought postage stamps, for my own use when I headed off for college, they cost 5 cents apiece. Today they are 55 cents, 11 times as expensive!
Funny you should mention that: Three Flavours Cornetto - Wikipedia
Another season has started with Popeye the Sailor Man played @ +11. It would please me if they were to turn it off as they attempt the 3 pt turnaround in my driveway.
You mean this one?
These days they try not to replicate the store stuff by offering more unique offerings
yes but sometimes believe it or not the ice cream sandwiches are bigger than the ones in the box and there are more flavors like the “big” Mississippi mud sandwich but even the ice cream lady remembers when they had the brownie in them …
Throughout my childhood, stamps were 3 cents. Postcards were 2 cents. Wish they had “forever” stamps back then.
Well the thing that cost 25 cents would be 2.75 if it was 11 times as expensive, and now it’s $4. I mean, when my kid wanted to get one I knew it was going to be more than a quarter, but he said, “I need $5.” He was in second grade at the time and either he was not so good at math or he thought I wasn’t so good at math. (I’m not.)