# Ice Cream Trucks And Carts in 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [July 4, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735 "2024-07-04T18:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/21 "2024-07-04T23:47:46Z")
You can mix 'em up any way you want. Suicide(all flavors) Cherry and Coke, another favorite. The beauty of it is it’s self squirt. The pull down handle is much fun for the younguns. Adult must supervise or blue-rasberry will go allover. And convenience store clerks will not like you. Usually the mop bucket is standing near-by. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/22 "2024-07-04T23:58:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Americans don’t have a single blanket term for individually-packaged, pre-made frozen treats-- Each one has its own brand name. Probably outdated but I’ve often heard them referred to as frozen confections. Popular brands being Good Humor and Blue Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/23 "2024-07-05T00:14:05Z")
I can’t tell you what they sell because I haven’t bought from one in a very long time. Down at the Jersey shore there are many. During the summer, they travel up and down the beach. They pull up to the dead end by the dunes, get out and go to the top of the dune and ring a bell. They do that block by block all day. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/24 "2024-07-05T00:14:24Z")
Ice cream truck comes down my block at least once a day - just like it did when I was a kid, although that was a different block. Every once in a while a piragua cart comes down the street. I should specify that it’s a soft-serve truck. I haven’t seen the Good Humor type truck with bars and popsicles in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/25 "2024-07-05T00:27:54Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Summertime! Part of my childhood was the rare visit from the ice cream truck. When I was a kid in San Antonio, I would expect to see the ice cream truck at least once a week. I live in Arkansas now, and while I’ve been in this house for almost 7 years now, I haven’t seen the ice cream man a single time. In my old neighborhood we’d see him on very rare occasions. Like once or twice a summer. Personal story: When I was five, we had meatballs for dinner which I absolutely hated. Everyone else had finished, but my mother left me at the table with half a meatball telling me I couldn’t leave until I ate it. Suddenly the sweet siren song of the ice cream truck could be heard and I had to make a very unpleasant choice. While nobody was looking, I placed the meatball back in the pot and told my mother I had finished it. I got my ice cream. Probably a rocket pop. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/26 "2024-07-05T00:29:53Z")
I woulda got a cream-sickle push-up. I collected the little plastic doo-dad as a kid and made things with them. They worked good in dioramas. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/27 "2024-07-05T01:43:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not even close. Not even the most densely populated island in _New York_. Long Island is waaaay down the list. According to Wikipedia it is! What IS the most densely populated island in the US then? I really want to know because we here on LI say it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/28 "2024-07-05T01:47:55Z")
I agree it’s what Google says, too. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/29 "2024-07-05T01:48:13Z")
I want to add that Long Island includes both Brooklyn and Queens. I don’t think you’re gonna get more densely populated than that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/30 "2024-07-05T01:50:44Z")
Most densely populated in NY says Manhattan. So now I don’t know what to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/31 "2024-07-05T01:51:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The trucks I’ve seen/heard, in the past few decades, all play, without fail, “Turkey in the Straw.” 😛 Yeah, Turkey in the Straw is the most common. Also The Entertainer. One thing I’ve been thinking of trying to nail down is a mystery tune - not even recognizable to me. Maybe this thread will spur me to make the effort. I’m not sure I ever got a treat from a truck - too pricey. Never gave my kids $ for one either. Come from a long line of cheapskates! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/32 "2024-07-05T01:53:08Z")
My Daddy always said he needed a second job just for kid funzies. (7 of us) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/33 "2024-07-05T01:54:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > According to Wikipedia it is! What IS the most densely populated island in the US then? I really want to know because we here on LI say it all the time. What Wikipedia article are you looking at? The “List of Island by Population Density” article is linked below; the top of the list is full of islands from other countries, including many in the Philippines. The most-densely-populated island is Caye Sable, in Haiti, at 156K people per square kilometer. Meanwhile, [Long Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island)’s population density is only 2,262 people per square kilometer. It’s not even close. Looking at other “New York islands” on that list, Manhattan Island is at 73K (the most densely-populated island in the U.S.), and Roosevelt Island is at 51K. > **[List of islands by population density](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_population_density)** > > The following is a list of islands, sorted by population density, and including islands that are connected to other land masses by a route other than sea or air, such as a bridge or a tunnel. > Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. Nevertheless, for the purposes of this list, mainland Australia along with the other major landmasses have been listed as continental landmasses for comparison. The figures are approximations and are... ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/34 "2024-07-05T01:56:34Z")
I said in the US, though. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/35 "2024-07-05T01:57:45Z")
Wikipedia is often in error. It may be a local talking point/urban legend. Or at one time it was more dense. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/36 "2024-07-05T01:59:39Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I said in the US, though. Even in the U.S., it’s still not. Yes, Queens and Brooklyn are dense, but there’s a whole lot of Long Island east of there that isn’t as densely populated. The **bottom** of the longer list to which I just linked has islands with a density of around 2,600 people per square kilometer. Long Island’s overall population density (2,262) is still lower than that. When I sort that big list by country, I see 14 U.S. islands which have a density bigger than Long Island’s, four of which (Manhattan, Roosevelt Island, City Island, and Staten Island) are part of New York City. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/37 "2024-07-05T02:00:59Z")
What does the population density of Long Island have to do with ice cream trucks and carts in 2024? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/38 "2024-07-05T02:02:18Z")
Yes, I have seen that list but please, please list the islands in the US that are more densely populated. It’s not me being obstinate. I really want to know. Well, the density was my reason for why we have so many ice cream trucks around here. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/39 "2024-07-05T02:05:51Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > When I sort that big list by country, I see 14 U.S. islands which have a density bigger than Long Island’s, four of which (Manhattan, Roosevelt Island, City Island, and Staten Island) are part of New York City. Thank you! I really was curious as we have been told for forever that LI was more densely populated. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/40 "2024-07-05T02:10:26Z")
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