# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/81 "2024-08-25T12:51:30Z")
It’s Rhode Island. Among states it’s second in population density only to New Jersey which of course is not an island. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/82 "2024-08-25T13:14:22Z")
The ICT that comes through here plays _Popeye the sailor man_ toot toot Sells the usual assortment plus freezie treats for pups. You can hear it travel all around the lake. But it shuts off the tunes when it leaves a neighborhood to travel a main road. So one doesn’t know where it goes next. There’s a gaggle of younguns that live down the hill on a private road. One day they were waiting on the ICT to approach the turn around at the end of the block so they could run up that hill. That hill slowed them down and the truck didn’t see them they were like 7 kiddos booking it after the truck waving dollars as it retreated around the corner. Defeat written all o er their faces. I wished I had some freezie pops in my freezer I would have tried to cheer them up. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/83 "2024-08-25T13:14:59Z")
> 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. Long island is the most populated island in the US not the most _densely_ populated. Manhattan is the most densely populated island in the US, at least according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_population_density) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/84 "2024-08-25T13:18:22Z")
But it may consume the most ice cream treats off a ICT per capita making it the most densely populated island of freezie treat consumers. Just trying to right the train ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/85 "2024-08-25T13:19:57Z")
I think if you come to visit you’ll find our population is incredibly dense. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/86 "2024-08-25T13:24:40Z")
I’m sure it is, but Manhattan is around 73.000 people per square mile, Rhode Island is more like 1000 per square mile. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/87 "2024-08-25T13:30:33Z")
> [@Disinfectus](#): > > I haven’t lived there since the early 80s. I was in Ronkonkoma. I grew up in Elmhurst/Jackson Heights and we used to go to Lake Ronkonkoma on occasion. Left in the mid 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735/88 "2024-08-26T01:20:00Z")
As God is my witness, what I’m about to type is true. This afternoon I heard the Mr. Softee music outside my home inside the DC Beltway. My wife had seen him close by and got him to stop in front of our house. I got a vanilla cone, and it was just like I remembered from my days in Brooklyn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-trucks-and-carts-in-2024/1003735.md?page=4)