We all scream for Ice Cream

In My Humble Opinion
1

Ahhh, Ice cream!

I went by Rite Aid today and I see they are selling the old ‘Thrifty Ice Cream’. Quite a steep price change since I was a kid.

The new prices!
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[li]1 scoop .89[/li][li]2 scoops 1.59[/li][li]3 scoops 1.89[/li][/ul]

The old prices!
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[li]1 scoop .05[/li][li]2 scoops .10[/li][li]3 scoops .15[/li][/ul]

I know, I know, that was the 50’s, but I still remember it. I live in California, so YMMV, but I remember the old Thrifty Drugs. I have no idea if they were ever national, I rather doubt it. Back in the 40s and 50s and even into the 60’s they had regular little coffee shops in many of them, serving coffee, burgers, shakes and yes Thrifty Ice Cream.

2

Ah, nostalgic looks at the comfort food and fountain treats of youth.

When I was a kid we always vacationed on Shelter Island, NY (nestled between the north and south forks at the eastern end of Long Island).

There was (is) a store in town there that has a lunch counter, sells magazines and stuff like that. We used to buy penny candy and bubble gum cigars and such crap there in the '60s.

But the thing I remember is the root beers they served at the lunch counter. Creamy, ice-cold Richardson’s Root Beer in frosted mugs! For something like half a buck you got this huge, heavy ice-encrusted glass mug of the most delicious, refreshing, sweet nectar of the summer gods this side of paradise. As a kid of 8 or 10, I didn’t have the stomach capacity to finish an entire one by myself, but I tried. Oh, how I tried. And dreamed of the day when I’d be big enough to drink it to the bottom.

I was out there this past Columbus Day weekend. The store is still there, as is the lunch counter. But they’ve put in big self-serve coffee urns for the folks just looking for the paper and their morning cup. No more old-timers lingering over a cuppa joe at the counter. I didn’t see if they still had root beers in frosted mugs. They might not have had them, and if they had, it would have cost at least $1.50.

Besides, some things taste better in your memory.

3

In the land of ice and snow
Up among the Eskimo
There’s a college known as Oogie-wawa.

You should hear those college boys
Gee, they make an awful noise
When they sing their Eskimo tra la la.

They’ve got a leader, big cheer leader, oh what a guy!
He’s got a frozen face just like an Eskimo Pie.
When he says, “Come on, let’s go!”
Though it’s forty-five below
Listen what those Eskimo all holler:

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah, rah…Oogie de wawa rah rah rah!
Tuesday, Monday, we all scream for Sundae!
Sis, boom, Aurora borealas, bah!
Boola boola
Sasparoola
We’ve got the chocolate
I’ll take vanoola
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Rah, rah, ice cream soda or gingerale pop!

Father mother
Sister brother
When they’ve had one at lion
They want another

Colleges may come and go
But the world will never know
Any other place like Oogie-wawa
Oxford, Cambridge, Eaton too
Football teams would all turn blue
When they played a game with Oogie-wawa

Those Esquimos looked mighty tough when they took the field
And people said, Ah, they’re the team that never will yield
Then with gore and flying fur
Just to show how tough they were
All those Esquimos began to holler

Iceberg, Lindberg, Sol Berg and Ginzberg,
Ice cream Cohen.
I scream, you scream, everybody wants ice cream.
Rah, rah, raspberry!

:smiley:

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Ah yes when Ice cream was ice cream , and an ice cream van would be parked outside the school (profiteering IMO these days) and my father would buy me a nice 99 flake ice cream those were the days .

Course prices have gone through the roof what used to be
40 pence for some pumped ice cream (not scooped crud like these days) fresh mixed that is x2 and two flake chocolates.

Now i won’t touch the stuff EU law says UK ice cream is not to be sold outside the UK (read this law about 2 years ago so excuse the lack of cite) since it is carcinogenic and is very artificial tasting very very. + its about £2 for the same combo.

Still German ice cream isn’t bad from what i tried at Hamburg Airport

5

I remember the days of Thrifty ice cream. My bestest friend in grade school lived about a block from a Thrifty, and when I would spend the night at her house during the summer, there was nothing better than walking to Thrifty’s with a quarter each in our hands and walking out with a double scoop cone.

I can’t believe it’s almost a buck for a single scoop cone. Gawd I feel old.

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Well I went in to rite aid formerly thriftys and remembered when a single scoop was 35 cents a triple was 1.05 and if ya got 3 scoops in a pint container they’d fill it up for ya anyways

Which is why I never got to go to 31 flavors because they were at . 89 cents a scoop

Now I went to get an ice cream at the old store 3 scoops are 2.25 but the freezer was broken and they didn’t even know if it was going to be fixed at all

As for the coffee shops most of those went out in the mid to late 80s

But I’m beginning to realize why my Mom was so wistful in the days of the nickel ice cream cone cook and movie ect … and im only 25