Double Glazing Is Killing The Ice Cream Van As No-one Can Hear The Jingles

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Link: Double glazing is killing the ice cream van as no-one can hear the jingles [The Telegraph]

 

It was a joyous sound for children growing up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, but the jingle of the ice cream van is unlikely to resonate with today's young people.

 

This is because ice cream vans are in steep decline and are being perilously threatened by a new threat - modern windows, which mean no-one can hear the jingles, the boss of the Ice Cream Association has said.

 

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Zelica Carr, chief executive at the trade body, claimed that new energy efficient triple and quadruple glazed windows - which are installed in new homes as standard - mean children may be unable to hear vans right outside their house...

 

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When they play that music itmeand that they are out of ice cream - Dads all over.

[Katy]

Lies. My new windows (double glazed but supposedly ultra efficient etc and full house worth of them was new 2 months ago) don't stop the ice cream van jingles. Or maybe I've just got sixth sense when it comes to obtaining ice cream...

[sted]

same here one parks outside and with all windows closed i still need to put tv volume up just to hear it

[rich_tech]

we had a cheeky one park in the works car park the other day, lots of people heard that one through double glazing without an issue.

[stevejp]

Don't believe this for a minute - my evidence? My 7-year-old can hear an ice cream van (along with the sirens of police cars, ambulances and fire engines) through double glazing, and beyond the range of normal human hearing - and he doesn't believe the one about the jingle meaning that they've run out of ice cream, either!

[AMLinington]

Sounds like the Ice Cream vendors are fishing for an excuse for their declining sales so they don't have to acknowledge that the real reasons are because a) they hike prices during heat waves to capitalise on a desperate, captive market, b) they never stay in one place long enough for anyone to actually find them (*See : The Phantom Ice Cream Van of Rowner - I'll explain below) and c) enticing children to come out of their houses and flock to their skeevy vans isn't exactly a stellar business model. Just sayin....

 

So what is 'The Phantom Ice Cream Van of Rowner' I hear you ask? Well... I can't describe it because I've never actually seen it. We live near the corner of a 'main' throughfare. In summer we hear the peel of Ice Cream Van jingles ring out across our gardens. But no-one I speak to has ever actually SEEN this van. We don't know where it stops or what route it drives but not a single person has ever actually seen it. You'd think it would stop on this corner, right opposite a school, where there is a layby wouldn't you? Alas no. We are doomed to forever hear the torturous herald of tasty Ice-cream-y goodness without ever laying eyes on it.

[sted]

Sounds like the Ice Cream vendors are fishing for an excuse for their declining sales so they don't have to acknowledge that the real reasons are because a) they hike prices during heat waves to capitalise on a desperate, captive market, b) they never stay in one place long enough for anyone to actually find them (*See : The Phantom Ice Cream Van of Rowner - I'll explain below) and c) enticing children to come out of their houses and flock to their skeevy vans isn't exactly a stellar business model. Just sayin....

 

So what is 'The Phantom Ice Cream Van of Rowner' I hear you ask? Well... I can't describe it because I've never actually seen it. We live near the corner of a 'main' throughfare. In summer we hear the peel of Ice Cream Van jingles ring out across our gardens. But no-one I speak to has ever actually SEEN this van. We don't know where it stops or what route it drives but not a single person has ever actually seen it. You'd think it would stop on this corner, right opposite a school, where there is a layby wouldn't you? Alas no. We are doomed to forever hear the torturous herald of tasty Ice-cream-y goodness without ever laying eyes on it.

 

sounds like a job for a camera drone

[speckytecky]

I spoke to an ice cream van driver about this very issue in a park at Headington on a bright sunny day a few weeks ago and nope, it's not the double glazing but it's the supermarkets selling loss leader ice creams in boxes that are the same price or cheaper than a single item from the vans.

 

That said in most cases the old traditional diesel powered vans are a particularly annoying source of pollution anyhow, aren't they?

[hardtailstar]

Last time I went to an Ice Cream van it was about £2 for a 99.

 

Just checked Tescos website and you can buy four ice creams for £2 and a Tescos value ice cream tub and 21 cones for under £2.

 

I'd much rather buy from Tescos as I can get more.

 

They could diversify and do what one of our Ice Cream van sellers did until he got caught and that was sell drugs from his van!

[DJ-1701]

Last time I went to an Ice Cream van it was about £2 for a 99.

 

Just checked Tescos website and you can buy four ice creams for £2 and a Tescos value ice cream tub and 21 cones for under £2.

 

I'd much rather buy from Tescos as I can get more.

 

Yes, but the ice creams are not the same are they?

[hardtailstar]

Yes, but the ice creams are not the same are they?

 

Thats true but I'd rather have more ice cream over the taste

[MatthewL]

I've heard it all now!! Hear them very well here when the two both come down the street competing with each other.

 

I can hear the fire engines leave the station 1 mile away so I think I can hear an ice cream van on my street.

[Danp]

I tell my girls the ice cream van only makes noise to let you know they have sold out