Selling ice cream

[BoredBloke]

The worst people to take on in a fight are often the quiet ones with a baby face.

Depends - a sleeping baby would not be too hard to fight with!

[hyperD]

Unless you get the L4D Boomer projectile vomiting.... nasty.

[d000hg]

I have been thinking of something similar for a while now. Buy a motor bike with some big f-off panniers and watch the roads news. As soon as you spot a traffic jam, head off with appropriate swag and walk up and down flogging the gear. e.g. On a hot day - ice creams, ice cubes, chilled drinks
On a miserable day, pizza, burgers, coffee

I quite like that twist on snack selling. I'd imagine there might be problems legally though, if your business consists of walking up and down motorways. Plus, how do you get home when there's a big accident and you sell all your stuff? Maybe you could bribe the fuzz on-scene with coffee and bacon rolls.

[gingerjedi]

It's not just me watching what everyone else is doing then...

I was at a fairground over the weekend where the carousel was taking on average £60 every 5 minutes, do you have to be a pikey to join the fair?

[Grinder]

It was on the radio this morning that the industry is in decline with only 5000 vans left, there having been 20000 10 years ago.

If its that good a business, you would expect it to be booming!

The chief reason given was competition with supermarket ice cream prices.

[TinTrump]

Start the ice cream van biz over here; I've only seen 1. 25 degrees even in the winter; its 40 now. You may have to 'arabise' the usual crappy tune otherwise you may just confuse the locals. Hmmm, that might not work either as you may be mistaken for a mobile mosque with a whirly onion dome. And you could use camel milk to reel the punters in.
Anyhow, there's the idea, someone else sort out the detail.

[BoredBloke]

It was on the radio this morning that the industry is in decline with only 5000 vans left, there having been 20000 10 years ago.

If its that good a business, you would expect it to be booming!

The chief reason given was competition with supermarket ice cream prices.

I didn't say it's a good business - what I said was that it can give big profits and it is easy to abuse the system as it's cash only. The trick is to get the good places to sell from - summer fairs etc where you park up and sell till the stock runs out. All that driving around hits the bottom line Obviously winter months tend to be a bit thin!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Start the ice cream van biz over here; I've only seen 1. 25 degrees even in the winter; its 40 now. You may have to 'arabise' the usual crappy tune otherwise you may just confuse the locals. Hmmm, that might not work either as you may be mistaken for a mobile mosque with a whirly onion dome. And you could use camel milk to reel the punters in.
Anyhow, there's the idea, someone else sort out the detail.

An IceCream van which gives the impression of being a Mobile Mosque - my goodness - the Ice-Creams will fly out- as they say in the trade.

[EternalOptimist]

An IceCream van which gives the impression of being a Mobile Mosque - my goodness - the Ice-Creams will fly out- as they say in the trade.

And the latest from CNN 'an Iraqi spokesperson has refused to confirm or deny a Fatwah was issued regarding a 'Mr Whippy' of Terhan. The ice cream vendor was found in his mobile Mosque this morning surrounded by hundreds and thousands, sprinkles. Police say he topped himself'

[Payload Bollington]

I recently got ripped off buying an ice cream off some Indian dude in Gibraltar. It was called a raspberry mivvi - I paid the guy 3 pounds for it and when I got out the shop I saw on the wrapper that it said not to be sold individually. I unwrapped it and immediately saw that this ice had been defrosted and refrozen many times over. Not wanting to get botulism and feeling understandably more than a little pissed I returned and splatted the now half melted ice all over the guy's shop counter. Lucky I didn't choose to cram it in his frikkin face.