Selling ice cream

[ace00]

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'

I think you should sell it on the internet like its 1999

[Grinder]

Our local one here plays "yankee doodle dandy"; might not go down too well in the arab countries.

[TriggerHippy]

I broke into an ice cream van last night.

I got away with hundreds and thousands.

[TimberWolf]

I broke into an ice cream van last night.

I got away with hundreds and thousands.

I got just one cornetto for me.

[TriggerHippy]

I got just one cornetto for me.

What's Clint Eastwood's favourite ice cream?

Magnum.

[BoredBloke]

I broke into an ice cream van last night.

I got away with hundreds and thousands.

So it was you - there was only 99 left by the time I got there. I thought it was going to be Fab but some screwball beat me to it. I thought that I could go out and buy myself a feast but it wasn't worth it so I split

IGMC

[TriggerHippy]

I was just thinking ...

Women are like ice cream.

The tastier they are, the more likely they are to give you a terrible headache.

[tim123]

I splashed out and bought a ‘99’ from an ice-cream van yesterday – a ‘double’ costing £3.50 and was wondering how much profit these vans could potentially make a day.

The queue at the van was steady and I guess it was serving around 1 or 2 ice-creams a minute. So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. I imagine the cost of the ‘99’ ingredients are f-all (a big tub of ice-cream powder mixed with water, and chilled?), but let’s say the vendor is also being ripped off and it’s 50p per ‘99’. So £4 profit per minute, £240 per hour and £3800 a (good) day. Clearly there are a lot of other costs, including paying the local Mafiosi to defend your patch, quiet times, water, parking tickets, etc, so what’s a more realistic estimate of how much an ice cream man could coin out of greedy people with more money than sense per day?

You aren't going to be selling 2 per minute for 16 hours. For a lot of the day you are going to be driving around, looking for customers ,selling one or two per hour

tim

[Peoplesoft bloke]

<snip>....So let’s try an optimistic calculation, at say 2 ice-creams / minute at £2.50 per ‘99’, over 16 hours. <snip>?

16 hours? Are we even getting that much daylight at this time of year?

Even 8 hours would be pushing it a bit for people's leisure time.

Edit : I hate that - beaten to it again.

[Bagpuss]

I know someone who bought one of these
http://bicycleandukulele.files.wordp...6/img_1128.jpg

and makes a fortune selling Ice Creams up and down Blackpool prom during the 'summer'