Tuesday 4 October 2011

Swedish Ice Cream Trucks

So, last week my friends (yes I do have some of those) and I were innocently playing some kind of sport in the field when we were lured by some kind of awful noise and a bright blue truck zooming by! Well one of the Swedish guys was nice enough to let us know that it was the ice cream truck that went by. Of course, our first reaction was to run to mommy and get money. However, we quickly realized that mommy was very far away and remembered that, unfortunately, we were going to have to pay for our own ice cream. After our initial disappointment we gathered by the road and waited. On the truck's way back we stopped it and looked at the ice cream menu. After glancing at the menu we saw that you could not, in fact, buy individual ice creams, but it was required to buy a box of at least eight! This seemed kind of funny as Europeans seem to take pride in their image as being slim and trim. What a scam considering that they are fattening up their innocent children by selling them ridiculous amounts of ice cream for large amounts of money. After spending about fifteen canadian dollars between us we sat down and shared between about six people of course. This just goes to show that Europe is the next America with extremely large children, all because of the greedy ice cream truck guys. By the way, our goal is to sometime buy the biggest box of ice cream that costs about fifty dollars and has like 45 different ice creams. We just need a snowbank to keep it in before we buy it.

1 comment:

  1. I remember a similar event well. The odd thing about that ice cream truck is that it goes very fast down that small little Holsby road, and b of course that they don't sell individual ice creams ...... just another one of those european oddities one north american will never figure out! But oh the ice cream is good there, no?!

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