The sometimes dark history of ice cream trucks in America
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- While ice cream bars and trucks have been childhood staples for more than 100 years, not all of the history has been sweet. Museum of Ice Cream co-founder and co-CEO Manish Vora joined CBS News to discuss the somewhat unknown history of ice cream and ice cream trucks.
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The museum guy just rolled out of bed and did this interview 😂
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I love how Mr. Vora sat deadpan as the anchor was telling her story.
Right!? She hijacked his time, unbelievable
@@LindaC616it’s her show she had every right dictate when he can speak or not.
Yeah, he doesn’t seem to have much television experience. Doesn’t look happy or friendly.
@@Cereal_kwilla and now I see you're just a troll account, so don't bother
@@Cereal_kwilla or bathed.
I am upset that they cut this interview short. The female reporter usurped Mr. Vora’s time by telling a pointless story. That is unacceptable!
He was stammering like crazy. The producer in their ears was probably saying, "Okay, wrap this up."
"I'm gonna make this really, really quick"
No, you didn't. You wasted the guest's time while he waited to finish the interview.
They literally cut him off and they dominated everything!!!!
Why interview this man if the two of you are going to waste his time with your own stories and conversation! I would have actually enjoyed listening to what HE had to say which is why I clicked on the video. smh
He's an investment banker by trade. He also didn't put his best foot forward visually (a quick search of him shows he knows how to) and he's no expert in Ice Cream.
Enjoy? He was stammering like crazy.
Dude must have thought he was gonna be interviewed on radio!😮😅
Seems likely!
😂😂😂
The dark history of ice cream trucks is that usually kids go buy treats from some unidentified man in a big truck full of ice cream with no adult present.
I hate when news programs cut their guests off.
He looks like he just woke up LOL 😂
That's what I was thinking, didn't even brush his hair. Looks like he needs a shower and a shave.
Why the Museum of Ice Cream co-founder and co-CEO looks like he just woke up?
He definitely didn't take this interview all that seriously.
Look like he has icecream for 3 meals 😂
As the main course and dessert
You do know he’s from Austin, right?
He could have brushed his hair! Lol
Yeah, it’s CBS. They’re not going to let me talk anyway. I’m not combing my hair for this.
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Lol 😆
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"You like popsicles? You oughta come down to the cellar. I've got a whole freezer full of popsicles."
Biden lovessssss icecream 😅
1970 or 71, a grade school friend of mine died because he was seated on the front bumper of a Mister Softee truck. The driver couldn't see him there and drove off. He ended up running my friend over, and Mister Softee trucks were banned in Stamford, CT for quite a few years afterwards (Good Humor trucks continued on though). His name was John (Jack) Hudak, and it was on Custer Street in Stamford, CT. I'll never forget him or it. I was maybe 10 or 11 years old at the time.
Oh my goodness. That is so sad.
It's amazing that doesn't happen more often.
Very sad. My buddy was hit hard by a car after buying an ice cream bar from a truck. As he made the purchased, he walked behind the truck which a car going the opposite direction couldn’t see him. Was the car driving a bit fast, yes. Anyhow, it was sad, but fortunately, he’s alive.
Wow, What a sad story. Imagine that kid "Jack" lost his life because of an Ice Cream truck. Did he scream, how about the other kids, did anyone scream???
@@JusticeWatchHagI see what you did there 🤭
Turkey in the Straw's melody originated from British and Irish folk songs, which had no racial connotations. But the song itself was first performed (and gained popularity) in American minstrel shows in the 1800s. Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics.
I hate the ones that go HELLO before the music starts. Scares the hell out of me.
I love the hello 😂😂😂
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People overuse the word "controversial" nowadays.
Truly, I thought I was missing something.
The theme "Turkey in the straw" of the ice cream truck, was based on a European song which an American then changed and recorded (Columbia music) the song Ni88er loves a watermelon. Thats the controversial part!
It's controversial because the song "Turkey in the Straw" was recorded as "Ni88er loves a watermelon hahaha," by an actor named Harry C. Browne in 1916.
I grew up on Long Island. Our ice cream truck guy used to sell weed from his truck. Buy a dime bag and receive a free popsicle 😎
Yep. They neglected to address the REAL dark side of ice cream trucks - drug dealing.
The "families" ran the ice cream trucks in Queens and Brooklyn, and used them too for moving "things" around.
That is exactly what I thought of when I saw the article. In the 70s our ice cream truck sold various types of goodies. 🤨
@@Nagroddy racism is a helluva distraction 😂
It wasn't even used by the ice cream trucks n loves a watermelon, which is a hilarious jingle.
Might as well say foghorn leghorn is racist for his camptown races doo dah bit because someone else did it in blackface.
I want one
when i hear the icecream truck jingle a couple sts over I THINK OF EDDIE MURPHY IM GONNA GET SOME ICECREAM !! YOU WANT SOME ICECREAM !! 83 OR 84 COMEDY.
LOL Manish was stuttering and stumbling hard near the end when talking about the dark side of the history. He was CLEARLY uncomfortable discussing that and struggling to articulate haha.
I know. His stuttering and stumbling lead me to believe that he wasn’t telling the complete truth.
The darkest part is the possibility an ice cream driver could secretly be a clown-themed serial killer.
King has novel like that but bad guy not clown in that one
Imagine if an ice cream truck was playing "They're coming to take me away" while going down some suburban street...
does your chain hang low
does it wobble to the floor?>
Does it shine in the light...
Is it platinum? Is it gold?
Can you throw it over your shoulder?
@@avisionthroughchrist if Ya hot it make you Cold?
For a long span of time the ice cream trucks in my area played " Music Box Dancer" an instrumental from the 1970's. A few years ago it changed to the loud" Hello" and something that sounds like a quacking duck. More
and more TV hosts are getting carried away with themselves telling personal anecdotes rather than letting their
guests speak.
What dark history? They might have used a racist jingle a bunch of decades ago? That’s it? The barely talked about anything else before shooing the guest away.
I can't speak for this story, but the real dark history involves kidnapping.
She did mention the routing controversy in NY.
@@duckmercy11 yes, you’re right, it just didn’t sound very "dark" to me. It’s not like I was expecting there to be body parts in the fudge-ickles, but I did think it might be about dealing drugs to kids. Our ice cream man sold pot to us once we were high school age.
Mannish just the ultimate display of I just woke up
The female anchor did a great job with contributing anything useful to the story. Good job!
Wow! I’m so glad we got to hear her story about HEARING an ice cream truck, fascinating!
That must have been far more interesting than whatever he was going to say about ice cream routes before they interrupted and kicked him off!
3:56, cameraman and producer knew the assignment...
Moral Orel even poked fun of this
Did you ever notice how the "logo" for Moral Orel looks similar to the MARLBORO cigarette logo?
That was actually a very an interesting segment and the headline, O my. Turns out this is just a Clickbait article.
Read the comments
You tube kept deleting my response. You tube has a lot of offensive material they don't CENSOR OR REMOVE, why my response???
UA-cam is weird and I don't get it.... I know what you're talking about.
UA-cam is the police 👮
Chocolate ice cream with no sprinkles! You vanilla kids are weird 😂
I remembered when I was little towards my teens that I saw Good Humor truck and there was another one with soft ice cream truck.
Cheech and Chong had one too Man!!
Title is incorrect. It a history of ice cream trucks.
Sherbert push Pop for me please ✌️😃👍
imagine watching the movie "Friday" and the ice cream truck scene is foreign to you as a kid .... your childhood stinks
Ran out of people to drag through the mud, so you had to go after the ice cream man. What is it with current culture and not being able to enjoy a pleasant image of something in the past without the desire to take a nice chocolate frosty dump all over it?
What you don't like the truth? Sounds about yt
@@mmmmcolbert8787 The conclusion come to in this so-called presentation is anything but definitive. "There is some connotation..." wow. facts. "There is some debate on whether that's actually the case" got me there. "There's debate to whether that's really the truth". crushed it. BTW, the bigotry on your part is pathetic.
@@LucidStew so you don't like the truth, got it.
When I was growing up in the 60's. We use to wait for the ice cream truck. Probably around the late 90's. I stopped seeing ice cream trucks in my neighborhood.
We have one that drives around the town I live in on the California coast. Drives near my house maybe twice a week.
You shouldn't have let your wife, kids, Job etc weigh you down, you should have left them in the 90's to pursue the migration of ice cream trucks.
An Ice cream truck makes me think of Hurbert the pervert.
You made me laugh extremely loudly 😅😂 ❤
Just imagine if all businesses ended up driving through your neighborhood and blasted music. I hate ice cream trucks.
They don't give change back to little kids.
Short change kids who lack knowledge of math and money. An early introduction to the business world.
i wonder who invented the portable refrigerator in the first place🤔
The anchors are infuriatingly positive.
Most of the ice cream trucks in my area as a kid looked like one of those vans used to kidnap kids, old, white, beat-up things. Will never forget how a ice cream or frozen yogurt truck came into the neighborhood and how fresh and colorful it looked and the jazzed up tropical music it was playing. It left, never to return. Then the old beat up van came, and of course, no one came out 😂
C'mon- Ice Cream Trucks- really! Only a mean nasty person would have ANYTHING bad to say about ice cream trucks- a part of summer for generations- and thankfully, here in Brooklyn we still have them...don't take that happy memory away from us...
Turkey in the Straw is racist? Isn't everything racist now? Geeze.
My ice cream man just rang bells.
Many people didnt know they were lactose intollerant.
The first time I ever saw an ice cream truck I was working at a summer camp in Yonkers NY. Us country kids were so excited. We took pictures and everything!
Aunt Jemima Uncle Ben and now Mister Softee
The ice cream truck in our neighbourhoods in recent years drives so fast no one can buy from him! Makes kids sad. Not nice.
Museum of ice cream sounds very scammer like
Based upon what I googled it looks to me like a chain of art installations/selfie-museums that have become a thing. I'm not a fan, personally.
Fun fact Ice Cream was invented in Tombstone Arizona.
Richard Kuklinski a.k.a the Iceman's closest operative worked out of a Mr Softee in the 80's and even though that was in NJ I always wonder if the guy ever ventured in Queens and sold me ice cream when I was a kid.
Cyanide on a burger.
I thought the jingle was *Do your ears hang low* & I always pictured a dog w/ floppy ears. I guess that’s the shorter version of the *Turkey in the straw*
The I looked up all the Lyrics to the song and the end goes like this…
Do your ears give snacks?
Are they all filled up with wax?
Do you eat it in the morning
Do you eat it in the bath?
Do you eat it with a scone
Or do you eat it on its own?
Do your ears give snacks?
Yahhh not as innocent as I thought it was 😬
Through the years what was making the music on those ice cream trucks please.?
Man, I loved those ice cream trucks, back in the day.
Jingle bells has a derogatory version involving Batman.
I mean, Robin did lay that egg.
Let's not forget Yankee Doodle!
I remember that when I was a kid chasing it down.
How many wrong turns as a prospective entrepreneur do you need to make to end up as "Museum of Ice Cream Co-Founder and Co-CEO"
He's an investment banker based on a quick online search of him. It's definitely a case of too much loose cash and wanting to make another selfie-museum.
It was so much that was off about that Museum of Ice Cream Co Founder, I feel like that "Museum" is a front company for something sinister.
Who comes up with the idea to look for racism in every form of history. They wanted him to answer that last question differently, I'm assuming...and when he didn't, they cut him off😂😅
Chilean here. How curious. There are ice cream vendors here and there in Summer (cheap frozen lollipops out of a box, sell fast before they melt), but everything else is bought everywhere. Most neighborhood shops have a freezer, and they sell commercial packaged ice cream and frozen lollipops. There are stores in many places selling gourmet varieties too.
Nobody waits for a truck randomly going on the street.
We have ice cream and novelties like popsicles and ice cream sandwiches at stores. We also have ice cream shops and stands. The stands where I live (New York) are only open in the summer. The ice cream trucks also only come out in the summer. They sell ice cream novelties that you cannot buy elsewhere or larger versions of different items. They sell a lot of character ice creams. Ice cream trucks have always been a treat; not something you buy every single time. They are not as popular as they were when I was a child during the 70s and 80s.
I wish they'd go back to ringing a bell and stop playing the hellish tune of turkey in the straw at top volume 😢
Miss the old school ice cream trucks
I always wanted to know where do they buy the ice cream from
I could never figure out why the ice cream truck only stopped at the service station when I was a kid, then I saw "cheech and chong's nice dreams" and it was clear.
Let's make everything about race--Americans need more reasons to hate each other, right? Read a new book called "Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me." It talks about the nuance and complexity behind everything we've been taught. Really quite eye-opening.
This must be why my Mr. Softee ice cream truck guy never sold chocolate ice cream and wore black face....
Seriously, come on. It's just an ice cream truck playing a familiar kids jingle to attract their attention, not a nationwide secret racist organization. Sheesh.
We need a longer segment
The ones running at 3 am are my favorite
Leave it to cbs to tie racism to ice cream.
0:38 He looks like forgot and the just woke up for the interview 😂😂😂
As soon as I read the title I thought of kids getting kidnapped and/or abused or worse.
At my rehabilitation organization, a van would visit us. We call it the "Manapua Van." We would buy manapua (a bun filled with seasoned pork,) pork hash, soda, ice cream, and what have you.
Hawaii?
@@mirgrant Yes.
He stumbled over the music origination of being racist and it was
She gathered him real quick when he tried to water it down. And the man cut him off right when was trying to defend it.
I noticed that, too! Typical.
If they dont clean the ice cream machine you get diarreah
You have chain ice-cream vans in the US? All ours are lone traders.
Manish, bruh, a comb 🪮and razor 🪒
Good thing he had his formal T-shirt handy!
🌎🌎 Interesting News Segment 🌎🌎
0:14 or otherwise
Mr. Softie used his truck as a ploy to get into neighborhoods because he was a prolific Hitman.
I remember ice cream trucks in my neighborhood in 1996 when I was 12/13 years old back in monroeville, Pennsylvania
Mr Chill-lee--Spawn 😅😂😅
The Iceman comes to mind.
most people have no clue about any issues with the music. i doubt the truck purposely picked music that anyone would object to
Only CBS could find racism in the Good Humor ice cream truck! We are all racists now.
Ice cream truck at 10:00 PM is a little sus...
So the ice cream jingle is like pepe the frog, really innocuous at first but overtime used in shittier contexts.
Why not mention the guy who actually INVENTED THE ICE BOX that made the ice cream truck possible?!?!?!?
Stop promoting hypersensitivity. No one is offended by ice cream music.
When I was three or four years old (in the early sixties), I took some change off a table from home, and gave it to the ice cream truck driver on our street. It wasn't my money to give, and I was almost beaten unconscious because of it later on by my father. I remember that horrible beating well over sixty years later. To this day, the sound of an ice cream truck brings back memories of terror. I recall giving the driver "a big nickel" because I didn't know what a quarter was called back then.
I love the "Big Nickel" story! Back then, a quarter was really worth something!
I love the guests hairstyle:)
WTF, I love me some ice cream 😂
Has an ice cold expression, fitting for someone of his profession.
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Love ice cream trucks when I was little boy
Prohibition - Ice Cream - wow.
Forget summer there running 365 in my state
One near my neighborhood always played “the entertainer” by Scott Joplin.
Which was my first introduction to classical music by black artists. Which was nice as a little piano player-someone who looked like me!
Odd tangent I know but, yea lol
Oh this brings back memories of growing up in the 50s. :) that jingle is still the same. And somebody has always got to try to make something offensive
The jingle that comes along with Mr. Softee truck in NYC drives people to ........
This segment is why Tom MacDonald started treading in popularity