the GOOD HUMOR ICE CREAM truck!
a couple of days ago i started the thread on what foods did you miss from childhood, well as i was reading down the page i happened to remember something that was sooooo important to me and the kids in my neighborhood. the Good Humor ice cream truck.
omgosh, i can still hear the sound of the bells ringing as the truck got closer and closer to my house and how all of us kids would run to get our nickles or dimes to pay for the ice creams.
my favorite was the rootbeer and or banana popsicles. they were only 5 cents.
please someone tell me you had the same wonderful experience as i did in those very hot summers were you played outside all day long.
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22 Comments:
i have many memories of that truck. it always stopped directly across the street from our house, and the driver rang a bunch of jingle bells. my favorite thing to get was a cherry flavored ice cup that had a gooey texture on the bottom.
cybercita at 12:58AM on 04/26/09
We didn't have the Good Humor truck in Seattle we had Joe's Ice Cream and yes they would stop in front of my house every day during the summer months and I always had a dime my favorite was the Captain Crunch Bar, Creamsicle or banana popsicles.
pjracz10 at 1:45AM on 04/26/09
I'm not sure if it was from the Good Humor truck specifically, but of ice cream novelties:
ice cream sandwiches
chipwiches
strange cups of faux vanilla ice cream with hard, frozen centers of hot fudge or strawberry
cherry or lemon ice
orange push pops
But the best was always vanilla soft serve with chocolate sprinkles from Carvel!
HeartofGlass at 5:02AM on 04/26/09
we had an ice cream truck but it wasnt good humor, I always had to get the "Italian ice" I think it was watermelon flavor but not sure. I do remember though when the ice cream truck was replaced with the Dell's frozen lemonade truck OMG PURE BLISS!!!
huneybumper at 9:19AM on 04/26/09
Good humor trucks came around all the time when I was a kid and I'm old enough to remember the Good Humor carts. Chocolate Fudge Cake pop for me, please.
therealchiffonade at 10:16AM on 04/26/09
we had palagi's trucks. and i loved the cups with the orange sherbert and the gum ball at the bottom.
@huneybumper~dell's rules.
dearrie at 10:51AM on 04/26/09
In New York City- the Bronx and Queens - we had 3 choices
Bungalow Bar
Good Humor
Mr.Softee
and I went through phases of devotion to the following
BB- Pistachio and Toasted Almond
GH- Strawberry Shortcake, Raspberry Ice Bars, Toasted Almond, Chocolate Fudge Cake and Vanilla covered in Chocolate with a Chocolate bar in the middle.
Mr. Softee was either chocolate, red bonnet (vanilla with red coating) or brown bonnet (chocolate or vanilla with chocolate coating)
deefine at 12:56PM on 04/26/09
The ice cream man never stopped close to where I lived. A few times, when I was visiting cousins in the summer, the truck drove past their house and we got ice cream. I was completely intimidated, because I didn't know what any of the ice cream bars were like. All the other kids knew what they wanted, but I had no idea. I remember that the few times I did get Good Humor, I didn't like it.
Sometimes I'd hear the ice cream truck a few blocks away from where we lived, and I'd see him driving past.
When I was in grade school, sometimes a soft-serve truck would park across from the school, and I'd get ice cream then.
dbcurrie at 1:22PM on 04/26/09
We had an ice cream truck that came by occasionally, but I was never really into it very much. My favorite summertime childhood treat was the sno-cone. There was a small mom and pop store up the street that had an OLD ice shaver and these out-of-this-world syrups and they would make the best sno-cones. They would serve them to you in a paper cone cup, not the plastic things you get nowdays. Somehow that made a difference, as today when I get a snocone, they just dont taste like those old ones. The owners of the store (called Risner's Store, which has LONG been out of business) were the aunt & uncle of the famous Colonel James Robinson Risner, so there was always lots of newspaper clippings around to read in the store.
gourmetgal at 1:43PM on 04/26/09
I loved the chocolate eclairs!
I called them "chocolate declares" for the longest time.
The Good Humor truck came by every evening.
One of the neighborhood kid's mom called the Good Humor guy and told him that the ice cream would spoil her son's appetite for dinner, and he stopped coming!!!
soozm32 at 2:50PM on 04/26/09
We have Mr Softee .....I remember the banana popsicles kinda like fudgsicles but banana flavored...also the Italian ices in the green and yellow cup & and also some orange sherbert in a plastic connicle shapped cup....when you finsihed eating the sherbert, there would be a gum ball at the very bottom of the cup..
Italiancupcake at 3:42PM on 04/26/09
@dearrie I sent my comment in a little too quickly...I just re read some of the comments and saw that you also remember the same orange sherbert/gumball treat as well....My family thought I was hallucinating because no one remembers that!! :o)
Italiancupcake at 3:44PM on 04/26/09
We had several different ice cream trucks, but the Good Humor was the extra special treat. His ice cream cost more than the others so we didn't get it as much.He would have to stop the truck and get out to serve us; I remember being amazed at how he could reach his hand in the back part of the truck and fish around without looking and come out with the exact right item you asked for.And his little coin changer was pretty cool too.
deetroitMI at 6:02PM on 04/26/09
Strawberry shortcake bars and the cotton candy popsicle! YUM!!!!!
sweethunibabi at 6:06PM on 04/26/09
Toasted almond bars.... my fave.
flavacrisp at 11:20AM on 04/27/09
I cant believe nobody has mentioned the good Humor chocolate malt pop - chocolate malt ice cream with a chocolate shell and crunchies in the shell. For those of you from the New York metro area, does anyone remember the Dugan's truck? I still Jones for their cupcakes with butter cream icing.
kumasi46 at 11:49AM on 04/27/09
I don't know if we had "Good Humor" but we definitely had an ice cream truck. For me and most of us neighborhood brats, a Bomb pop was the way to go. The it was the biggest novelty you could get with the least amount of money. Plus nothing seemed to cool you down on a hot day better and faster than those!
Martini Me at 11:53AM on 04/27/09
When I was a kid, we lived so far out, there was no ice cream truck. The neighborhood where I live now gets no fewer than 6 a day. They're all scary at best. They're all run down and dirrrrty conversion vans from the '80's. Not the pristine shiny Good Humor trucks you guys are talking about.
beth1 at 12:18PM on 04/27/09
Oh yeah I loved that Good Humor truck on a hot summer night. Chocolate Eclairs, Toasted Almond, and orange Creamsicles were my faves. (I can't believe no one's mentioned Creamsicles yet!) We had Mr. Softee too, but I think a bit later. I still love the Brown Bonnet or just chocolate with chocolate sprinkles.
jinx35 at 12:42PM on 04/27/09
I don't remember the truck in my neighborhood in Syracuse, but I do remember the local conveniance store sold those freeze pops in a plastic tube. You'd push up from the bottom, and the last inch always melted before you'd finish. I love those things to this day.
TheCheapChick at 3:20PM on 04/27/09
The Good Humor truck NEVER came to our street when I was a kid. We only saw them at the little league park. So it was always associated with late spring/early summer, and never really around during the dog days when you really needed it.
Fast forward to me moving home after college. My old neighborhood suddenly was made up of families with small children, and must have seemed like a good location, because on my first day back, I hear the bells of the Good Humor truck. I ran like a madwoman down the stairs and out the door to the ice cream truck. That went on for the entire summer, and I always beat the little kids to truck...my legs were longer, and they were always slow in deciding what they wanted to order. Not me, a Toasted Almond, every time.
ceebee at 3:54PM on 04/28/09
I wanted to marry the Good Humor man! He used to let me ride to the
next corner with him and ring the bells. My favorite was the butterscotch
sundae......coffee ice cream in a dixie cup with butterscotch on top....hmmmm. Does anyone remember what the coconut bar was
called? Wish they'd sell that one in the grocery stores.
Judie5 at 8:06AM on 08/20/09