Comments on: Dickie Dee

By: whatigotsofar

whatigotsofar — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:55:46 +0000

Maxie - Oh, that’s hot…

Rawbean - Dickie Dee was definitely a symbol of the Canadian summer.

By: Rawbean

Rawbean — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:35:47 +0000

Totally remember it! Much tamer than the icecream truck which makes me sad (it’s the music).

By: Maxie

Maxie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:20:44 +0000

i’ve never heard of that…but now I want some. I freakin love popsicles. not too big on regular ice cream though.

By: whatigotsofar

whatigotsofar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:25:15 +0000

wiwille - I just had this image of you, as a late teen/early twenty something chasing some squeaky voiced teen through around a baseball diamond while yelling “Gimme a fudgicle! I wanna fudgicle!”

By: wiwille

wiwille — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:29:42 +0000

We had something like that in my hometown. Those poor bastards got abused on a regular basis by various pranksters.

By: whatigotsofar

whatigotsofar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:29:13 +0000

Jillian - I can’t explain the genesis of this idea. It just sort of happened to be in my brain. Its not like its ice cream weather. I’m surrounded by snow and ice.

Random Chick - Yeah, when you’re a kid, the ice cream truck is the greatest. When you’re stuck behind one driving through a subdivision, the horrible chime tune it plays can get really annoying.

Spark - don’t get me started on Toronto politics.

By: Sparkling Red

Sparkling Red — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:16:17 +0000

Last summer I actually had a conversation with the guy inside an ice cream truck. He said that the city of Toronto is charging more and more for a vending license every year, and soon it won’t be worth anyone’s while to have these trucks that are only in business for half the year. That’s so sad! We should complain to the mayor.

By: Random Chick

Random Chick — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:51:13 +0000

Never heard of Dickie Dee. Here in California, we used to FREAK OUT whenever we were playing outside and heard the eerie, twinkly songs from the ice cream truck that would buzz around our neighborhood. Everyone would stop what they were doing and freeze, listen to see if it was really true, then yell, “ICE CREAM!!!” All the kids would dash home to Mom to get some change before the truck would pass by… brings to memory the Eddie Murphy bit from his Delirious movie, “I got some iiiice cream, and you don’t have none…” Ahhh, good times.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:49:01 +0000

LOL… this is really random. I’m with JLee, the name cracks me up. I’d buy just for the name.

By: whatigotsofar

whatigotsofar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:29:24 +0000

JLee - I think the company only operated in Canada.

Miss Ash - Ice cream in Africa. Hmmm… how much ice cream would Africa require to end all the fussin’ ana feudin’? Think about it. If everyone in Africa had lots of ice cream, that might help solve much of the strife that exists on that continent.

Bob - I thought your brother drove on of those carts for a summer. Guess it was somebody else’s brother.