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Story by Emmjay
Bit of an out-of-body experience yesterday. I was sitting in the front bar of the pub enjoying a quiet lunchtime glass canoe of Trotter’s Ale with my gourmet bacon and egg roll complete with no rocket or kale and my memory banks overflowed with the sound of “Greensleeves”.
Which goes to show that despite impending dementia, some of our childhood memories built on pavlova, sorry, pavlovian training we will take to our graves. And most likely we will find these pink trucks idling around the afterlife, vending whipped ice cream replete with stubby Flake chocolate bars.
And there I was, basking in the firm belief that they do not make childhoods like that anymore ….. only to discover that they DO !
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
When we first moved into Orange we lived on the outskirts of town and my sister and I were happy to learn that there was a guy who came round every afternoon in summer driving a big Ford Customline ute with a couple of large freezer boxes in the back.
We always knew when he was coming because he would hang his arm out the window of the ute ringing a big brass bell.
We came to call him the “Dingly Man” and if mum said there was enough left in the “housekeeping”, we would clutch our “Frippeny Bits” or “Zacs” and wait patiently with the other kids by the side of the tar for the “Dingly Man” to arrive.
He was a nice old boy, always had a smile for the kids. Years later Orange too had its fleet of Mr. Whippy vans with Greensleeves jangling from the speakers but it wasn’t the same. Or maybe I’d just grown up.
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When I lived at Wagga in the early 1980s there was a guy with a refrigerator van who came around too – but he was dragging allegedly fresh fish. I had to say that they looked like they had swum overland from the coast. I found the offers to be less than compelling. 😊
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And paisley, paisley anything.
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It’s sure to make a comeback. Like Fashion – I think flairs are sneaking back in too.
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Invest in lime green and powder blue !
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I guess if the soft serve doesn’t get you the Salmonella will.
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Apparently dogs love Mr Whippy. Check out dozens of YouTube clips ! Free to four legged friends.
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And if the salmonella doesn’t get you, the sugar will! 😉
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