How can you not know what a 99 is.

[LooPrEvil]

Nah the jubbly was the triangular one.
Our local ice cream van had a slab of ice he would shave off slices into a plactic cup and pour over the syrup.

Cheers, the ice slab must be before my time, I have never seen that one.

 

[conny]

Oyster shell 99'ers were my favourite.
Got two flakes in one of them!

 

[Mickymoody]

It's well known round my area, that the ice cream tinkle, means kids have access to drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol, so maybe that icecream seller was so far out of his zone, that he thought a '99' was a new type of 'e'? Rather than a air filled ice cream, fitted into a cone, with sprinkles on, and a flake?

When you bite down, to discover the taste of vanilla, and taste the cream, it was Maggie Thatcher, that invented that ice cream, so it was full of air molecules, so that half the volume could be sold at the same price as a full measure?

And when you buy ice cream from the shop, if it has ice particles in it, it should be taken back, as it has been refrozen. So you get less product than the suppliers said, most is ice, not icecream. I can make my own ice, thankyou.

 

[thatbloke]

Maggie Thatcher didn't invent ice cream micky.

 

[Mickymoody]

Maggie Thatcher didn't invent ice cream micky.

Maggie Thatcher invented Whippy Ice Cream. Look it up. Did you read the part of my post where I said that?

One important development in the 20th century was the introduction of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young Margaret Thatcher was a member)[19][20] discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream, which allowed manufacturers to use less of the actual ingredients, thereby reducing costs. It made possible the soft ice cream machine in which a cone is filled beneath a spigot on order. In the United States, Dairy Queen, Carvel, and Tastee-Freez pioneered in establishing chains of soft-serve ice cream outlets.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream

You really ought to keep up 'thatbloke'...before questioning me.

 

[thatbloke]

I stand corrected , So she was good for something then , she should have stuck to ice cream rather than politics.

 

[Mickymoody]

I stand corrected , So she was good for something then , she should have stuck to ice cream rather than politics.

Is it good to reduce ice cream by half, and replace it with air? She's basically selling at twice the price, for half the icecream?

Which it seems she did to all our industry, and now look where we are :sob:

 

[conny]

How old is Maggie?

I remember eating that type when I was a kid and I'm no spring chicken!
Also, she was a member of a team! She didn't invent her all by herself. She may not have been in that particular section of the team.
Finally, Wikipedia is written by members of the public not by a dedicated staff who research all the material facts. Whilst a lot of the information is correct it is easy to insert your own comment about a subject matter and stand a good chance that it will be added to the information/definition. Maybe eventually it will be discovered/refuted but by then a lot of people may have believed your little bit of mis-information. You should always check your facts from a recognised reputable source.

 

[Alarm]

86.

Has a science degree, and indeed worked for the ice cream factory in Brook Green.

 

[Shutpa]

When I was a kid, a guy used to come into our street on a 3 wheel bike/ice cream cart with a sign on the front, 'Buy me and stop one'. No I'm wrong. That was the travelling family planning officer. The ice cream man, if I remember correctly, used the same words but in a different order.

 

[securespark]

Stop and buy me one?

Buy one and stop me?

Stop one and buy me?