Hey remember these old Good Humor trucks?

[RSE]

I had moms come out and yell at me for driving through their neighborhood because they couldn't say no to their kids.

After handing over the boss's share, I don't think I made more than $175 in a five day, 60 hour work week all summer.

I used to pick up my girlfriend (later wife) from work at McDonald's after I was done and she finished closing. One night she comes out and tells me that one of the other closers pulled the fucking Ansul. I don't know if you've ever worked fast food, but the last thing you want to have happen is for someone to get their pants snagged and pull an Ansul switch. Having cleaned up more than one Ansul mess in my own days working at McDonald's, I went in and scrubbed the place down or they'd still be there and managed to poison myself in the process. it was worth it to have a day off from that truck.

[slag]

What year was this?

[RSE]

1982

[slag]

I was driving mine 11 years earlier.

I made a shit ton of money for two weeks when I filled in for the guy who had the Dover Air Force Base while he was on vacation.

I sold out my truck just about every day.

I'd pull up to a C-5 being serviced outside a hanger and those guys would ask for a half gallon and a spoon.

[Drama Queen]

did you ever fill in for the Marshallton, DE route?

If so, you probably served my 8 year old ass a double cone, half chocolate, half vanilla... the pointed cone thing... I think they were 35 cents. Or maybe a pint if I was lucky.


Mr. Softee is status on this board! Way better than Jack and Jill (the Italian ice with the thick bottom of syrup was money though).

[Drama Queen]

I'd be mad if I wasn't laughing at the use if "shepherding" and "lickety split".

[slag]

I was Good Humor.

[Phoward12]

It's a shame none of you are old enough to have worked in the 1920's, then you'd be able to say you served Jolly Boy Suckers.

[3rd & Inches]

b/c they KNOW YOU'LL BE HOME!

i drove one of those fuckers the summer before i moved to NC. just graduated from college and thought it would be a big money maker.

fucking money PIT is all it was. had to buy your ice cream up front from the scumbags who own the place and you never took more than $50 home a day. You'd be all excited that you were rolling in with $150 in cash and then go to settle up and see you owe those douchebags $97.50 for the 20 cases of various kinds you hit the streets with.

also, i had a bad habit of getting stoned most of the day and gobbling up my profits.

I traded choco taco's for dime bags in the college section of Rochester, NY all the time.

what a great job though! god i loved that summer.

HAHAHA you batch! I drove a that fuckin truck in southwest atlanta (the Swatts) for one fucking day. I had to pay a $100 up front for the fucking candy and ice cream. And they gave me the route that went through the fucking projects. After the first hour, I was tired of little kids cussing at me. I parked the truck at my house because I couldn't come back to the warehouse until 9pm. I only made 25 dollars for a 12hour workday. I didn't have it end me to do the shit. Of course I was burning the sticky.

[Riccardo]

nope, never heard of them

nm

[da guy in france]

Ells was this you ?

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[Two Gap Penetrator]

I just emailed Good Humor yesterday about Candy Center Crunch bars

Hello Two Gap Penetrator,

Thank you for contacting us regarding Good Humor Candy Center Crunch Bar.

This product is called an impulse item. It is only sold in single-serve sizes. You can find impulse items in convenience stores, one-stop gas stations, and from the ice cream trucks that come through your neighborhood. We do not have a listing of places that sell this product and we are not able to sell directly to consumers.

Sincerely,

Your friends at Good Humor

AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHGHH DAMN IT TO HELLLLLLLLLLL!!~!~!

[slag]

Those fuckers are great. We got something called "cripple credit" for broken icecream and quite a few of those got "accidentally" broken and disposed of in my stomach.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

That block of chocolate in the middle.......UHH!

This is a great thread. I never drove an ice cream truck, but I did work at Burger King. What a trip.

[IronEagle]

Hello Two Gap Penetrator,

Thank you for contacting us regarding Good Humor Candy Center Crunch Bar.

This product is called an impulse item. It is only sold in single-serve sizes. You can find impulse items in convenience stores, one-stop gas stations, and from the ice cream trucks that come through your neighborhood. We do not have a listing of places that sell this product and we are not able to sell directly to consumers.

Sincerely,

Your friends at Good Humor

AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHGHH DAMN IT TO HELLLLLLLLLLL!!~!~!

Looks like some ShopRites have 'em.

http://www.shoprite.com/pd/Good-Humo.../041000053085/