In lockdown, ice cream trucks roam the suburbs ... just don’t play it too loud

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You may have heard the chiming notes floating through the air while working from home or doing schoolwork via Zoom, an unmistakable sound ringing out in the streets. Ice cream, writes tom_cowie

You may have heard the chiming notes floating through the air while working from home or doing schoolwork via Zoom, an unmistakable sound ringing out in the streets.The days of Mr Whippy trucks roaming the suburbs looking for customers are back with a vengeance, as distributors of soft serve take advantage of a locked-down clientele stuck at home with nowhere to go.Joe Armao

Based in Mooroolbark in Melbourne’s east, Mr Clark’s Ford Transit is allowed to trade in suburban streets in the Yarra Ranges Shire area as part of his food traders’ permit. “The hostility and frustration, we put that music on and they come running out — the mothers and fathers too.”

 

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