Top Of The Milk

[poliphilo]

An ice cream van just went down the road with its chimes playing a song I remember from my 1950s childhood and which I can't think I've heard since. The chorus goes something like this.

You, me and us;
We are my favourite people
we both go together like peaches and cream
And bells and a church and a steeple.

Ghastly.

Is it a Doris Day number?

Ice cream vans never play anything up to date. I guess it's a copyright thing.

But now I can taste the tinned peach slices in syrup, with cream from the top of the milk bottle, which my mother used to give us for dessert.

"What's for pudding, mumma?"

"Peaches with top of the milk."

"Oooh-  super!" 

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A popular tune round here is, "O, O Antonio."

O, O Antonio,
He's gone away
Left me on my ownio...."

And then there's "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" and- my particular favourite- "Daisy, Daisy".

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Much more culturally varied than Oxford, then! (Which was the last place I heard and ice-cream van at all).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They ply their trade round here in all weathers. Even through the winter.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Ours plays the good old Scott Joplin tune, "The Entertainer". When I was younger, he used to drive through here just ding ding ding ding...Skippy. Once in a great while I got ice cream from him...it was always pretty expensive and, as I never realized until I was much older, there wasn't a lot of ice cream money. But, Sunday afternoons my father would stop whatever project he was doing in the garage and wash up, my mother would grab her pocketbook and we went off to Barnes Dairy (providing my brother wasn't in bed with some sort of bruise). Hm. I always liked Raspberry Sherbert (that's how I pronounced it, Sure-burt) best. Ice cream has never tasted as good as it did back then.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, sherbert was a fizzy confection made of icing sugar and baking soda. It came in a cardboard tube and you were supposed to suck it up through a tube made of licorice. Thing was, the tube always got clogged, so you gave up on sucking and used the tube to dip into the sherbert.

This was called a sherbert fountain.

There were also sweets called sherbert lemons- hard candy with sherbert in the middle.

I loved sherbert.

[hepo.livejournal.com]

Memories! I'm with you all the way.

Remember sherbet dabs, lucky bags, penny blacks/black jacks, Dandelion & Burdock lemonade, and crisps with those little blue salt bags, arr, those were the days.

HePo

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's all coming back.

When flavoured crisps were first introduced- ready salted, salt and vinegar, cheese and onion- we thought they were really exotic.