Just had one in my cul de sac today, for the first time since we moved here over 5 years ago, so yeah, they're around, but a bit rare, like a nice classic car, or an Oscar Meijer Weiner mobile

there's an old guy who drives an icecream van around my area nearly everyday during the summer

I live in a small town, but we definitely have a couple of them floating around.

I heard one for the first time in years just a few days ago. When I was a kid, they used to have a pretty consistent route and I'd see them in my neighborhood just about every day, but now it seems so rare to see them at all.

I’ve seen one around town still. Although I suspect like 90+% of its business is just from parking right outside the town pool in the summer.

Yeah, we have one that covers this side of town during early spring until late fall.

I've even seen them out in winter, but I suspect they're selling warm products, not frozen, then.

Passed one on Sunday on our bike ride

Durham, NC still has one. Guy sells fruit flavored helados and some of the old classics.

I hear one sometimes, but either it zooms by when I’m not looking or it’s just going to the nearby playground.

When my kids were little, we tried to chase it down a few times without any luck

There is a local one who comes through during the day once a day.

Where I'm at in Texas, the ice cream truck runs almost year-round. I'm fairly certain they're selling drugs, because the amount they charge for ice cream is too expensive to be worth it.

What's outdated about it?

People like ice cream, and with global warming even more, , so a truck strategically parked (at the school exit, in the park, in front of that tourist hot spot) will drag an audience. It may be a bit harder for the ones going from neighborhood to neighbourhood but it's still a thing. We even have one stopping at my work parking, which is the opportunity for informal discussion with coworkers I see less

My neighborhood has them. There are adult versions now, they are just called food trucks.

Absolutely that's where I buy my weed.

Still got them here in Australia. They've always been a rarity and somehow they're always somewhere else where you can't see them yet they sound close by but they seem about as common now as my childhood in the 90s.

We have two different ones that come through our neighborhood and drive me crazy because they both play an ice cream truck version of Stereo Love by Edward Maya and have been doing so for close to a decade now. Get a new song already!

I haven't seen a truck in a long time, but there are still dudes on bicycles selling Mexican ice cream and whatever those orange uh... Ring thingies are.

The ice cream truck stopped coming to our estate about 5 years ago though there are plenty of kids about.

I do see them parked near playgrounds etc. quite a bit but not doing the rounds like they used to.

One drove by my house a few weeks ago. Before that? I haven't seen one in the wild in years.

I think there's one that comes through my neighborhood. I've never actually seen it, just heard it, and it never seems to... actually stop. When I was a kid, the ice cream trucks would stop and play their music for a while so people had time to grab their money and run outside. This one just seems to play a few bars of a song as it drives through, makes me wonder if it's actually an ice cream truck at all.

Yeah they drive around all summer in Norway. Hear them once or twice a week.

We do sometimes? Like there's no route, maybe twice a summer an ice cream truck will stroll by with music and all.

Occasionally hear the jingle during summer

We have one going B2B in the industry area around lunch time. I've got coworkers literally running down to get some on some days.

They used to sell illegal ciggies in the UK don't know if they still do

We have a bakery truck that drives around playing the ice cream truck music. Does that count?

Perth Australia, we still have one frequent us in summer. Its why people ask me why do I have a tenner stuck to the back of my front door.

Still a thing.

We have dueling ice cream trucks around here.

even as an adult i would still rush out for an ice cream sandwich at the sound of that sweet sweet music

Mister Softee has an app to track the truck's whereabouts. I have absolutely used it to find his ass and hunt him down. Ice cream trucks have evolved into the 21st century. No one has decent soft serve anymore in my area. DQ closed like 5 years ago, and this dude is just driving around potentially bringing it to your door. Mister softee is the goat.

Our ice cream truck seems to also do coffee. I haven't bought anything from it but I've seen it around

same here, we have one that regularly comes to our part of the neighborhood, but most of the time its cold season, so there isnt much demand.

Yep, one stops just outside my house. When my daughter was little and asked what that sound was (the ice cream van music) I'd say it was the "music van" and it just plays music for people. Didn't get away with that for very long!

They're certainly around in New York.

Pretty much daily, I hear that song playing throughout my neighborhood.

It’s the middle of winter, haven’t seen one for a few months, but they’re common in summer.

Usually when you hear the typical ice cream truck songs in Germany, it's a dude rolling around looking for old metal.

One just started coming through my neighborhood like 2 weeks ago, and there's a kid a few houses down who seems to always be ready to run out and stop the truck. Takes easily 10+ minutes for the music to fade out. Like, I hate to be a grumpy old man, but that music drives me fucking nuts! I'm on the verge of trying to beat the kid to the truck just so I can bribe the guy to drive away as fast as possible

Yeah and it’s honestly super creepy.

I miss the corn man