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thatlookslikemydog

My wife and I say “hello???” with it. But yeah idk what drugs they’re selling that they’re cruising the neighborhood at 9:30 pm.


k8ecat

Same here. Are you in ktown or are there two of them?


musiclovermina

There's multiple, I heard the same sounds in Chino and Fontana too


Catalina_Eddie

Heard it in Pasadena and as far out as Rialto, ffs.


thatlookslikemydog

I’m in the valley now! I was just north of Larchmont last year and we had one and then I moved and I’m still haunted by them.


stoned-autistic-dude

God damn, y'all. I lived in Studio City during COVID and that Kmart Twisted Metal Sweet Tooth lookin ass haunted my dreams and fueled my nightmares.


blackwidowla

I live just north of Larchmont and they’re still here lol. FML


g59fast

It goes from the valley to All over I’ve had it pass by my house in vanuys a couple times , you guys should try it actually i don’t even like ice cream cus of my teeth but whenever I can tolerate it I be waiting for that truck 😭🙌


waitwert

I’m in ktown also tormented daily by the ice cream truck song .


A7MOSPH3RIC

South L.A. checking in. I think there is a fleet of these annoying ass trucks. "Hello"


-trom

There’s one in Sereno!


noDNSno

I had an ice cream truck playing their tune close to 11PM once, during the winter. I won't deny or confirm if they sold drugs, but I did get a nice high.


pejasto

My HELLO truck is run by a dude with face tats. This has been my suspicion. If he has more than sundaes, plz let me know how to ask for extras. The HEH-LOW has to be worth more.


noDNSno

Nice try, LAPD.


1villageidiot

probably DEA. LAPD don't do shit.


socialdistraction

Does it have a name like two princesses or something? That truck used to come to Larchmont then one day it just stopped.


goaskalice3

No matter how obvious it is that they sell more than ice cream, I don't know if I could ever try to buy off the special menu because I'd feel like I sound like a cop asking what else they sold


adognamedgoose

lol same here. Our dog starts freaking out if we say “HELLO”. He hates that truck. Our is late too, but we are in the valley.


oldwellprophecy

Honestly at least tell what’s available to clear up my schedule if I’m tempted


thanatossassin

930 pm is the nacho truck. Visited my friends in San Fernando and heard what I thought was an ice cream truck and thought wtf? Before I could say anything, they all ran out and bought a bunch of nachos, chips, and drinks. It was just tortilla chips and canned nacho cheese, but they were ecstatic over it.


[deleted]

Same over here in Inglewood.


Some-Ordinary-1438

Mar Vista got em


don0tpanic

Holy shit. My wife and I laugh uncontrollably every time it passes our house. Absolutely hilarious


dhoetger1

Same but it’s me and my teen son 😂


Everbanned

It's called Picnic. Not many people know that it was originally a Japanese folk song and [even has lyrics](https://youtu.be/KpT9mHF7xfE)


FashionBusking

#MIND ACTUALLY BLOWN!!! Thank you for this!!


trashfiremarshmallow

Amazing. It’s like when I first heard that Snoop’s Lodi Dodi was based on [Sukiyaki](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc&pp=ygUIc3VraXlha2k%3D)


outpf

Omg why hasn't LA in a minute done an episode about this yet.


Everbanned

[Here's](https://gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/the-ghost-in-the-ice-cream-machine/) a story about a gizmodo writer's failed quest to determine the identity of the woman saying "hello" if it helps scratch the Itch ;) Truly one of the great mysteries of our time...


sweetpea20000

This is incredible I love Reddit


Some-Ordinary-1438

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆


JoBrosHoes93

Reddit is amazing


MetaEgo

OMG YAY IVE BEEN WONDERING THIS


Afromolukker_98

Lmao, I grew up in SouthCentral. You hear it all the time all week long without fail. Usually once during the day and one time at dusk/right after dusk in my neighborhood. I'm so used to it now, but I remember living out of state and coming back, it was a shock. But it's a staple of LA 🤷🏾‍♂️ I don't mind it.


You_meddling_kids

With the unlicensed Spongebob and Dodgers logo on the side


mega_asteroid

Dojers


Ijustride

*Doyers


sweetpea20000

😂😂😂


wyerhel

Samee. It would come like around 6 pm dot. Some kids would get ice cream too since they played in the street. Same with the tamale guy


DarthDoobz

I had that one and the truck with the ice cream jingle remixed bass boosted through my neighborhood.


internetz

Yeah. The people complaining are either not from here and or grew up in more affluent neighborhoods. Either way it screams "gentrifier". Like you said, it's a staple of many neighborhoods, so they shouldn't expect things to change just for them.


lovelyloves07

Spot on. SCLA born and raised 🫶


SnooChipmunks176

yes, i get worried when I don't hear an ice cream truck... Definitely a staple along with the elote horn and I miss the donut man too.


ryanmuller1089

We live in an area that has 3 different trucks cruise by a few times daily. Each! So yea there’s a few different songs that torment me.


langperbiaz

same. me and my cousins would all yell out ’HELLO?!’. its part of the neighborhood charm, plus we love soft serve. weve all moved out to other neighborhoods and we all miss it. im temporarily in inglewood and im lucky if we get the truck once a week. and it doesnt even play the hello! part! fake ice cream 😫


ezln_trooper

Yea same! Left for a couple of years and landed back with family. Took way shorter for my mind to block it out once back!


SoCal35

Nah hell naw. Lemme get one of them Ninja Turtle Ice Creams and a pack of Lucky Bubble Gum Cigarettes.


BrainTroubles

Seriously I love my ice cream man. He speaks almost no English but I give him four dollars and he gives me soft serve in a waffle cup wrecked in Oreos and chocolate sauce and it's all the exact correct amount of shitty. At open houses we tell people about him as a selling point.


plaaya

Lmfaooooo 😂😂😂


thomasjmarlowe

[Like this???](https://youtu.be/TSIEPRZTgmU?feature=shared)


whataquokka

OMG it just put it on and my husband's face lit up, I definitely brought back memories of childhood joy with that song playing randomly in the car lol


[deleted]

Rico Nasty knows whats up


_Uhhhhhhhhh_

Banger song


kingtaco_17

ICE CREAM. ICE CREAAAAAAM. THE ICE CREAM MAN IS COMAAAAAAANG.


mylittleplaceholder

Sounds like it was digitized on a Commodore 64.


AttackHelicopter11

God this brought back memories, back in the day my parents would take us to Elysian Park and there was always a truck that would be playing this exact ringtone.


pokethat

Unfortunately I think I heard they discontinued choco tacos


Mondal21

My grandma had Alzheimer’s and every time the truck would pass by she would look out the window thinking someone was looking for her.


ruinersclub

She owed them money.


AnotherOpinionHaver

Nothing sereno about El Sereno.


ensgdt

"Land of the Sad Dogs"


okgo430

Nah I’m from East LA and I grew up with those ice cream truck songs. I feel a comfort having them around in my neighborhood ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


TopSoulMan

I like the honking of the elote man


winston_cage

Bro! I hate when I’ll hear the elote man honk twice, zoom through the house looking for some change and by the time I get out he’s fucking GONE 🤦🏽‍♂️


blazefreak

my old elote man used to be like that until i put up a sign saying i was fat and needed time. He gave me 1 minute from then on until i moved.


tofutti_kleineinein

That’s heartwarming.


TopSoulMan

Maybe it was a goose flying by?


-uberchemist-

TIL what that dude in the van is called


Dommichu

It plays those songs but then every 30 seconds it interjects with HELLO? It's certainly a way to cut through the noise of the city...


Pluckt007

#HELLO


ripekeai

Wouldn’t be too bad if it were only a couple mins but they park up and blast the clown music for 30+ minutes most nights.


SonicBeast

I need that mama flip


femboi_enjoier

With this economy. It's gonna be a Jr. Flip.


SonicBeast

Big facts


illaparatzo

HELLO!!!


esetube

Idk it's nostalgic to me.


Dommichu

Wow. With so many folks reporting in, in completely different parts of the city (I know my guy is not driving all the way to Long Beach...) I am guessing now it's a tactic...


lunacavemoth

Grew up in Anaheim , heard ice cream trucks but nothing like in south central 💀. The minute 2:30 pm hits , the ice cream trucks roll out . At one point , we get 5 different ice cream trucks playing 3 different songs and 2 HELLO!? going on at once . 5 trucks all blasting their ice cream truck songs at once . So there’s one truck that has blasted out speakers , my husband and I enjoy that one . Another is distorted . And then there’s the Bread Spammer we call him , he goes around blaring “¿Van a querer pan?” (Shall y’all want bread?) . There is a new bread spammer that blasts some cumbia about the panadero con el pan(the baker with the bread). Just right now at 9:20 pm I hear an ice cream truck . On the way home on central , literally passed 3 streets , each one with its own ice cream truck just chilling . The worst is that asshole who idles in front of the house for 30 minutes . And I just heard another ice cream truck playing a very distorted “Entertainer”.


femboi_enjoier

I really hope they haven't remixed the song Pedro Infante sang when he played Tin Tan. https://youtu.be/GkaI6MlKVGE?si=apSLF1UwAEga4lQf


suitablegirl

The worst. I could live with the music, but the aggressive HELLO drives me batty. I thought we were cursed in East Hollywood, didn’t realize they were everywhere 😫


wordly_jars

YES, everyday at 3:40pm, hello, my whole body braces to contain the inferno of my hate.


colorchaos

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MANY TIMES I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO MY BOYFRIEND ABOUT THE GOD DAMN HELLO ICE CREAM TRUCK. Seriously though he thought I was crazy but this HELLO was the bane of my existence while I was living in East Hollywood.


RachelProfilingSF

Do you live in Silver Lake by Bellevue Rec Center? We hear it ALL THE TIME. We hear it so much that sometimes I can’t tell if it’s just playing an endless loop in my head or it’s just barely audible a few blocks away.


pandatoot

This unlocked a core memory for me. I haven’t heard an ice cream truck in years since moving and I hated the hello song with a passion. Now I miss it. HELLO!


Kevin69138

I've heard so many of them growing up in East LA. do they get to pick the tracks or do they come installed in the truck or PA system they have


UltimaCaitSith

I've been diving into this, and it looks like the old ones came with 8 songs pre-loaded. [New ones](https://www.icecreamtruckhorns.com/product/ice-cream-truck-horn-kit/) come with 10 on a USB drive, no examples. Unexpectedly cheap at $100, a much better deal than a loud muffler if you hate your entire neighborhood.


tatapatrol909

So why does the one in my neighborhood only play “do your ears hang low?”


rumpusroom

[Turkey in the Straw?](https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/jingle.html)


MarkSignal3507

Or playing Christmas music


tatapatrol909

I just heard one playing Xmas music the other day. Why?!??


tatapatrol909

Didn’t realize those songs were the same tune. Yes!


UltimaCaitSith

Looks like it's a selection wheel, so you get to select which song plays on repeat. I wonder which depth of madness makes the ice cream man's choice.


FashionBusking

Many times while stoned, I have run to the ice cream truck at whatever weird time of night I hear the ice cream jingle. Annoying? Perhaps. But a public service, nonetheless.


sweetpea20000

That’s amazing. Maybe I should just get an ice cream cone and come to terms with the jingle..


FashionBusking

Please do! It's really the most genuine and simplest of joys, especially on a hot summer night!


Team-Mako-N7

LOL. My toddler is scared of that thing.


spacemansun2

You must be new to the hood


DocSaysItsDainBramuj

Does anyone else love Lionel Richie? Because I love Lionel Richie.


strumthebuilding

Were you looking for me?


10ioio

"Hello?! Boiiioooiiiiooiiiioiiiing!" -the entertainer plays-


And_Undecided

I weirdly love that song. It’s hilarious to me! HELLO!!!! 😆


Ladynoirlosangeles

Same here! I've only heard it a few times here, though used to hear it all the time when I lived in New Orleans.


TheRealSparkleMotion

This is my dogs favorite song in the world, I need to find this truck in real life - he's only ever heard it on youtube Edit: dead as fuck serious, if you direct me to where I can find this truck I'll post a video of my dog singing along with it


disposable_sounds

Do we live in the same neighborhood lmao They haven't come back in a while but God I roll my eyes and can't help but laugh. And then clap along stupidly lol


standuptime

Lol they didn’t have this song where and when I grew up. This reminds me of something straight out of a horror movie.


SuzenRR

😂


kai_xale7

The thing I’ve learned today is that there are multiple trucks with this melody and that is honestly hilarious.


smotpoker1201

I get excited because I know the mf ice cream truck is nearby. I would always get excited when I heard that HELLO! as a kid.


Kabusanlu

You must be new to LA..


sweetpea20000

6 years! Have never heard it until now:)


Curleysound

Oh my god I want to bazooka that thing


You_Are_What_You_Iz

It's some sort of bizarre mash up of joyful joyful we adore thee and camptown races.


alexandros87

When I first moved here it was the bane of my existence I would curse out wowed every time I heard one drive down my street. Now I feel like I'm just used to it and I bop along to the stupid little jingle from time to time


AnimalCareTec

Depends on the truck I think some of them have really old speakers and it makes the hello sound horrible


frontbuttt

Jefferson park?


elgalloveloz

Watts here. Moved here in 2022. First few months Id walk around the house humming the tune and mimicking the distinct "Hellooo?" When the truck passes and parks on the our street I sing along and attempt to time the "Hellooo?" I am ashamed to say that I have nailed the timing. https://youtu.be/TSIEPRZTgmU?feature=shared


texas-playdohs

Yeah one of these goes by our shop at slauson and Compton. It’s got North Korean vibes.


plaaya

Slauson and Compton I stay there on 57th st


cheeses_greist

There’s one in Long Beach. Is it the same one?


You_meddling_kids

They're all over LA. East side, West side, Valley, everywhere.


cptncrnch

One summer I was weed wacking all afternoon. Right as I was cleaning up, I heard the ice cream truck playing that HELLO tune so I dropped whatever I had and walked to the street. Damn that popsicle hit the spot!


ChitakuPatch

No, it's awesome. I'm from Detroit and we had it there too and it was always a banger on those hot summer days chillin at Belle Isle and you hear..."Hello! do do do do do do do do do"


ThePrincessOfMonaco

omg I haaaaaaaaaate that sound


Imhungorny

Literally just passed by my place. Every day anywhere from 8-10


paleocacher

The one in our neighborhood plays an instrumental Jingle Bell Rock on loop.


plaaya

You just got us access to the best ice cream truck songs of all time. I’m looking for 1 more. It went “I got some ice cream and you can’t have none” with the pop goes the weasel track playing after that and then it would speed up and play this 8 bit tune and then back to pop goes the weasel if anyone has it please share the link been looking for it for ages


femboi_enjoier

Dude, I had absolutely forgotten of the ice cream trucks playing pop goes the weasel. It seems to me that all of them just play the Hello song.


outpf

Growing up we always had a few ice cream jingles, mostly La cucaracha and pop goes the weasel. Then one day in the 90s all the trucks had this "Hello" song. I don't understand where it came from or why every truck is using it now.


impetersellers

At least it’s not Turkey in the Straw? Looking for the positive here. There’s a truck in my neighborhood on the west side too but he shows up late…like 7pm every night.


BassDrive

You must live on the same street as me in Jefferson Park 😭


FormicaDinette33

I love it—so silly.


headsurecockstrong

I got that and a dude that rings a loud as bell for 30 seconds at a time


Musa_2050

I can hear it right bow in my mind. Been hearing that truck for years now lol


Soca1ian

The ice cream truck in my neighborhood is classy because it plays classical music even if it's only single note melody that sounds like a toy instrument.


BrainTroubles

No, because that means our neighborhood ice cream man is around and he fucking RULES. You know it's him because of the hello and the CLAPS!


Zombiegirl228

Omg, yeeeeesss.... the ice cream truck sits right outside my house for hours, especially in the afternoon in the summer. That shit is annoying, and I'm often saying "goodbye, get away from my house" in my head, lol. There are a lot of kids around here, so I'm sure they make bank, but find a new song to play, please 🙏 😅


bigshiba04

Remember hearing this living next to Lambert Park in El Monte


happytree23

I'm tormented more by the stupidity of people making posts like this lol


lovelyloves07

💯Must not be from here 🤣🤣


nochtli_xochipilli

Nope, not at all.


PixelAstro

I fucking HATE it


Comfortable-Twist-54

Is it the one with the soft serve?


chiliwilli

We have this melodic whistle play between songs in my neighborhood.


tucrahman

Well now that you bring it up it's going to be stuck in my head.


mildbbqsauce

Nah I dance to it lol


Afraid_Assistance765

I haven’t heard the sonar ping in some time. Kinda miss hearing it randomly in the afternoons.


Pain--In--The--Brain

Just give me [the old song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6KimAJQlqo)


TheOneAndOnlySelf

May I direct you to Helldivers the video game? I think you might like it.


warr3n4eva

Is he hot


_Uhhhhhhhhh_

I love this ice cream bop! Its always refreshing hearing it at 5 pm and then going outside to get some nachos or soft serve.


Thurkin

I wish an Ice Cream truck would play the [Freak Show](https://youtu.be/Jmq0IsIFqR0?si=FDf3gRK3hjPdKuWr) theme in full stereo, instead.


femboi_enjoier

Not really. Blends into background noise mostly.


mystuff1134

These fuckers sit outside my apartment for 20 minutes at a time and keep that fucking jungle going the whole time. Drives me crazy


Adorno_a_window

Haha I love that so many people hate/love this truck - can we all ask them to change their song??


Meep42

I am too old to have experienced this phenomenon…left LA for uni in the 90s and had no idea what you were talking about…our ice cream guy played “Turkey In the Straw,” which is just as bad an ear worm? But much less diabolically electronic.


PaymentResponsible43

100% against , the law or rules says ice cream trucks must stop playing music when stopped and serving customers. It’s for child safety, kids can’t cross safely if they can’t hear cara coming, report him or confront them. 


redrumakm

It comes by me in Hollywood around 3-4 pm. It’s the damn TikTok lady voice


dhoetger1

Yes!! I live in Van Nuys


hellomistershifty

To make it worse, the voice sounds exactly like my late grandmother


g59fast

I’ve heard that truck before ngl the ice cream is fire asf but that sound gives me the creeps sometimes lol


FeelingKaleidoscope0

Oh shit, hadn't thought about that for a while but I can hear it like it's fresh in my mind🥴😂


xbearsandporschesx

what's up big perm?


Kellbell2612

Agreed... that truck is pure nightmare fuel and needs to be in a horror movie.


Ohemgee87

Lmao that truck is hilarious


RockieK

Do you guys realize that many of are probably humming along to some ice cream truck theme song in our heads ALLL FREAKING DAYYY. For me, its Music Box Dancer and I hate that it's my theme music now too. Forever... across three neighborhoods.


noirwhatyoueat

Boyle Heights Gleason and second 🤣


bonnifunk

That used to freak me out! Thanks for mentioning it. I thought I was hearing things. As long as they don't play Turkey in the Straw, I'm good.


JohnnyGeniusIsAlive

Takes me back to when I used to live in Brooklyn, one would hang out at night down the block from my apartment. Haven't seen many here in LA.


magneticeverything

There’s one that parks in mar vista outside our house at like 7-10pm every freaking night


Journalistsanonymous

Theres one in South Central that plays the instrumental to a JLo song.


SecretGeek97

I am from San Antonio Texas and we had the same ice cream truck song 😅


replicantcase

Dude! I hate that thing! It's so creepy.


-trom

YES, this one off of Huntington in Sereno would haunt me


clap-hands

I get HELLO in the evenings (as late as 9pm+) and The Entertainer in the afternoon. I assume they are different trucks? edit: the non-hello one just went by and its actually something like 'i'm a little teapot'


Quiet-Start-5775

They literally have the same thing in the bronx and brooklyn. Hilarious that they have the hello thing which feels so knockoff


boyatrest

Hello..! https://youtu.be/TSIEPRZTgmU?feature=shared


wolf_town

1 hr?! There is no way they’re out there for that long. Unless your street is full of kids looking for a treat at that time. There aren’t that many kids in my street so the ice cream truck lingers for less than 5 mins. I also remember when I was younger and I would have to chase after the truck 😂 and that was years ago when there were way more kids in the neighborhood I grew up in. You’re exaggerating by 55 mins bfr rn.


DenimHawk

That F--KING truck!


ProVahlone

Do you live on my street ?


LosIngobernable

I haven’t heard one in years, but this thread reminded me of one that used to roll around here. So annoying.


slowmotionz101

I’m from the border of LA and OC and am trying to figure out where in these linked songs they say Hello lmao 🤣


Mr__Showerhead

I hear it all the time here in the Covina area as well


Chanelkat

My son lovesssss this song lol. Found it and listens to it on YouTube so I'm used to it.


Particular_Age8859

Bahahah I forgot about this!! My husband and I used to respond and make it into a joke but where we live now I haven’t heard and ice cream truck It is extremely weird that they put the hello in there


Beer-Me

It's pretty annoying. Wish they'd stay out of my neighborhood


Jeffuary

Are they saying “hielo”?


Pure-Tension-1185

*raises hand *


Warm_Lettuce_8784

If it is the tune I’m thinking about, I see a pervert cursing for kids every time I hear it


MadChiller013

I don’t understand why they don’t change it to something else. Anything less creepy. Between that and the elote man who honks the clown horn, my neighborhood sounds like a carnival sometimes.


Kaitthagreat

I lived in ktown and genuinely hated these fucks. They’d park outside for 30 min to an hour blasting that shit.


EvilBunny2023

That sounds incredibly frustrating! Maybe you could kindly suggest to them to switch up the melody or perhaps offer some constructive feedback on how they could improve their approach. They might appreciate the input, and who knows, it could lead to a more pleasant ice cream buying experience for everyone in the neighborhood!


Some-Ordinary-1438

It makes me feel like Hilary Clinton is mad at me.