Ice-cream bell
The ice-cream bell was the ting-ting of the seller pushing a cart or carrying a box, and every child ran out when they heard it.
Era: 90s & 2000s
What it was like
Ice lollies, milk malai or coconut ice cream. Under the noon sun, that bell was the sweetest call.
When adults wouldn't let you out at midday, you called the seller over to the window.
Questions
- Why did the ice-cream seller ring a bell?
- To let everyone in the lane know he was there, so children could come out.