the okey man

[unrulyjulie]

Why does my ice cream man ALWAYS come at mealtimes, every single day causing my son pain and heartache when i say no because his tea is ready.? This in turns leads to me having a severe headache due to the noise created from my sons lungs!

One of lifes little mysteries, he is doing himself out of a fortune!
If the okey man comes round you street what would you have? I love a big feast!!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmm

Oh and why is he called the okey man? I never have known (excuse the spelling cause i have never known this either)

[weeal]

I thought this was about darts !!! lol

I would have a double nougat and put it in the freezer till my dinner was finished, you are a bad mum lol

[sense4all]

Jules in Scotland the ice cream man was the pokie man as the soft whip ice cream cone was called a pokie hat.

[unrulyjulie]

weeal he only has the ice cream in a cone with a flake! i cant !

[weeal]

oh now im in the mood for a Mr Whippy cone

[funnygirl]

Ice cream man!! In this weather!!!

Blimey you must be hard to eat ice cream in this weather!!!

You won't see one around here until July at least!!!

[unrulyjulie]

funnygirl, my lad would eat ice cream in the snow! He's been coming all through winter.

[raysparx1]

Hello Julie,, probably comes from years agao when The okey cokey man came round, shouting out "okey cokey penny a lump the more you eat the more you jump,"

have a butchers here mrs xx

http://members.aol.com/acalendar/July/icecream .html

[unrulyjulie]

hello ray, thank you, i will look, its one of those words i always say but when i wrote it then i just thought i have no idea what the hell it means.

[logic]

So why don't you use yer loaf and do the little chaps meal at a different time. ?

[funkymoped]

the idea is to tell the said "okey" man to sod off till 6pm !

i like a good soft pull ice cream with either nuts or hundreds and thousands as a topping..

he makes more than he doesnt so every sale is a bonus !!!

i just realised, i need a wee !!!!!
:-(

[raysparx1]

Hi Julie, I can remember mr mancini, the ice cream man with his trycycle riding round the streets calling that out and he was always surrounded by kids.

[logic]

Hey jules do you live in or arround Liecester, B T W.?

[unrulyjulie]

logic, i do my sons tea at 5ish, but no matter what time i do it , thats when he shows up, im not changing meal times,
silly man!!! ;-)

funky, go have a wee wee before you wet them BROWN pants!

;-)

[logic]

A poke is a paper bag in Scotland.

[logic]

Please answer the question jules

[weeal]

my mum used the name Pokie Hat for loads of things
eg: ice cream cone, the wee bag of sugar you dip yer rhubarb in, and she used to make us newspaper pokie hats to put our chips in so they tasted like chippie chips lol

thing is mums chips never tasted anything like chips never mind chippie chips

[unrulyjulie]

yes logic, in Leicester itself.


oh, my boy has just finished his tea and is having some minty vienetta with choccy sauce, it wasnt so bad for him in the end was it? lol

[logic]

O K ,jules hang on, and I'll tell you as much as I know, about the okey.

[logic]

julie I used to cycle from here ,Mansfield, to see my Brother who had just had a house built in Liecester,
This was arround 1954 I was 15 years of age then,I remember him saying to me would you like an Oakey, when I asked what that was he told me it was ice cream,
the name having come from a local firm that made it.
That is the only place I have heard it called that, and that is why I asked if you were from liecester, I cannot vouch for the truth of this, but I think it is too much of a coincidence. maybe if you ask some of the old timers around there they might be able to confirm this for you. or otherwise,
regards, pete.x x x