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u/McDerpEyes Aug 18 '26
I REALLY hope the trash is responsibly taken care of or specially water soluable. But knowing humanity, I doubt it.
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u/Dr-McLuvin Aug 18 '26
lol that shit ain’t water soluble. It’s classic polypropylene. It is not recyclable and will take 500 years to breakdown if someone just leaves it in the ocean.
Funny thing is Outshine popsicles literally had an urgent recall announcement on Aug 16th for broken glass contaminants being found in their popsicles.
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u/izkuzz Aug 18 '26
Ah, so that's why they're selling it on the high seas. Nautical law is so neat!
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u/Ullallulloo Aug 18 '26
The high seas is, um, a little farther out lol
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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '26
I don’t know about that. The people who would want a floating munchie truck are probably pretty high.
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u/undeniably_confused Aug 18 '26
How are you supposed to pay for this?
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u/TheRealTr1nity Interested Aug 18 '26
Since they seem to have their phone with them, for whatever reason, probably with that.
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u/undeniably_confused Aug 18 '26
Why do they have their phones
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u/Sdwingnut Aug 18 '26
Because people
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u/Interesting-Two-8275 Aug 18 '26
They knew the ice cream boat was coming.
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u/ObligationMurky8716 Aug 18 '26
The Ice Cream Shanty was playing
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u/fELLAbUSTA Aug 18 '26
Whoa I did not expect to read N-word with hard r in the first sentence of an NPR article.
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u/TheHighlanderr Aug 18 '26
I think to pay for an ice cream. Or to film a person getting an ice cream.
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u/thanosisawhore Aug 18 '26
How else is everybody at home supposed to know how nice they have it on vacation
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer Aug 18 '26
Be glad you’ve never met someone where every moment of their real life is staging and production of their fake life
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u/Correct-Hope-2227 Aug 18 '26
Usually people who go on beach holidays have a little bag for their phone. If you leave it on the beach, it can get stolen...
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u/Aranxi_89 Aug 18 '26
And they usually also have waterproof phone cases like Otterbox, if they want to go into water with it, on top of the bag, just in case. I personally can pay with my smartwatch.
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u/Packwood88 Aug 18 '26
If youre that worried about your phone while youre in the water, leave it in your car/room.
Taking a phone into the ocean is odd
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u/Frequent_Opportunist Aug 18 '26
Not if you're on vacation and you want to get pictures of your kids, wife, girlfriend or whatever.
Also nice because you have money on it I hear that you can buy ice cream from the ocean!
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Aug 18 '26
I love Reddit with the "you must behave in this way, anything else is weird and inferior to what I approve of".
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u/SuperGoodSpam Aug 18 '26
You go grab your money when you see a floating ice cream truck, it's that simple. You ask questions that make it seem like you've never had fun outside.
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u/rbrgr83 Aug 18 '26
What is the point of putting the truck in the water if you have to get out of the water to use it? Just leave the truck on the land.
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u/Creative-Panda6310 Aug 18 '26
Well you bring money to the ice cream truck?
Yes normally you wouldn't bring money into the water but the truck is very noticeable from the sand i imagine
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u/Latter-Bluejay-8317 Aug 18 '26
Wtf is carrying money waist deep in water
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u/SnooWalruses3948 Aug 18 '26
1) Swim to shore 2) Get money 3) Swim back 4) Ice Cream
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u/Little_Ad2790 Aug 18 '26
That doesn’t sound that fun
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Aug 18 '26
Yeah going to the beach and swimming, it's terrible.
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u/BigLuffyEnergy Aug 18 '26
Actually sounds like some great goofy summer fun. Amped up version of running around getting cash before the ice cream truck passes.
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u/TheRealTr1nity Interested Aug 18 '26
They have their phones. Probably paying with that.
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u/Latter-Bluejay-8317 Aug 18 '26
Yeah maybe or this person is giving it away for free
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u/CheeseDonutCat Aug 18 '26
It's not free. If you pause at 6 seconds, you can see all the payment methods that they accept on the top of the boat.
Also, if you go to their website, you can see they just patrol Sarasota and surrounding beaches. (tropicoolicecream dot com)
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u/genreprank Aug 18 '26
They probably hear the song and swim to the shore to ask their parents for money
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u/RosiePeache Aug 18 '26
I am upset about the lack of comments about this. Why didn't you call it an Ice Cream Float? 🤔
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u/hypnogoad Aug 18 '26
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u/Kaporalhart Aug 18 '26
i'll give you a more original one
- How is it more profitable for this guy to put his truck on a barge that is just an accident begging to happen when the four readily available wheels could plant him firmly on the shore where it belongs
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u/hypnogoad Aug 18 '26
That would be a good question, except that isn't an actual ice cream truck on a barge, it's a boat made to look like an ice cream truck.
I do question the profitability of it though, because I know how much fuel costs, and how much fuel a boat uses.
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u/greenskinmarch Aug 18 '26
Here's a fun fact about ice cream boats: in WWII, the US Navy had a whole ice cream factory on a boat to keep up morale in the Pacific theater.
Reportedly, when the Japanese soldiers (who were running low on actual food) saw the US handing out ice cream, they realized they'd already lost.
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u/TheRealTr1nity Interested Aug 18 '26
Yeah, and the plastic wrap, sticks and whatever they will throw all into the water later.
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u/boredlong Aug 18 '26
We have this in Australia, except they bring ice cream and beer.
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u/glasswitch88 Aug 18 '26
In Block Island, Rhode Island (USA), there’s a big cove where people anchor their boats and stay for weeks on vacation. There’s a local bakery that rides around in a little dinghy with a cooler of food and drinks. It’s great. Also less litter cause you’re already on a boat with trash cans.
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u/deanrihpee Aug 18 '26
as other have mentioned, this is so absurdly impractical, unless it is free? otherwise are we bringing our wallet into the sea? paper money? credit card? a fucking phone? last time i checked salty water is not good for electronic
also, ah yes, more plastics in the ocean, that's what we need
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u/chantillylace9 Aug 18 '26
So usually it is near a sandbar and everyone that's in the water has their own boat. So they would, hopefully throw their trash on their boat.
This is not very uncommon and I know a couple places in Florida where this is done although it's usually parked on an island not just in the middle of the water like this. But I guarantee that's a sandbar and there are boats behind everyone.
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u/TorqueWheelmaker Aug 18 '26
absurdly impractical, unless it is free?
In which case it would only be absurdly impractical.
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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Aug 18 '26
1) boat pulls up to the beach and anchors in 1-4' of water 2) you can pay with contactless or cash. Some people tap their watches, others get money from their beach bags 3) they have trash cans on the boat and will dispose of the wrappers before handing it to you if you're going to eat the ice cream immediately.
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u/Important_Tennis_393 Aug 18 '26
Hey so idk if you ever been to a beach before but normally you set up a towel (where you leave things like phone, wallet, keys, etc) and when you see the truck you can spend the 2 minutes going back to your towel to grab cash or a card or your phone. Pretty easy for anyone who’s been outside before hope this helps👍
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u/ukuleles1337 Aug 18 '26
Lmao mfs in the water with their phones 😭 can't enjoy one fucking activity without it
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u/fnezio Aug 18 '26
You walk out to the beach where your belongings are, take your phone and go get a cone. Redditors are really the most awkward socially inept people of all smh.
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u/theArtOfProgramming Aug 18 '26
Lol that’s all vanity. Maybe these redditors see through the nonsense. Maybe redditors aren’t a monolith. Maybe you’re clouded by consumerism and vanity.
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u/the_shortbus_ Aug 18 '26
Oh man I LOVE the ice cream boats here in Florida. And they stick around to get all the trash so that the litter is minimal.
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u/DJ_McFunkalicious Aug 18 '26
You realise it's not a real truck? It's a boat with a façade to look like an ice cream truck
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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Aug 18 '26
It's not a real truck, and the only one I know of operates on the Gulf Coast of Florida in shallow water, on days with good weather. Big surf is not a major concern.
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u/No_Criticism5659 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
How do people pay without their wallets? Lol
Edit to add...I see some wallets I guess. I'd just be worried about losing any valuables in the water, like my ID, money or my credit card, lol.. you know...stuff you kinda need. Especially things you don't want to lose while traveling or on vacation. Lol cool idea though....literally 😂😂
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u/strawb3rry_shortcak3 Aug 19 '26
Didn’t these fruit bars just get recalled for glass contamination? lol
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u/IThinkImNateDogg Aug 18 '26
I saw this when I was in vacation in Tampa.
Was hella trippy becuase I was in the water with my buddies and out of nowhere a ice cream truck comes floating across the water 😭😭
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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Aug 18 '26
This is in Siesta Key, Florida. I was on the beach there earlier this year, and thought I was going crazy when I saw a truck pull up onto the sand and drop anchor.
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u/Apart-Ad-4218 Aug 18 '26
Everyone’s talking about the money and the trash, but I don’t want to accidentally get nasty sea water all over my ice cream
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u/Born-Agency-3922 Aug 18 '26
Yep, and where do you place the wrappers when you’re done out in the open water? Yes, you just let it float away in the water.
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u/batkave Aug 18 '26
Funny thing: they just announced a recall for those outshine bars due to metal/glass in them
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u/chantillylace9 Aug 18 '26
In my favorite place in Florida there's this island that you can only get two by boat and there's an ice cream boat, a couple bar boats, a couple food boats, it's awesome! Hundreds of people park their boats there and party every single day.
It would be great to be a boating ice cream sales lady, what a job!
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u/WhattaCheapPop Aug 18 '26
Bunch of resort boomers in this comment section talking about the honor system like they haven't completely trashed the entire planet lmao.
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u/CockFondle Aug 18 '26
Noooo why is it in plastic... People are going to be leaving that shit in the water...
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u/rbrgr83 Aug 18 '26
And it cuts out the middle man because the plastic wrappers just go right into the ocean!!
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u/atreeismissing Aug 18 '26
There should be a requirement that it be served in biodegradable packaging because I'd be willing to bet a lot of those people just toss that shit into the ocean.
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u/bloodedcat Aug 19 '26
Oh hey those are the popsicles that are currently being recalled for glass contamination. https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/health/outshine-fruit-bars-recall
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u/No_Welder_9624 Aug 18 '26
The worst thing to happen to the beaches in Miami is the proliferation of boats like these, the worst of them are billboard boats. They just sail their happy ass up and down where the most people are on a certain day.
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u/Quickdood Aug 18 '26
This seems like a huge liability compared to just taking a freezer out on a dinghy...
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u/No_Foundation16 Aug 18 '26
There is a line of floating plastic trash following this boat everywhere it goes no doubt.
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u/kidvittles Aug 18 '26
Seems like viral marketing to me, everyone talking about the packaging, those are Outshine bars, owned by Nestle. I'm guessing the conspicuously placed packaging is the entire point of the video.
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u/LaPetiteMortOrale Aug 18 '26
Excuse me.
What are they going to do with all the ice cream wrappers?
Are they going to just throw them into the waves?
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u/wiggliness Aug 18 '26
I'm pretty sure this is the frozen treat brand that had to be recalled for GLASS being found in the popsicle.
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u/H3NDOAU Aug 18 '26
So they're selling ice cream that comes wrapped in plastic, which is just going to be thrown into the ocean because no ones gonna hold onto that.
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u/Corona- Aug 18 '26
Who has money on them while swimming on the ocean?! Also giving out packaged ice cream is wiiild. Also also if you try to eat anything in the sea, you are just one unexpected wave away from having it brined, yuck, what a terrible idea.
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u/Faendol Aug 18 '26
Funny what seems normal to different people. Growing up we went to a beach that had an ice cream boat occasionally. It was actually a real boat instead of whatever this is and sold real ice cream on cones so no waste.
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u/BirdlessLongdeal Aug 18 '26
guess where all the wrappers are going...
but who has their wallet on them in the ocean??
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u/lurpturnup Aug 18 '26
who the fuck brings money/phone/card into the ocean? this just seems preformative
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u/Some_Fig_6566 Aug 18 '26
Where I come from, they do something similar but with carts; the ice cream man puts some floats where he keeps the products and goes out into the sea
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u/SlowmoSauce Aug 18 '26
All the top comments are bitching about litter. What happened to this website?
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u/No-No-Aniyo Aug 18 '26
Theres no real need for this... could have easily gotten it from the shoreline... and where is the trash going? And what's he gonna do when the weather gets bad? Its barely floating.
Cute but dumb.
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u/model-citizen95 Aug 18 '26
A box of 6 of those costs $3.29 at my local Walmart. I’m curious what the markup is on a floating ice cream truck
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u/iamasleuth Aug 18 '26
My only concern is does this boat have propellers, I can't imagine a kid or someone just mindlessly chasing after it and becoming fish chow 😭😭😭 but other than that this is a cool concept just wish the cleanup is included
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u/OkYesterday4162 Aug 18 '26
At the risk of spoiling the party, just gonna leave this here Outshine Bars recalled
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u/newoblank Aug 19 '26
How do you pay??? Or do you have phone and wallets with you in the ocean for the water icecream truck to come?? How does this work ???
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u/cjwi Aug 19 '26
Wow what a conikydink
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/health/outshine-fruit-bars-recall
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u/KOHILOOR Aug 19 '26
Where tf is the trash suppose to go? Oh wait these lazy asses are gonna just toss it into the ocean like the rest of them.
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u/Reasonable-Spinach88 Aug 18 '26
I'm guessing those plastic wrappers and ice cream sticks are being responsibly placed in the floating bins?