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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood Consumer affairs correspondent

‘Bloody £9 for two’: TikTok twins rage at ice-cream van prices

People queue up at a Mr Whippy ice cream van that is parked on a beach
Some ice creams such as a screwball now cost about £4.50. Photograph: ceredigionpix/Alamy

Like the totemic £8 pint or £5 coffee, the cost of a Mr Whippy ice-cream has become a barometer of a world gone mad. But really, nine quid for two ice-creams? Bloody hell.

That was the damning verdict of an eight-year-old whose TikTok rant over the cost of two screwballs from an ice cream van in the park has racked up 14m views at the time of writing.

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