mr whippy in 2010. time to retire?

no greensleeves playing here. this was one depressing-looking mr whippy van.  great old original bedford van though, with a respray that hurts the eyes. love it.

i took a sneak-peek inside and i can tell you that i wouldn’t feel confident buying anything here. give me a chai tea, brewed in unboiled ganges river water anyday over a hotdog from this guy. Even the sealed bags of chips were available in flavours discontinued since 1992.

poor bastard. in two hours, i didn’t see him make one sale. got to feel for him, but how do you break it to him? a pink respray doesn’t mean shit over a wipe-down of his surfaces.

and vitari – wasn’t vitari some wonder product back in the 80′s? some kind of fat free frozen yoghurt substitute for ice-cream (frogurt) that ceased production in 1989? i actually googled it and all i found was an undated burke’s backyard ‘fact sheet ‘on it.  when did that go off air? did people even really use the world wide interweb then?

more questions than answers, and that’s never a good thing.

why does he have a scary horror-mask on the passenger-side window. buddy, you are supposed to attract the kiddies, not scare them away!

if, when i took this picture, i didn’t know that i would be so cruel, i would have asked to have taken a shot of the man himself as well. if anyone saw that canadian tv show  ‘you can’t do that on television’, mr whippy was mr barth burger in the clip below (as a bonus, you can see what alanis morissette looked like when she was 12 years old):

my advice to barth burger, sell your van and everything in it on ebay – you’d clean up if you find a cashed-up retro-fiend buyer…

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Posted: July 10th, 2010 under Photo A Day.
Tags: jobs, mr whippy, retro, youtube