By Michel Outridge

Ice Cream is a beloved treat by young and old alike and in Crabwood Creek Village, residents can enjoy a really good home-made vanilla-flavoured ice cream from an English-made ice cream van whenever it passes through the villages on a daily basis.

Residents would await the arrival of this van in their village as it announces it entrance via a unique tune through its speaker.

At Crabwood Creek, the Pepperpot Magazine encountered Keshan Bisarmjeet, who is the local ‘Ice Cream Man’. He drives the old-fashioned Oxford ice cream van with an assistant who sells the ice cream in a cone cup.

The 32-year-old reported that when he was unemployed he wanted to work and took up the job when it was offered to him five years ago.

He has an assistant, Kevin Manmuthoo, who is at the back of the van to fill the cone cups with the delicious frozen snack for just $140 per cone.

They are both from the same village of Port Mourant and every day they would make the ice cream at home and then fill it in the ice cream machine that is built into the enclosed van and then they would wait until it gets hard enough to be sold.

Once this process is successful they would start sell from Crabwood Creek Village until they reach their home village of Port Mourant then call it a day.

Bisarmjeet told the Pepperpot Magazine that the vans are owned by a villager of Tain, Corentyne and he has three similar vans which are used for selling ice cream.

“These vans are old but strong but still works well so we use it to sell ice cream even though we had to do some internal work,” he said.

He explained that home-made ice cream takes about 20 minutes to make once all the ingredients are added and put to freeze.

Bisarmjeet stated that they would make a gallon daily and it would be sold before 17:30hrs and they can go home to start all over again the next day.

The father of three noted that before he became the ‘ice cream man’ he was a taxi driver and that wasn’t a lucrative venture so he had to seek another job to support his home financially.

“I like the job because you get to meet a lot of people especially the children would know you and we would normally go to different villages and it is rewarding seeing places and meeting new people daily,” he said.

Bisarmjeet added that mostly children would look out for him and he doesn’t want to disappoint them so he would pass through the villages every day.

Bisarmjeet stated that he has a simple job but he takes it seriously because he provides a service to the people and he likes to be reliable and on time.

“I wouldn’t want to have little children waiting on me and then I don’t show up, no, never, so I do my work” he said.