References in Popular Culture
- The Bill Forsyth movie Comfort and Joy (1984) is a fictional comedy about two Italian ice cream vendor families in Glasgow in a conflict very similar to the wars described in this article.
- In That Peter Kay Thing Bolton comedian Peter Kay plays an ice cream man known as Mr. Softy Top, who in addition to ice cream, distributes pornographic videos and is engaged in a bitter turf war with a rival ice cream salesman.
Read more about this topic: Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
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