Dan Burn-Forti
Dirk Mischendahl's 1972 Bedford van was in the Trinity Leeds street food market in 2015 when a man stopped by and began insulting the quality of Northern Bloc's ice cream. In Italian. "We'd spray painted the van grey and white to show we weren't some posh, rolling hills ice cream, we were making it on an estate opposite a sex shop and a prison," says Mischendahl. "We would make the ice cream at night, sell it in the day. We'd forage for sorrel, source the strawberries. But the van wouldn't go faster than 30mph, it was always breaking down and we didn't really know what we were doing."