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.