I’ve never heard an Ice Cream truck around here play Turkey in the Straw.
I have heard it in Illinois. Anyhow, it seems even Giles is infected a bit with knee-jerk-itis. He didn’t mention the original tune which is older than this parody. Turkey In The Straw is a simple, merry song and that’s probably why its use predates this parody.
Anyhow it would be cool to have watermelon offered by ice cream trucks (needing a refrigerator compartment of course). It would get scarfed up by folks of all colors. But the food regulations of today would kill you.
Neither have I. The usually play a tinkly, little, anemic bell tune. I usually associate "Turkey in the Straw" with fiddles. Just about any folk tune that's been around long enough could have been put to bad uses at one time or another.
I just wonder how many idiots are automatically going to assume that the music they heard coming from the ice creme truck just had to be "Turkey in the Straw" and just had to be racist because some idiot at NPR told them so.