In the summertime, across America, battalions of ice cream trucks fill the warm air with the seemingly sweet sounds of one unmistakable jingle: Turkey in the Straw. Ice cream, apparently, is best served with a side of racism. Originally called Zip Coon, the popular American folk tune that has now become synonymous with frozen summer treats was first popularized during comedic blackface performances–where white men would use shoe polish or burnt cork to blacken their skin and exaggerate their lips to look more like African slaves–during the early nineteenth century.

Over the years Zip Coon evolved. It became a fiddle competition standard and any old time musician worth his or her salt could play it from memory. Eventually the racist undertones in the lyrics began to disappear, becoming sillier and more nonsensical until Turkey in the Straw, the nursery song many of us grew up loving, was born.

Despite it’s ugly history, the addicting melody of Turkey in the Straw can still be heard blasting from ice cream trucks all over the United States each summer. But this video of a garbage truck, captured in Hoi An, Vietnam, shows that in some places in the world, catchy jingles aren’t just reserved for vehicles that dish out deliciousness.

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