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When the temperature nears 100 degrees and your stuck outside wanting a refreshing snack, this is just about the worst news you could hear: Good Humor is reporting a shortage of some of its popular ice cream products.

Noooooo!

The Associated Press reports that with the planned closing next month of Good Humor’s Hagerstown plant, the novelty treat-maker is running low on Toast Almond, Candy Center Crunch and Chocolate Eclair bars. As parent company Unilever moves production to other plants in Tennessee and Missouri, Good Humor is coming up short in supplying ice cream stands and trucks around the country, which are probably enjoying some pretty boffo business right now. (The grocery-store version of the treats are unaffected.)

The Toasted Almond bar, especially, is one of Good Humor’s staples, dating back to the 1950s. And even though Unilever says the shortage won’t last long, that isn’t much solace for those vendors of sugary summertime relief, the AP reports:

The British-Dutch conglomerate said the Toasted Almond shortage should ease by the end of July. “We are confident that all issues will be resolved by mid- summer,” Unilever spokesman Jeff Graubard said in an email.

That’s little comfort to Brian Collis, owner of Mr. Ding-a-Ling Ice Cream Inc. in Latham, N.Y. He said customers of his 68 trucks in the area around Albany suffered through a shortage of Good Humor Oreo bars for most of the spring and now can only get Toasted Almond Bars from a grocery store.

And another ice cream merchant the AP spoke with put customers’ disappointment in blunt terms.

“It sucks to tell someone you don’t have something,” Bill Pavone, owner of Chilly Billy’s Ice Cream in Tonawanda, N.Y., told the AP. “In most cases they’ll just pick something else but they’ll look a little disgusted.”

When the Good Humor plant in Hagerstown closes July 27, it will bring to an end nearly 400 jobs.