Ice cream flavour of New Zealand
Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand
consisting of plain vanilla 💴 ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee.
Hokey pokey is the New Zealand term for honeycomb toffee.[2][3][4][5] The 💴 original
recipe until around 1980 consisted of solid toffee, but in a marketing change, Tip Top
decided to use small 💴 balls of honeycomb toffee instead.
It is the second-most popular
ice cream flavour behind vanilla in New Zealand,[6] and is a 💴 frequently cited example
of Kiwiana.[7] It is also exported to Japan, Australia, and the Pacific
Islands.[8]
Origins and etymology [ edit 💴 ]
The term hokey pokey has been used in
reference to honeycomb toffee in New Zealand since the late 19th century. 💴 The origin of
this term, in reference to honeycomb specifically, is not known with certainty, and it
is not until 💴 the mid-20th century that hokey pokey ice cream was created.[citation
needed]
Coincidentally, "hokey pokey" was a slang term for ice cream 💴 in general in the
19th and early 20th centuries in several areas — including New York City[9] and parts
of 💴 Great Britain — specifically for the ice cream sold by street vendors or "hokey
pokey men". The vendors, said to 💴 be mostly of Italian descent, supposedly used a sales
pitch or song involving the phrase "hokey pokey", for which several 💴 origins have been
suggested. One such song in use in 1930s Liverpool was "Hokey pokey penny a lump,
that's the 💴 stuff to make ye jump".[10]
The term hokey pokey likely has multiple
origins. One of these is the expression "hocus-pocus", which 💴 is possibly the source of
the name hokey pokey in New Zealand. As a general name for ice cream outside 💴 New
Zealand, it may be a corruption of one of several Italian phrases. According to "The
Encyclopedia of Food" (published 💴 1923, New York) hokey pokey (in the U.S.) is "a term
applied to mixed colors and flavors of ice cream 💴 in cake form". The Encyclopedia says
the term originated from the Italian phrase oh che poco - "oh how little". 💴 Alternative
possible derivations include other similar-sounding Italian phrases: for example ecco
un poco - "here is a (little) piece".[citation needed]
Related 💴 uses [ edit ]
Hokey
Pokey (The Ice Cream Man) (1975) is a song by Richard & Linda Thompson.
(1975) is a
💴 song by Richard & Linda Thompson. Hokey Pokey is an ice cream parlour in the Prenzlauer
Berg section of Berlin, 💴 Germany.[11]
Notes [ edit ]
