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