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]
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