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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