Golden Gaytime

Golden Gaytime (Cookie Crumble in New Zealand[1]) is a popular ice cream snack, made and distributed by the Streets confectionery company in Australia, and first released in 1959.[2] It is a toffee and vanilla ice-cream dipped in compound chocolate and wrapped in honeycomb biscuits, on a wooden paddlepop-stick. Its name has survived intact regardless of the possible homosexual connotations in modern decades.[3]

On 4 August 2015, Streets announced the release of Golden Gaytime ice-cream tub format in addition to its usual popsicle stick format.[4] On 7 September 2016, Streets announced the release of Golden Gaytime cross Cornetto cone - named Golden Gaynetto - in addition to other formats. In 2017, Streets released a Golden Gaytime ice-cream sandwich named the Golden Gaytime Sanga ("Sanga" being Australian slang for sandwich).[5]

Advertising

The company appears to embrace the camp name by retaining the tagline from the 1980s, "It's hard to have a Gaytime on your own". The in-home boxes feature the words "4 delicious chances to have a gay time".[6] In 2009, Streets started re-airing a television commercial from the 1980s.[7]

Cultural impact

The double meaning of the name is highlighted in The Bedroom Philosopher song, "Golden Gaytime".

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chung, Frank (14 October 2016). "Kiwis don't know how to have a Gaytime". News.com.au. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  3. ↑ Review / John McGrath. "Garden of earthly delights". The Adelaide Review. Archived from the original on February 7, 2006.
  4. ↑ Whiting, Alexandra (4 August 2015). "Golden Gaytime in a Tub Is a Reality! But Not Because of the Fans". PopSugar. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Streets announce official release of Golden Gaytime Sanga". 26 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Box design of golden gaytime". Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  7. ↑ 2 maart 2009. "Golden Gaytime". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
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