What does a gay time mean
The first Streets Gaytime was not golden. It was a combination of ice cream, chocolate and strawberry shortcake. The famous Golden version, with a biscuit coating surrounding toffee and vanilla ice cream, did not arrive until 1970. There have been a variety of flavours, but the Golden Gaytime is the one that has become an Australian nourishment icon.
According to marketingmag.com.au there have been about 25 different flavours. They speak “The current and most successful one is the ‘Golden’ Gaytime, which was launched in the summer of 1970. Past flavours have included Strawberry Shortcake, Caramel Nut, King Chocolate, Raspberry Rough, Choc Orange, Cassata Roma, Devil’s Sustenance (chocolate) and Turkish Delight.”
The Golden Gaytime arrived in the pre-Sydney Mardi Gras era when the pos ‘gay’ had yet to be applied to sexual orientation. However, the label has proved resilient and even the line ‘It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own’ has been embraced in full recognition of its new double meaning. In New Zealand, the equal product is called a ‘Cookie Crumble’. Somehow ‘It’s hard to have a Cookie Crumble on your own’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
The release of a Golden Gaytime
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Ice cream manufacturer Streets has shut down fresh rumours that Australia’s iconic Golden Gaytime is altering its name.
The speak kicked off because an Aldi shopper discovered the Australian supermarket was selling packs of the ice creams with a different name.
The Aldi Australia customer shared a photo to a Facebook group of the box containing the ice creams, but with “Cookie Crumble” on the label.
“They’re Gaytimes, just a new name due to political correctness,” one person commented.
“Is this a renaming thing?” another asked.
“Is the ‘Gaytime’ renamed due to the ‘offensive’ name, fancy Redskins, Chicos and Coon Cheese of late that contain been renamed?”
But a spokesperson for Streets shut down the rumours and addressed the confusion.
They told 7News that Cookie Crumble is the name given to the ice cream in New Zealand. The spokesperson said the alternate product is available at Australian Aldi stores for a limited time.
They also confirmed there are no plans to switch the name of Golden Gaytime in Australia.
“The meaning behind the Gaytime entitle has not changed since its iconic debut i
1. Golden Gaytime is an iconic ice cream that was first released in 1960s in Australia. It is a toffee and vanilla ice creamdipped in chocolate and wrapped in honeycomb biscuits, on a wooden pop-stick.
Its name has survived intact despite the possible lgbtq+ connotations in new decades.
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". In 2010, Streets launched the brand's first official website, featuring tools with humorous names appreciate "Golden Gay Year" and "Instant Gaytimes".
2. A very glad time no homo
3. Very homosexual time
Phone Convo of lovers
GF: Hey baby, what you up to?
BF: Chilling with my homies, we’re having a golden gaytime. Pause, I intend it literally. We are eating golden gaytime ice cream and it makes us very happy.
GF: I'm going to visit my girls for a golden gaytime
BF: Wait, what kind of golden gaytime?
GF: Go figure.
by Delinger April 21, 2011
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Streets created perfection in 1959 with the peak Aussie ice cream, the Gaytime: an ecstasy inducing mix of toffee and vanilla ice cream, covered in delicious, yet subtle, chocolate coating, and then smothered in the iconic honeycomb crumb biscuits, all on delivered on a convenient little paddle pop stick. It is, quite simply, the finest ice cream creation Australia has ever been lucky enough to experience.
Yes, the Toucan and Twin Poles once reigned supreme, and the Freeza certainly left iced confectionary competitors in the dust, but they’re icy poles, not ice creams. As such, the Gaytime comfortably trounces Magnums, Connoisseur’s, Bubble-O-Bill’s, and Paddle Pop’s. It stomps on the pseudo-elite competition that is the mango and cream combine Weis bar, an ice cream that fits the bill on a spicy day, but cannot, will not, and should not, ever feel so egotistical that it can overwhelm the brilliance of the Gaytime.
The genuine joy and comfort that comes from eating a Gaytime is like nothing else. The first bite of mellow biscuit, with the combine of chocolate and the subtle toffee flavour, stops you for a moment in time. You might read this thinking I’m being