Hokey pokey (ice cream)

Hokey pokey (ice cream)

Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of either honeycomb (Australia) or solid toffee (New Zealand).

It is the most popular flavour after plain vanilla in New Zealand [http://www.nzicecream.org.nz/industry.htm] , and a standard example of "Kiwiana" [http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Reference/NewZealand/Kiwiana/] . It is also exported to Japan and the PacificFact|date=July 2008.

Etymology

"Hokey pokey" was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries in several areas — including New York [http://www.littlebookroom.com/historicshopsNY.html] 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, although no certain etymology is known.

The name may come from the term "hocus-pocus", or 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 "oche poco" - "oh how little". Alternative possible derivations include other similar-sounding Italian phrases: for example "ecco un poco" - "here is a (little) piece" or "ecce pocce" (roughly) "Get it here, it's cold".

Related uses

* Sponge toffee is also known as "hokey pokey" in New Zealand (and in southern parts of the Dominican Republic Fact|date=July 2008)
* "Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Man)" (1975) is a song by Richard & Linda Thompson.
* In Ireland, the term 'Poke' is a common name for an ice cream
* Hokey Pokey's Ice Creamery is an ice cream company in Corning, New York.

References

*cite web|title=Hokey Pokey and All That: The history of ice cream|author=Edmund Forte|url=http://www.edmundforte.co.uk/141633.html — Forte presents several alternative hypotheses.
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19991223 The Mavens' Word of the Day: hokey]


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