Golden Gaytime


Golden Gaytime is a popular ice cream snack that is made and distributed by the Streets confectionery company in Australia, and first released in 1959. 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, or because, of the possible homosexual connotations in modern decades.

Variations

On 4 August 2015, Streets announced the release of Golden Gaytime ice-cream tub format in addition to its usual popsicle stick format.
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.
In 2017, the flavours Gaytime Unicorn, Pina Colada and Choc Mint McMint Face were introduced.

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". In 2009, Streets started re-airing a television commercial from the 1980s.

Cultural impact

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