Golden gay time
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 food icon.
According to marketingmag.com.au there have been about 25 different flavours. They say “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 Food (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 mention has proved resilient and even the line ‘It’s challenging to have a Gaytime on your own’ has been embraced in entire recognition of its new double sense.
The release of a Golden Gaytime ice cream in a tub, in mid-2015, in response to a social media campaign by fans, has met with mixed reactions. It’s the crumbs, you know. They need to be o
Golden Gaytime Ice Cream Sanga 480ml
STREETS ICE CREAM GAYTIME SANGA 400 ML
It's Gaytime without the stick! Enjoy the delicious Golden Gaytime Sanga, delicious Gaytime ice cream sandwich between two biscuit layers and covered in Gaytime crumbs! The first Gaytime took Australia by storm in 1959, and it soon became a staple of the Swinging Sixties. But as Flower Influence made way for flares and disco, a bright spark at Street’s Headquarters decided he could make Gaytime even more golden. Our original and classic combination of a toffee and vanilla-flavoured centre, dipped in a scrumptious choc coating and covered in delicious biscuit pieces, has proved to be truly timeless. But we've made the original Golden Gaytime a new best companion that's just as delicious - The Golden Gaytime Sanga. Toffee flavoured reduced fat ice cream is sandwiched between two biscuit flavoured layers partially dipped in compounds chocolate and topped with biscuit crumbs. No wonder it’s so hard to have a Gaytime on your own! More about the masterpiece we name Golden Gaytime: Saying ‘Goodbye Serious’ since 1920. Between WWI and WWII, Edwin (‘Ted’) Street with the help of his wife and brother laid the foundati
Golden Gaytime Streets Ice Cream Sticks First 400mL
- Servings per pack,4.0
- Serving size,78.0 G
- Quantity Per Serving
- Quantity Per 100g / 100mL
- Energy
- 975.0kJEnergy Per serving975.0kJ
- 1250.0kJEnergy Per 100 grams or millilitres1250.0kJ
- Protein
- 2.7gProtein Per serving2.7g
- 3.5gProtein Per 100 grams or millilitres3.5g
- Fat, Total
- 14.7gFat, Total Per serving14.7g
- 18.8gFat, Total Per 100 grams or millilitres18.8g
- – Saturated
- 7.0g– Saturated Per serving7.0g
- 9.0g– Saturated Per 100 grams or millilitres9.0g
- Carbohydrate
- 22.7gCarbohydrate Per serving22.7g
- 29.1gCarbohydrate Per 100 grams or millilitres29.1g
- – Sugars
- 17.0g– Sugars Per serving17.0g
- 21.8g– Sugars Per 100 grams or millilitres21.8g
- Dietary Fibre
- -Dietary Fibre Per servingNot Available
- -Dietary Fibre Per 100 grams or millilitresNot Available
- Sodium
- 70.0mgSodium Per serving70.0mg
- 90.0mgSodium Per 100 grams or millilitres90.0mg
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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 homosexual connotations in modern decades.
The company appears to embrace the camp name by retaining the tagline from the 1980s, "It's hard to hold 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 happy time no homo
3. Very homosexual time
Phone Convo of lovers
GF: Hey infant, what you up to?
BF: Chilling with my homies, we’re having a golden gaytime. Pause, I imply 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 compassionate of golden gaytime?
GF: Travel figure.
by Delinger April 21, 2011
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