It is the second-most popular ice cream flavour behind vanilla in New Zealand,[6] and is a frequently cited example of 😊 Kiwiana.[7] It is also exported to Japan, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.[8]

The term hokey pokey has been used in reference 😊 to honeycomb toffee in New Zealand since the late 19th century. The origin of this term, in reference to honeycomb 😊 specifically, is not known with certainty, and it is not until the mid-20th century that hokey pokey ice cream was 😊 created.[citation needed]

Coincidentally, "hokey pokey" was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early 20th centuries 😊 in several areas — including New York City[9] 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. One such song in use 😊 in 1930s Liverpool was "Hokey pokey penny a lump, that's the stuff to make ye jump".[10]

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Hokey 😊 Pokey (The Ice Cream Man) (1975) is a song by Richard & Linda Thompson.