...not this one. But it looks good, huh?!Polling has now closed, boys and girls. I would like to congratulate Team Boring for their last minute run - we will be consuming Hokey Pokey this afternoon. You can see the final results here (I hope!). Hopefully it sees us safely through 5 re-hashes of Vulture Culture. Watch this space for the next scintilating poll...with a total of 84 posts for the controversy of Icecream, we've got a record to break!
Just while we're on the topic of Hokey Pokey...
- Wikipedia claims it is a participation dance that became popular in America in the 1950s.
- But it also recognises Hokey Pokey (icecream): an icecream flavour sold in New Zealand which is, according to the New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association, the country's second most popular. We churn through two million litres every year.
- It was a slang term for icecream in many areas for a while there, referring especially to icecream sold by street vendors. It's thought these street vendors (many of whom were Italian) sang a song which included the words 'Hokey Pokey' somewhere.
- The Encylopaedia of Food reckons the term comes from the Italian 'Oche Poco' ('Oh how little') and refers to 'mixed colours and flavours of icecream in cake form'. Random.
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Thanks heaps for the ice cream on Friday Jint - just what we needed to get us through all the vultures! BTW, we're not Team Boring - it's the Japanese influence...
Sorry, haha you're on to it Al - it's not Boring, it's Cultured. I stand corrected!
[PS How did you link from a comment?! I've been trying to do that for weeks!]
Easy - just copy and paste the HTML code for a link, like you'd do for your blog. The comments box will decode it.
Oooo - clever clever, haha I wouldn't have thought of it!
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