The Finest of Gaytimes
3 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, December 9 at Tuesday, December 09, 2008.
I've been away from Australia long enough to forget about the Golden Gaytime, one of our great nation's finest ice creams on a stick. It just reemerged into my consciousness via that masterpiece of ambient awareness, the Facebook news feed. Thanks to Jess letting the world know she was having a Golden Gaytime for dessert, it is all coming flooding back to me.
Oh for the simplicity of a bygone age, when a brand like this didn't raise eyebrows:
The company that makes them seem to be pretty in on the joke now - when you buy a box of 4 at the supermarket, the packaging promises "Four delicious chances to have a gay time".
And another sign that I have been out of Australia too long - a Golden Gaytime costs 4 freaking dollars?
Oh for the simplicity of a bygone age, when a brand like this didn't raise eyebrows:
The company that makes them seem to be pretty in on the joke now - when you buy a box of 4 at the supermarket, the packaging promises "Four delicious chances to have a gay time".
And another sign that I have been out of Australia too long - a Golden Gaytime costs 4 freaking dollars?
Maybe in Double Bay! Or is it our weak dollar?
Seriously, I think it's more like $2.50 unless you're buying it at an event or the cinema.
Lil
Maybe it costs 4 new zealand pesos...
laughed my ass off... Definitely a vestigial feature of a simpler culture. No way contemporary society would allow the sale and enjoyment of the premier biscuit coated cream confection.
damn, wp tells me that our New Zealand brothers would know this as a "cookie crumble". What's wrong Kiwis, can't handle your Gaytime?
Also the adelaide review, of all places, speaks of the GTs robust branding.. hilarious..
http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/archives/2004_11_26/foodanddining_story1.shtml