What is a Golden Gaytime?
Golden Gaytime is an Australian ice cream on a stick, made of toffee and vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate and coated in honeycomb biscuit crumbs. It was introduced by Streets in 1959.
The ice cream has a toffee-flavoured layer and a vanilla layer, covered in a chocolate coating and crunchy biscuit pieces. Its combination of textures made it one of Australia's best-loved summer treats.
Streets, an ice cream company founded in New South Wales in the 1930s, became part of the Unilever group's ice cream business in the 1960s, but Golden Gaytime remains strongly associated with Australia.
Famous advertising
The brand became famous for cheeky advertising, including the slogan it's hard to have a Gaytime on your own.
Over the years, Streets has released variations such as the Unicorn Gaytime and Gaytime tubs, and Golden Gaytime flavours have appeared in other products sold in supermarkets.
It remains a summer classic, sold in milk bars, service stations and supermarkets across the country. In polls of Australia's favourite ice creams, the Golden Gaytime regularly ranks near the top, alongside the Paddle Pop and the Splice.
Did You Know?
Golden Gaytime flavour has inspired biscuits, chocolate blocks and desserts in Australian supermarkets.