Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid 😊 lumps of honeycomb toffee. Hokey pokey is the New Zealand term for honeycomb toffee.[2][3][4][5] The original recipe until around 1980 😊 consisted of solid toffee, but in a marketing change, Tip Top decided to use small balls of honeycomb toffee instead.

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]

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