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Tsang</span></ce></figptn></figure><ul><li><a class="le-lk" href="/goodfood/">Big Gay Ice Cream's hot fudge sce recipe</a></li></ul><p>"Doug Qut is a eelance classil bassoonist," begs the Wikipedia entry for one of the founrs of Big Gay Ice Cream. And really, that's exactly the sort of whimsil b you'd expect to be associated wh the New York soft-serve brand so popular that has s own theme song by the Go-Go's.</p><p>Big Gay Ice Cream has ptured the hearts of Ameri sce 2009 wh s rabow-slashed Mister Softee tck, s pop culture soft-serve n like the Bea Arthur, (vanilla topped wh dulce leche and cshed vanilla wafers, named for a Goln Girl), and for their unwaverg mment to not takg the food scene too serly. For example, the time they hosted a talk wh Jam Beard award-wng wrer, John T. Edge, and "much to his surprise," acrdg to Big Gay Ice Cream -founr Bryan Petroff​, "the event took place an ornate viewg room at a lol funeral parlour, wh a seven-foot tall drag queen drsed like an ice-cream sundae on his arm."</p><asi data-ttid="related-story" class="sc-18bmp0g-0 dyMfne"><div class="sc-958iid-0 UQfYD" data-an-posn="1" data-ttid="story-tile"><figure class="sc-1ed3q59-0 bucyew"><a class="sc-1ihsumb-0 bskxvI" href="/goodfood/" tabx="-1"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="Hot fudge waterfall: Big Gay Ice Cream's cholate sce." loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hbRsLX"/></picture></div></a></figure><div class="sc-958iid-1 OKibS"><h3 class="sc-958iid-2 iuZegv"><a class="sc-1ihsumb-0 bskxvI" href="/goodfood/">Big Gay Ice Cream's hot fudge sce recipe</a></h3></div></div></asi></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>The pany started when Qut, who is fact a Juilliard-traed classil bassoon player, and Petroff cid to spend the summer of 2009 food tck' on a whim. They saw a post on Facebook llg for ice-cream drivers, signed up and never looked back.</p><p>At first all they had was a name (why Big Gay Ice Cream? Why not, beme the real qutn when gaed them a huge followg long before they stepped foot on the tck), and some big ias. Namely, to update soft-serve wh fancy toppgs and take fun to the streets.</p><p>Petroff lls himself the tellectual of the duo. Doug is the gregar one. In that first season, an ice-cream star was born. Petroff and Qut took the cy by storm wh their soft-serve n drsed up wh toppgs like olive oil and sea salt, and breakfast cereal Trix​, and their rigoro mment to Good Tim.</p><figure class="q0gngn-1 gqTobK"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="Doug Qut of Big Gay Ice Cream. " loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hCDOEA"/></picture></div><figptn class="q0gngn-0 kkZHpK" data-ttid="figure-ptn"><span>Doug Qut of Big Gay Ice Cream. </span><ce class="q0gngn-2 hbMmDq"><span class="q0gngn-3 bvPrfo">Donny Tsang</span></ce></figptn></figure><p>Later me floats and shak and sunda and their own soft-serve ma llaboratn wh a lol dairy. There me the legendary Salty Pimp ne (vanilla, dulce leche, sea salt and a cholate shell) and the "Chokwich", the cholate and ramelised ban ice-cream sandwich of your dreams.</p></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>And then a bricks-and-mortar shop opened to a great party featurg drag queens and Anthony Bourda – everyone's favoure dirt-mouthed chef, thor and travel show legend – drsed as a mister.</p><p>They now have stor Brooklyn and Philalphia. There's a <em>Big Gay Ice Cream </em>book signed like a high school yearbook plete wh scrawled msag throughout, and filled wh stctns on how to make a hot fudge sundae along wh stori about their iends.</p><figure class="q0gngn-1 gqTobK"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="ChunkyBea om Big Gay Ice Cream. " loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hCDOEA"/></picture></div><figptn class="q0gngn-0 kkZHpK" data-ttid="figure-ptn"><span>ChunkyBea om Big Gay Ice Cream. </span><ce class="q0gngn-2 hbMmDq"><span class="q0gngn-3 bvPrfo">Donny Tsang</span></ce></figptn></figure><p>Big Gay Ice Cream may have started as a summer flg, but beme an advertent lear a ssert revolutn: the reclamatn of ice-cream by adults.</p><p>Frozen dairy ed to be parents' weapon of choice, the ne of silence, if you will. As an adult, you uld like , but post the soda founta days of the 1950s, there was a dark age where ice-cream was nsired the sole doma of the unr-12s, the over-50s, and the Italians.</p></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>"I thk for the longt time, people took an "'s only ice-cream" approach," says Petroff. "That 's jt a kid's food. It's only k, cream, and sugar. But that's ak to sayg, soccer is jt people kickg around a ball, or Yoda is jt a Muppet."</p><figure class="q0gngn-1 gqTobK"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="Big Gay Ice Cream's hot fudge." loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hCDOEA"/></picture></div><figptn class="q0gngn-0 kkZHpK" data-ttid="figure-ptn"><span>Big Gay Ice Cream's hot fudge.</span><ce class="q0gngn-2 hbMmDq"><span class="q0gngn-3 bvPrfo">Donny Tsang</span></ce></figptn></figure><p>But sudnly, there was Big Gay Ice Cream wh an attu and ice-cream that adults uld claim as their own. "Kids love the bright lours, bubbly atmosphere and tasty treats," says Petroff, "but 's the adults who know where our dairy om, know who Bea Arthur was, and unrstand the lyrics of The Buzzcks <em>Orgasm Addict</em> playg through the sound system."</p><p>Petroff and Qut rose to celebry stat on the wgs of social media. And they weren't alone. Across the untry San Francis, dairy legends Jake Godby and Sean Vahey of Humphry Slobe​ had built an adult fan club wh their bizarre flavours.</p><p>On home turf, 's Gelato Msa that's ptured the big kid crowd – the artisan gelato pany that breaks the ter every time they post their latt hotdog ice-cream or celebry-themed mash-up, and whose multiple stor (they have 11 Atralia <a class="le-lk" href="/goodfood/eatg-out/">cludg their newt Wdsor</a>, and one Las Vegas, USA) are more like nightclubs than ice-cream parlours.</p></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><figure class="q0gngn-1 gqTobK"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="Big Gay Ice Cream will team up wh Gelato Msa for the Ice-Cream Social durg Good Food Month." loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hCDOEA"/></picture></div><figptn class="q0gngn-0 kkZHpK" data-ttid="figure-ptn"><span>Big Gay Ice Cream will team up wh Gelato Msa for the Ice-Cream Social durg Good Food Month.</span><ce class="q0gngn-2 hbMmDq"><span class="q0gngn-3 bvPrfo">Katie Wlton</span></ce></figptn></figure><p>But did ice-cream grow up or was that changed? When did ice-cream go om sweet to socially sexy?</p><p>"If you want to get heady and amic," says Petroff, "I thk has more to do wh the overall softeng of adults. We are more fortable acceptg and embracg thgs that may have given the prev generatn pse. Grown straight men drs up as <em>My Ltle Pony</em> characters and ll themselv Broni. More people are takg risks to do what they love stead of what pays the bills. The harsh reali we live require any form of fort we n fd. Essentially, the world, more than ever, NEEDS ice-cream."</p><p>And so is that lg up for three hours on a Saturday afternoon has not only bee acceptable but ol. Consentg adults have bs meetgs over a sop. Gelato Msa has replaced the humble bar as the preferred spot for ial Tr dat – and Msa -founr Declan Lee approv. "It's perfect," says Lee. "It's the least mment place. There's jt the right time to work out if someone's a loser."</p><figure class="q0gngn-1 gqTobK"><div class="sc-14h8dmh-0 dBoy"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><source media="(m-width: 750px)" srcSet=", 2x"/><img alt="The Big Gay Ice Cream book is out now." loadg="lazy" src=" srcSet=", 2x" class="sc-14h8dmh-1 hCDOEA"/></picture></div><figptn class="q0gngn-0 kkZHpK" data-ttid="figure-ptn"><span>The Big Gay Ice Cream book is out now.</span><ce class="q0gngn-2 hbMmDq"><span class="q0gngn-3 bvPrfo">Supplied</span></ce></figptn></figure></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>Big Gay Ice Cream and Msa are vastly different some ways. Their product for starters. Big Gay Ice Cream were all about the high end toppgs and fun to beg wh, velopg a stronger range as the pany grew. Msa was always about their gelato. There was far more talk about the anic gredients; their procs of makg the gelato om scratch, daily. But what un them fame, what mak people que longer, click more is that they never set out to please anyone but themselv.</p><p>"When we started out, we knew ls of what we wanted to be than what we didn't want to be" says Petroff. "What we wanted to say was ''s ice-cream. HAVE FUN!' It's OK to like both anic, non-homogenised k om the lol dairy as well as the cheap, fat-laned Skippy peanut butter we ate as a kid. As products of the '80s, we love what out of those llisns. The tersectn of childhood and mid-life crisis. Those are perfect storm moments that create tly unique experienc."</p><p>The same go for Msa. "We have never targeted our stor at a particular dience, we jt make stor that we like, and that are fortable," says Lee, who ed to be a DJ, and origally would pile all the hoe-heavy mic mix for the stor. "It's loud, but even if people don't like , they won't leave after 10 mut thkg 'that was horrible.'"</p><p>More often 's those beats at Msa and the Instagram posts by Big Gay Ice Cream to which they've Photoshopped the pope eatg a Bea Arthur that attract the crowds, and keep them g back; that have given adults everywhere the exce, fally, to scream like a junr school soccer team for ice-cream.</p><h3>Big Gay Ice Cream Atralia!</h3></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>Ice-cream fans rejoice: Big Gay Ice Cream's Doug Qut and Bryan Petroff are g to Melbourne for The Age Good Food Month prented by Ci. See them at:</p><p><strong>Sweetft</strong></p><p>Big Gay Ice Cream will be be monstratg how to make boozy floats and shak and their Chokwich (the cholate and ban ice-cream sandwich of your dreams) at Sweetft: a brand new two-day ftival celebratg all thgs iced, baked, whipped and lourful. Sweetft brgs together Melbourne and Sydney's top sweet vendors cludg Black Star Pastry, Luxbe, N2 Gelato and Short Stop Coffee and Donuts the sweet marketplace, while the lik of ke queen Kathere Sabbath will be on stage dog ee masterclass (limed seats) alongsi Pierre Roelofs (Dsert Evengs) and ssert boss Philippa Sibley. The Black Pearl cktail bar (recently voted number 10 bar the world), will be creatg cktails and tickets clu a ee glass of Redbank Ey Bt Cuvée. Kids unr 12 ee.</p><p><em>November 28-29, Meat Markets, North Melbourne, $20, <a class="le-lk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TICKETS</a></em></p><p><strong>Ice Cream Social wh Big Gay Ice Cream and Gelato Msa</strong></p></div><div class="sc-147tfzb-0 FHgZ adWrapper noPrt sc-1poyj9i-3 lfRhLg" data-ttid="ad"><div class="sc-147tfzb-1 grIoTl"></div><small class="sc-147tfzb-2 fa-Dhrx">Advertisement</small></div><div class="sc-1hfqzg1-0 bpqJpD"><p>Who don't like dancg and ice-cream? Only fools. Jo Big Gay Ice Cream for an unbeatable ice-cream social on November 26 wh Gelato Msa: a night of one-off ice-cream creatns, drks and sweet dis by DJ CC:Dis at Thoand Pound Bend. 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GOLN GAYTIME: 98 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS VOTE TO KEEP STREETS INIC ICE CREAM NAME

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Atralians are urgg ice cream giant Streets to keep the name of s inic Goln Gaytime followg a petn that lled for to be 1150 people have signed the petn that argu the name of the ice cream, which was first released 1959, was “outdated” and “offensive” – and implor for the term “gay” to be banished om s rears have spoken out agast the requt, wh a whoppg 98 per cent votg to keep the renowned a survey published on Wednday, more than 45, 000 voters said the name is “harmls and not offensive”. RELATED: Why renamg Goln Gaytim would be a terrible cisnOver 1000 agreed wh the petn set up by an Atralian man known only as Brian Mc who said he felt was “time that the Goln Gaytime is lled out for beg outdated, pecially when Streets is releasg new products and cross promotns 2021” a statement to NCA NewsWire, Streets strsed the word “gay” had not been applied to genr preference when the product was first released the 1950s.

“The orig of the ‘Gaytime’ name was and remas related to havg a joyo or happy time and is meant to pture the pleasure that wh enjoyg an ice cream, ” a spokperson said a statement. “The ‘Gaytime’ name is not and never has tend to e offence and this petn is the first that we have been ma aware of. “Jt to be a gay man, even 2021 is still hard … (we) still have a long way to go to be fully accepted as equals, but if we see an area life that’s not equal, and we are able to change for the better, why wouldn’t you speak up, ” Mr Mc said.

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“This is why I’m speakg out agast Goln Gaytime. “I’m not llg for the product to be ncelled, I’m llg for the product to remove Gay om s name.

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But a strg of new onle petns have also lnched llg to “Keep the name Goln Gaytime”. Another petn said “enough is enough” and urged people to “look up the meang of gay the dictnary”.

However the LGBTQIA+ muny has wily nmned the movement to remove the word “gay” om Goln Gaytime, statg is not an “offensive” word.

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