My wife’s family refers to eskimo pie ice cream bars as “hunky bars” or “hunkie bars.” I googled around and found the song by Sugar Chile Robinson but couldn’t unravel whether this was the origin of them using that term. My guess is that there might have been a brand of ice cream called hunkie, but I couldn’t find any reference to it. So what’s the dope?
Context: MIL grew up in middle Georgia in the 50s.
I had a friend who had some Hungarian ancestry. His parents referred to Hungarian style foods they prepared as Hunky bread, Hunky soup, etc.
Not sure how that would relate to Eskimo Pies.
Interesting. I’ll be fascinated to learn that is applicable in this situation.
They’ve got a leader, big cheer leader,
Oh, what a guy!
He’s got a frozen face just like an Eskimo Pie!
Google found for me a reference to a “Hunky Bar” that was a Nestle product in the UK,it was fruit and nut cake ,definitely not icecream .
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Regarding your question about an ice cream bar called a Hunky, I grew up in Augusta, GA in the 1940s - 1950s. When I was a little girl, a man would walk through my neighborhood in the summer pushing an ice cream cart on 3 wheels with bells so we could hear him coming. He sold all types of frozen treats from small cups of ice cream to Popsicles to Dreamsicles to the Hunky, my favorite because it was a chocolate-dipped vanilla bar on a wooden stick. The actual name of the product was “Hunky” because I remember reading the name on the paper wrapper that covered it. They were also sold in corner grocery stores because I saw them in the ice cream freezers when the lids were opened. I don’t know what company made them but the dairies that served Augusta at that time were Sancken, Borden, Pet, and Haskell. If these treats were produced by a local dairy, it is certainly possible they were sold in surrounding areas of the state.
Well it is apparently a product name for ice cream in USA, at least in the south
here’s a blog asking the same question … why did they call it Hunky ?
Well it may have once been a brand name, but it isn’t any longer – or it is a brand that has zero Web presence. I also found a nostalgic article in the Rockdale Citizen, a newspaper hailing from close to the area I referenced.
Maybe is was a very small regional brand that didn’t stand the test of time?