Either Someone’s Really Good At Photoshop, Or Golden Gaytimes Are Now Available In Tub Form
I WANT TO BELIEVE.
If there’s one thing Australia does bizarrely well, it’s social media campaigns based around nostalgic food items. From the heroic ‘Keep the Killer Python‘ campaign to the elegantly-named ‘Change Pura Classic Chocolate milk back to original recipe‘ page, any messing around with the sugar-laden treats of the nation’s collective youth has Australians running for the barricades, Les Miserables-style.
“bring back full-size Lays packets pls”
But it can work the other way too. The Golden Gaytime Icecream Tub Project was formed about a month ago, and aims to do exactly what it says on the tin: convince Streets to release one and two-litre tub versions of the Golden Gaytime. The page has garnered around 3,000 Likes so far, but it all seemed pretty quiet until the page’s admin uploaded a photo last night of what appears to be 1.25L tubs of the good stuff in a supermarket. Be warned: this image may induce Monday morning ice cream cravings, which are no less valid than at any other time.
To give you an idea of the public interest around this thing, that photo has been shared more than 5,000 times in just over half a day. You guys are keen for some ice cream, hey.
Either this is going to be the most popular ice-cream event since Mr Whippy last came down your street, or it’s a cruel joke; unlike earlier Gaytime-centric innovations, like the chocolate Gaytime and the Green and Golden Gaytime, there’s been no word from Streets just yet on whether this is an actual thing that they’re doing. If it turns out the Icecream Tub Project admin is deceiving everybody with some deft Photoshopping, that adulation is going to rapidly turn into a nationwide manhunt, no doubt culminating in this:
