honey joys
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Though it was apparently a prevalent snack in shops since the 1930s,[1] its first definitive known mention was in a 1938 as a recipe in a newspaper.[2] The origin of the name is unverifiable, as its creator is untraceable.
Noun[edit]
- (Australia) Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases.
- 2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children:
- Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles! I also have to bake a mermaid cake!
- 2020, Fiona Palmer, Tiny White Lies:
- And she also said she knows how to make honey joys. We haven't had them since my sixth birthday.
References[edit]
- ^ “Oxford Word of the Month: August – honey joy”, in Oxford Australia blog[1] (blog), Oxford University Press, 2017, archived from the original on 3 December 2022
- ^ G.H Caulfield (1938 July 13) “The Argus, 13th July 1938”, in Trove[2]