Goody Goody Gum Drops is a New Zealand flavour of ice cream made by Tip Top. It is pastel-green-coloured, bubblegum-flavoured and contains gumdrops. It is considered iconic to New Zealand, and perception of the flavour is polarising among New Zealanders.
History
Goody Goody Gum Drops was invented in 1983 by the general director of Tip Top, Murray Taylor.[1] According to Taylor, having a good distribution of gumdrops in the ice cream is difficult and "Very few ice-cream makers in the world would have attempted it".[2]
In 2008, Tip Top created a variant of the ice cream flavour on a stick as a limited edition.[3] According to Taylor, it took two years for the stick version to be created, due to distribution of the gumdrops being a problem. At first they all came out as a big lump, and Danish consultants created a mathematical model of the normal distribution of the gumdrops, saying that the goal could not be achieved.