In Popular Culture
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's series of three films (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and an as-yet unreleased 3rd film provisionally entitled The World's End) is jokingly referred to as "The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" or "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy", as each film features a Cornetto of a different flavor. Director Edgar Wright considers the Cornetto to be a hangover cure, and it appears as such in Shaun of the Dead. In the 2010 horror film Cornered!, the Convenience Store Killer murders a woman by stabbing her with two hardened Cornettos.
The Cornetto is also referenced in the Bell X1 song, "The Great Defector".
The novelty band Pookiesnackenburger released a single "Just One Cornetto" in 1982.
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