Jaffas
 Three pieces of Jaffas confectionery | |
| Type | Confectionery |
|---|---|
| Main ingredients | Chocolate, orange flavouring |
Jaffas is an Australian registered trademark for a small round sweet consisting of a soft chocolate centre with a hard covering of orange flavoured, red coloured confectionery. The name derives from the Jaffa orange. The sweet is part of both Australiana[1] and Kiwiana.[2] Through association with this sweet, Jaffa is sometimes used to describe a chocolate-orange flavour.
James Stedman-Henderson's Sweets Ltd released Jaffas onto the Australian and New Zealand markets in 1931.[3] The confectionery is currently made in Australia by Allen's lollies, a division of Nestle and in New Zealand by Cadbury. The Cadbury Jaffas are also exported to Australia.
A number of Australian and New Zealand amateur sporting groups use Jaffas as a team name. In Dunedin, New Zealand every year a vast quantity of Jaffas are raced down Baldwin Street — said to be the World's Steepest Street, although actually only possibly the steepest residential street - as part of the Cadbury Chocolate carnival, which is held in conjunction with the New Zealand International Science Festival.[4][5] The initial number of 20,000 Jaffas has now been increased to 30,000 Jaffas.
The Australian supermarket business Coles has a generic version called "Choc Orange Balls"; similar products are made by other manufacturers.
See also
References
- ^ Sharp, Lisa (2012). CultureShock! Australia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 270.
- ^ Wolfe, Richard; Barnett, Stephen (2005). From Jandals to Jaffas: The Best of Kiwiana. Random House N.Z. ISBN 9781869416218.
- ^ Nestlé Australia - Your excursion to the Nestlé World of Food (dead link)
- ^ "Seen in Dunedin-What's On Guide. July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015
- ^ "Chocolate Carnival 2010 ", chocolatecarnival.co.nz, Retrieved 26 April 2010
