Monday, June 11, 2012

Time for a food post.  Anyone eaten jaffas?  I'll plagiarize from Wikipedia: 
Jaffas is the 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 Australian and New Zealand cultural folklore.[1] Jaffas have often been sold in cinemas and have gained iconic status because of the noise made when they are dropped (accidentally or deliberately) and rolled down sloping wooden floors.[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 Sweets, a division of Nestle and in New Zealand by Cadbury. The Cadbury Jaffas are also exported to Australia.
The orange coating on Jaffas was developed by a Sweetacres food chemist, Tom Colston Coggan. He experimented with many syrups before settling on the flavour that is unique to Jaffas. His original experimental syrups were stored in his home refrigerator and used as topping on ice cream up till the death of his wife in 1985.[citation needed]
A number of Australian and New Zealand amateur sporting groups use Jaffas as a team name. In Dunedin, New Zealand every year a vast sum of Jaffas are raced down Baldwin Street—the World's Steepest 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.
I got the above Jaffas at the MAS (Medical Assurance Society) booth in the exhibit hall at the GP meeting.
When we went to Vanja's house, we were served a classic kiwi meal; we had roast lamb, roasted kumara, roasted pumpkin, and peas; with pavlova for desert.  This Sunday is our office Christmas party equivalent.  It is a pot luck.  I already see pavlova on the sign-up sheet.  I think we'll bring "Dad's noodles".  Expression of the day:  fob you off (blow you off).

1 comment:

  1. The Jaffas look good. When is the CadburyChocolate Festival ? I need to see Baldwin Street.

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