Jaffas (candy)

Jaffas is the registered trademark for a small round sweet consisting of a soft chocolate centre with a hard covering of orange flavoured and coloured confectionery. The name derives from the Jaffa orange. The sweet is part of Australian and New Zealand cultural folkloreFact|date=October 2008. Jaffas have often been sold in movie theatres and have gained iconic status because of the noise made when they are dropped (accidentally or deliberately) and rolled down sloping wooden floors. Through association with this lolly, 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 [ [http://www.nestle.com.au/schoolprojects/smarties.asp Nestlé Australia - Your excursion to the Nestlé World of Food ] ] The confectionery is currently made by Allen's Sweets (a division of Nestle) and Cadbury's.

A number of Australian and New Zealand amateur sporting groups use "Jaffas" as a team name. In Dunedin, New Zealand every year 20,000 Jaffas are raced down Baldwin Street—the World's Steepest Street. [ [http://www.seenindunedin.co.nz/events/city/choc_carnival_jaffa_race.html Seen in Dunedin :: City Events ] ] In 2008 the number of Jaffas to roll down the street has even been increased to 30,000 Jaffas.

The Australian/New Zealand supermarket business Coles has a generic version called "Choc Orange Balls."

ee also

*Jaffa Cakes

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