Afternoon Tea (biscuits)

Afternoon Tea is a selection of biscuits which is regarded as a "Christmas family favourite" in Ireland.[1] Of the traditional biscuit selections available ahead of the festive season, the Afternoon Tea variety outsells the others.[2] It is produced by Jacob's.

According to Conor Pope of The Irish Times, Afternoon Tea from the 1970s "had large rings of oddly orange-coloured biscuits slathered in chocolate, small sister rings with sugary red jellies on top, sugary shortbread, more than a handful of chocolate fingers and loads of pink wafers".[3]

In 2014, the jelly star was controversially replaced with a chocolate wheel.[1][4]

References
  1. Loftus, Valerie (18 November 2014). "There's been a big change to the Afternoon Tea biscuit selection this year..." TheDailyEdge.ie. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. Morahan, George (24 November 2019). "1m Jacob's biscuits, 839,682 bags of Tayto: the brands we're buying this Christmas". Retrieved 24 November 2019. Ireland's largest wholesaler forecasts sales of 20,000 tins of Jacob's biscuits, including a million individual biscuits, with Afternoon Tea Tin (351,658 biscuits), Chocolate Kimberleys (133,200) and USA biscuits (227,000) the most popular.
  3. Pope, Conor (24 December 2013). "Battle of the festive biscuits: The tin of Christmas biscuits is as important an Irish tradition as the turkey". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  4. Flaherty, Ciara (19 November 2014). "So this is what they replaced the jelly star with in Afternoon Tea". Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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