Afternoon Tea (biscuits) explained

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

In 2014, the jelly star was controversially replaced with a chocolate wheel.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. News: George. Morahan. 1m Jacob's biscuits, 839,682 bags of Tayto: the brands we're buying this Christmas. 24 November 2019. 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..
  2. News: Conor. Pope. Conor Pope. Battle of the festive biscuits: The tin of Christmas biscuits is as important an Irish tradition as the turkey. The Irish Times. 24 December 2013. 24 December 2013.
  3. News: Valerie. Loftus. There's been a big change to the Afternoon Tea biscuit selection this year.... TheDailyEdge.ie. 18 November 2014. 18 November 2014.
  4. News: Ciara. Flaherty. So this is what they replaced the jelly star with in Afternoon Tea. 19 November 2014. 19 November 2014.

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