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. ^ a b 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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