Chocolate

[Anthony Darby]

Remember you don't have to eat it. You can get the same buzz by just smelling chocolate.

[Lesley Cox]

I don't really believe that Anthony, though it is true, for me at least, that the smell of freshly ground coffee beans is even better than the taste of the drink freshly made from those grounds.

I'm afraid my 2 jaffas did not win in Cadbury's Jaffa Race at the weekend. They were not even placed and probably bounced off the track into someone's garden. There is another kind of jaffa in NZ though. It has only one F and you may know of it already Anthony, though it is a term largely used south of the Bombay hills. It means "Just another f...... Aucklander"

[angie]

Remember you don't have to eat it. You can get the same buzz by just smelling chocolate.

Anthony I tried it and I can only say that's nonsense   
I went to eat my last chocolate from my box and I dropped it on the floor before I could bend down my dog had gobbled it up. So much for him slowing down. I wasn't to happy then my husband came in and said I popped into Asda for milk and there is chocolate buttons in the bag. These are my favourite, 3 bags of White chocolate buttons for a £1,  See how cheap I am to keep happy 

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

Not sure what a Jaffa Race is. In the UK we have duck races where you 'buy' a numbered rubber duck and they are tipped into a river and the one that reaches the winning post first wins. Not heard the other Jafa term, but I'm sure there are some equally derogatory terms for South Islanders kicking around, perhaps involving sheep. Sheep seem to be universal when it comes to insults - in the UK too (e.g. for certain Yorkshire rugby teams and certain Scottish football teams).

I love milk chocolate buttons too. Your husband must know you well, Angie, or perhaps he's hiding something?

[alpines]

Is this forum not all about sharing. 

Plants...yes, Seeds...yes, Photos...yes, Chocolate......no chance 

[Lesley Cox]

Did you not have jaffas in the UK Anthony? They are balls of solid chocolate about 1cm in diameter and coated with a crunchy white substance that looks like enamel with the outside coloured bright orange and flavoured with orange. Choc and orange is always a delicious combination.

Anyway, Dunedin is reputed to have the steepest street in the world, Baldwin St (I believe a street in Cornwall makes the same claim) and each year during the Cadbury's choc festival, there is a jaffa race, involving some 10,000, maybe more, numbered, larger jaffas. They're probably made of something else for the race. Tickets can be bought beforehand for a gold coin, and the proceeds go to local charities. I had two runners this year.

When I was a child, I and others would buy a packet of jaffas and sit right at the back of the picture theatre which always had a wooden floor except in the isles (think I've spelt that wrongly). We'd "accidentally" drop the opened packet at a tense or romantic moment and listen to the jaffas rolling and bouncing all the way to the front. Sometimes we were asked to leave!

[Anthony Darby]

We are learning a new language Lesley (and I don't mean what seems to be the main language in the Botany/Howick area: Korean ). Lucy has found out that lollies are sweeties here, not the boiled lollipops on sticks from back home. In the UK a Jaffa is an orange, and Kia Ora was an orange drink you bought at the pictures. New pronunciation too, although I suspect many words read out on the radio are due to the readers never having heard the words said, such as "tonnes" (i.e. metric ton) which perhaps should be pronounced "tuns" not "(t)ons"? Many words seem to have adopted American pronunciations, such as vitamins, cicada and geyser, and that's not touching the "a" sounds like "eh" or even "i". Lucy thought here friend Gabby was called Gibby! No problem - I went from a Leicestershire accent, to broad Yorkshire to Scottish. I wonder if my children will talk like Kiwis? Another thing I find amusing is the road markings, which like the electric wall sockets, are upside-down, so you have "WAY GIVE"; "LANE BUS" etc. When you see these as you drive along you see the whole statement, not one word at a time, hence they look odd. I suppose to a Kiwi they are equally odd in the UK? It's what you're used to.

[Lesley Cox]

Yes, I could take 4 Forum pages to reply to that one but won't. NZers have terrible pronunciation of just about everything. And yes, many do use Americanisms. Skedule for schedule, rout for route, obligate when they mean oblige, orient when they mean orientate etc. But one I really hate is the way (many) NZers substitute a's and e's. Albert becomes Elbert and Wellington becomes Wallington (as in Albert). In most cases it is sloppiness, started very young and never corrected.

I'm now sounding very like my mother, something I swore I'd never do!

[Anthony Darby]

"Pass the bu'er."
"Pardon?"
"Pass the bu'er!"
"You mean 'pass the butter......please'."
"Okay, pass the butt-ter p-leeeeease."
"That's be'er!"

[Anthony Darby]

When did vanilla pods become beans Lesley?

[angie]

Is this forum not all about sharing. 

Plants...yes, Seeds...yes, Photos...yes, Chocolate......no chance 

Can't blame you 

Lesley when I go to America I have to take Jaffa cakes to my friends mother, at Xmas time I had a whole suitcase full of goodies.I wonder what customs thought.  We have tiny Easter eggs that sound like your jaffas. Anthony will be having so much fun trying all these things. Wish I was there, it's heavy rain here. I want to emigrate.

Angie 

[TC]

Back to chocolate.  I heard some weeks back that Thorntons are going to close many of their stores.  Hope it's not our local shop.!!
To celebrate their 100th anniversary they have brought back some of their first sweets.  My favourite is liquorice and aniseed boilings with a chewy centre.
It takes me back to my early childhood when sweets were on ration.  Staring at all the jars of sweets and wishing I could have one all to my self instead of the 4 ounces which would have to last me the week.  It never did and I would be forced to pinch some from my big sister who hoarded hers partly to annoy me !  We would all end up with the roof of our mouths and cheeks covered in ulcers from sucking them until they were like shards of glass.

My dentist told me that Thorntons toffee is the best filling remover ever invented.

[Peter Maguire]

Strangely enough, I found that the early versions of sugar-free chewing gum were even better!

It's ok now though, and is even beneficial. (The chewing gum, not the toffee)

[angie]

Strangely enough, I found that the early versions of sugar-free chewing gum were even better!

It's ok now though, and is even beneficial. (The chewing gum, not the toffee)

I heard that if you chew gum it makes you feel that it is full up. Doesn't work with me 

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

Toffee works for me, but then I broke one of my teeth on a whistling lollipop bought in a chemist's shop! As a youngster I hated milk (on its own) and cheese. My younger brother was the opposite. Once I slipped in the bath and chipped a tooth. He slipped in the bath and chipped the bath!!!!