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Rolling Jaffas down Baldwin Street

Rolling Jaffas down Baldwin Street

A record number of Jaffas (chocolate-centred orange sweets) – 30,000 in all – rolled down Dunedin’s steepest road, Baldwin Street, on 14 July 2008 as part of the annual Cadbury Chocolate Festival. Jaffas were traditionally rolled down the aisles in cinemas – but not on this scale. Baldwin Street is also the setting for an annual ‘gutbuster’ race up the street and then back down, usually in late summer.

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Otago Daily Times
Reference: 15 July 2008, p. 3
Photograph by Craig Baxter

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Malcolm McKinnon. 'Otago places', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 21-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/otago-places/7/3