Dunedin Gets Ready for Chocolate
Kiwi Chocoholics are rolling in anticipation of a Kiwi food festival that’s become an annual get together – Dunedin’s Cadbury Chocolate Carnival.
This year is the carnival’s 10th anniversary in the South Island city of Dunedin, and while chocolate treats and activities are in abundance, all forms of chocolate themed activities are on tap. Highlights of the 2010 carnival will include the annual Cadbury Jaffa Race – a spectacle on the world’s steepest street, Baldwin St.
The family carnival also offers chocolate classes, competitions, storytelling, food tours, games, arts and crafts.
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Baldwin Street, Dunedin is recognised as the ‘steepest street in the world’ by Guinness Book of World Records. This year, there will be two Cadbury Jaffa races down the street. The popular race involves rolling a sea of Giant Jaffas, or orange candy-coated chocolate balls down the steep descent, which – in the opposite direction – rises by one metre for every 2.8 metres traveled horizontally.
Each Giant Jaffa is individually numbered by hand and all the money raised from ticket sales go towards chosen charities.
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Hi kiwi I’m originally from Wellington. Love the jaffa race and anything planned for us chocoholics. Dunedin is somewhat like Wellington and San Francisco in the aspect of really steep city streets. Here in Perth it’s generally flat and brown sun burnt in summer.. now cool and rain drops at the end of autumn. Love the NZ bloke blog, mate!
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I think there will be fun, and chocolate balls do not melt, if it be so then the streets get dirty for a long time.
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Mmm… I can’t imagine my life without qualitative chocolate! i eat about 200g of chocolate a week.
I love chocolates from my childhood and i will eat all chocolates till they last or i last.
That looks pretty interesting ‘race’. Btw, I didn’t know about Cadbury Jaffa, it’s even more interesting because it’s Orange coated. Jaffa or Yafo is Tel Aviv’s twin city with a lot of history. That’s where the Jaffa oranges came from, they were not very juicy but they had thick skin so lasted long (even when transported to Europe via sea route).
I wonder if San Francisco’s Lombard street (or others) could be used for similar event too, they are pretty steep.
It would be wonderful to attend such a measurement because I’m also a chocoholic.
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And I’m practically indifferent to chocolate because I don’t like its taste and smell.
Nice record, but they could make it bigger
This sounds like an exciting spectacle to attend. I love chocolate too. And no, I’m NOT fat !
Haha, thats looks like great fun, I bet you could get some great high speed close up camera shots there for an advert for the choco’s.
nice post, would have been great to see that in person, looks fun.