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From the vendor's listing:
"Back in 2008 the Lower Hutt factory of Griffins Foods Ltd was shut down and production shifted to Papakura.
The iconic Gingernut biscuit, produced at the Lower Hutt Factory on the same oven for 70 years would never be the same again.
The Papakura produced Gingernut did not have the tooth breaking ability nor the resistance to disintegrating in the strongest, hottest cup of tea (once dunked) that the Lower Hutt produced Gingernut could provide.
It was all down to the oven apparently. One was gas, the other electric and the bake proved difficult to replicate. The recipe was never changed according to those that were there.
What you are bidding on here is one of the very last packets of the last batch of Gingernuts to come from that little 70 year old oven in Lower Hutt. In fact, this packet came from the second to last carton of Gingernuts off the production line on that fateful day of December 15th 2008. I believe the last carton was gifted to Warwick Johnston, a local historian who wrote a couple of small books on the Lower Hutt Factory which I will include in the auction.
The expiry date on this historic unopened packet is December 15th 2009. Best left unopened and kept as some sort of strange after dinner talking piece."
I wonder if Aulsbrook's had the same issue when they replaced the Vicars electric 'Gingernut' oven with a Spooner-Vicars gas oven?
Packet now in my collection.
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Made on 15 December 08 with a 12 month shelf life. From my collection.
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I don't know who made this body for Griffin's but Aulsebrooks and Bycroft had the same. My first holiday job at AB Consolidated was in the warehouse loading the same trucks and a few days of helping the driver on deliveries in the Bedford TK. In this truck are some boxes of Shell Wafers, so not just Aulsebrooks and Bycroft making them. Looks like early seventies. Maybe the first number of the manufacturing code is a clue. 1971?. This is the Lower Hutt factory. Photo in my collection.
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Meal Mates are still going. Unfortunately, cheese crackers are a rarity from Griffins, save for their snack crackers. There's only Arnott's Cheds and Country Cheese in this area. When Country Cheese came out, I thought "Really?", but here I am, totally wrong. Image from Seventy Years of the Garden Factory by Warwick Johnston. 2008. Book in my collection.
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