Dunedin proudly boasts to be the founding
city of all that is chocolate down under, and is home to the country’s only
Cadburys factory. Jess was predictably high as a kite before even consuming a
single E number.
We were blessed with our very own umpa lumpa for our guided
tour. A small limping creature on a power trip, with a striking resemblance to
Roz from monsters inc, showed us round the process as we donned shockingly
unflattering hair nets. Dad was pulled to one side as Roz singled him out as a
“special one”, providing him with his very own mustache guard…
Not a single scrap of lickable tasty
wallpaper could be found. The tour climaxed with the spectacle of watching one
tonne of liquid chocolate cascade down a waterfall…but no little candy boats or
lollypop trees. Cadburys make a sweet down here known as a “Jaffa”, small balls
of chocolate covered in a crunchy orange flavored shell. Recently a charity
event was held to roll 50,000 numbered Jaffa’s down a street with the first one
down winning a prize. The street used was the steepest street in the world
(Guinness book of records 1998) called Baldwin Street in Dunedin. After hearing
the Jaffa story Dad and I felt it only right to head straight over and take it
on.
It’s a bit of beast. On the climb up we spotted an elusive wild postman
crisscrossing the streets pouncing through all the hedgerows. We caught up with
him and asked him what he was doing. “It drives the Chinese camera crew crazy!”
he said. “I hide in the bushes so they can’t catch me!”.
Every year they run an
event on Baldwin Street known as the “Gut Buster”. The name speaks for itself.
The objective? Up and down as fast as you can…no official record of how many
guts have bust.
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