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After all the talk of Kitchener Buns and all things SA on another thread I started thinking of my childhood in SA and wondered about whatever happened to YOYO biscuits.
I looked up on the web and they have only ever been made and sold in SA. I loved them sandwiched with butter; might have to get a few packs next time there so I can share the experience with my kids.

Im here to help! After 5 years at Balfours i have now clocked up 8 years at Arnotts. YoYo is still going strong as one os SA's favourite biscuit (right up there with Tim Tam Original and Shapes BBQ as the 3 leading sellers in the category) and made right here at Marleston. It isn't widely ranged outside of SA by Coles or WW's unfortunately. In Tassie you don't have Coles but try one of your larger WW's and see how you go.
 
Im here to help! After 5 years at Balfours i have now clocked up 8 years at Arnotts. YoYo is still going strong as one os SA's favourite biscuit (right up there with Tim Tam Original and Shapes BBQ as the 3 leading sellers in the category) and made right here at Marleston. It isn't widely ranged outside of SA by Coles or WW's unfortunately. In Tassie you don't have Coles but try one of your larger WW's and see how you go.
Lol, we have Coles.
I do maintenance with WW and Coles, no YoYos.
 

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After all the talk of Kitchener Buns and all things SA on another thread I started thinking of my childhood in SA and wondered about whatever happened to YOYO biscuits.
I looked up on the web and they have only ever been made and sold in SA. I loved them sandwiched with butter; might have to get a few packs next time there so I can share the experience with my kids.


YoYo were made by a smallish SA baker Menz. Arnotts took them over about 50 years ago and have only sold them in SA. I think Menz is still mentioned on the packet.
 
Lol, we have Coles.
I do maintenance with WW and Coles, no YoYos.

Righto, my bad. Not sure why i thought that. Bugger about them not keeping the YoYo. The national buyer for WW's is an ex South Aussie and a big fan of the product. I will keep fighting the good fight for you ;)
 
Im here to help! After 5 years at Balfours i have now clocked up 8 years at Arnotts. YoYo is still going strong as one os SA's favourite biscuit (right up there with Tim Tam Original and Shapes BBQ as the 3 leading sellers in the category) and made right here at Marleston. It isn't widely ranged outside of SA by Coles or WW's unfortunately. In Tassie you don't have Coles but try one of your larger WW's and see how you go.

BBQ? Pfft it's all about the Pizza flavour
 
YoYo were made by a smallish SA baker Menz. Arnotts took them over about 50 years ago and have only sold them in SA. I think Menz is still mentioned on the packet.

True except the part about only ever being sold in SA. In the last 3 years there has been wider ranging achieved. The love for them in SA has been hard to replicate elsewhere however.
 
....It isn't widely ranged outside of SA by Coles or WW's unfortunately. In Tassie you don't have Coles but try one of your larger WW's and see how you go.

Had never seen them in Sydney or SE Queensland when I lived outside SA during 1992-2010.
 

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Yo-Yos were good but Bush Biscuits were the shiznit.


My grandpa used to always buy them. Always had them when I was a kid and would stay with the grandparents for a week from about 5 to 9 in school holidays. Geez I don't reckon I have seen them for 25 years.
 
Yo-Yos were good but Bush Biscuits were the shiznit.

Brought them back in a job lot around 4 years back. Sold like the proverbial. Funny though how peoples minds work. Got a heap of complaints that they were smaller than the originals. They weren't, made with the original cutting tool. Perhaps they ate them as kids when their hands were smaller.....
 

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Does anyone remember the AFL ice creams they had out around the late 90's / early 2000's? I was only about 5 years old at the time, but I remember having one of those ice creams every other day and they were amazing.

Nope. I remember the Kiss and Empire Strikes Back ice blocks though :oops:
 
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Another one from when I was a youngin that the older folk would remember.

Does anyone remember that place I believe it was on Port Rd that was the old soft drink place. You'd go there and get a variety of different soft drinks in glass bottles. I remember going with my dad when I was a little toddler :P
 
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