Afternoon Tea is a selection of biscuits which is regarded as a "Christmas family favourite" in Ireland.[1] Of the traditional biscuit selections available ahead of the festive season, the Afternoon Tea variety outsells the others.[2] It is produced by Jacob's.
According to Conor Pope of The Irish Times, Afternoon Tea from the 1970s "had large rings of oddly orange-coloured biscuits slathered in chocolate, small sister rings with sugary red jellies on top, sugary shortbread, more than a handful of chocolate fingers and loads of pink wafers".[3]
In 2014, the jelly star was controversially replaced with a chocolate wheel.[1][4]