York Fruits are a brand of fruit flavour jellies (traditionally popular in Great Britain at Christmas). The sweets were formerly made by Terry's (in York) and more recently by Kraft Foods. They are now manufactured by Smith Kendon in Lancaster, although have had two other owners since no longer being a Terry's product and were at one time made in Eastern Europe.
The jellies are available to buy in most British confectioners and supermarkets and are sold in 200g, 250g, and 400g cardboard cartons, containing two plastic trays (one on top of the other), each holding a number of sweets. The jellies are manufactured in circular, half-moon, teardrop and diamond shapes and are flavoured lemon, apple, strawberry, orange, blackcurrant and pear.
Famous quotes containing the words york and/or fruits:
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is true, there are the innocent pleasures of country life, and it is sometimes pleasant to make the earth yield her increase, and gather the fruits in their season; but the heroic spirit will not fail to dream of remoter retirements and more rugged paths. It will have its garden-plots and its parterres elsewhere than on the earth, and gather nuts and berries by the way for its subsistence, or orchard fruits with such heedlessness as berries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)