Jacob 's Club - wikipedia Jacob 's Club McVitie 's - branded Club mint biscuit as sold on the UK market in 2017. A thin layer of `` mint flavoured cream '' can be seen on the inside of the biscuit. Club is a range of chocolate covered biscuits sold in Ireland under the Jacob 's brand name and in the United Kingdom under McVitie 's. Contents 1 Origins 2 Name 3 Development in Great Britain 4 Changes of ownership 4.1 Danone 4.2 United Biscuits 5 UK variations 6 Irish production resumed 7 See also 8 References Origins W & R Jacob and Company started producing the ' ' Club Milk ' ' biscuit in Dublin just before the outbreak of World War I. It became a popular brand across Ireland. The confection consisted of two rectangular Marie biscuits forming a filled sandwich using a cocoa cream, then covered in thick milk chocolate. Each bar was wrapped in foil, and then further wrapped in a paper outer wrapping. Name Jacob 's originally used images of playing cards from the Club suit to illustrate and to advertise the new biscuit. The `` Club '' name was therefore a reference to this suit. Development in Great Britain It is unclear exactly when Club Milk biscuits were first imported to England, perhaps beginning informally owing to the trade route between Ireland and the English port of Liverpool. Jacob 's had already established a factory in Liverpool in 1914, and subsequently began producing the Club Milk there. In 1970 the Irish and British parts of the Jacob 's company split into two firms. The Club biscuit had by this time become popular throughout Great Britain, and was marketed in five varieties. The original Club Milk ( made with milk chocolate ) was joined by a Club Plain ( made with plain chocolate ). The term `` Club '' was expanded for this new product, with a golf ball used to illustrate the wrapper, rather than the Club suit of cards. Two flavoured versions, Club Orange and Club Mint, were made by adding flavouring to the cocoa cream. The Club Fruit variant included raisins in the cocoa cream between the two biscuits. A further Club Honeycomb variety followed. From the mid 1970s into the 1990s Jacob 's used the advertising slogan `` If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our Club ''. This was set to music, and used as a theme in television advertising campaigns during these same decades. In 2012 the jingle was voted by a sample of British adults to be `` the seventh catchiest jingle of all time ''. Changes of ownership Danone In the mid 1990s both the Irish and British Jacob 's companies were acquired by French - owned Groupe Danone who redesigned both the biscuit and the packaging. The two biscuits held together by cocoa cream were replaced with a single biscuit, topped with cocoa cream. The real chocolate exterior was replaced with a thinner layer of chocolate - based coating. The original milk and plain biscuits were discontinued, whilst the flavoured varieties were repackaged in cellophane flow pack. United biscuits In September 2004 the Jacob 's brand was sold by Danone to British - based United Biscuits, who restored some of the traditional elements of the Club biscuit, including the two - layer packaging, with an inner foil wrapper and an outer paper wrapper. At present they have not returned to the double - biscuit structure of the bar itself. The Irish part of the company was sold to Fruitfield Foods, to form Jacob Fruitfield Food Group, which has led to legal battles over the use of the Jacob 's brand name. From 2013 United Biscuits rebranded the product as McVities Club, using the Jacob 's brand for savoury biscuits and McVities for sweet products. UK variations Name Wrapper colour Wrapper symbol Notes Club Milk Red Club suit symbol The original biscuit. Now discontinued. Club Plain Mid green Golf ball The original biscuit, but plain chocolate. Now discontinued. Club Orange Orange Orange with leaves Long - term flavour option, still in production. Club Fruit Purple Grapes with vine leaves Long - term flavour option, still in production. Club Mint Dark green Mint leaves Long - term flavour option, still in production. Club Coffee Mid brown Coffee cup & saucer Launched in the 1980s. Now discontinued. Club Wafer Dark blue Bitten corner of bar Launched in the 1980s. Now discontinued. Club Chocolate Blue Cocoa beans Launched in the 1990s. Now discontinued. Club Honeycomb Yellow Rippled honey Launched in 2012. Irish production resumed Without resolution of the dispute between United Biscuits ( UK ) and Fruitfield ( Ireland ) over the use of the Jacob 's brand, the Irish company resumed production of the Club Milk bar. It returned to the original pattern of two biscuits joined by cocoa cream, and a thick covering of milk chocolate. Plain and wafer versions have also been produced. These products are available in the Republic of Ireland. The Irish company makes reference to the UK version of the biscuit in its promotion of the Irish Club Milk, by stating `` forget any poor imitations '', before outlining the features of the biscuit as now produced in Ireland. See also List of chocolate - covered foods References ^ Jump up to : `` Club Milk ''. Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Club Chocolate Biscuit Commercial ''. Youtube. Retrieved 28 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Just One Cornetto voted catchiest jingle of all time ''. The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 30 June 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Jacob 's Club ''. The Great British Diet. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2017. Jump up ^ Bamford, Vince ( 9 December 2013 ). `` UBUK makes McVitie 's its biscuit powerhouse ''. The Grocer. William Reed Business Media Ltd. Retrieved 28 July 2017. Jump up ^ Marquis, Matthew. `` Jacob 's Club ''. The Great British Diet. Retrieved 9 February 2016. Jump up ^ Chocolate Mission 's review of the new flavour. Jump up ^ Statement quoted from Jacob 's Fruitfield advertising on this website. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacob%27s_Club&oldid=837614236 '' Categories : Biscuits ( British style ) Chocolate - covered foods Hidden categories : All articles with vague or ambiguous time Vague or ambiguous time from July 2017 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July 2017 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 21 April 2018, at 22 : 50 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

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