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McCormick Foods has released a range of Aeroplane Jelly in limited edition packaging to celebrate the brand's 90th birthday.

The limited edition packaging revisits the original designs of Aeroplane Jelly boxes from 90 years ago, in flavours of Port Wine, Lime, Orange, and Raspberry.

The commemorative packs will be available until June, 2017.

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McCormick also hosted a party at Luna Park with the backdrop of Coney Island and shared a range of jelly-based desserts with guests.

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The Aeroplane Jelly brand was acquired from Traders in 1994 and over the years has added varieties such as a low-calorie jelly to help diabetics in 1953, the creation of Australian native fruit flavours like lilly pilly, quandong and midjinberry for the 1988 Bicentennial celebrations, the production of ready-to-eat jelly packs in 2006, and the release of ‘glitter-jelly’ this year.

24 million packets of Aeroplane Jelly are sold each year.

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