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The original Arnott's logo depicted a multi-coloured parrot sitting atop a T-shaped perch, eating a cracker biscuit. During a radio interview on ABC, William Arnott's great-great-great-grandson stated that the logo represents the proverb "Honesty is the best policy" where the phrase was constructed from "On his T, is the best pol' (polly) I see".
The Kingston Biscuit falls under the 'Delicious Creams' family of Arnotts' sweet biscuits. The Kingston is widely available in Australia , sold in most supermarkets in 200 g (7.1 oz) packages of twelve individual biscuits, [ 4 ] or as one of the five biscuits in the Arnott's Assorted Creams 500 g (18 oz) variety pack.
It was so named as his biscuit-making machines (or "rotary ovens" [7]) were steam-powered. [5] [8] In 1894, Arnott employed numerous workers [6] after purchasing a biscuit factory in Forest Lodge, Sydney; [2] his biscuits had already begun shipping to Sydney in 1882. [5] [6] The factory in Forest Lodge was relocated to Homebush circa 1908. [5]
Brockhoff Biscuits was an Australian manufacturer of biscuits founded in 1860 by Adolf F. Brockhoff. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1963 Arnott's Biscuits and the company merged, although they continued to trade under both names for several years until the "Brockhoff" name was completely dropped in the late 1970s.
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In the 1993 book The Story of Arnott's Famous Biscuits, Ross Arnott states that Sao was the name of a sailing boat [a] which his grandfather (Arnott's founder William Arnott) saw on Lake Macquarie, of which he said "That would make a good name for a biscuit." [7] 1905 advertisement for SAO biscuits in the Sydney Morning Herald