Gaffer tape or Gaffa tape? Nashua 357 questions answered!

The question is should we be calling it Gaffer Tape or Gaffa Tape? It seems that Australians (keen to drop a letter at any opportunity) go for gaffa, and much of the rest of the world chooses gaffer.

Of course, we all grew up on bedtime stories of the roadies who used to eat a bowl of screwed up gaffa with beer poured over it for breakfast.

However at an early age we realised that was just a story. Roadies actually have coffee and a cigarette for breakfast.

As it turns out, our old friend 357 way actually pinched from the lighting for film industry. You'll notice in the credits at the end of films that there's always a Gaffer - not to be confused with the Theater Cat from The Muppet Show, who manages to score a page on Muppet Wiki (if you needed another distraction) - who is in charge of lighting the scenes. We can only imagine what the Best Boy gets up to with a truck full of Gaffer Tape...

So to work out if we should be calling this stuff Gaffer Tape or Gaffa Tape, we decided to construct a tower in store. Check out the clip below, and see if you can find the answer.

And for the best price in town on genuine Nashua 2" Gaffer's Tape (or Gaffa357, as we call it).

Never trust cheap or inferior brands. The genuine black gaffa from Nashua is the only one that will stick like dog poo to a picnic blanket.