Ardees

This article is about the drink from Tatooine. You may be looking for the tea Ardees Beverage.

"You want a cup of Jawa Juice?"

―FLO, to Obi-Wan Kenobi^[2]

Ardees, also known as Jawa Juice, was a beverage that originated on Tatooine and was made of bantha hides mashed with fermented grains.^[1] When Obi-Wan Kenobi attended Dex's Diner on Coruscant shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, he was offered a cup of ardees by FLO, the waitress droid. Kenobi shared his drink with his old friend Dexter Jettster, the diner's owner.^[2]

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Behind the scenes[]

"Nothing like a tall cup of Jawa Juice. Where's that waitress gone?"

―A human patron of Dex's Diner^[5]

Ardees first appeared in the 2002 movie Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.^[2] It was first canonically identified as "Ardees" in the 2015 reference book Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know.^[1] The drink was named after Ardees Rabang Jundis, an assistant to Rick McCallum.^[6]

In the original script and pre-release cuts of Attack of the Clones, FLO offers Obi-Wan Kenobi a cup of Ardees, although the name was changed to Jawa Juice in the final version of the film.^[6]