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That age old conundrum
The Jaffa Cake. Biscuit or Cake?
I say the latter |
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http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/jaffajudgement/
General consensus seems to be that biscuits go soft when stale, cakes go hard, making the Jaffa Cake a cake. |
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Clue's in the name really, there is basically no reason at all why it could be considered a biscuit with a bit of common sense applied!
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Biscuit means "twice baked". Clearly Jaffa cakes are not. That's it.
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its a cake as it goes stale!
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Biscuit means "twice baked". Clearly Jaffa cakes are not. That's it.
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Cake I would say wot ever I love um
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Didn't McVities have to go to court as the government thought it was a biscuit and wanted to tax them more? In response, McVities produced a supersized version, to show that it was clearly a cake. Think a similar thing happened recently with M&S, with the government having to give them a rather large refund due to one of their cakes being taxed as a biscuit. I'd Google it myself, if I wasn't dribbling on my keyboard at the thought of a giant Jaffa cake.
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I can't think of any other biscuits that are twice baked though. Does it really mean that?
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It's a disc of goo
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Am I looking wrong? That says there's no article...
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Am I looking wrong? That says there's no article...
" got mixed in with the link.try again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit and incidentally, I'd always thought of them as cakes. |
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" got mixed in with the link.try again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit and incidentally, I'd always thought of them as cakes. ![]()
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I can't believe people actually think they're biscuits, despite the fact they're called cakes and have a cakey taste! Is it because they're small and round?!
I think we can agree, though, that they are delicious. Also, why are cakes classed as an essential for tax purposes?! I think a lot of people in this country could do with eating LESS cake, to be honest... |
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I can't believe people actually think they're biscuits, despite the fact they're called cakes and have a cakey taste! Is it because they're small and round?!
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I think we can agree, though, that they are delicious.
Yes, they were my favourite biscuits. I'm sure I've said in a previous Jaffa Cake thread on here that one day, I'm going to make a huge vegan jaffa cake and scoff it all to myself!![]()
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Yes - and flattish, and they come in a pack all stacked together, like biscuits! And when I used to eat them (before I was vegan) they would go crunchy in my cookie jar. And when I would ask the kids what biscuits they wanted, they would say "Jaffa Cakes!" They are biscuits, damnit!!!
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Well, that's as may be. And indeed the giant one I intend to make will be a cake. But small ones will always be biscuits to me, at least until they make them cake-shaped. Oh yes, they have - Jaffa Cake Bars! Now they are cakes without a doubt!
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Apparently McVities had to prove it was a cake in a legal case, so made a large version to prove that it was, in fact, a cake.
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They've just had a similar case with Pringles being Crisps or "Snacks". It's all about tax
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they would go crunchy in my cookie jar.
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" got mixed in with the link.