jaffa cakes

jaffa cakes

to settle an argument i had at work, jaffa cakes..........

biscuit or a cake????

Biscuit mate, and a minging one at that! :sick: No where near big enough to be classed as a cake!

I class them as a biscuit

always eat the choc, then base then orangy bit.

like being a kid again

nyamnyamnyam!

I thought food items didn't have tax on them, in fact I'm pretty sure thats true.

jaffa cakes are stocked in the buscuit aisle
jaffa cake bars are stocked in the cakes aisle

or at least that's how it was at safeway where i worked

The expert has spoken!!

Yeah, i'm bored....
cake

• noun 1 an item of soft sweet food made from baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, and sugar. 2 a flat, round item of savoury food that is baked or fried. 3 the amount of money available for sharing: a fair slice of the education cake.


biscuit

• noun 1 Brit. a small, flat, crisp unleavened cake. 2 N. Amer. a small, soft round cake like a scone. 3 porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed.

Not really conclusive in my opinion as the Jaffa is kind of in between the two. If a gun was held against my head though, i'd have to go for cake.

I wont be sure untill dobbs has had an imput,

morrisons forever!


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I have sent an email to Mcvities....

Hello,

You are no doubt sick of this question. The Jaffa cake. Is it classed as a cake or a biscuit? The Oxford English Dictionary classes cakes and biscuits as the following:

cake

• noun 1 an item of soft sweet food made from baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, and sugar. 2 a flat, round item of savoury food that is baked or fried. 3 the amount of money available for sharing: a fair slice of the education cake.

biscuit

• noun 1 Brit. a small, flat, crisp unleavened cake. 2 N. Amer. a small, soft round cake like a scone. 3 porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed. hear that it is classed as a cake for 'tax reasons'

I find the definitions unclear, as the humble Jaffa cake is both spongey in texture, yet not to the point of a lets say, Victoria Sponge. It is also too soft to take on a biscuit form.

One rumour I heard is that, and i quote "Biscuits are taxed at a greater rate or summit."

I hope McVities are able to shed some light on this, as this seems to be a long running argument with people whom have better to do with there time.

Regards

J Storey

I shall report back with my findings.

haha mint, respectos

THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW! Get Michael Moore on the case!

a cake they have a sponge bit and there called jaffa cakes.

Jaffa cakes are minging, no matter what name you give them

i would say a cake because it has a spongy base like most cakes have

I would say its a cake as they are called jaffa CAKES! !

youre right though

It's definately a cake hun, they are horrible things tho, rather have a chocolate bourbon or digestive

I don't know.. they're lush though.

Except you can never just have one.....

ooo-er! Look at you

Jaffa Cakes are addictive i reckon