Seagullsgonnagetya
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The light combination of sponge, dark chocolate and tangy orange that forms the unique Jaffa Cake was introduced over 60 years ago.
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Little known facts about Jaffa cakes
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tedebear
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its yucky!!
Seagullsgonnagetya
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They are round like some biscuits
tedebear
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why is a biscuit round?
Seagullsgonnagetya
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tedebear said:
To fit into the packet
tedebear
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Seagullsgonnagetya said:To fit into the packet
a jaffa cake packet is square??
tinx
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Jaffa Cakes come in packs of three in the vending machine at work
Seagullsgonnagetya
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Not the box! The clear wrapper inside!
BTW: In 1994 McVitie’s launched Mini Jaffa Cakes to appeal to the growing lunchbox market.
BTW: In 1994 McVitie’s launched Mini Jaffa Cakes to appeal to the growing lunchbox market.
Seagullsgonnagetya
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In 1991, McVitie’s fought and won a battle with the VAT man to prove that Jaffa Cakes were cakes not biscuits and should therefore not attract VAT. The final evidence which persuaded the judges was the making of a giant Jaffa Cake.
So its only giant Jaffa cakes that are not biscuits then?
So its only giant Jaffa cakes that are not biscuits then?
tedebear
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lunchboxes eat jaffa cakes ??
tinx
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tedebear said:
You'll be surprised what lunch boxes do actually eat.
Jaffa Cakes
Another (sub)urban legend: Jaffa Cakes are cakes, as the name suggests and contrary to the claims of HM Customs and Excise, who argued that they were biscuits. This was not an exercise in pedantry but an attempt to levy VAT on them: cakes are `food' and zero rated, while biscuits are `luxury items', and attract 17.5% tax. (Note that the McVities Jaffa Cake web site calls them `biscuits' anyway....)
The matter was settled with this test: a cake starts off soft and goes hard when it is stale, but a biscuit starts off hard and goes soft when stale. Jaffa Cakes harden when stale.
The matter was settled over ten years ago by a VAT tribunal in a very expensive case. McVities argued that they were indeed cakes (and hence zero-rated for VAT), while HM Customs and Excise argued that they were biscuits and hence subject to 17.5 per cent VAT. McVities won the case, primarily because biscuits are hard when fresh and soft when stale whereas cakes are soft when fresh and hard when stale; Jaffa Cakes, of course, fall into the latter category. I have a recollection that McVities also baked a cake-sized Jaffa Cake for the tribunal chairman to support their legal arguments. God, I should get out more...
Therefor you are quite wrong to presume jaffa cakes are biscuits.
Another (sub)urban legend: Jaffa Cakes are cakes, as the name suggests and contrary to the claims of HM Customs and Excise, who argued that they were biscuits. This was not an exercise in pedantry but an attempt to levy VAT on them: cakes are `food' and zero rated, while biscuits are `luxury items', and attract 17.5% tax. (Note that the McVities Jaffa Cake web site calls them `biscuits' anyway....)
The matter was settled with this test: a cake starts off soft and goes hard when it is stale, but a biscuit starts off hard and goes soft when stale. Jaffa Cakes harden when stale.
The matter was settled over ten years ago by a VAT tribunal in a very expensive case. McVities argued that they were indeed cakes (and hence zero-rated for VAT), while HM Customs and Excise argued that they were biscuits and hence subject to 17.5 per cent VAT. McVities won the case, primarily because biscuits are hard when fresh and soft when stale whereas cakes are soft when fresh and hard when stale; Jaffa Cakes, of course, fall into the latter category. I have a recollection that McVities also baked a cake-sized Jaffa Cake for the tribunal chairman to support their legal arguments. God, I should get out more...
Therefor you are quite wrong to presume jaffa cakes are biscuits.
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tedebear
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tinx said:
the hand that feeds them??
BrightonBird
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Biscuit is actually called Jaffa
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The Jaffa Cake derides its name from an old Indian custom, whereby wild monkeys were trained by local peasants to scale the great orange trees of the Indian jungle, and hurl the oranges to the ground for the peasants to gather. Some monkeys were naturally more compliant to the training than others though, and the more disobedient monkeys would stay up the tree and start eating the oranges they had gathered, instead of throwing them down. The indian peasants would then shout "J-AFFA !! J-AFFA !!" at the disobedient monkey. Roughly translated, "Jaffa" meant "Oi YOU". The scalded monkey would then remember its training and drop the oranges.
The peasants would then peel the oranges and seperate the segments, before covering them in a sticky-sweet substance made out of tree sap, straw and some brown stuff. This would be moulded into cake-shapes, and hey presto, you have your Jaffa Cake. These would be shared out amongst the tribe, and the one with the biggest plate inserted in his bottom lip would get the biggest Jaffa Cake.
Interesting eh ?
The peasants would then peel the oranges and seperate the segments, before covering them in a sticky-sweet substance made out of tree sap, straw and some brown stuff. This would be moulded into cake-shapes, and hey presto, you have your Jaffa Cake. These would be shared out amongst the tribe, and the one with the biggest plate inserted in his bottom lip would get the biggest Jaffa Cake.
Interesting eh ?
tinx
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tedebear said:
exactly