Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit?

[seagullpie]

Very important issue and one which needs resolving quickly.

 

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There was a legal case about this (cakes are VAT exempt you see, biscuits aren't), which ruled that biscuits go soft when they get old, whereas cake goes hard.

Therefore a Jaffa Cake is, leagally speaking, a cake.

 

[Mendoza]

Cake obviously, it goes hard when it goes stale!

Why retards in the supermarkets hide them in the biscuit isle is beyond me

 

[Mackenzie]

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Can I be the first please fffffff

Sorry! I couldn't resist

 

[Gritt23]

There was a legal case about this (cakes are VAT exempt you see, biscuits aren't), which ruled that biscuits go soft when they get old, whereas cake goes hard.

Therefore a Jaffa Cake is, leagally speaking, a cake.

A bit more to it in that standard biscuits are also VAT exempt, but luxury biscuits, such as those coated in chocolate DO qualify for VAT, which is what the Revenue were claiming Jaffa Cakes were.

They are definitely a cake. End of.

 

[looney]

its a cake, it says so on the box.

 

[strings]

its a cake, it says so on the box.

Clues in the name!

 

[Curious Orange]

McVities have a permanent Jaffa Cake production line apparently...

 

[Tom Bombadil]

A bit more to it in that standard biscuits are also VAT exempt, but luxury biscuits, such as those coated in chocolate DO qualify for VAT, which is what the Revenue were claiming Jaffa Cakes were.

They are definitely a cake. End of.

This is the sort of mind-numbingly tedious pedantry anyone dealing with HMRC has to put up with.

 

[JJ McClure]

Its called a f***ing Jaffa CAKE, for fucks sake how f***ing difficult is is you f***ing fuckwit.

I hope that makes it clear. Thank you.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

ffs......

 

[7:18]

cake

 

[SNOOBS]

I'm not sure, I think Jaffa CAKES might be CAKES. Dunno tho.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

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Some people on here lead extremely empty lives!

 

[seagullwedgee]

The word BISCUIT is derived from French, BIS (twice) CUIT (cooked).

A biscuit IS a biscuit because it is twice cooked.

Anything else is a cake. Which is why jaffa cakes are called 'cakes'.

Delia.

 

[Normal Rob]

The word BISCUIT is derived from French, BIS (twice) CUIT (cooked).

A biscuit IS a biscuit because it is twice cooked.

Anything else is a cake. Which is why jaffa cakes are called 'cakes'.

Delia.

not strictly true - many biscuits are only cooked once. including the ones that i make. When they go stale they go soft - so they are definitely once cooked Biscuits!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

A Jaffa Cake is a cake but to avoid VAT it was marketed as a biscuit. As you can eat 6 at a time like a regular biscuit with a cup of tea/coffee , this is where the confusion lies.

 

[Lewes' best seagull]

There was a legal case about this (cakes are VAT exempt you see, biscuits aren't), which ruled that biscuits go soft when they get old, whereas cake goes hard.

Therefore a Jaffa Cake is, leagally speaking, a cake.

Didnt they make a massive jaffa cake to prove it?

 

[SUIYHP]

could be a bake, which in its own sense is true...

 

[Icy Gull]

Matters not, it's a sweet sticky shitty foul tasting thing whatever you call it