Jaffa Cakes/Biscuits

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Jaffa Cakes are they:

A Cake
13
62%
A Biscuit
8
38%
 
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jaffa cakes are cakes, and have gone to great lengths to make it so. this is because manufacturers have to pay more tax on biscuits than they do on cakes. legally they are cakes. tho if you wish to call them biscuits i doubt they will sue you....
This isnt QUITE right, I know the official stats if you want them? No? Oh well, I'll put it anyway.

Manufacturers have to pay tax on chocolate biscuits, but not on chocolate cakes. McVities therefore went out of their way to prove to the tax office that Jaffa Cakes were cakes, and were therefore not allegible for the extra tax. The presented a case in court, that included, bizarrely, baking a 12" Jaffa Cake to prove that it was a cake and not a biscuit (mmm...12" Jaffa Cake...).
The court ruled in favor of McVities, and so, they are, as Revvington put it, legally classed as cakes.
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lol ummm im jst a bit confused y on earth r we discussin jafa cakes i thought the was ROBOTwars101 not JAFA CAKE discussion board :P
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josh wrote:lol ummm im jst a bit confused y on earth r we discussin jafa cakes i thought the was ROBOTwars101 not JAFA CAKE discussion board :P
This is a off-topic thread Josh, you can write almost everything that isn't related to robots
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yes ok but i thought mayb jafa cakes were a strange thing to have a whole page of discussion about
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Jaffa's are CAKES! They are baked ONCE! Biscuits bare baked TWICE, hence the name BI-scuits.
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Dave26 wrote: The court ruled in favor of McVities, and so, they are, as Revvington put it, legally classed as cakes.
Thank you and goodnight.
But every supermarket always puts them in with the biscuits....and we all know that the law is an ass.... :roll:
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It's amazing how much of this debate has been lifted from QI... It's a cake, its in the name.
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It's amazing how much of this debate has been lifted from QI
Damn, he spotted it. I thought I was getting away with being clever
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How the heck does Jaffa cakes look?
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With its eyes :o

http://www.khdl19192.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cake.jpg
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