Jaffa Cakes
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bis·cuit
NOUN: A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
cake
NOUN: A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
Hmmm... well that search didnt make it any clearer then.
I'm gonna have to with cake i guess 
The box says cakes.But i say biscuits.I could munch through a box of those in about 20 mins,no problem
Dont care - never liked them
everyone else in my house eats them tho.
even the 9month old 
Tesco - €0.79 for the box of 24
isaac wrote: The box says cakes.But i say biscuits.I could munch through a box of those in about 20 mins,no problem
20 minutes? Less than 3 if i started...
CuanaD - D-plus wrote: Dont care - never liked them
everyone else in my house eats them tho. even the 9month old
Tesco - €0.79 for the box of 24
They aint made from REAL Nordy spides y'know.
( although it'd be a move I would sholeheartedly support)
well they are called jaffa cakes & not jaffa biscuits so there should be a pretty big clue there
but if you want more than that - if you leave them they go stale like cakes do, whereas biscuits go soggy
they was a court case to prove they were cakes - it was all done to get out of paying VAT as you don't pay VAT on cakes, but you do on biscuits.
Straight from Wikipedia: Cake or biscuit?
Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are "zero rated". Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are classed as luxury items and are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVitie's classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991, this was challenged by HM Customs and Excise in court.[1] This may have been because Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit.
The question which had to be answered was what criteria should be used to class something as a cake or biscuit. McVitie's defended the classification of Jaffa Cakes as a cake by producing a giant Jaffa Cake to illustrate that their Jaffa Cakes were simply mini cakes.
They also argued that the distinction between cakes and biscuits is simply that cakes go hard when stale, whereas biscuits go soft. It was demonstrated that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale and McVitie's won the case.[2] The issue was revisited in an article entitled 'Are Jaffa Cakes really biscuits?' published in the Journal of Unlikely Science (Volume 1, issue 7, 2005). [3] The article attempted to classify biscuits via a scientific analysis of various features (size, shape, filling etc.) and determined that the Jaffa Cake should be regarded as a biscuit, or 'pseudobiscuit'.
My two wives Checkers and Marbles absolutely love Jaffa Cakes.
So does my beloved dog Lorraine..... 
They all munch 'em by the box load......but I'm not too keen on them.
Those orange jelly bits remind me too much of coagulated septic pus from a gammy leg.:dead: 
