Jaffacakes - BISCUITS OR CAKES?!

[Lost]

Jaffacakes, are the biscuits or cakes? i heard something like they are found under the cake section on like supermarket websites etc... but i was like no way they are so small n look like biscuits :S

[VelvetClover]

They're biscuits imo.

[Sammeth.]

They were legally ruled as cakes a while back.


McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes. In doing so it produced a 12" Jaffa Cake to illustrate that its Jaffa Cakes were simply miniature cakes.[10]
McVities argued that a distinction between cakes and biscuits is, among other things, that biscuits would normally be expected to go soft when stale, whereas cakes would normally be expected to go hard. It was demonstrated to the Tribunal that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale. Other factors taken into account by the Chairman, Mr Potter QC, included the name, ingredients, texture, size, packaging, marketing, presentation, appeal to children, and manufacturing process. Contrary to a commonly held belief, whether something is considered a 'luxury item' is not a test for VAT purposes.
Mr Potter ruled that the Jaffa Cake is a cake. McVities therefore won the case and VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes

[ecstasy]

Jaffacakes :rolleyes:

[Rozi]

I would call them a bake.

[Abbie.]

LOL omg this is really random, but i asked manda this agessssssss ago on habbo and screenied it for some reason

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294/Tudorized/jaffa.jpg

i miss my amanda :(.

[Lost]

Jaffacakes :rolleyes:

yh well if you didn't realise most cakes are big... so that's where i was confused. :rolleyes:

[AgnesIO]

yh well if you didn't realise most cakes are big... so that's where i was confused. :rolleyes:


Fairy cakes are HUGE

[Lost]

Fairy cakes are HUGE

lol...

[ecstasy]

Fairy cakes are HUGE

LOL!
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[hamheyelliot]

Jaffa Cakes are cakes, just watch Mitchell and Webb and you'll see the biscuit superpower guy making the mcvities digestives and all that fly off the shelf, and the Jaffa cakes stay on.

TV based proof, there.

[Absently]

In Tesco's here the Jaffacakes are beside biscuits.

[hamheyelliot]

Well i've never eaten a biscuit without a crunch and with a zingy orange bit in the middle..

[leah]

A cake in my opinion and lol Sam we looked at that in Law, something to do with Europe.

[Caution]

CAKES.

[Inseriousity.]

I had this argument with my dad LOL. In our house, we're allowed 2 small cakes and only 1 biscuit (yeah I know it's weird). I said they were cakes as it said cakes on the box and in the title. "They're in the biscuit aisle though." They're still cakes imo but why would there be a trial on it?!! That seems a bit extreme!

(He won the argument and then decided to take the whole box to work... greedy :()

[Chippiewill]

Callie would know.... Callie always loved Jaffacakes...

http://habboart.com/archive/imgs/figures/callie/jaffacakes.gif

[Skajo]

I had this argument with my dad LOL. In our house, we're allowed 2 small cakes and only 1 biscuit (yeah I know it's weird). I said they were cakes as it said cakes on the box and in the title. "They're in the biscuit aisle though." They're still cakes imo but why would there be a trial on it?!! That seems a bit extreme!

(He won the argument and then decided to take the whole box to work... greedy :()
The trial was about tax, like the recent Pringles trial.

[Nxrissa]

i would class them as cakes. deffo.
biscuits are like not soft like cakes
kinda gives it away in the name really JaffaCAKES
lol.

[TitaniumRubber]

i would class them as cakes. deffo.
biscuits are like not soft like cakes
kinda gives it away in the name really JaffaCAKES
lol.

I think their called cake biscuits, I know it sounds strange but I'm pretty sure that is what they are, I think it even says it on the packet.

I have a packet of jaffa cake mini rolls like square cake things somewhere but I can't find them, oh the horror....

[ThePowerKiz]

Legally they are Cakes, but who cares there just lovely! :P

[Cookos]

I think it'd be great if they made them into a birthday cake, like 5x the size of a normal one. be like yum. and put candles in. ;p

[dbgtz]

Isnt when a cake goes off it hardens and when a biscuit does it softens, defining the cake and the biscuit? If thats true its cake :P

[e5]

they're cakes

[Judge Judy]

Isnt when a cake goes off it hardens and when a biscuit does it softens, defining the cake and the biscuit? If thats true its cake :P
Yeah was watching QI about it last night even.

Cakes and biscuits are VAT-free whereas biscuits covered in chocolate is VAT'd as it's a luxury. The government was going to tax Jaffa Cakes until McVities went to the tax board and proved that Jaffa Cakes were cakes due to them being hardened... to me that's quite interesting :P.

Jaffa cakes are legally cakes - and I've not had them in ages :o

[AgnesIO]

Yeah was watching QI about it last night even.

Cakes and biscuits are VAT-free whereas biscuits covered in chocolate is VAT'd as it's a luxury. The government was going to tax Jaffa Cakes until McVities went to the tax board and proved that Jaffa Cakes were cakes due to them being hardened... to me that's quite interesting :P.

Jaffa cakes are legally cakes - and I've not had them in ages :o


The Judge has Spoken!

What is ylour final verdict Judy?

:D

[Judge Judy]

The Judge has Spoken!

What is ylour final verdict Judy?

:D

To confirm, Jaffa Cakes are cakes. :D:P

[Kieeran]

its a stupid question really they're called jaffa cakes not jaffa biscuits

[AgnesIO]

I respect you. :) (Judge Judy!)

[ihatehash]

We don't have jaffa cakes.
but we have two types of jaffas
a jafa is somebody from the city of Auckland(Just another **REMOVED** Aucklander) which is me :@.
and a sweet, its has chocolate inside
http://www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/images/cache/200x263.15789473684_images_Jaffas.jpg

Edited by Bomb-Head (Assistant General Manager): Please don't avoid the filter.

[Blinger1]

what the **** are they? i agree with the above post, we only have those disgusting jaffa things

[ihatehash]

oh no they are not disgusting, they're mini heaven inside an orange shell :P

[GrandTheftAudio]

Our class was speakin about this.

Cakes go hard when they go out of date.
Biscuits go soft.
Jaffacakes go hard therefore are cakes.
Hence the jaffacake. They have no crunchy biscuity part either.

[Martin]

Jaffacakes are just flat cakes that dont rise very well :D

Biscuits are normally crunchier arn't they?

eighther way they are yummy :)

[vicious]

i'd call them mini-cakes.
and seeing as they're called Jaffa Cakes then i think they are and should be classed as a cake. lol

[Rixion]

Jaffa-CAKES.

Don't really resemble a biscuit..

[Oleh]

They are definatley cakes, "Buscuit-like cakes"

"Mr Potter ruled that the Jaffa Cake is a cake."