2006-07-21 10:52:47 · 26 answers · asked by President_Pedro 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
officially cakes but eaten as biscuits
2006-07-21 10:54:41 · answer #1 · answered by brian h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cakes. They went to court to prove it. The VAT man was upset because they weren't paying VAT because it's not charged on cakes, though it is charged on biscuits. The VAT man thought the jaffa cake was a biscuit.
Definition of a cake: when it goes stale, it goes hard
Definition of a biscuit: when it goes stale, it goes soft.
Jaffa cakes go hard when stale, so they are cakes, so VAT is not payable. They had to prove this in court with cakes and biscuits etc.
I'm waiting for the day when someone accuses Bombay Sapphire of not being gin.
dr_dr_evil's story is also true - i forgot that bit.
2006-07-21 10:57:36 · answer #2 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wouldn't be called cakes if they weren't cakes. They have a base of light sponge cake, which makes them a cake and not a biscuit. How the supermarket chooses to stock them in the sections of cake or biscuits, is under the managers discretion's. I have seen them under the section for biscuits, then again i have also stocked up by chocolate bars like wagon wheels and penguins.
2006-07-21 10:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by lonely as a cloud 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cakes
2006-07-21 10:55:58 · answer #4 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are cakes. Apart from being called cakes they obviously have a sponge base. Granted they appear to be some kind of luxury biscuit being chocolate covered and shipping in a box.
2006-07-21 10:58:48 · answer #5 · answered by Dawny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are biscuits, but they are a sponge cake base with orange jelly and chocolate icing. Technically a small cake. Originally biscuits were only hard, twice-baked (hence bis-2, cuit--cooked) hard cookies, but now we use biscuit for any small cake eaten from hand.
2006-07-21 10:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by dr_dr_evil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cakes. Cakes go hard when they go stale, biscuits go soggy. Jaffa cakes go hard. There was a debate (god knows why) on it a while ago...
2006-07-21 10:56:17 · answer #7 · answered by Mordent 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cakes.
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2006-07-21 10:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by Big bum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-21 11:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CAKES that's why they say CAKES on the box
The chocolate covers sponge which is of course CAKE
2006-07-21 10:58:43 · answer #10 · answered by voxelshadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋