2006-09-07 04:17:26 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Cake:
FYI:
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'.
2006-09-07 04:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Johny0555 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The answers in the question, it is called a jaffa cake so it is a cake, they have actually baked a giant jaffa cake so they could prove to customs and excise (different tax on biscuits and cakes) that it is a cake.
2006-09-07 04:25:48 · answer #2 · answered by Loader2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cake
2006-09-07 04:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cake
2006-09-07 04:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I include Jaffa cakes in the list when i'm thinking of eating digestives, ginger snaps, NICE, Arrowroot etc.
I don't think of jaffa cake when I'm choosing chocolate muffin, lemon cake, carrot cake etc
So, its a biscuit.
2006-09-07 04:26:28 · answer #5 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Cake. McVities went to court over this in a well publicised case against the Inland Revenue. VAT is charged on luxury foods which include biscuits, but cakes are 'zero rated' for VAT. The Inland revenue claimed that McVities owed them millions in unpaid biscuit VAT. McVities won - the case was decided on the basis that if left out overnight, a cake goes hard but a biscuit goes soft.
2006-09-07 04:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by Tom W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish I had a jaffa cake for every time this has been asked.
2006-09-07 04:24:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cake, but it's sold with the biscuits!
2006-09-07 04:24:10 · answer #8 · answered by thebigtombs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
biscuit then cake then jaffa cake
2006-09-07 04:37:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its more of a cake because its soft and not hard and crunchy like a biscuit.
2006-09-07 04:23:14 · answer #10 · answered by Squirrel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋