Jaffa cakes are supposed to be cakes so why are they always in the biscuit section at supermarkets and not the cake section?????
2006-10-12 09:12:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
What are you eating that rubbish for?
Hobnobs is where it's at! Jaffa cakes are so last year.
Get a Hobnob in you, you'll feel much better.
They truly are THE biscuit to crunch down on.
2006-10-13 04:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently, there has been an EU decision made about Jaffa Cakes. Cakes attract different taxation from biscuits in some places, so an official decision had to be made regarding whether they were a cake and a biscuit. The decision was that they were in fact cakes, as if you leave a Jaffa Cake in the open air, it will go hard, like any other cake. If you leave a biscuit in the open air, it will go soft. So, officially, Jaffa Cakes are in fact cakes, so teh supermarkets are wrong.
Now, ain't that a good use of our taxes!
2006-10-12 09:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by hallam_blue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure good question but they're nice though. Maybe they are called cakes because Jaffa Biscuits wouldn't have the same ring to it. And they're more like a cake than a biscuit but sorry that still doesn't explain why they're in the biscuit section. Biscuits and Cakes come under the same category though dont they?
2006-10-12 09:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by Sazi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they were to actually make them bigger and look more like a cake then they would be next to all the other happy cakes......but they're not, they're made small and packaged small just like all the other packet of biscuits!
I think the "cake" comes from them having a sponge base/orange filling and a chocolate top!....so you can't really call them biscuits!
Aren't the Jaffa bars in the cake section!?
2006-10-12 12:06:19 · answer #4 · answered by isle_ofsheppey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because they come in packs of 12, biscuit style. That nearly cost them the case in the infamous Jaffa Cake Tribunal with the Inland Revenue.
2006-10-12 09:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a look at www.anicecupofteaandasitdown.com for there inspired debate on the jaffa cake; cake or biscuit.
2006-10-12 14:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by esmequeenoftheworld 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in the states now... there are no Jaffa cakes at our grocery stores and I miss them... I don't care if they are in the poultry section, it would just be nice to see them again.
2006-10-12 09:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by capo689 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jaffa cakes are chocolate covered crack, everyone knows that. Therefore by rights they should be behind the drugs counter.
2006-10-12 09:20:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the manufacturers have to pay tax on cakes but not biscuits and so the company that makes them classes them as biscuits to avoid the tax. But everyone knows they are cakes! dont they!!!!????? lol
2006-10-12 09:45:11 · answer #9 · answered by purpletia2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coz that's where they sell. The semantics of the food industry play sixth fiddle to what makes the money.
2006-10-12 09:13:47 · answer #10 · answered by Felidae 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋