2007-03-15 01:27:19 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It's a cake, and they won a legal battle to prove it. All to do with rationing after the war,and tax on biscuits, but not cake. Even now you dont pay any tax on a packet of Jaffa cakes! The winning legal line defining the difference between a biscuit and cake?...
A biscuit is hard when fresh, and soft when stale
A cake is soft when fresh and hard when stale.
2007-03-15 01:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by PhoenixRights 4 · 12⤊ 1⤋
Oooh tough one! I love Jaffa cakes but my parents rarely buy them and I never notice where they get them from. I think it's a soft biscuit, with toppings and a name that make it sound like a cake
2014-05-04 23:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Is a Jaffa cake a biscuit or a cake?
2015-08-16 17:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a famous legal case against HM Customs & Excise, McVities established that Jaffa Cakes are cakes.
This is important because cakes and biscuits are food and therefore do not attract VAT.
However chocolate covered biscuits are classified as a luxury item and do attract VAT.
The VATman tried to claim Jaffa cakes were chocolate covered biscuits.
McVities baked a giant jaffa cake to prove it was a cake. They also made the distinction that cakes go hard when stale whereas biscuits go soft. - Jaffa cakes go hard.
2007-03-15 01:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jaffa cakes are classed as cakes by HM Revenue & Customs. The way to tell cakes and biscuits apart is that Biscuits go soft when they are stale and cakes go hard
2016-03-12 20:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Cake. They go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft. They had this discussion during a dispute with revenue and customs in the UK. At the time there was VAT payable on chocolate covered biscuits as a luxury, but not on cakes. So they proved it was a cake.
2016-04-11 02:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cake
2007-03-15 01:30:14 · answer #7 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jaffa cake is a cake, its got sponge in it, and its not crunchy like a biscuit.
2007-03-15 01:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by LouLou 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its a cake its base is sponge that's why there called jaffa cakes not jaffa biscuits
2007-03-15 02:41:10 · answer #9 · answered by kerry t 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well if its got the word cake in then maybe it is a cake. if u have tried one then u would know that a biscuit crumbles and a cake is soft.
2007-03-15 02:01:35 · answer #10 · answered by lindsay b 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋