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Jaffa Cakes are most certainly biscuits. Jaffa Cake biscuits.
by neom 6y ago
Jaffa Cakes are most certainly biscuits. Jaffa Cake biscuits.
- soneil 6y agoThey're cakes! Biscuits get soft when they're stale. Cakes get hard when they're stale.
- Hamuko 6y agoThey're biscuit-sized cakes. If you supersize a Jaffa Cake, it makes sense to call it a cake. That's also allegedly what they did in order to prove that it was a cake in court. https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/giant-jaffa-cake.html https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/giant-jaffa-cake.html
- rahimnathwani 6y agoThe article I linked said that they proved it by showing that Jaffa cakes go hard when stale, as do other cakes. Whereas biscuits go soft when stale.
- Hamuko 6y agoThe Wikipedia article for Jaffa Cakes has a claim on the giant Jaffa Cake.
- rahimnathwani 6y agoThe HMRC internal manual lists the main factors that were considered: https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-food/vfood6260 https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-food/vfood6260