Jaffa Cakes

[nuttytigger]

What are they?

[elgee]

McVities went to court over this as VAT is more ? for cakes. The verdict was - they are bisciuts.

[nuttytigger]

my opinion is cakes because they are sponge

[deakin]

McVities went to court over this as VAT is more ? for cakes. The verdict was - they are bisciuts.

I thought the court verdict was that they are cakes.

I remember reading somewhere that McVitite's lawers claimed that jaffa's were cakes for the reason that when stale, cake will go hard but biscuits will go soft. As jaffa cakes do indeed go hard when stale they by definition must be cakes.

[nuttytigger]

very true, that is my opinion

[Dexter St. Clair]

Have a cup of tea handy whilst reading

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/jaffajudgement/

[McShad]

Don't they say cake on the packet?

[glasgowken]

What about Tunnocks Tea Cakes ? They're more of a biscuit, with cream on top.

[JayKay]

they are cakes because - like cakes - they go hard when they get stale.

Biscuits get soft when they go stale.

[Fireman]

Silly factoid - my friend went to the UAE and in his luggage was a packet of McVitie's Jaffa Cakes - customs at his destination airport confiscated them because the word "Jaffa" is "offensive" in that part of the world.

What surprised him more was he later saw a similar brand in a store, but they were called "Orange Cakes".

[brickwall]

Let them eat cake
On a lighter note, a recent case reminiscent of the famous Jaffa Cake Tribunal was decided in the other direction and once again highlights one of the absurdities of UK VAT law.

Cakes and biscuits are zero rated as food but chocolate covered biscuits are standard rated as a luxury food. The Jaffa Cake debate centred on whether it was a small cake (Z/R) or a chocolate covered biscuit (S/R). In the end a 12” Jaffa Cake convinced the Tribunal that it was a cake.

United Biscuits this month argued that a “tartelette” was a cake. The offending item had a biscuit base with raised edges and UB contended it was “filled” with chocolate as opposed to “covered”. C&E, and the tribunal, decided it was a biscuit “partly covered” with chocolate.

From: Taxationweb

[McShad]

tax resources well spent

[Roxburgh]

Silly factoid - my friend went to the UAE and in his luggage was a packet of McVitie's Jaffa Cakes - customs at his destination airport confiscated them because the word "Jaffa" is "offensive" in that part of the world.

What surprised him more was he later saw a similar brand in a store, but they were called "Orange Cakes".

In some parts of Europe they are called Pims cakes.

Obviously incorrect as the grow on jaffa cake trees and everyone knows there is no such thing as a pims tree.

[glasgowken]

Jaffa Cake bars, just aren't the same. Yukky.

[nuttytigger]

they arent the same but i like them. my fave bit about a jaffa cake is the orange bit - bring out just that -and on another nate has anyone tried the rasberry jaffa cakes? and i'm sure i seen lemon and lime ones