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The Great Debate!
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Daniel | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:02 |
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Is a JAFFA Cake a Biscuit or a Cake? Ours are kept in the biscuit tin but should they really be there? PS: Java cakes are nice too! |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:03 |
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Daniel - they dont last long enough to get to any sort of tin here lol |
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Emma | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:05 |
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They are a cake, biscuits are crunchy! Whatever they are they are scrummy! and did you know footballers eat them before a game? give you lots of energy. |
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ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:08 |
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Biccys You always find them in the biscuit isle of Tescos. ( a well trodden isle i may add! ) The jaffacake cake bars can be found in the cake isle (as these are cakes) Elaine x(i want one NOW ! ) |
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The Mad House | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:39 |
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they dont get as far as any tin here open the box & my lot are like a swarm of bee's |
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Rosalind in Madeira | Report | 19 Sep 2004 11:52 |
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Wasn't there a debate once about jaffa cakes being biscuits, something to do with whether you paid VAT on them or not. Biscuits you don't pay VAT on, cakes you do, I think. Someone may know other wise. Jaffas in New Zealand are round chocolate covered sweets, which they roll down the floors in the cinemas. Ros |
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Geoff | Report | 19 Sep 2004 17:31 |
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I found this in a Jaffa Cake debate- an interesting slant on the problem "in a test case McVities challenged a ruling that the product was a biscuit and won by showing that when exposed to air all cakes go hard and biscuits go soggy...Jaffa Cakes do indeed go hard...so they were and still are classified as cakes! |
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Joy | Report | 19 Sep 2004 17:34 |
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our jaffa cakes are in the fridge, but not for long!! Joy |
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PinkDiana | Report | 23 Sep 2004 11:02 |
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What is a JAVA CAKE? |
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**Sheesh | Report | 23 Sep 2004 11:03 |
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Diana, im pleased you asked lol i havent got a clue either |
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ஐ+*¨^¨*+e+*¨^¨*+ஐ Mildred Honkinbottom | Report | 23 Sep 2004 11:28 |
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oooh java ! i never noticed that said java The power of the human brain....it just assumed it said jaffa lol E x |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 23 Sep 2004 11:32 |
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Must be another of Daniel's Northern delicacies. |
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PinkDiana | Report | 23 Sep 2004 14:17 |
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Somebody please let us know what JAVA cakes are!! |
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Chris Ho :) | Report | 23 Sep 2004 14:26 |
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Have been puzzled by this as well!, tapped it in on google search, and was quite surprised, think it it some kind of coffee cake (made by Nestle, iced mini java cakes!), am wondering if this is what daniel means?.. think he wants us to think jaffa cake, am sure he will be replying soon!.. sounds nice, where can you buy them?.. |
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Unknown | Report | 23 Sep 2004 14:37 |
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Despite what I personally think (biscuits !!), I think that strictly speaking they are named correctly - they're cakes. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a biscuit as a "Small thin flat peice of pastry baked crisp" Jaffa cakes are neither crisp, not pastry. It further defines a cake as; 1. sweet food made from a mixture of flour, eggs, butter, sugar etc, baked in a certain shape and size and normally decorated. 2. (tellingly) other food mixture cooked in a round flat shape (eg potato cake) Sadly, against common sense and common perception, I think they're cakes. Paul |
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Shazza | Report | 23 Sep 2004 14:44 |
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I think they are cakes Whatever they are there are scrummy and i can eat a box in one go !! Sharon |
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Chris Ho :) | Report | 23 Sep 2004 21:12 |
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Nudging for Daniel's help!.. |
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Daniel | Report | 23 Sep 2004 21:17 |
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My help? I don't know the answer! :-) Oh, Java cakes. That was a typo. |
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Chris Ho :) | Report | 23 Sep 2004 21:22 |
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Where can we buy these java thingies then?.. are they coffee flavoured?.. |
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Daniel | Report | 23 Sep 2004 21:24 |
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It was a mistake. Didn't know they really existed! Anyone had a Java cake, whatever they are? |
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