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jaffa cake?

What is it?

  • Cake

    Votes: 38 71.7%

  • Biscuit

    Votes: 14 26.4%

  • depends

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Total voters
    53
Jaffa Cakes are a popular type of biscuit-like cake in the United Kingdom and Ireland They are sold under a number of different brands, the market leader being McVitie's (United Biscuits). They are named after the jaffa orange, a sweet variety of orange from Israel.
Regular-sized Jaffa Cakes are circular, approximately 54 mm (2⅛ inches) in diameter. They comprise three layers; a sponge cake base, a layer of orange flavoured jelly of narrower diameter than the base (approximately 38 mm), and a layer of chocolate covering the jam and the margin of the sponge.
The first ever batch of Jaffa Cakes was cooked by Evelyn Olive Reading in Birmingham, England.
In 2000, McVitie's signed a sponsorship deal with Chelsea F.C., making Jaffa Cakes one of the team's eleven 'platinum' sponsors. Sven-Göran Eriksson announced that Jaffa Cakes would join the England squad in Japan for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as part of their training diet. Jaffa cakes are recommended to athletes by sports nutritionists, due to their low fat content (1g per cake) and high energy levels.

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Lolita said:
:yeahthat: - was basing my answer on whether VAT is applicable:eek:
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You didn't answer though, Chris did ;)

LeePunto1.9 said:
I quote
" Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are "zero rated". Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVities classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991, this was challenged by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise and the case ended up before the courts.[6] This may have been because Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit. A question that the court asked itself was "what criteria should be used to class something as a cake?"
McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes. In doing so it produced a giant Jaffa Cake to illustrate that its Jaffa Cakes were simply miniature cakes.
McVities argued that a distinction between cakes and biscuits is, inter alia, that biscuits would normally be expected to go soft when stale, whereas cakes would normally be expected to go hard. It was demonstrated to the Tribunal that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale. Other factors taken into account by the Chairman, Mr Potter QC, included the name, ingredients, texture, size, packaging, marketing, presentation, appeal to children, and manufacturing process. Contrary to a commonly held belief, whether something is considered a 'luxury item' is not a test for VAT purposes.
Mr Potter ruled that the Jaffa Cake is a cake. McVities therefore won the case and VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes."
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Didn't I just say all that :p
 
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