Isnt Stephen mills wrong, a jaffa cake is legally and scienctifically a Cake!?!
Answers: Isnt he?
It's a piece of sponge cake with a dollop of orange jelly and covered with chocolate ganache. So if it is a sponge cake, it can't be a biscuit, there's no such thing.
I agree with him.
It's not even food
Hes dead right as a matter of fact i'd classify him as a genius.As for that Mark Rigney fella he just doesn't have a clue does he.eh..............no.There biscuits.
a biscuit.
Why would it be called a Jaffa CAKE if it wasn't a CAKE?!
It's not called a Jaffa BISCUIT is it?!
Who is Stephen Mills?
Jaffa is a cake.
legally.
You dont' pay tax on cakes. McVities went to court to legally prove that Jaffa cakes are indeed cake so they didn't have to pay import tax to the uk.
It is a cake.
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.[5] 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 mini 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: name; ingredients; texture; size; packaging; marketing; presentation; appeal to children; 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. He further ruled that, if it is relevant, it is not a biscuit. McVities therefore won the case and VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes.[6]