What are biscuits?

[DanaC]

Initially posted in the other thread...but moved to this one:

Originally Posted by thechattyhunter

haha! i read somewere that a jaffa cake is misleading. the difference between a cake and a biscuit is a biscuit should crumble, also you can dip it in tea. there was some reason that they benefitted in calling it a cake and got away with it but ive lost myself somehow... ah yes thats it! biscuits uneaten go soft, cakes uneaten go hard, what happens to an old jaffa cake then, ive never left one long enough to see!

It was to do with VAT regulations. VAT is charged on chocolate covered biscuits but not on plain biscuits or cakes.

McVitie insisted that each Jaffa Cake was a small cake and therefore shouldn't carry VAT. They went to court over it and successfully proved their case by making a giant jaffa cake and showing that when you make it to a larger size it is the shape and texture of a cake.

Imagine that....a massive Jaffa Cake....mmmm...orangey bit...mmmm


Here's a news article from the Daily[Hate]Mail, on the state of the British Biscuit. Apparently British biscuit buying habits are changing and we are in danger of losing our biscuity identity. For shame! Shame!

Damn you Americans with your rich, crumbly cookies. And you Belgians with your gourmet biscuits. You're all corrupting us away from the good old British 'plain' biscuit.


Long live the Digestive, I say! All Hail the Rich Tea! And raise a pint one and all, to the Garibaldi.

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[thechattyhunter]

That was it Danac! spot on i think i heard about this on QI but your answer was the best! il raise a pint (tea of course) to the near extinct humbling crumbling biccie. i think they slowly sneakily evolved from a biscuit of which you could eat many, to a biscuit bar, to a weird hybrid cakey thing. id have a go at a large jaffa though and do the full moon half moon eclipse trick