Someone somewhere on a thread mentioned biscuits and it got me going over to the office biscuit tins where I found not only shortbread biscuits (the proper stuff) but also Rich Tea biscuits!!!!! Also milk biscuits, ginger nuts, chocolate digestives.........

If anyone wants to visit the office, we're in Farnham........

Farnham - Leeds is a bit far. Probably @#$%& to buy a packet of chocolate gestives myself.

However if I'm passing...

nooooooooo i'll just eat my Weight Watchers yogurts...

damn this eating sensibly thing!

I'll have any Wagon Wheels going spare.



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oops, I just ate a whole packet of jaffa cakes without noticing, oh well, saves on lunch I suppose.



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I can eat a packet of Jaffa Cakes without noticing too. yum.

Biscuits and cakes are considered a necessity by UK law and are zero rated for VAT.

Chocolate covered biscuits however are a luxury and subject to VAT at 17.5%.

McVities and HM Customs & Excise argued over whether the Jaffa Cake was a cake (no VAT) or a chocolate biscuit (lots of VAT). The argument had to be taken to a Tribunal to be resolved. In the end McVities baked a 12" Jaffa Cake which convinced the Tribunal Chairman of the general cakeiness of the Jaffa Cake.

Kate's mum does a Jaffa Cake Cake. sponge, with real orange juice jelly, covered in her double chocolate cream topping, covered in chocolate.

It's superb

Dave, what i heard in my Marketing class was the other way round.

Biscuits are considered a necessity so no VAT (because of all the old biddies having biscuits with their tea) but cakes are a luxury item so they have VAT.

That was the problem. Jaffa Cake wanted to be considered a biscuit so they wouldn't have to pay VAT and they won because they have cake + jam + chocolate and a cake would have to have the jam between the two cake layers...

I don't have any proof (no time to google) but this case was talked about in Marketing.

I googled it and got the above from the BBC site...

not saying it's necessarily right, but I'd believe them over *our* marketing dept any day of the week...

not marketing dep... Marketing course from the Chartered Institute of Marketing... but the teacher was a bit mad, so she could have been wrong...

chocolate hobnobs, nice, digestives, obligitory jaffa cakes.... ok anything that says biscuit on the wrapper but not fig rolls

I've got a weakness for Ainsley Harriott Belgian chocolate biscuits. I'm also rather partial to those continental things - name escapes me, I'm currently dog tired - which consist of a small square butter biscuit embedded in a slightly larger and thicker square of very up-market plain chocolate. Choco Leibnitz, that's the bunny. I knew it was something mathematical.

And then there are those Sainsbury's chocolate orange meringue truffle thingies, not to mention the chocolate mint ones which are a bit like an After Eight with a bit of biscuit grafted on, and then of course there are the chocolate chip cantuccini... er... are we spotting a theme here?!

Actually I do also like amaretti. Just now and then, as a change. Preferably the _sospiri di monaca_ type.

No, they don't involve chocolate. Honest!



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(mutters to herself while going to fetch a mop...darn floor is covered in drool....)

I like fig rolls.
And I also heard the story about McVities baking a big Jaffa cake to prove that it was a cake. Some friends found a trial version of the jaffa cake with a lemon and lime filling. Chris took one bite and declared that it tasted like bathroom cleaner. We all wanted to know how often he ate bathroom cleaner :)

I like chocolate-coated malted milk biscuits too.

Maybe I'll stop trying to diet...

I heard somewhere that the proof that Jaffa cakes were cakes not biccies is that stale biccies go soft whereas stale cakes go hard, so the Jaffa cake is a cake. QED. (Not sure though how anyone ever managed to find out what happens to Jaffa cakes when they go stale.)

By the way, hello all -- I'm new here. So nice to find a load of people who appreciate Mr Ff's books, and turn out to be a bunch of loonies who'd rather mess around on the net than do any actual work. I think I've found my spiritual home . . .



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stale jaffa cakes?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Welcome, Guy

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Hey Guy, WELCOME. And yep, we pretty much all love to come here and waste time. Although, I don't look at it as "wasting time"...more like "building the world community"

I love the fact that this is a pretty decent mix of nationalities. I mean, there are lots from the UK plus more Americans are logging on everyday. We have Aussies, Canadians, Portugese (sisters, even!), Singaporians, and several others I'm sure I'm forgetting. Where else can you think of that could gather this many loonies of all nationalities that actually have something in common and who don't have big flame wars in the message boards?!

I love this place...home away from home! (okay, I'm still at my home, usually in my jammies, but you know what I mean! LOL!)

I've not had any biscuits for ages (trying to lose a bit of weight for my wedding). But imho Plain Chocolate Hobnobs rule!