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Poor people, that's who. Poor people that can't afford cake and need to create the illusion of cake to their friends and family on special occasions. People from the ghetto.Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder
who the fuck eats a jaffa cake when they fancy a cake for lunch? that's all im saying
I read on the internets once that black folk and Cornish people can fit up to 15 candles on a single jaffa cake - and it's to their credit
I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -
--Good for them if they survive.
Frog Shoulder
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It's considered to be a mini-cake, it's actually law in the UK.bullshit. if its a cake then why does it live the life of a biscuit?
True story.
"there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "
Poster
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fig newtons
"and Yes people have put trust in me""and i thank you all"im just a frigen dreamer and im waiting for them to come true ....trust(trst)n. 1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
2. Custody; care.
3. Something committed into the care of another; charge.
4. a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one.
b. One in which confidence is placed.
Frog Shoulder
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Nice beard, Ender.
"there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "
Poster
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tanks Mr Jp i like it...see what a magic marker can do
"and Yes people have put trust in me""and i thank you all"im just a frigen dreamer and im waiting for them to come true ....trust(tr
2. Custody; care.
3. Something committed into the care of another; charge.
4. a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one.
b. One in which confidence is placed.
Sexpest
You are wrong.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/Cake or Biscuit?
No discussion of the Jaffa Cake can be complete with out recourse to the age old cake or biscuit question.
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Surprise surprise the Jaffa Cake is indeed a cake which is why they named called it that. Its base is made from sponge cake, not biscuit, they must have been thinking about that when they called it a Jaffa Cake.
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Yes, yes, we are only to well aware of the theory that biscuits take up moisture when the go stale becoming limp conversely a cake looses it becoming hard, thus proving the Jaffa Cake to be a cake as its bottom is made of sponge cake as we already know. This is all well and good but has several noticeable exceptions such as the Fig roll and so cannot be relied upon. Better just to say its a cake.
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Equally enticing but flawed is the idea that cakes contain eggs especially sponges like in the case of the Jaffa Cakes sponge bottom. Therefore biscuits simply are eggless baked things. Well that makes the Almond biscuit a cake so no luck there.
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I know they sell them along with the biscuits, in packs just like biscuits, and McVities is a brand of United Biscuits (who also make cakes) but it’s still a small cake.
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Some people are confused by the size and think that to be a cake something has to be quite big. Well that’s just a slur on those big bags of madeleines favoured by Marcel Proust or Mr Kiplings more diminutive offerings such his 8 packs of French Fancies.
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Yes the VAT man wanted it to be a biscuit. That way it would fall by virtue of its chocolate coat into a category of products liable to VAT at the standard rate, i.e. luxury biscuits. As a cake however it is zero rated for VAT, no matter how luxuriant, much to the VAT man’s continuing annoyance. In fact Wifey and I once had a chat with ex Tory Minister John Knott who brought in VAT when the Conservative Government of the time took Britain into the Common Market. He recalled that the whole VAT introduction went surprisingly well expect for the Jaffa cake which caused all sorts of problems. In 1991 the matter went to a tribunal (number 6344 in case you were wondering) in which the VAT man argued that the Jaffa wasn’t a cake and so should not be exempt from VAT (VATA 1983 Sch 5 Group 1 excepted item 2), trotting out all the old arguments. McVities countered with all of the other old arguments plus a specially prepared 12 inch Jaffa Cake, which focused the tribunal’s attention on the sponge base. The tribunal concluded that, while the product also had characteristics of biscuits or confectionery which was not cake, it had sufficient characteristics of cakes to be a cake for the purposes of zero-rating. (The tribunal also determined that the product was not a biscuit.)
Last edited by CrabGirl; 03-30-2008 at 03:43 PM.
This pump dispenses gasoline, a fossil fuel. People who believe fossils are not real should put something else in their tanks.
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pepper your angus
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bollox to you all, it will forever be a biscuit in my eyes.
Frog Shoulder
BT Rep: +4
Actually that article is wrong.
"...the VAT man argued that the Jaffa wasn’t a cake and so should not be exempt from VAT..."
It's not exempt from VAT, it's Zero-Rated for VAT purposes. Fuck they even go on to say that later in the same paragraph. Now that may seem an irrelevant point, however it makes a difference when considering partial exemption and the right to deduct input tax.
So it's actually a taxable supply, with the rate of tax being zero, as opposed to a supply which is exempt from the tax.
Either way, it's a cake and that's the law.
"there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "
Frog Shoulder
BT Rep: +4
Yeah but it'll be a cake in your mouth.
"there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "
Frog Shoulder
BT Rep: +4
Oh and I think it was United Biscuits who took the VAT man to the Tribunal.
"there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "
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