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Posts about biscuits! We also allow Jaffa Cakes (even though they aren't biscuits, they are in the biscuit aisle, create a [META] post if you want to argue this point), chocolate biscuits and biscuit-adjacent content.
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Are Jaffa cakes, cakes or biscuits? π
Cakes.
Although I accept them here as they're in the biscuit aisle.
They are, in fact, biscuits. They are cooked twice, baked then dried.
But they're also cakes. It's like a dried cake. Biscuit cake.
They're cakes, as ruled on by the courts in the case of McVities Biscuits vs HM Revenue and Customs (1991).
Cakes obviously.
The real question is which side is the top?
I'd argue its more obvious which side is the top than if its cake or biscuit. Obviously its a biscuit.
Is it called a Jaffa Biscuit? No, it isnβt. Because itβs soft. Like a cake.
I should have added a \s to my previous message, I was just messing around π