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[Stewie-Kidd]

So much hating on young Aussies

When I went over I started playing village cricket but wanted to improve so left for the kent league and played for nothing. I love my cricket and really don't think I'm good enough to warrant being paid! Got to play premier league and play 3 games a week that was all I needed to keep happy! Personally loved playing the Wednesday night stuff and Sunday games as enjoy playing with the younger lads and friendly banter is more tolerated with the youngsters - not quite so serious!

I remember playing against you! played for the mote?
To be fair mate you were far too good for us that day.

[lewis_faulds]

Takes the biscuit?

No, jaffa's not a biscuit , it is a cake.

Actually, a jaffacake is a biscuit.

[Jenko]

I remember playing against you! played for the mote?
To be fair mate you were far too good for us that day.

Yes mate that was me! Was that the game where it was really wet? I think I pinned one of your batsmen with a bumper? (Sorry mate!) you were using a H4L?

[compstallcc]

our last 2 have been great,
last years was a 19 year old who we got just as the season started and we knew he'd only be able to play 2Xl prem, but he did a great job and was a great clubman coaching twice a week.

this years is just your perfect overseas, opening bowler, trains twice a week, coaches the kids once a week, great on the social side of things, is at the club every day as assistant groundsman and then goes and takes 4+ wickets every saturday! cant ask for much more

both of them young aussies, so some must be alright

[Stewie-Kidd]

Yes mate that was me! Was that the game where it was really wet? I think I pinned one of your batsmen with a bumper? (Sorry mate!) you were using a H4L?

Yeah man, raining all the time. Yeah man that was me and im glad you still remember bouncing my mate out!

[Danny1981]

Actually, a jaffacake is a biscuit.

No its not.The clue is in the name

[joeljonno]

Actually, a jaffacake is a biscuit.

Cakes start soft and get hard when they get old.

Biscuits start hard and get soft.

A Jaffa Cake does to fist, therefore IS A CAKE 

Proper science stuff that!!!!

[Manormanic]

Cakes start soft and get hard when they get old.

Biscuits start hard and get soft.

A Jaffa Cake does to fist, therefore IS A CAKE 

Proper science stuff that!!!!

Ah, but if you go to a supermarket and look in the cake aisle, you'll not find one.  Mewanwhile in the BISCUIT isle....

[petehosk]

In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes.
There is no vat paid on Jaffa cakes, therefore they are cakes in the eyes of the law. They evidently went to court in 1991 to prove this and they won! So they are a cake.

[Cumbrian Pete]

I think I have to go with the majority of evidence presented here and side with Jaffa Cakes being cakes, for the following reasons:

1. As Pete Hosk states, HM Revenue & Customs class Jaffa Cakes as cakes for tax purposes.
2. They are (initially at least) soft like cakes.
3. Their name contains the word 'cake'.

Admittedly they inhabit the biscuit aisle in most leading supermarkets, but if McVities want to position Jaffa Cakes in the biscuit aisle to maximise sales then that, as Bobby Brown would no doubt say, is their prerogative.

This thread may have veered slightly away from its original subject matter...

[trypewriter]

In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes.
There is no vat paid on Jaffa cakes, therefore they are cakes in the eyes of the law. They evidently went to court in 1991 to prove this and they won! So they are a cake.

Their proof was that biscuits go soft when stale, while cakes go hard when stale - just sayin

[petehosk]

That's quite enough discussions about Jaffa cakes now guys. Every post I read, I feel more and more hungry! 

[Cumbrian Pete]

Absolutely Pete...but I just want to finish by saying that the M&S version of Jaffa Cakes is well worth trying, slightly crispier chocolate coating 

[petehosk]

Top tip CP!
And we could probably merge the subjects by seeing what the overseas players think about Jaffa cakes, and whether they have this particular chocolate-coated delight back home 

[tim2000s]

Top tip CP!
And we could probably merge the subjects by seeing what the overseas players think about Jaffa cakes, and whether they have this particular chocolate-coated delight back home 

Or whether they have tried the Costa giant Jaffa Cakes made with Belgian chocolate, which are, quite frankly, divine!