Hu Jardon said:What about Cookies then?
The FOMz said:After reading this thread, when I popped into my local Tesco's earlier, I had a look. The Jaffa Cakes and the Fig Rolls were in the BISCUIT ISLE and if anyone should know, surely it should be Tesco's.
Got to be Jaffa Cakes - Its that smashing jaffa orangey bit that does it for me! DT_Xtremez_42:
budgie said:On Biscuit Isle, is there a Lake Tea?DT_Xtremez_08:
TheHogwartsBEngO said:Back on the thread....
The VATman wanted to class Jaffa cakes as biscuits as VAT is levvied on biscuits - they are a luxury item. Cakes are not subject to VAT as they are a food. McVities fought (and won) a court case in 1991 to prove that they are in fact a CAKE to prevent them being subject to VAT.
The case was won on the definition that when cakes go stale they go hard, whereas biscuits, when stale, go soft. Jaffa cakes go hard when stale.
They are cakes.
ahthangyou. DT_Xtremez_28:
(edited for accuracy of court case date)
TheHogwartsBEngO said:Ah come the revolution the biggest grievance and cause of riots will be the VAT to stop peasants eating biscuits - damn good idea. But what shall the peasants eat that does not include a levvy on VAT I hear you say...
(can you see where I'm going with this?)
Let them eat cake!