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hobnobs for a brew

dark choccy digestives on its own

digestives & dairylea

custard creams

chocolate hobnobs and plain 1s (lucky i can get them down under otherwise i'd be ) and tim tams (an ausie bisciut yummy)[/img http://www.twelve22.org/images/timtams.jpg /img]

They are officially a cake. There was a big legal case about it many years ago. It was to do with VAT on cakes and biscuits. I'll have a look for the case link. It's one of my favourite cases

clue is in the name - jaffaCAKE

this argument is taking the bisc..........

Yep, and as I said earlier in the topic, Cakes go hard when theyre stale, Bicuits go Soft.

Simple

"Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are "zero rated". Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are classed as luxury items and are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVitie's classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991, this was challenged by HM Customs and Excise in court. This may have been because Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit. The question which had to be answered was what criteria should be used to class something as a cake or biscuit. McVitie's defended the classification of Jaffa Cakes as a cake by producing a giant Jaffa Cake to illustrate that their Jaffa Cakes were simply mini cakes.

They also argued that the distinction between cakes and biscuits is simply that cakes go hard when stale, whereas biscuits go soft. It was demonstrated that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale and McVitie's won the case.

The issue was revisited in an article entitled 'Are Jaffa Cakes really biscuits?' published in the Journal of Unlikely Science (Volume 1, issue 7, 2005). The article attempted to classify biscuits via a scientific analysis of various features (size, shape, filling etc.) and determined that the Jaffa Cake should be regarded as a biscuit, or 'pseudobiscuit'."

'pseudobiscuit'......'pseudobiscuit'?!??!?!

WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!

Not my word I'm sorry to say - I thought it was brilliant though

Round shortbread, fluted edges, stab marks+currants. What they called? Yum

Choclate bourbons
Hob nobs

is it shrewsbury biscuits Rude?

i like rich tea...or on special occasions sainsbury's taste the difference - butter sultana cookies or lemon butter thins or stem ginger cookies

Them little square things - biscuit with caramel and then chocolate on top. Ginger nuts dipped into coffee - yummy. Also the spicy German biscuits, pepperkaker, Scottish oatcakes with blue cheese. Knew a bloke who loved dog biscuits.

lol, malted milk, the ones with the little cows in the middle of a frame

look what i ate last night....malted milk - delux !

...Hmmmmm, malted milk filled with Fox's cream