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Jaffa 'Cakes' & Biscuit Taxonomy

Are Jaffa Cakes Biscuits or Cakes?

  • Biscuits

    Votes: 5 20.8%

  • Cakes

    Votes: 10 41.7%

  • Both

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • Neither

    Votes: 1 4.2%
  • Total voters
    24
catseye said:
All the things that used to be orange-flavour are now called Jaffa cake flavour. Like people have forgotten what oranges are, but still have a good grasp of Jaffa cakes.
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That's a shame; there must be things that rhyme with Jaffa Cake.
 
Whether they be biscuit or cake, Tunnock's teacakes will be an inflight treat for the RAF once more.

Sixty years ago, Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights after they exploded in a cockpit.

They left a sticky mess over the airmen, their instruments and the cockpit's canopy.

The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this - being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long training sorties at the height of the Cold War.

But the ban has now been lifted after the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine carried out tests in an altitude chamber and the teacakes did not explode.

It was the summer of 1965 when a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped teacakes above their instrument panels. When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch in a training mission the iconic Scottish treat erupted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo
 
ramonmercado said:
Whether they be biscuit or cake, Tunnock's teacakes will be an inflight treat for the RAF once more.

Sixty years ago, Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights after they exploded in a cockpit.

They left a sticky mess over the airmen, their instruments and the cockpit's canopy.

The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this - being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long training sorties at the height of the Cold War.

But the ban has now been lifted after the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine carried out tests in an altitude chamber and the teacakes did not explode.

It was the summer of 1965 when a captain and student pilot forgot they had placed unwrapped teacakes above their instrument panels. When the captain pulled an emergency depressurising switch in a training mission the iconic Scottish treat erupted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo
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In a war situation, Tunnock's teacakes will be the new ammunition.
 
More biscuit controversy in the news today. We have all been eating chocolate digestives wrong. It seems like a late April Fool or a prank played on the new boss but you can't deny, he has a point. The chocolate IS on the bottom. :omr:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0zdelrdgzo

The boss of the biscuits factory where McVitie's chocolate digestives have been made for the last 100 years reckons people have always eaten them incorrectly.
Anthony Coulson, general manager at the company's chocolate refinery and bakery in Stockport, said the teatime staple was originally meant to be eaten with the chocolate-covered side facing down.
"It's the world's most incredible debate, whether you have the chocolate on the top or the chocolate on the bottom," mused Mr Coulson, who admitted he was a chocolate-on-top man.
The factory opened in 1917, with the chocolate digestive launched eight years later.
About 80 million packets are made every year, with all of the chocolate made in Greater Manchester.
Mr Coulson told BBC Radio Manchester: "One of the very first things I learnt when I got to join McVitie's was chocolate side down to eat the digestive.
"Now up until then I'd always eaten it the other way round...You can do it exactly how you want to do it."
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ChristLionQC said:
On the Jaffa Cake 'cake or biscuit?' front, and for those able to access BBC Sounds, a 14 minute episode of Untaxing on the Jaffa Cake trial, with the tenuous possibility to blame the French for those that enjoy that kind of thing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029j9j
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My learned friend, I concur with your statement regarding excellent radio programmes!

(And are you now a KC?)
 
Min Bannister said:
More biscuit controversy in the news today. We have all been eating chocolate digestives wrong. It seems like a late April Fool or a prank played on the new boss but you can't deny, he has a point. The chocolate IS on the bottom. :omr:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0zdelrdgzo
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Chocolate side-down has always worked for me. I feel the cocoa-hit right away and don't lose any crumbs.:bthumbup:
 
I have been sitting here, miming eating a chocolate digestive to myself, and have come to the conclusion that I don't care which way up they are, but if you hold them the conventional way (between thumb and first two fingers), then it makes sense to have the chocolate on the bottom as there is less 'finger warmth' to melt the chocolate onto your fingers.
 
catseye said:
I have been sitting here, miming eating a chocolate digestive to myself, and have come to the conclusion that I don't care which way up they are, but if you hold them the conventional way (between thumb and first two fingers), then it makes sense to have the chocolate on the bottom as there is less 'finger warmth' to melt the chocolate onto your fingers.
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I don't hold it that long - it's in my mouth before any meltiness occurs.
 
catseye said:
I have been sitting here, miming eating a chocolate digestive to myself, and have come to the conclusion that I don't care which way up they are, but if you hold them the conventional way (between thumb and first two fingers), then it makes sense to have the chocolate on the bottom as there is less 'finger warmth' to melt the chocolate onto your fingers.
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When you put it like that, I don't know why I have not thought of this before.:thought:
 
I bought some Galaxy digestives today, and they're just as underwhelming as every other chocolate digestive. I realise that the following is heresy but, aside from the (usually average) chocolate covering, chocolate digestives taste of nothing...except perhaps sugar.
 
Steven said:
I bought some Galaxy digestives today, and they're just as underwhelming as every other chocolate digestive. I realise that the following is heresy but, aside from the (usually average) chocolate covering, chocolate digestives taste of nothing...except perhaps sugar.
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First rags, then chocolate digestives, you know how to live dangerously.

What's your view on Tunnock's caramel wafers? Think carefully before you answer.
 
To interrupt @Steven's reply (because that's my job...) Tunnocks Caramel Wafers are the perfect dunking biscuit. The caramel reaches just the right 'stretching' temperature during dunking.

And I bought a packet of white chocolate digestives the other day. They were very nice.
 
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