If there’s one thing that really takes the biscuit about Jaffa Cakes, it’s that some people insist on calling them cakes.
Okay, so the word ‘cake’ is in their name, but that doesn’t prove anything: One Direction had a single called Best Song Ever and The NeverEnding Story finished after about an hour and 40 minutes.
There were howls of derision in some quarters when the Jaffa Cake was named Britain’s fifth favourite biscuit.
In 1991, McVitie’s, who make Jaffa Cakes, won a court battle to define the treats as cakes, saving millions of pounds in the process, as biscuits are subject to VAT.
But as anyone who sat through the second series of Broadchurch knows, sometimes the legal… Read the full story