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A/R/TIST in the Spotlight- OONegative

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  • #152
    Comic Book Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭Comic Book Guy


    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad!

    Apt quote on the Jaffa Cake debate.

    I'm just picturing trying to put candles in one and presenting it to one of my kids on their birthday. Wouldn't end well!


  • #153
    MY BAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭MY BAD


    But who makes the best Jaffa cakes? They aren't uniform in nature with different companies making them with different tastes and texture.


  • #154
    Lambay island
    Registered Users Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Lambay island


    MY BAD wrote: »
    But who makes the best Jaffa cakes? They aren't uniform in nature with different companies making them with different tastes and texture.

    Correct, any of them bar mcvities can take a hike


  • #155
    Huzzah!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Huzzah!


    Swashbuckler wrote: »
    – Jaffa cakes follow the same basic ingredients of a cake, including egg, flour, and sugar mixture which was aerated on cooking and was the same as a traditional sponge cake.
    – The ingredients mix to make a thin batter rather than the thicker dough expected for a biscuit texture.
    – Cakes are expected to be soft and friable while biscuits are supposed to be crispy and able to be snapped.
    – Jaffa cakes have the same soft texture of sponge cake.
    – A Jaffa cake will go hard when it’s stale, like a cake, while biscuits go soft

    Most importantly, they’re cheaper because the tax man deems them to be a cake.

    “The Irish Revenue Commissioners also regard Jaffa cakes as cakes, since their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016).”


  • #156
    Hannibal_Smith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hannibal_Smith


    Swashbuckler wrote: »
    Which kimberleys specifically? ......... This is important. Lol

    0002_3524_kimberley_CORE_200g-for-3D-3.png

    These bad boys :D


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  • #157
    Annie get your Run
    Registered Users Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Annie get your Run


    Laineyfrecks wrote: »
    I think I'm with P on this...It contains sponge(like in a trifle, which is cake) jelly & chocolate...I don't really consider it a biscuit.

    Trifle is not cake!! :D


  • #158
    OOnegative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭OOnegative


    Is this the Biscuit Forum..........


  • #159
    skyblue46
    Registered Users Posts: 4,807 ✭✭✭skyblue46


    OOnegative wrote: »
    Is this the Biscuit Forum..........

    If only you had just answered Custard Cream :pac::pac:


  • #160
    Lambay island
    Registered Users Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Lambay island


    skyblue46 wrote: »
    If only you had just answered Custard Cream :pac::pac:
    Someone would have claimed that was a sandwich :D


  • #161
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    OOnegative wrote: »
    Is this the Biscuit Forum..........

    This conversation really isn't helping my being off sweets, chocolate, biscuits and cake.... Mad craving for a pack of kimberleys now. 😂


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  • #162
    Murph_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Huzzah! wrote: »
    Most importantly, they’re cheaper because the tax man deems them to be a cake.

    “The Irish Revenue Commissioners also regard Jaffa cakes as cakes, since their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016).”

    Now this is genuine research. All the evidence, whether anecdotal or empirical, points to cake. :)


  • #163
    BeginnerRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭BeginnerRunner


    Jaffa cakes are cakes the same way a peanut is a nut and a tomato is a fruit.


  • #164
    OOnegative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭OOnegative


    Thanks for the questions all week folks, I’ll have the new victim along this evening.


  • #165
    eyrie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭eyrie


    OOnegative wrote: »
    Thanks for the questions all week folks, I’ll have the new victim along this evening.
    Ah you're not off the hook yet are you? Well sure ignore these if you are (I've already had a go anyway), but I'll add them in case.

    What sportsperson (living or dead) would you pick to meet/go for a pint with?

    Ever daydream about doing something completely different career-wise? If so what would it be?

    So do you dunk your jaffa cakes?? :D


  • #166
    OOnegative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭OOnegative


    Certainly won’t ignore,

    What sportsperson (living or dead) would you pick to meet/go for a pint with?

    Terry Fox, to see what made him so determined to do the Race across Canada. He died a young man but he taught people a lot older than him a thing or to. An inspiring person.

    Ever daydream about doing something completely different career-wise? If so what would it be?

    Professional sportsperson, I always dreamt of playing in the NBA as a young fella so probably shooting guard for the Chicago Bulls.

    So do you dunk your jaffa cakes?? :D

    Nope, one mouthful and gone!!


  • #167
    eyrie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭eyrie


    OOnegative wrote: »
    Certainly won’t ignore,

    What sportsperson (living or dead) would you pick to meet/go for a pint with?

    Terry Fox, to see what made him so determined to do the Race across Canada. He died a young man but he taught people a lot older than him a thing or to. An inspiring person.
    Wow, have to admit I hadn't a clue who that was but I've just read up - unbelievable. I can see why you'd want to spend an evening with him alright. Incredible that he made it so far too, seriously inspiring.


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