Tuesday, April 04, 2006
The Great Jaffa Cake-off - part deux.
Following on from our previous work in this area, ethnobiologists from
the team here at Spoonbender and Forkit have discovered new members of
the Jaffa Cake genus. Of the phylum Tesco, they are:
Jaffacakus Tescorum Apricotus
Jaffacakus Tescorum Cherrius
Jaffacakus Tescorum Strawberrio
Exceedingly shy, none of these creatures have yet been captured on
google, and I couldn't be bothered to take a photo. They look like
Jaffa Cakes (well, duh).
Smashing Fruity Bit Assessment
We can recommend the cherry ones, and the apricot ones (mmm, quite
sophisticated) - on our smashingness scale (which goes from zero to
smashing in 4.8 seconds) the apricot ones were estimated as a 0.9! But
the strawberry ones are rubbish. Like strawberry fruit teas, there just
wasn't much flavour there at all. Disappointing.
Cake Assessment
Eh.
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After reading the Wikipedia piece on Jaffa Cake, and the referenced discussion of the VAT treatment of cake and UK luxury tax ramifications for chocolate treats, I begin to understand the quiet subtext to Nabisco ads for fig newtons (coincidentally distributed by Jacob's Biscuits, marketer for Jaffa Cake), i.e., "Cookies are cookies, Newtons are fruit and cake". Very British; very foreign to stateside humor.
What the hell is a Jaffa Cake?
Ah, sorry, very lazy of me.
"The basic Jaffa cake design is the marrying of three elements; a sponge cake base, an orange jam center and a dark chocolate covering" From anicecupofteaandasitdown.com
..and Tesco is a supermarket chain.
Sounds disgusting.
Well, it's just like any other supermarket, really.
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