Saturday, April 12, 2008

Cake or Buscuit


The tunnock teacake, the 'original' teacake.

The European court of justice has finally ruled that the M&S teacake is actually a cake and not a biscuit. After around 10 years in discussion it seems the teacake may finally lose it's identity crisis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2008/04/080411_teacake.shtml

Good news for Marks and Sparks as it means the VAT paid since the launch of the VAT biscuit tax will have to be refunded (around £3.5m).

I'm not a big fan of the teacake and I would call it neither a biscuit nor a cake, more a glorified biscuit.

McVities are currently investigating the possibility that the Jaffa cake could also be misidentified as a biccie.

Tunnock's, the more popular version of the teacake is not the companies most popular product with the 'Caramel' selling over 4,000,000 bars per week.

1 comment:

Glynn said...

Where will the line be drawn? The eclair? The macaroon? The flapjack? The Eccles cake?

We need a UN resolution on this.....