Geroff, they're mine! (Mc Vities Jaffa Cakes)

Member Name: MaryanneH

Product:	Mc Vities Jaffa Cakes
Date:	29/09/04 (1748 review reads)
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Wandering around Tescos this morning it occurred to me that I’ve been at ciao for over a year now and haven’t yet written about my favourite food in the whole world – the humble, yet delicious Jaffa cake.

First things first, you must have noticed the bright blue box in the chocolate section on the biscuit shelves in the supermarket but what, exactly is a Jaffa cake?

WHAT IS A JAFFA CAKE

A jaffa cake is a cake – it has been proved in court, if it was a biscuit they’d have to pay more VAT on it or something like that so they went to court to prove that the way they make it means it is well and truly a cake, the only argument the tax man came up with for it being a biscuit was that they always stock them on the biscuit aisle - pathetic! (I may have made that up but I’m sure I remember John Craven saying something about it on Newsround when I was little) Anyway moving on the jaffa cake is shaped like a flying saucer, well Hollywoods idea of one anyway. It has the cake at the bottom all gorgeous and sponge like, then a beautiful layer of orange jelly stuff (the smashing jaffa orangey bit) then the piece de resistance, cover it in chocolate oh yesssss. Mcvities did go through a stage where they covered the whole thing in chocolate but no, sorry that just made it far too messy and upset how you are supposed to eat jaffa cakes, they soon saw the error of their ways and now we are back to simply covering the top half.

HOW TO EAT A JAFFA CAKE

This is important advice, any diversion from this means you are doing it wrong!

1. There are 12 jaffa cakes in a packet, this means that everyone thinks they have a right to share them with you – THEY ARE WRONG. Make sure you are completely alone, no one in the area is within Jaffa radar range.
2. Having made sure you are alone, take the first jaffa cake, ponder for a couple of seconds how exquisite it looks, smelling all chocolatey with a faint smell of orange, then very carefully, making sure not too much chocolate melts onto your fingers, nibble, using your nibbling teeth, around the cake. Take very great care not to damage the orange jelly. You are left with a circular nibbled edged jaffa cake.
3. Very carefully, long nails help for this bit, peel all the chocolate bits off the top and eat them. This is actually easier with the non mcvities varieties as they use cheaper chocolate so it stays together better and doesn’t melt in your hand, but the mcvities version tastes better.
4. You are now left with cake and orangey bit, carefully separate the two, and pop the orangey bit in your mouth, suck it slowly and it will get smaller and smaller, tasting so lovely and orangey.
5. Now the cake, eat that bit really quickly so you can move onto the next Jaffa Cake.

So there you have it how to correctly eat a Jaffa Cake, of course you could be all adult and boring and say euughh , that’s disgusting, but go on, admit it you’ve all done it!

JAFFA ON THE WEB

Such is Jaffa Cakes popularity it has a fan base, it can even be the source of pregnancy cravings (well that was my excuse, but I had a bit of a shock when of the 1.5 stone I put on whilst pregnant, only 2lb 9 oz was baby, oops) so there are also websites, check out http://homepages.force9.net/swamp/jaffanet/ it has spinning Jaffa cakes and the history of the Jaffa cakes, including the 4 wise men bring gifts of Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh and Jaffa Cakes.

THE BORING NUTRITIONAL BIT

Jaffa cakes are actually quite good nutritionally; each cake has 44 calories and 1g of fat of which 0.5 grams is saturated fat – so you can eat LOADS of them.

WHY I WROTE THIS TODAY

Well I was, as I mentioned, in Tescos and they have the triple packs normally available at £1.75 on a 2 for £1.95 offer. For those of you who have left your maths head on the dressing table this morning that’s 36 extra JAFFA CAKES FOR ONLY 20p. So what are you still doing here? Get down there and buy loads.

Sorry what was that? Oh you want to know how much a single pack costs, well quite honestly I have no idea, because I don’t want to know, who would only want to buy one
packet for goodness sake?

Thank you for reading

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