I can’t believe you even put the acute accent on the e. 
Look, it’s even called a cake. How much more proof do you need? It’s like a cupcake that’s had a nasty accident.
Mint tea? Well… that’s… um… well it’s just different. See?
Will provide more research, if you don’t think Nicey’s expert enough. haughty sniff
Didn’t find the answer, but I did find this!
There was a famous case on the Jaffa cakes to do with tax. Cakes are in a taxed more than biscuits. But McVities always paid the biscuit tax so the tax man took them to court. Of course mcvities calls it a cake and this was the prosecutions case. McVities argued successfully that it was in fact a biscuit. It was decided that if it could …
Hang on, i did do a law degree but not sure bout the rest (only went to City, London). Think it was something like if it could be left out over night and still be edible it was a biscuit.
I am sure i will be corrected on this if need be…
Nonsense ! Idle speculation !!
I suspect I have you by the short an’ curlies:
Look here under ‘3.4.2 Biscuits’
Official Government recognition. What say you now, good sir ?
jjimm writes:
> BTW, what’s a Fig Newton? Is that an American fig roll?
Yes.
Engarde! If it is a biscuit, why is it exempt from tax?
checks page again
Oh bugger. Hoist with my own pederast.
But WAIT. Here’s the word from United Biscuits themselves:
Goddammit, man, it’s made of cake, it’s called “cake”, and it quacks like a cake.
pederast?
Must be painful.
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Er, jjimm some years ago you were the center of, er, controversy both from your own medical colleagues and from the Church when you grafted a pederast onto an Anglican bishop.
[/python]
I wish to complain about this pederast what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
According to the Government it’s a biscuit, and I can dunk it, therefore it is a biscuit. Legally and practically. Everything else is speculation and quacking company propaganda.
Let me remind you that it was Major’s lot that named it a biscuit. I’m sticking with my Old Labour proletarian cake, thank you very much.
BTW, my Jaffa Cake’s quack doesn’t echo. And nobody knows why.
BEDEVERE: Exactly. So, logically…
VILLAGER #1: If… she… weighs… the same as a duck,… she’s made of wood.
BEDEVERE: And therefore?
VILLAGER #2: A witch!
VILLAGER #1: A witch!
CROWD: A witch! A witch!..
VILLAGER #4: Here is a duck. Use this duck.
[quack quack quack]
BEDEVERE: Very good. We shall use my largest scales.
CROWD: Ohh! Ohh! Burn the witch! Burn the witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Ahh! Ahh…
BEDEVERE: Right. Remove the supports!
[whop]
[clunk]
[creak]
CROWD: A witch! A witch! A witch!
WITCH: It’s a fair cop.
VILLAGER #3: Burn her!
CROWD: Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn! Burn!..
BEDEVERE: Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
ARTHUR: I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Ahhh, Old Labour. Thus it comes as no surprise that you want your cake and to eat it too. 
… I’m starting to worry Desmostylus may have overloaded on the sugar buzz.
BTW, greeting to the several new and newish Brit dopers I’ve seen in this thread. Nice to have you aboard!
I take off my spurs and hand them to you. I can’t beat that line.