Because they’re high fiber? It bothered me at first, but once you start eating them you stop worrying about what they’re called and start thinking about where you can get more. Especially the chocolate-chip variety.
Thanks –
It sounds like a wonderful idea to me, actually. No, I didn’t pig out on cookies last night – I needed some Digestives. No guilt. Maybe we could come up with a healthy-sounding name for chocolate truffles.
I was always too embarrassed to say it out loud in case I got it wrong but I have heard (who knows where from - one of those gems you pick up along the way probably) that it’s the place in France.
Now I know this isn’t supposed to be a discussion on Jaffa cakes but there is a biscuit version I think. It’s McVities. I remember when they used to be bigger in circumference with a thicker orangey bit in the middle and thicker chocolate - and! the spongey bit was actually soft sponge. Not so these days. It’s smaller and thinner with a paler harder base that’s only spongey if you dunk it. Now biscuits go spongey or wobbly when you dunk those too.
If you buy the store’s own brand (safeway and maybe sainsbury’s?) they do have spongier bases so my argument is that some Jaffa cakes could be considered biscuit. (not that I feel strongly of course) 
you fibber! you’re making it up!
Who? Me? I am not! (she cried indignantly)
And another thing! I’ll also take issue at Kimberley’s! I remember them on telly and the ad always went “schpring schprong”. Biscuits do not go “schpring schprong” do they? (snigger)
i remember dodgy pseudo-jaffa cake orange filled choccy bars from sainsburys. my mum always used to put them in my packed lunch and i’d swap them with some kid for three goes on his gameboy.
are those the things you are on about?
Noooooo! It says Jaffa cakes on the packet, they’re round, orangey bit in the middle, wrapped exactly the same way as McVities, not bar-shaped, I say they’re not bar-shaped! lol
Seen the new gameboy advance? ooohhh the graphics…
so real biscuits then? wow.
you realise that if you could prove your claim then you’d go down in history for finally resolving the jaffa cake vs biscuit debate.
and…
mmmm…gameboy advance sp
:ahem:
hugs his dreamcast
there, there baby. i still love you…
so you prove my claim - make the trip! buy 'em and try 'em.
but the gameboy advance - ooohhh … try it and…
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darn!
oh i see - i’m the sherpa to your explorer am i?! i do the work whilst you get the credit?! 
well, you might get the credit because you might disagree on their biscuit-status, besides which, you also get loads of Jaffa cakes. Might as well pick up some club orange as well and see how much chocolate you don’t get on them these days:rolleyes:
don’t even get me started on the decline of the club chocolate bar. :mad:
I remember the song! If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our Club! Hmmphh! I’m not impressed! And, if you look at the bottom of your KitKat these days, you can see the wafer! Disgusting!!!
“Outraged of North London”
I know. Its shocking I tell you, just shocking. Clubs and Kit Kats no longer have enough chocolate on them, and neither are half as good as what they used to be.
“Saddened in Birmingham”
I’m just off to the supermarket now and I think I’ll have to bypass the biscuit section - who knows what atrocities lie there - it’s so traumatic! I can’t even look at a Wagon Wheel these days…:eek:
Poor you. We’ll be here for you when yoou get back, in case the experience leaves you needing counselling
irishbird, you have touched on a sore point
Wagon Wheels, forsooth!
More like titchy little Stabilizers-on-a-toddler’s-bike Wheels these days.
When I were a lass they were MASSIVE.
And they have blasphemously brought out ones with JAM in them!
JAM!!!
Disgruntled of Dublin
I’m sitting in my office on a bloomin’ bank holiday weekend, marking bloody assignments by students too freaking stupid to realise that if they found it on google, so can I.
I am surviving on Tunnock’s Teacakes and Happy Faces.
Oh dear. They never ever learn. Even when they’re told at the beginning of the year. Stupid undergrads!
But at least you have biscuits. I’m supposedly working from home, but I just feel like sleeping instead.