# Who moved my Jaffa Cake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909 "2007-10-25T01:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CherryBomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@CherryBomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CherryBomb)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/21 "2007-10-26T12:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] I am open to bribery if it involves peanut butter cups…just sayin’, yannow. [/QUOTE] I’ll have a case of them out to you in exchange! And I’m quite serious about this. PM me if you are as well. They just sound too tasty to refuse. > [@Mindfield](#): > > PiM’s are the North American equivalent. When the link you kindly provided was clicked, I was greeted with: Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock. A quick Googling (my search fu is admittedly weak though) came up with a bunch of none for PiM’s. _sigh_ Hopefully **ScareyFaerie** is serious about this bribing business. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/22 "2007-10-26T13:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] [PiM’s](http://www.amazon.com/Pims-Sponge-Cake-Cookies-igourmet-com/dp/B000JDHRVS) are the North American equivalent. I don’t know about brick-and-mortar availability in the US, but they’re available in loads of places around Ontario, at any rate. [/QUOTE] Hey, I think I’ve seen those in the teeny tiny Brit food section of the grocery store! Now I have to try them. I hope they’re not expired like everything else in that section I’ve wanted to try. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/23 "2007-10-26T22:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=CherryBomb] _sigh_ Hopefully **ScareyFaerie** is serious about this bribing business. [/QUOTE] Would I lie about something as serious as Jaffa Cakes? PM sent, goodies acquired…just waiting for somewhere to send 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/24 "2007-10-27T03:07:41Z")
“Oh my god. I’ve got some Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket”. Maybe that’s where your Jaffa Cakes are. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/25 "2007-10-27T04:36:53Z")
[Buy Jaffa Cakes online](http://www.britishdelights.com/search_results.asp?txtsearchParamTxt=jaffa&txtsearchParamCat=ALL&btnSearch.x=16&btnSearch.y=8&txtsearchParamType=ALL&iLevel=1&txtsearchParamMan=ALL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&txtFromSearch=fromSearch) What I want to know is where have all the pear Pims gone? I miss them. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/26 "2007-10-27T05:22:10Z")
You can buy them at a lot of West Coast grocery stores. ---
**Author:** ![CherryBomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@CherryBomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CherryBomb)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/27 "2007-10-27T06:29:10Z")
Well, being nowhere near the west coast at the moment, I’ll settle for swapping goodies with **ScareyFaerie**. Besides, it’s more fun this way! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909/28 "2007-10-27T07:35:45Z")
I am surprised that the answer to the OP is not more widely known. It is quite obviously the work of [boggarts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggarts). They mean no harm, and for them it’s just mischievous and playful to swipe things away and make them seemingly disappear. It can be Jaffa Cakes or odd socks or car keys or vital bits of paper that were on your desk _just two minutes ago_ or your passport on the morning you are supposed to go to the airport. It’s just what they do. The bad news is that there is nothing whatever we can do about it - there is no known way to prevent boggarts from abducting our possessions in this way. Some people suggest leaving some things out specifically for the boggarts to steal, such as an extra Jaffa Cake or an intentionally not-needed sock, but boggarts are rarely diverted by such transparent ploys - it’s only fun for them to take things that _matter_. The good news is that they always give these things back eventually, but no-one can ever say when. Sometimes they return things within minutes, and sometimes it takes years. Sometimes they put things back where they found them, and sometimes they put them back somewhere entirely different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-moved-my-jaffa-cake/423909.md?page=1)