to think that jaffa cakes should not be dunked!

[ChookKeeper]

I've just read that the German biscuit maker Bahlsen have launched oblong shaped jaffa cakes because the orange filling can then go edge to edge and be better for dunking .

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! The idea of dunking a jaffa cake is rank and surely the law of eating jaffa cakes is to nibble the sponge from around the outside, peel off and eat the orangey bit then eat the rest of the sponge.

So go on then AIBU?

[Tortoise]

YANBU. Jaffa cakes are not for dunking!

[DaisymooSteiner]

YANBU at all. Someone bought some of those Bahlsen jaffa cakes into work last week and I accidentally dunked it thinking it was a biscuit. It was horrible!!

[thisisyesterday]

omg YANBU!!!

they're a CAKE. not a biscuit. you don't dunk cake. ewwwwww

[LedodgyDailyMailstinksofpoo]

OOh I love sponge soggy. When I have a piece of cake I have to have a cuppa and mix it together in my mouth. I also like my cereal soggy too.

[Thunderduck]

YANBU.They aren't at all suitable for the purpose of dunking.

[Songbird]

YANBU! Eeew!!

[differentID]

no, SACRILEGE!!!!!

[Squishabelle]

Chook YANBU. your method of eating a Jaffa Cake is the only acceptable method!(although I eat the orangey bit after the sponge). Dunking? - Urggghhhhh

[random]

No no no you never dunk a jaffa ...now chocolate hob nobs on the other hand

[bronze]

NOOOOO Im a dunker but not jaffa cakes!

I leave the orange bit til last but same principle

[EyeballsintheSky]

No no no no no no no no and no. I am a dunking addict, there is no biscuit that I will not dunk. But the clue is in the name with this one. You don't sit and dip your fairy cakes into your Tetley, do you? So why would you dunk a Jaffa cake? Those Germans are mental they are...

A choco leibniz however, is an entirely different matter and screams 'dunk me' as soon as you tear the cardboard. Listen up German biscuit manufacturers, invent a leibniz that is longer and with a chocolate-less bit at the top for holding so your fingers don't get mucky. Stop messing with cakes.

[ChookKeeper]

Squishabelle and bronze - DD1 is so pleased that you eat the orangey bit last - we'd just had an argument about it when she saw my opening post. She feels smug vindicated now .

EyeballsintheSky - "You don't sit and dip your fairy cakes into your Tetley" -that isn't a euphemism is it ?

[scottishmummy]

jaffa cakes are horrid.that spongy jelly bit is gross.hate them

[Thunderduck]

They are delicious! So long as they're McVities.

[theyoungvisiter]

I love a soggy jaffa. I dunk anything, including fairy cakes (not the iced kind).

Let us not forget, ladies and gentlemen, that Proust dunked his madeleine, thereby setting off the whole train of A la recherche...

So there are strong literary precedents for the immersion of cakes.

[LedodgyDailyMailstinksofpoo]

OOH theyoungvisitor shall we start a quiche?

[theyoungvisiter]

only if you promise not to dunk it.

I draw the line at dunking quiches

[oneopinionatedmother]

surely the dunkability is key to its tax status? if dunkable jaffa = biscuit and taxed as necesity. If not, taxed as cake, a luxury.

so, feel free to object, but be prepared to pay the tax on your jaffa cake

[PacificDogwood]

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However: I dunk cake

[Hollyoaks]

YANBU dd dunked hers in my tea yesterday and it disintegrated and fell into the cup. I had to drink the tea full of jaffa cake as I was at someone elses house.

[theyoungvisiter]

well hollyoak - that's just poor technique.

The whole excitement of dunking is the skill required to get maximal moisture without actually losing your biscuit.

Sometimes you can gain valuable seconds by upending the biscuit (so the dunked half is vertical and uppermost) while conveying it to your mouth.

[ChookKeeper]

What I don't understand about all of you very strange people cake dunkers is - how do you stop it falling into the cuppa? Surely it goes soggy to quickly too retain any form?

[theyoungvisiter]

chook, it's about speed vs absorbability and inherent cake tension.

You have to know your cake before you proceed.

A dry, friable shop bought cake will behave completely differently to an eggy, moist, home-made variety.

[ChookKeeper]

too/to (oops)

[LedodgyDailyMailstinksofpoo]

Pacific you can be in our quiche!