AIBU to be DISGUSTED and FURIOUS at Mumsnets ineptness? I am RAGING!

[HoneyDragon]

If you have the misfortune to land on their redirection page something TERRIBLE happens.

Along with the usual apology that you've been directed to a page that no longer exists, they have a pithy messages that states

You found it! We've been looking for that biscuit everywhere ...

And then next to it, next to it



A picture of a partially eaten

JAFFA CAKE

Honestly, seriously? Do you know nothing?

It's a cake! Cake. Not biscuit. It's a cake.

How could you?

I am clearly so NBU it hurts. I DEMAND a picture of a Jammy Dodger with haste.

[Pan]

kidding.

[HoneyDragon]

If you are not on board with the raging matey you can bugger off!!

[QuintessentialOHara]

[TSSDNCOP]

Jaffa cakes ARE biscuits everywhere else in the world except Mumsnet.

Just like everywhere else in the world owns a sodding loo brush.

[HoneyDragon]

No they Aren't!

H&m revenue and customs, Wikipedia and The Guardian say they are CAKES.

The box says they are CAKES

The big giant Jaffa Cake is in the CAKE section in the shops.

I'm not forgiving HQ for this. Ever, ever, ever.


No Ta Quint, I don't like them

[tethersend]

IIRC, there was some sort of ruling on this. Something along the lines of:

Cakes go hard as they get stale.

Biscuits go soft as they get stale.

Ergo, Jaffa cakes are cakes and not subject to some sort of tax or other.

Or something.

Will google.

[EduCated]

Jaffa Cakes are bastards.

It's all about the Custard Creams.

[tethersend]

X-post mrsWolowitz.

Ergo, we are both smartarses

[tethersend]

Cuntstard Creams more like.

Give me a ginger nut any day.

[AnyFucker]

the word is ineptitude

hth

[SoupDragon]

Is the clue not in the name?

They aren't Jaffa Biscuits are they?

[HoneyDragon]

Offending article (hopefully)

[EduCated]

You take that back, tethersend. Or should I say YOURMUMSEND.

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

I noticed that yesterday! I was so shocked I refreshed the page at which point a discusting but at least recognisable Bourbon biscuit popped up.

My ire was reduced sufficiently to forget all about it until now.

I'm just no good at immediate grumpiness

[EduCated]

I got jammy dodger. You seeing things?

[nenevomito]

Of course Jaffa Cakes are Cakes.

The clue is in the name.

[nenevomito]

I can't see a picture on that link at all.

How can I be outraged if I can't see the cake?

[Uppermid]

They've changed it to a bourbon is that better?!

[superbagpuss]

according to hmrc - and therefore the queen - they are cakes and don't have vat on them

and they taste horrid!

[Uppermid]

Ooh, now it's a garibaldi

[Viviennemary]

Jaffa cakes are cakes. They had a court case something to do with VAT. And they made a huge one so that proved it was a cake. It's official.

[Pan]

I'd also expect a possessive comma in the title.....no need to thank me.

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

Ooh garibaldi this time

dried fly biscuits

[SoupDragon]

I got a bourbon.

First time I got that page it was a Jaffa cake though.