Britain's Favourite Biscuit.

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A bit of light entertainment (or so I thought...)

Apart from now needing to go to the shop and buying Wagon Wheels..

They claim a Jaffa Cake is a biscuit!

I have friends and family round and the row it has caused is something else.
Someone has just stormed out to the shop to prove their point, someone else is frantically googling to prove theirs.

It's a cake. I will not have it any other way. It states cake in the name.

Tensions are running high.
(Although I believe this is partly because this is the first time we've all been in the same room since the death of my mum.)

Can I report Channel 5 to OFCOM?

Totally agree, I am all for Jaffa cakes, especially the orange ones for Halloween. But they are not biscuits. I actually thought you were about to say short bread or something. Or hobnobs, or penguin biscuits.

In fact, the narrator has just explained that they are technically cakes.

SO WHY ARE THEY ON A PROGRAMME CALLED BRITAINS FAVOURITE BISCUIT!!!!!



@hellokittymania glad you agree!!

Definitely a cake.

And they're minging.

What was the winner? Please tell me it was a custard cream / hobnob.

Definitely a cake due to the sponge element. Still nice with a cuppa, but not dunkable.

I would like to put a vote in for bourbons

Yes it’s a cake. It’s spongy!

Biscuits aren’t spongy.

I do like a Jaffa CAKE but they’re not my favourite. I love Rich Tea [dullard emoticon].

The winner was a chocolate digestive.

I'm most upset that the ginger nut featured in the top 10, but the chocolate finger didn't!
Honestly, I'm disappointed in this country.

The bourbon was about 4th or 5th. Rich Tea didn't even feature!!!!

They are a cake because they go hard when stale whereas biscuits go soft

This is why there’s no VAT on Jaffa Cakes

Bloody love them though whether they’re biscuits or not

I love Jaffa Cakes, they're like crack.
The Pringle of the CAKE world.

From Wikipedia:

Jaffa Cakes are biscuit-sized cakes introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges.

There was a court case about this in 1991. McVities said it was a biscuit and the gov said it was a cake. Cakes are taxes at a higher rate to biscuits.

Cakes left out become hard, where as biscuits become soft.

I get Schar chocolate fingers now that Cadbury’s is crap.

I feel the chocolate digestive is overrated. But then I don't like dark chocolate.

@Jackshouse I would've loved to have been on the jury at that court case 

Rich Tea didn’t even feature?!?

Where did Fruit Shorties come in?

I need to compile my own list

It will feature many biscuits from my childhood so mostly Jammie Dodgers and Party Rings

@BusySittingDown no fruit shorties either!

In no particular order;
Wagon Wheels, Jaffa Cakes, Jammy Dodgers, Chocolate HobNobs, Chocolate Digestives, Bourbons, Custard Creams, Plain Shortbread, Blue Ribands and Ginger Nuts.

Chocolate Digestives came in at number 1 and Wagon Wheels at number 10.

In fact, I'm insulted that Wagon Wheels were on the list too.

No rich tea, no garibaldis, no pink wafers, no BNs, no party rings.

Absolute shambles.

@wowfudge totally agree.

There are many superior biscuits.

And apparently, the chocolate is on the bottom of the digestive.
Not the top.

I need to be alone.

A shout out from here in the EastMids for those teeny weeny little round hard biscuits with a coloured blob of icing on them .. cannot remember their name

@EastMidsGPs Iced Gems!!!

Haven't had them for years.

What's a blue ribband

Who put wagon wheels and blue ribands on the list. Possibly the worst biscuits ever!!! And no pink wafers?!

I don’t like biscuits at all. Not one. Rich tea if my life depended on it. Not a fan of cake either.

Blue Riband is a wrapped wafer finger covered in chocolate. The Blue Riband of my childhood was coated in fake chocolate. I like an orang Club biscuit myself. They usually have them at blood donation sessions.