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The Ultimate Question |
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There have been many intelligent people throughout human history, Copernicus who realised the Earth isn't the centre of the universe, Galileo who claimed the solar system orbits around the Sun, Darwin who discovered how evolution took place, Einstein who theorised that everything is relative and that mass and energy are interchangable, Rutherford who split the atom; but if any of these great minds had been alive today, i highly doubt that not one of them could answer the question that has haunted the population world over for years: "What is a Jaffa Cake, a cake or biscuit?". |
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But finally, once and for all, i am going to attempt to classify the jaffa cake one way or another. Personally i have always been of the opinion that it is a cake and have maintained that view point fiercely, but i will be happy to admit that i am and was wrong if it turns out to be a biscuit. |
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As far as i am aware, at present the Jaffa Cake is legally classified as a cake, but the British Government is attempting to get it reclassified as a biscuit, as this will place it under a higher tax bracket because biscuits aren't as perishable as cakes. However, the mere fact that they're changing the classification to increase tax shows that their opinion can count neither way as they will rally towards whichever suits them best. |
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Some (naive) people would claim that the Jaffa Cake must be a cake because it has layers, other naive (or possibly poor) people would agree with them. True, that some of the popular cheap biscuits would fit this pattern, for example Digestives, Rich Tea, Shortbread, etc, but you must not forget the huge range of multilayered biscuits, including, Jammie Dodgers, Chocolate Digestives, Bourbons, Penguins, etc, etc. Therefore, obviously, this argument is nonsense. |
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When biscuits are cooked it is such that the moisture in them is evaporated away, so that when they are finished they contain less moisture than the surrounding air. When cakes are cooked, the opposite is true, moisture is locked within the cake, so when it is finished it contains more moisutre than the surrounding atmosphere. So if i leave a cake and a biscuit on a cupboard to go stale, the cake would lose moisture and the biscuit would gain moisture, which hence is the reason why cakes get harder and biscuits get softer. Now when i leave a jaffa cake to go stale, it turns hard, which once and for all, proves that Jaffa Cakes, are indeed, cakes. |
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