That was in 1991, though. A lifetime ago.
Clearly, HMRC are out to settle an old score and know the time and place to do that is on a flag at Glastonbury.
Didn't it come back up again recently? Ironic they go after cakes and biscuits for Tax but when their own Chancellor diddles millions out of unpaid tax, not a thing.
They did. And they are baked using batter rather than a mix so scientifically theyâre cakes. They also go hard when theyâre off whereas biscuits go soft when theyâre off.
Every aspect of them are cakes. Not just the name.
They proved it by making a cake sized version of one, then smaller and smaller versions, and asked the judge to consider at what point they thought it ceased being a cake and started being a biscuit.
The texture of the cake part was softer than a normal sized one. The chocolate part was the same, and I remember someone saying it needed more marmalade
Not just tax reasons. When a cake goes stale it gets hard and when a biscuit goes stale it goes soft. Problem is no one is patient enough to find out what happens to jaffas when they go stale.
It's kinda like the tomato in a fruit salad saying. Intelligence is knowing that they're cakes, wisdom is knowing that if you're asked to buy a cake, not to get a pack of Jaffas.
And yet there they are, out there living their lives and having a laugh. And here we are, on Reddit at 11pm, with the curtains closed, covered in crumbs, in your mums basement.
I just don't think we have enough basements in the UK to include this in the jibe.
You've got to respect the water tables game.
Mum's spare room? Mum's shed?
Yeah we really are lacking basements, especially down south. I think a lot of it is due to the muppets keep building houses on flood plains. Cannot beat a nice basement made into a gaming room!
https://preview.redd.it/f3028q1wte9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0e721d90d07d176413033b96d01dfa088fa89e1
Wrong. This is the best Iâve seen.
Pretty funny social account where thereâs a picture and youâve to guess âsiblings or datingâ.
Missing the Limmy flag.
https://preview.redd.it/emyiob9ttd9d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebcf0f4f44c5fdb0a3782c259538e29bf3e49d36
The people on the flag are Janet Planet and Sugar Bones from Confidence Man, who people sometimes think are brother and sister, or a couple, but theyâre actually neither! Just friends.
(Janetâs brother is on keys/does a lot of the production, and she was engaged to their previous drummer, and is dating their current drummer)
The jaffa cakes one is just factually wrong.
By definition, a cake goes hard when it goes stale, and biscuits go soft. Jaffa cakes start soft, and go hard when stale, therefore, cake.
I'd be annoyed if I'd spent hundreds of pounds getting to Glastonbury to enjoy the festival life and was just constantly reminded of shit internet memes
Can you please put a warning on these images. I have just spent 20 minutes barely able to breathe I was laughing so much at such genius and witty comedy. Oh heavens what will the rest of the UK do whilst Glasto sucks up all the comical talent this week from the entire UK.
https://preview.redd.it/zcpn5vn2zi9d1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=118a9e479c04db1deaf18110969a2477f15cf81c
good to see the important issues getting flagged
Where's the hauk tuah one? lol. all fun and games until someone starts calling a jaffa cake a biscuit. Biscuits go soft when left out and cakes go hard when left out
I'm guessing they're saying that Chris Martin must spit on Michael's 'thang' or maybe Emily spits on Chris's thang..? I don't know?
It is a mystery as to why Coldplay are headlining yet again though.
People in these comments are sour. I get why others hate British people now - you guys canât take a joke đ /lighthearted
-sincerely, a British person that finds these funny, especially the first one <3
Redone of the flags; jaffacakes are, legally speaking, cakes for tax purposes.
In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes. McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits. McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to illustrate its point.
The court discounted the expert evidence, as it went beyond the capacity of an ordinary purchaser.
The product was assessed on the following criteria:
* The product's name was regarded as a minor consideration.
* The ingredients were regarded as similar to those of a cake, producing a thin cake-like mixture rather than the thick dough of a biscuit.
* The product's texture was regarded as being that of a sponge cake.
* The product hardens when stale, in the manner of a cake.
* A substantial part of a Jaffa Cake, in terms of bulk and texture, is sponge.
* In size, a Jaffa Cake is more like a biscuit than a cake.
* The product was generally displayed for sale alongside other biscuits, rather than with cakes.
* The product is presented as a snack and eaten with the fingers, like a biscuit, rather than with a fork as a cake might be.
* The tribunal also considered that children would eat them in a few mouthfuls, in the manner of a sweet.
The court was adjudicated by Mr Donald Potter QC, who found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that whilst Jaffa Cakes had characteristics of both cakes and biscuits, the product should be considered a cake and not a biscuit, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes in the United Kingdom
This is very "You sirs, have just won the internet đđ"
Take my upvote!!
casual uk posters no doubt, surprised there's no references to greggs
Definitely surprised there was no Greggs.
No big loss imo. Wrights are far better.
What? The company founded by a convicted pedophile?
If I went there, I would be the person to reference Greggs /j
Jaffa cakes are cakes though. They proved that for tax reasons.
That was in 1991, though. A lifetime ago. Clearly, HMRC are out to settle an old score and know the time and place to do that is on a flag at Glastonbury.
Didn't it come back up again recently? Ironic they go after cakes and biscuits for Tax but when their own Chancellor diddles millions out of unpaid tax, not a thing.
There was a recent case where they had to decide whether walkers sensation poppadoms are poppadoms or a crisp. Verdict: they're a crisp
Oh I remember that one. Those things are seriously tasty
They're an existential crisis.
Yes, but he's rich and has lots of rich friends
Ah yes, sorry forgot that.
People always pull out the âbut for tax!â card and forget that they clearly have a cake-like, not biscuit-like texture đ¤ˇ
Forget the texture, itâs literally in the name! Theyâre not Jaffa Biscuits, theyâre Jaffa Cakes!
Exactly, in the 90s to had to identify as bannana for tax reasons, shits changed.
The word cake is literally half of their name
They did. And they are baked using batter rather than a mix so scientifically theyâre cakes. They also go hard when theyâre off whereas biscuits go soft when theyâre off. Every aspect of them are cakes. Not just the name. 
They proved it by making a cake sized version of one, then smaller and smaller versions, and asked the judge to consider at what point they thought it ceased being a cake and started being a biscuit.
Mmm I would love to eat a cake sized Jaffa.
I got one for my friend's birthday about ten years ago, but I can't find one online now đ
How did it compare to a normal sized one as I know texture etc can change when you upscale things sometimes.
The texture of the cake part was softer than a normal sized one. The chocolate part was the same, and I remember someone saying it needed more marmalade
A hill I will continue to die on.
This underrated Welsh hip hop group wrote a song about this! https://youtu.be/lz_RNyUWaGA?si=eYGC9f-psf7jFgMb
I was excitedly hoping for goldie looking chain.. but still was not disappointed.
Ban all flags
Stick a candle in one and have it for your birthday then.
Already have
They were only classified as cakes when they were promised it meant weâd stay in the EU. We demand a post Brexit reexamination of the issue!
Not just tax reasons. When a cake goes stale it gets hard and when a biscuit goes stale it goes soft. Problem is no one is patient enough to find out what happens to jaffas when they go stale.
It's kinda like the tomato in a fruit salad saying. Intelligence is knowing that they're cakes, wisdom is knowing that if you're asked to buy a cake, not to get a pack of Jaffas.
Also, Converse shoes, for import reasons, are slippers.
That can't be real, can it?
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-converse-sneakers-have-fuzzy-bottoms-2015-8?amp
Only in 'Murica
All owned by people who use âcockwombleâ as an insult
This comment really boils my piss
Reddit moment
U.K. hun?
Messaged you Hun
I only read this on reddit, I assume boils my piss is an american saying. I thought we said pisses me off.
Really? I've only heard it in real life from very non-resdit people
Get. In. The. Sea.
And yet there they are, out there living their lives and having a laugh. And here we are, on Reddit at 11pm, with the curtains closed, covered in crumbs, in your mums basement.
I just don't think we have enough basements in the UK to include this in the jibe. You've got to respect the water tables game. Mum's spare room? Mum's shed?
conservatory
No no, weâre all in one mumâs basement.
Yeah we really are lacking basements, especially down south. I think a lot of it is due to the muppets keep building houses on flood plains. Cannot beat a nice basement made into a gaming room!
Mumâs tradesmanâs entrance.
Old desk in childhood bedroom. Metal bed.
Why are you in his mums basement?
We've all been there at some point
Thatâs where she built her dungeon
And films her OnlyFans.
Thatâs because theyâre on 300K a year.
Weâre not all in that guys basement, some of us are in our own mums spare rooms
Can everyone get out of my mum's basement please
No đ
...a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.
Shut up you cockwomble. Anyway time to turn on todayâs episode of âJames OâBrien: The Whole Showâ
You sir have won the internet today đđť
âGet in the bin you absolute cockwombleâ
XD THIS IS SO FUNNY HAHAHA CAN I STEAL THIS?? No, you canât steal words. Fucking moron.
Give yer head a wobble
Not sure whats worse, that or cockwomble.
Dread to think what the least funny ones were then.
Absolute shite patter
https://preview.redd.it/f3028q1wte9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0e721d90d07d176413033b96d01dfa088fa89e1 Wrong. This is the best Iâve seen.
I concur
I don't fully get it, but I also concur
^ This guy gets no bussy lol
Well I am straight
Nothing gay about a little bussy once in a while.
What's the siblings or dating flag about?
Pretty funny social account where thereâs a picture and youâve to guess âsiblings or datingâ. Missing the Limmy flag. https://preview.redd.it/emyiob9ttd9d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebcf0f4f44c5fdb0a3782c259538e29bf3e49d36
Just wait until he hears about this after the Dee Dee flag at the Scotland game.
I first thought it was a picture of Billie and Phinneas and thought âwow thatâs kinda out of pocket but go offâ before I looked at it properly
everyone is thinking it
âwow thatâs kinda out of pocket but go offâ What do you mean by that?
The people on the flag are Janet Planet and Sugar Bones from Confidence Man, who people sometimes think are brother and sister, or a couple, but theyâre actually neither! Just friends. (Janetâs brother is on keys/does a lot of the production, and she was engaged to their previous drummer, and is dating their current drummer)
Best weed back on the block Iâll take it
Janet loves a drummer
These were all.made by someone that uses the word "bants"
Bants are more fun than being miserableÂ
Rather be miserable
Being miserable is definitely the correct option of the two
You don't know anyone who actually says 'bants', do you?
See it on loads of women's dating profiles lately. Ok about three
So 2 bots and a clone account. Gotcha.
Better than being a miserable wanker like you.
Mid bants
Burn that last flag.
wow le epic bacon
Wonka thing is so stale
The jaffa cakes one is just factually wrong. By definition, a cake goes hard when it goes stale, and biscuits go soft. Jaffa cakes start soft, and go hard when stale, therefore, cake.
âFunnyâ
Why is it US Office instead of UK Office?
I'd be annoyed if I'd spent hundreds of pounds getting to Glastonbury to enjoy the festival life and was just constantly reminded of shit internet memes
There is another flag saying âban flagsâ
Green? They're the flags Chris moyles gives out for people to take on radio x
None of these are funny
Can you please put a warning on these images. I have just spent 20 minutes barely able to breathe I was laughing so much at such genius and witty comedy. Oh heavens what will the rest of the UK do whilst Glasto sucks up all the comical talent this week from the entire UK.
Wtf is wrong with Reddit.
Get a grip
Lighten up pal.
Did anyone get a photo of the Tracy beaker flag?
Sacrilege not to use Gareth for that quote. Should be deported.
US Office is better though
Hand your passport back on the way out mate.
Luv me Briâish Office, ate Steve Carell simple as
I mean it's you that's throwing around hyperbole. I love the us office, I just love the UK one more.
Because âhand your passport backâ isnât hyperbolic at all đ¤Ł
That is a hilarious Leicester City flag
You sir have won the internet!!!
https://preview.redd.it/zcpn5vn2zi9d1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=118a9e479c04db1deaf18110969a2477f15cf81c good to see the important issues getting flagged
Hello you cuntÂ
I liked the big flag that said "ban flags"
I liked the flag that said "Ban Flags"!
Jaffa cakes are just not biscuits in any way
These are the same people that keep buying those 'Keep calm and carry on' posters.Â
It's giving millennial humor
Posted on social media captioned "I did a thing"
That time we brought a flag to Glastonbury.
"POV: You bring a flag to Glastonbury"
Better than Gen Z âhumorâ
You can tell itâs full of middle class people
The âwarm fostersâ one made me laugh
Jaffa cakes are kinda shit, they definitely donât deserve their own flag.
spotted one on the tele, frank from shameless.
I saw one in the crowd that had Princess Diana and a dog on it but couldnât make out what it was about
The Kim Jong Un âLive, Laugh, Loveâ one cracked me up.
The Jaffa cakes one is way out of line. I don't support capital punishment but perhaps there should be exceptions.
Honestly how could anyone think Jaffa cakes are biscuits
I hate flag poles at gigs
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âHilariousâ
Jaffa cakesâŚ.. clues in the name dumbass
That's exactly the flag design I'd expect from someone who thinks Jaffa cakes are biscuits
Was there a Purple Acki flag this year?
Just needed a "Cauliflower IS traditional"
Worked at Forbidden Forest. 90% of those tents are gonna be left there.
Where's the hauk tuah one? lol. all fun and games until someone starts calling a jaffa cake a biscuit. Biscuits go soft when left out and cakes go hard when left out
Whatâs the name of the news presenter giving the finger? Did she lose her job or anything?
No, sheâs basically a national treasure at this point and has had more great moments.
Jaffacakes are cake, they go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft. Science
Need banning from the inner semi circle though
Whereâs the prime mutton flag! âAbsolute creamer!â Or the âGlastonboshâ one
Surely that should be Gareth and not Dwight?
https://preview.redd.it/mk45q272sf9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdadbc11923b06234f71502c928db13de36a3123 I mean....
Embarrassing
I donât get thisâŚ
I'm guessing they're saying that Chris Martin must spit on Michael's 'thang' or maybe Emily spits on Chris's thang..? I don't know? It is a mystery as to why Coldplay are headlining yet again though.
Way better than any in the post
People in these comments are sour. I get why others hate British people now - you guys canât take a joke đ /lighthearted -sincerely, a British person that finds these funny, especially the first one <3
we are a miserable country full of miserable people, what do you expect?!
fair enough tbh lmao
Funny if youâre a Lib Dem maybe
This is such an American comment, I hope youâre not English mate
lol what?
I doubt many Americans have even heard of the Lib Dems...
Great love that the truth hurts fuck Leicester its a cak hole full of mongs never mind football get a job
Ah, cheers.
Ah youâre welcome
Awesome đđ
Is it just me? Don't find any of them funny whatsoever, must be a young thing
This is middle aged, middle class humour. No one else finds it funny.
In Middle Aged and middle class and don't find it funny, must be a leftie thing, they are odd people so explains it
Nah itâs just millenials being âquirkyâ
https://preview.redd.it/f9rq6o44co9d1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b7a93f80509d16feedaf78576a2e82d099508e1
Redone of the flags; jaffacakes are, legally speaking, cakes for tax purposes. In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes. McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits. McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to illustrate its point. The court discounted the expert evidence, as it went beyond the capacity of an ordinary purchaser. The product was assessed on the following criteria: * The product's name was regarded as a minor consideration. * The ingredients were regarded as similar to those of a cake, producing a thin cake-like mixture rather than the thick dough of a biscuit. * The product's texture was regarded as being that of a sponge cake. * The product hardens when stale, in the manner of a cake. * A substantial part of a Jaffa Cake, in terms of bulk and texture, is sponge. * In size, a Jaffa Cake is more like a biscuit than a cake. * The product was generally displayed for sale alongside other biscuits, rather than with cakes. * The product is presented as a snack and eaten with the fingers, like a biscuit, rather than with a fork as a cake might be. * The tribunal also considered that children would eat them in a few mouthfuls, in the manner of a sweet. The court was adjudicated by Mr Donald Potter QC, who found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that whilst Jaffa Cakes had characteristics of both cakes and biscuits, the product should be considered a cake and not a biscuit, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes in the United Kingdom
Using a picture of the American Office over the original shouldn't be allowed.
Predictable amount of terrorist support flags.
Go back to bed