Easter Eggs

[Sporting]

What Easter Eggs did you get?

None. Our kid has decided to give up chocolate, my partner wants to cut down on sugar and as for me chocolate is horrible. Win all round!

[ad hoc]

I am 100% sure that the oranges used in Jaffa Cakes (tm) are not all from Jaffa. If they are, I'll have to boycott them anyway

[DCI Harry Batt]

I think that's really cute.

Grandad, you don't decide what is or isn't "a thing".

Absolutely, I don't decide. Nor does anyone else. Things that are things are things and things that aren't things aren't.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Snake, can we have a separate "Biscuits" subforum for that thread?

Stop that.

[Gangster Octopus]

Grandad[TonTon], you don't decide what is or isn't "a thing".

treibeis v TonTon. This should be a fascinating battle...

[treibeis]

treibeis v TonTon. This should be a fascinating battle...

Naah. I lose. He wears "trainers".

(Do I have to do a smiley-face thing here?)

[Jah Womble]

I got no easter eggs.

Same ‘ere.

Can’t remember when somebody last bought me an Easter egg - probably a couple of decades ago. I’d want a decent one, though, if so.

[Nefertiti2]

Really need the @adhoc family's painted eggs which are hiding on the mundane photography thread, when they should be bossing this one.

[Wouter D]

He's the Piers Morgan of OTF.

Wow. Below the belt.

[Sean of the Shed]

Classification of Jaffa Cakes is a serious issue.

[Simon G]

I bought the wife and myself one on Friday. Was just going to be the wife but they were buy one get one free.

the kids all got one big egg each, and 6 tiny eggs each that we used to do an egg hunt around the house yesterday morning.

[hobbes]

I am 100% sure that the oranges used in Jaffa Cakes (tm) are not all from Jaffa. If they are, I'll have to boycott them anyway

No but the oranges are the seedless Jaffa variety. My point was that unless the banana ones can claim the same, OR that they come from Jaffa then they don't qualify.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Naah. I lose. He wears "trainers".

(Do I have to do a smiley-face thing here?)

How do you know that I have a pair of trainers?

[ad hoc]

No but the oranges are the seedless Jaffa variety. My point was that unless the banana ones can claim the same, OR that they come from Jaffa then they don't qualify.

But they haven't been marketed as Jaffa Cakes. They just say "Banana. Sponge cakes with jelly in white chocolate"

[DCI Harry Batt]

Yes, it's other people calling them banana jaffa cakes. Wrongly.

[ursus arctos]

Turns out that there actually is a variety of bananas called JAFFA

https://www.rahan.co.il/?page_id=196&lang=en

[Patrick Thistle]

So they could be banana jaffa cakes after all.

[ursus arctos]

Well, I would call them JAFFA Banana Cakes, but then I am weird that way.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Just to add to the distress, apparently Morrisons do jaffa cake doughnuts:

[S. aureus]

I blame JJ Abrams for that.

[hobbes]

But they haven't been marketed as Jaffa Cakes. They just say "Banana. Sponge cakes with jelly in white chocolate"

In that case, I stand corrected. Also, I'm an idiot. And I also blaming JJ Abrams for that.

[slackster]

3 of us have just demolished a fancy Waitrose egg. Only when we finished did we note it packed over 3000 calories. Maybe just a light supper, then...

[Benjm]

'Jaffa Cake' isn't trademarked - manufacturers other than McVities can and do use the name, as in the cherry example overleaf.

Whether the name can be applied to any item following the template or is restricted to the original orange flavour jelly filled version seems to me a moot point. If you like things to be just so, for example always checking which sport the most famous athlete in the country plays if they are mentioned in your courtroom, then it is probably best to operate a strict orange only policy. Others, accustomed to the exhilarating and occasionally frightening world that we have lived in since the ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover was lifted, daringly choose to apply the term to variations upon the theme.

In other shocking misnaming news, these appear to contain no fried eggs whatsover:

[San Bernardhinault]

My sad few Reester Bunnies also have no rabbit in them

[Patrick Thistle]

Mcvities sellike Lemon & Lime Jaffa Cakes.

At Halloween they call them Lemon & Slime Jaffa Cakes.

It think if Mcvities use "jaffa cake" as a catch all term for cake, jelly, chocolate topping, then that's my yardstick.