The thread devoted entirely to jaffa cakes and "jaffa cakes"

[Various Artist]

Now the big question is, do I keep these until Christmas?

Amazingly, six months almost to the hour after PT posted the above, I've just dug out from the cupboard a pack of the very same 'festive' orange & cranberry Jaffa Cakes I bought before Christmas. The best-before date was January 2nd, so I can't help but feel I should've got around to eating them a tad more promptly, but even so they seem fine – a pretty good flavour with a touch of cranberry depth to the orangey bit.

Have simultaneously cracked open a pack of pineapple ones too (best before next month, at least) and am trying to work out if I like them. There's a bit of an 'artificial' flavour, in the way that pineapple-flavoured sweets tend to taste of pineapple flavour rather than of pineapple, but it's palatable enough.

[Sits]

Australian readers, I bring important news: these items, to which I was introduced today, are very much in the Spirit of Jaffa Cake:

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/rubyetc/status/1390367114293358595

[Benjm]

Whoah, those look ill-conceived enough to suggest that McVitie's have poached the product development team from KFC.

[Patrick Thistle]

Oooooooh.

[Levin]

It's not the only thing against it but doughnuts are not items with long shelf lives. The only good doughnuts are ones made on the day you're eating them.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'd definitely fancy trying a real doughnut with a chocolate glaze and a "smashing orangey" filling.

[Benjm]

It's not the only thing against it but doughnuts are not items with long shelf lives. The only good doughnuts are ones made on the day you're eating them.

That's what struck me. Don't give us Twinkies and tell us that they are eclairs.

[3 Colours Red]

I'd definitely fancy trying a real doughnut with a chocolate glaze and a "smashing orangey" filling.

Pretty sure that Greggs have been doing them for about a decade.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Pretty sure that Greggs have been doing them for about a decade.

Ah, OK. I guessed that they were probably available somewhere.

I'm not much of a sweet treat enthusiast but I might pop into Greggs next time I'm near a branch.

[Patrick Thistle]

Maybe we should have a Greggs appreciation thread. Their vegan sausage rolls are really nice.

[3 Colours Red]

I'm not much of a sweet treat enthusiast but I might pop into Greggs next time I'm near a branch.

Surely everyone in the UK's near a branch of Greggs? Bloody hell, there's six within about five miles of me.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Surely everyone in the UK's near a branch of Greggs? Bloody hell, there's six within about five miles of me.

It's 2.4 miles to my nearest one, but I've got no intention of travelling there just for a bleedin' doughnut!

[Southport Zeb]

I think Southport might be amongst the bigger Greggs deserts in the country - the nearest branch is at a garage in Formby, about six miles away. The closest dedicated shop is eleven miles away in Crosby.

There used to be a Greggs in Southport but it closed perhaps ten years ago.

[elguapo4]

" This town, is becoming like a ghost town "
" all the Greggs are being closed down "

[Patrick Thistle]

We have a fine local bakery in my part of the city and it has seen off at least two if not three attempts to open a Greggs nearby. However there is one over by the football ground, and there are loads in the city centre and elsewhere. It feels like you are never more than a few hundred metres from a Greggs.

You can also buy Greggs pasties in Iceland to cook at home.

[Gangster Octopus]

As I've mentioned before, we in north-west London have Wenzel's. Much better.

[Benjm]

As I've mentioned before, we in north-west London have Wenzel's. Much better.

They are good. The nearest ones to here are Ealing and Shepherds Bush, which is out of range for a bakery trip, but hopefully they'll come to Chiswick or Acton soon.

[Sits]

You can also buy Greggs pasties in Iceland to cook at home.

<prepares to tap in open goal; stops and walks slowly away>

[Ginger Yellow]

Speaking of nearby Greggs. Can't say I'll be heading there myself. Bugsby's Way is a nightmare if you don't have a car.

[Patrick Thistle]

McVities have launched blackcurrant flavour jaffa cakes. Bought a box but not sampled yet.

[pebblethefish]

I don't mean to sound all "I've never seen Star Wars" but I've never been to a Gregg's. Nothing against them, I've just never felt the urge.

[DCI Harry Batt]

You should go, they're more or less ok sometimes.

[Sporting]

I don't mean to sound all "I've never seen Star Wars" but I've never been to a Gregg's. Nothing against them, I've just never felt the urge.

If there's a Gregg's and a pub in the same street, surely there's no real choice to make.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Totes - it's Gregg's for sure.