FabSwingers.com forum: Where does the fascination come from with jaffa cakes and cake, was it something from years ago?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Cake creeps in to nearly every thread or jaffa

But where did it start?

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

I'm too new to know. But interested to find out. Or is it just that cake is universal.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

It all began once upon a time in a far away land…..

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

"Cake creeps in to nearly every thread or jaffa

But where did it start?"

Taxation.

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By * F 2018Couple
over a year ago

shropshire

"Cake creeps in to nearly every thread or jaffa

But where did it start?"

Don't know but hand over the jaffa cakes!!

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

According to something I saw on the Beeb, I think it was last week..... Jaffa Cakes are apparently the biscuit (!!!!) that will stay intact the longest after the most dunkings in tea.

Biscuit???? WTF

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cake creeps in to nearly every thread or jaffa

But where did it start?"

Wonko

He loves Jaffa cakes

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By *nnandElleCouple
over a year ago

Brackley

It's people who think they are funny.

They aren't

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By *ts the taking part thatMan
over a year ago

southampton

It was about whether it's a cake or biscuit, I believe biscuits are Vat qualifying but cake isn't so the manufacturer insists Jaffa's are cake.

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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago

Boo's World

Grumpy started it with his Custard and Cake fetish.

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

The mighty wonko and his love of Jaffa cakes ...lol

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

I have a confession to make.

It was I who started the cake craze, many moons ago.

I was fed up reading *pulls up a chair, grabs popcorn* type comments on contentious threads that I said something to the popcorn eaters, and then said something along the lines of "I don't like popcorn anyway, I'm having cake"

Then used cake instead of popcorn on controversial threads.

Sorry

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away..........

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

If anyone remembers Greedy Thump from back then, he was always *sitting in a corner, quietly munching popcorn*

I got bored with the popcorn comments.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake"

It's not recent.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

It's not recent. "
It wasn't mentioned at all in the beginning

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Lol we have some differing views

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By *offiaCoolWoman
over a year ago

Kidsgrove

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

It's not recent. It wasn't mentioned at all in the beginning"

I've been here nearly as long as you, and the cake stuff has emerged over the last few years as you say, before then it was always popcorn.

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

"I have a confession to make.

It was I who started the cake craze, many moons ago.

Then used cake instead of popcorn on controversial threads.

Sorry

Oh man first the tooth fairy then Santa and now this (I thought it was wonko)

The world is built up on lies

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

As I remember it was a secret tea party thing.

Way back when there was a different main group of posters around these parts.

Some of them were actually very entertaining

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

It's not recent. It wasn't mentioned at all in the beginning

I've been here nearly as long as you, and the cake stuff has emerged over the last few years as you say, before then it was always popcorn."
exactly and I think.its an idiotic way to derail.threads

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

It's not recent. It wasn't mentioned at all in the beginning

I've been here nearly as long as you, and the cake stuff has emerged over the last few years as you say, before then it was always popcorn.exactly and I think.its an idiotic way to derail.threads"

Which is why I said something, because some threads had multiple people munching on popcorn, squeezing up together to munch on popcorn and having conversations between themselves while the threads exploded.

Tea and cake became more used, more recently, but Voddy gave some out to people having a bad day years back.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"It's a recent thing on here over the last five years or so. It was never mentioned before then. It does annoy me when someone doesn't like the thread they derail it to be about cake

It's not recent. It wasn't mentioned at all in the beginning"

No, but it was earlier than 5 years ago. There a man who commented with just "cake" on some threads.

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

"It was about whether it's a cake or biscuit, I believe biscuits are Vat qualifying but cake isn't so the manufacturer insists Jaffa's are cake."

They are. Cakes go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The difference is what happens to them when they go stale.

Bisuits go soft, cakes go hard.

That is why they ate a Jaffa Cake and not a Jaffa biscuit - because they go hard when stale

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