Jaffa cakes

Merlin5

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Which do you buy? McVities, supermarket own brand, or the cheapest supermarket everyday value brand?
As it happens, I bought supermarket value today, 24 jaffa cakes for 85p as they were out of single packs of supermarket own brand. Is there any discernible difference between any of these? I'm not sure I've ever noticed. McVities says 19% plain chocolate. The value double pack says 21% plain chocolate. Rest of the ingredients looked the same so what might I be missing? This is an important question as munching jaffa cakes is serious omnomibusiness. :)
 
Glaucus said:
The orange jelly is always wrong and nasty on cheaper brands.
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Ok, noted. How about the sponge quality and chocolate texture/flavour, any differences there? What I should really do is simply buy a McVities box and compare.
 
Glaucus said:
Value ones like tesco have drier sponge, but it's always the orange flavour which stands out like a sore thumb for me.
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Ok, instead of the value ones, how about the in between brands that tesco/sainsbury/asda do, the ones that are meant to match the quality of McVities, is the orange and sponge better on those?
 
Merlin5 said:
Do you mean those M&S rectangular flat ones?
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The orange is far too sharp and pronounced on these, leaves a serious after taste.

Also, they're a total mare to nibble around the edge of and get your tongue under to pull the orange bit free of the sponge.

Original all the way, accept no imitations. :D
 
randal said:
The orange is far too sharp and pronounced on these, leaves a serious after taste.

Also, they're a total mare to nibble around the edge of and get your tongue under to pull the orange bit free of the sponge.

Original all the way, accept no imitations. :D
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Yeah, jaffa cakes have to be the original round shape, I agree. I used to spend several minutes just licking the chocolate off to get a clean jelly and sponge :D
Here's a factory tour of McVities. You'd think the guy had never eaten a jaffa cake before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financevideo/9246979/How-Jaffa-Cakes-are-made.html
 
MisChief said:
I want jaffa cakes now :(

No.. I want raspberry jaffa cakes actually :D
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No problem, I got you some. :)

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Merlin5 said:
Yeah, jaffa cakes have to be the original round shape, I agree. I used to spend several minutes just licking the chocolate off to get a clean jelly and sponge :D
Here's a factory tour of McVities. You'd think the guy had never eaten a jaffa cake before.
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Licking? Man you have more patience than I! Nibble, turn, nibble, turn, extract orange. Invert and push against roof of mouth, melt chocolate. Consume orange. Begrudgingly consume sponge. Repeat. Finish packet. :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financevideo/9246979/How-Jaffa-Cakes-are-made.html
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The factory, which covers more than 10 acres, produces 2,000 jaffa cakes a minute.
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I think the cheaper ones are good. The value ones are a bit dryer, so i'd say own brand ones were the ones to go for. Original ones are slightly nicer, but they are far too expensive imo. I only ever buy them when they're on offer.
 
Merlin5 said:
Ok, instead of the value ones, how about the in between brands that tesco/sainsbury/asda do, the ones that are meant to match the quality of McVities, is the orange and sponge better on those?
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Nope, I haven't tried one that the orange hasn't been wrong on. But then I haven't tried m&s ones or a few others.
 
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