The Great Cookie– er, Biscuit– er, Cake Debate of 1991 – Now I Know

If you’re in the United States and want to start a stupid debate, gather a dozen or so people and ask a simple question: is a hot dog a sandwich? There are good arguments to be made on both sides (and this article on the topic is fun), but for our purposes, it’s not that important. Whether a hot dog (on a bun, of course; a hot dog minus the bun is clearly no sandwich) is a sandwich has little implication on anything meaningful. So let’s simply acknowledge that there is a debate and move on.

On to cookies, that is. Or are they cakes?
Pictured above are Jaffa Cakes, a popular snack in the United Kingdom. They feature a layer of sponge cake topped with orange jam, all covered with a chocolate coating. You don’t typically buy them individually, at least not at the grocery store; there, they come ten or 12 to a pack. To give you an idea for how big they are, each Cake — let’s keep that “C” capitalized, for reasons you’ll see shortly — runs about 50 calories, which is about the same as an Oreo cookie.
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We ate these quite frequently in the UK. Lovely little things...

Stupid is as Stupid does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)