This story makes me very happy. Not especially because of the result, because actually I think that M & S teacakes really are biscuits. The bases are crunchy, not soft and light. However, I love the fact that the precise definitions of cakes and biscuits are important enough to be taken to the European Court of Justice. It gives me a warm feeling when I remember the ‘Jaffa Cake Wars’ – when some bureaucrat who knew nothing once tried to argue that they were biscuits. I’m glad to be returning to a land where everything stops for tea.
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I heard the story on NPR yesterday and thought of you. Don’t like the part about you going back to the land where the difference between a cake and a biscuit (cookie) resulted in a lawsuit. But on the whole, the story was amusing.
Tea in America is something you balance a golf ball on…..
Or something like that.
Unless you mean Texas tea, which is oil, black gold.