The only negative with Jaffa Cakes is you have to eat them all before they go stale 😥 The only positive with Jaffa Cakes is you have to eat them all before they go stale 😅
There are no negatives with jaffa cakes. Stale or fresh. I buy them in a long tube. Or several tubes. And they're all mine. They are transcendental. Beyond space and time. If I could get lodging at one of the plants I would. I wonder if I'm not obsessed with them. But they are delicious.
@@WanderingRavens To answer your question, there is no better jaffa cakes than mcvities jaffa cakes, they're cakey spongey kings of the snack world. They also release them in different flavours like lemon and lime, strawberry and pineapple.
@@rockracingfan Apparently its supposed to! I saw it on QI, something about the ingredients having an enzyme found in vomit(I think I've remembered it correctly!)
Chocolate in the UK- In the UK, chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa solids. In the US, on the other hand, cocoa solids need only make up 10%. A Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains 23% cocoa solids, whereas a Hershey bar contains just 11% So chocolate bought in UK tastes richer to chocolate bought in the States
Another argument about the Jaffa cake court case apparently was that cakes when they go stale go hard where as Biscuits( Cookies) go soft. Mcvities just launched a pineapple flavour Jaffa cake
@@paultipton743 yeah they're something you can eat, but don't really want to. i bought mine today and i guess i'm going to finish them off later so i don't have to worry about having a pack of jaffa cakes i dont want to eat in the cupboard
@@TheHarleyEvans Yeah... that's what I did. "ooh, these are new... I'll get a pack!" Regrets. But like... not awful regrets where I had to throw them out (like pringles hoisin duck rice infusions) but certainly never getting again.
I was honest suprised the first time I went on holiday to the US and saw dove chocolate it has the same packaging same logo everything is exactly the same as our galaxy but the names different same thing with lynx and axe I
You think that's bad, imagine the slap I received when I mentioned camels' toes to an American girl who asked me if her fanny looked nice in the jeans she was wearing!!!
Funny how we can't sell Toffee Crisp in the US because, 'it looks too much like Reese's', but Reese's can sell their stuff here. Do the two brands look too much alike or don't they, Reese's? Either they do or they don't. Pick one.
UK have reeses here aswell and we can tell them apart. I cant say ive ever got home from buying a reeses peanut butter cup and realise ive picked up a toffee crisp instead lol
@@SereneJudo reeses and toffee crisp are similar in the uk. The fact one is a chocolate bar and the other is choc cups of peanut butter is the major difference. We can easily shop without getting mixed up in the uk
@@chriskidner7287 Because American companies can't stand competition if it could be more popular well as we see them do multiple times also apparently Hershey apparently think the American public illiterate as shit.
Apparently, the slogan "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" was originally developed for Mars Treets in the UK in the 1960s. These came in two varieties, peanuts covered in chocolate with a brown glazed sugar shell, and a flattened chocolate in a brown glazed sugar shell. The latter was superceded by the similar 'Minstrels' in the late 80s. Peanut Treets were reintroduced a decade back. [btw, 'Jaffa' pronunciation: In Britspeak, it has 2 short 'a's like cat or mat - not longer 'a' as in bath or hearth!]
Toffee Crisps are my favorite and I get a stash brought to me once a year by a friend who visits from England. Need to ration them. I have seen them recently in the tiny British food section of a local chain grocery store, but they are unbelieveably expensive for a candy bar so I rely on my yearly stash. Good video
You have a good friend! We used to do the same thing when we lived in South Korea and were unable to find savoury american snacks so we know the feels haha
I love McVitie's Penguin biscuits. Like a bourbon but a softer texture and covered in chocolate. I think you can buy them from online stores in the US imported from the UK.
Please stop calling them Joffa Cakes 😂 Also, McVitties is pronounced as it's spelt, not like "McVeeties". It's a Mancunian institution so we take it seriously up here. Keep it up, guys. I am loving your videos.
@@greenisnotacreativecolour You're both wrong, it does only have one T but Chris was closer, and is therefore pronounced "M'ck-Vit-EASE" (stress on capitalised syllable); not "M'ck-Vit-TEASE" as Chris (technically) wrote or "M'ck-VEET-Ease" as they were saying.
@@BigAlCapwn Actually, if you'll notice, I never stated how it should be pronounced, only one possible pronunciation based on first viewing of the word, and while your own suggestion is also valid based on first reading, it is alas, also incorrect. What you fail to realise is that the "V" is actually a Latin character that, whilst it resembles the English capital "V", is actually pronounced as the letter "U". On top of that, the "t" is silent, so the correct pronunciation is in fact pronounced like "McEwies", or "M'k-you-ease". Only a select few at the top of the company (and myself) know this, and you lucky reader, are now also party to this exclusive knowledge.
*_Fun fact:_* Minstrels used to be the one of sweets in a bag of Treets which were marketed for the same "melt in your mouth not in your hand" reason. Peanut Treets became part of M&M in the UK and Chocolate Treets became Minstrels and Toffee Treets became Relays (discontinued quite quickly).
@@billythedog-309 Somebody bought me a Hersheys chocolate bar the other day (I don't live in the US or the UK) and while I was eating it I was really thinking, "This thing tastes like vomit". I didn't want to offend the person so I finished it, but never again.
Dammit, guys, I can resist everything except temptation! I’ve just finished my bag of Jelly Babies and now I feel compelled to head out and pick up a Toffee Crisp. For good measure I might get a Crunchie while I’m at it!
Back in the early years of this century I used to live just a street away from the Nestlé factory here in York (home of the Yorkie bar) - the area smelled delicious. They also used to make the official Wonka chocolate at the time - I never heard the distant singing of Oompa-Loompas though. ^_^
York being home to several chocolate and sweet manufacturers (mostly now taken by larger corporations, sadly) at times I think there used to be a sugary scent hovering over most of the town.
Best alt-jaffa cakes have to be the ones from Marks & Spencer. They're rectangular, have a higher jelly:sponge ratio and come in a range of flavours including Raspberry, Lemon & Lime and Cranberry!
Random fact about Mcvities: they have a longstanding relationship with the royal family. Often making wedding and celebration cakes for the royals. Prince William and Catherine ordered a cake made from rich tea biscuits for their wedding. The factory is about 10 minutes from my home but unfortunately we don't get free biscuits 😂 we also have the sweets/candy company Swizzels within 10 minutes too 😀 my grandparents said that when they were young children the factory workers would throw sweets to the local children from the windows! My Grandad ended up working there when he was in his late teenage years (probably about early 1950s) for only about half an hour, he was put on the mint production line and he was so overwhelmed by the smell of the mint that he walked out! 😂 Apparently the factory was based originally in London but due to the war had to moved to up north to the countryside!
Oh yes I did notice the picture only had the original hobnobs and the milk chocolate hobnobs. In my humble, the best are the red packet, which are the plain chocolate. In this case ‘plain’ chocolate means dark chocolate.
You asked about other 'Jaffa cake' brands. The German manufacturer Bahlsen makes a particularly toothsome one, but it's rectangular rather than round. These are occasionally found in France, so you may spot them.
Agreed, some of the items can look pretty similar. But do Hersheys actually believe that people can’t read ? TOFFEE CRISP v REESES......completely different Scrabble values 😂
I actually think shops own branded Jaffa cakes are often better than the original. Lidl are particularly good. 😘. I think your right about cakes go hard when stale Biscuits go soft when stale. Yet a good cookie is soft and chewy when fresh. I think this is possibly the difference between cookie and a biscuit in the UK!?
There are a couple of channels that taste test British sweets and crisp etc. They get a lot of them from UK stores online and some of their subscribers send them packages.
@@WanderingRavens Fascinating isn't it? A really quirky case but it raised so many esoteric points of English law that it's still referenced in courses and has made its way into urban mythology. Thanks for another great video - and I *really* appreciated the Cadbury gorilla cut in. Made me laugh and realise that you probably "get" it.
Another fun fact about Jaffa Cakes: the original recipe was altered owing to the mentioned impending Court case as the sponge was previously crispier than it is today. That was to comply with the ‘biscuits soften, cakes harden’ ruling given by the Court in their definition of what constitutes a cake. Best regards from Jersey, CI
I have so many favourites but Welsh cakes are really up there. They're discs about a centimetre thick similar in taste and texture to a scone but cooked in a heavy bottomed pan or on a griddle which gives them a more delicious toasty taste in my opinion. You serve them warm with butter and sometimes jam or if they're particularly good homemade ones sometimes they're just tossed in sugar. My great uncle used to make them when I visited him and my great aunt as a child and they just bring back such lovely memories of holidays in Wales with my family and getting to see my cousins and extended family. You should definitely try them next time you're in Britain.
@@WanderingRavens There have been a number of cases brought by Budweiser Anheuser-Busch (USA) against Budweiser Budvar (Czech) in several different territories. AB have lost in most (other than North America) usually because Budvar came first.
@@WanderingRavens Hey! there are some excellent craft beers being produced in America by micro breweries, and that endorsement is from an English person.
@@pjani14 Budvar registered their beer before the US was discovered!! Hence why AB lost their European suit. However, I believe McDonalds won theirs when they took Mr McDonald, who ran a fish and chip shop in Scotland, to court over trademark infringement!!
Hey guys! I loved your mafia puns at the beginning, and I have another one to add to the list, The Chockuza :D The finger quotation marks for Hershey 'chocolate' and the comment about them knowing their target audience were quite savage too :D I found some Digestive's I hadn't tried the other day, they were Bakewell Tart flavoured and Strawberries and Cream flavoured! They were quite tasty in all honesty. Still, they didn't beat the humble HobNob :P You are slowly reaching 20k subs! Congrats! Thank you for the giggles this evening! Take care and have a lovely evening! x
Minstrels are like M&M's? How dare you. Minstrels are awesome. M&M's well, not so much. Bourbon Biscuits - that'd be pronounced 'bor-ben' biscuits where I'm from. Toffee Crisps are THE best chocolate bar on Earth in my opinion. Never had anything to beat them. It was a sad day when they made them slightly thinner so they could sell you less for the same price. I think if they're missing from the good 'ol US of A then that's their loss. Is a jaffa cake a biscuit or a cake, there's at least a page full of comments heading your way. (mc-vit-is not mc-vit-ees btw). Realised I watch all your videos, usually comment too but never offer praise. Great video as usual, keep up the good work.
Hi Mark! Oh! We didn't know Brits say "bourbon" differently! Thanks for letting us know :D Toffee crisps sound incredible - haven't had one yet, but will soon as we're back in the UK ;) And thank you for the compliment! We're so glad you enjoy our videos and we always appreciate reading your insight. xx
@@WanderingRavens Toffee crisps where even more awesome-er before they shrunk. I can't remember when it happened but there was a point in time when all the manufacturers started downsizing their products. Snickers got shorter and thinner, so did Mars bars, Twix's. Toffee crisps were yet another of the casualties. Piece of personal history - my mother used to work for Rowntree Macintosh (the original makers of Toffee Crips who were taken over by Nestle). Staff could buy 'seconds' or sub-standard produce at a heavily discounted rate. So I grew up on mis-shaped toffee crisps, lion bars, kit-kats, etc. Kit-kats were the best because sometimes they'd be missing the wafer so they were just solid chunks of chocolate. Also they all usually came in packs of 13 (don't know why 13) so we had lots of chocolate.
I just ordered some yorkie candy bars off of Amazon. Also, my wife order some gluten free bourbon biscuits a month ago, and we enjoyed them. Great video!
FYI we/I pronounce bourbon as boar-Bon like “pour” with a b not ber-bun like the whiskey. Also the Jaffa cake vat problem also included the fact a biscuits go soft when stale but a cake goes hard when stale which we in uk know to be the case with Jaffa cakes. This I believe is the definition which still allows there vat free status.
Some of your pronunciation was rather suspect in this video! Jaffa cake was my favourite! I'm northern so for me it's definitely an a sound not an A sound, I've never even heard posh people pronounce it with an A sound. I love all the things you've mentioned, sad for Americans that they can't get these things. I hate Hershey's, I think it smells and tastes like vomit so to hear that they're the reason you don't have some of our most delicious treats is rather rude! Love watching your videos x
Yeah, apologies for the butchering of some of the pronunciations 😂😂 And we agree with you on Hershey's! I think the consistency and taste is rather like wax haha
Great video always enjoy them🤪 the argument that won then the Jaffa cake case was that biscuits go soft when there left out but cakes don’t. Jaffa cakes don’t go soft when you leave them out 👍
@@WanderingRavens To be fair I can see their point. What would they do if some European types rocked up in the USA and started showing Americans what proper chocolate is supposed to taste like?
I laughed when you played part of The Imperial March from Star Wars when mentioning Hershey's (and thanks for the cute puppy when saying Barkshire). I was a bit surprised Eric didn't mention Haggis again :P
Jacob's used to make a product called Pims which was similar to a jaffa cake, but had a cherry filling with a white chocolate half coating. Vastly superior, but no longer available. You can find it if you do a search on UA-cam.
I heard that the difference between cakes and biscuits is that cakes go hard when stale and biscuits go soft when stale. I have never tested whether it is true or not cakes and biscuits don't get the chance to go stale.
@@WanderingRavens there used to be an American Candy shop in my hometown, Reeces Peanut butter pieces are ok and you can get them anywhere but I've got a thing for the Jelly Belly beans although I tried both the chocolate and Root Beer and both are just YUK!
Let’s not be too smug, though. There’s a shop in Auckland, New Zealand specialising in American groceries, where I recently bought some Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Squares. They are as good as any filled chocolates I’ve ever tasted, anywhere.
I use to work for a vending machine company and we use to get tons of samples sent and got hershy's kisses, they looked really cute and loved how they opened so was excited to try them, yuck! I spat it out assuming it was off, only to be told nope! That's what they actually taste like, needless to say, we didn't buy any🤢🤮
Mcvities jaffa cakes are sold in the UK in the biscuit aisles of the store. They also make them in lemon &lime flavour and also pineapple its a jelly inside and really yummy also they make a strawberry one also
Wandering Ravens Phonetically it’s ja fa, with a hard A. Think of Haha, with a J and F. Jaffa. No H sound as suggested above, that reads too much like Jarfa. Now repeat after me - ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa.
I have heard about that story you mentioned regarding Minstrels and M&M s , but it was supposed to have been Smarties that was invented ,I wonder which one is right .
Smarties were around in the UK a long time before minstrels. I remember the launching of galaxy chocolate and that was years after smarties which have been around longer than me. I'm in my sixties.
The law here in Ireland is a bit different: cakes are not considered a "staple" and thus are subject to VAT, partly because of the amount of added sugar needed in a cake. This is one of reason Subway bread is not considered "bread" for tax purposes, and thus is subject to VAT: it contains substantial amounts of added sugar.
As a kid, my mum would always have four types of biscuits at all times; Custard Creams, Bourbons, Rich Teas and Digestives. The four types of biscuits she'd put into a 'barrell', it was really a plastic tub. We'd get out the 'biscuit barrell' whenever we'd make tea/coffee. Sometimes a rare treat would be Party Rings or Jammy Dodgers! Also it seemed that Brits like different biscuits in their packed lunches. My childhood top three would be Penguins, Gold Bars and Wagon Wheels. Nostalgia filled biccies.
The best Jaffa Cakes are often supermarket brand ones, as they put more jelly in them. McVities ones are quite dry, but still a great snack! My favourite biscuit is the Choco-Leibniz which is actually a German biscuit - favourite British biscuit? Chocolate hobnob.
I read for the difinitve version to prove the Jaffa is a cake, they discovered when you put cakes in a refrigerator they go stale and hard, when you put biscuits in a refrigerator they go soggy.
Cakes go hard when left out and biscuits go soft. I think you are in Paris? Have you seen Pims in the supermarket? They are the European version of Jaffa cakes but the flavours are awesome. Orange, lemon, raspberry, pear, cherry etc.
On the subject of trade marks, when McCain introduced Oven Chips to the UK in 1979, due to a mistake they were trademarked as McCain Oven Chips rather than Oven Chips, As a result of this competitors were able to call their products the same and the unique name became generic.
I'd consider the McVities Jaffa cakes are definitely the best. Though the posh (but high quality) UK supermarket Marks and Spencer makes their own thin and small rectangular Jaffa cakes that are outstanding! There's a few flavours like the standard orange, a lime one and a strawberry based one. Love them! 😍
‘They melt in your mouth and not in your hand’ was originally used for Treets before M&Ms and Minstrels. Treets were discontinued when Mars introduced peanut M&Ms although eventually brought back after a twenty year gap. My preference in these bagged sweets is for Revels, yet another Mars variation but with multiple flavours. Whilst I’m on can I mention Topic? Quite like a Mars bar but with added hazelnuts. The adverts used to go ‘What’s got a hazelnut in every bite? Topic!’ Which was adapted by every schoolchild as ‘What’s got a hazelnut in every bite? Squirrel shit!’ Happy days😀
Nice video! Oh. I love Minstrels. But you can't eat them in the cinema due to the crunch they make when you eat them. I haven't eaten them in a while actually
When we were little, my dad used to open a box of Jaffa cakes, on our way around the supermarket. We would eat the whole pack between us. Probably a bit naughty to do that but it’s a fond memory for me! Also they are pronounced like Jaff-uh... less emphasis on the a and more on the ff. that was hard to explain 😂 you need to try them though they’re bloody gorgeous!
There are various brands that do Blackcurrant Jaffa Cakes, around Halloween McVities usually put out various different 'scary' flavours, Blackcurrant included.
7:30, Sorry to correct you again, but I've never heard it pronounced any way besides Jaaffa, as in an a sound rather than an ay or uh. That's just me , so I don't know.
The biscuit that tops all those you mention is McVities Homewheat Dark. Also the "a" in Jaffa is like the "a" in hat or fat, so the word sounds like Jaffer. Interesting video
Grace and Eric I want to tell you how very much I enjoy your Wandering Ravens videos and thank you for these informative videos. The Hobnobs look like Moon Pies to me,have you ever tried Moon Pies?
Here in Slovenia you can get Jaffa Cakes, but made in Serbia by a Serbian company (no copyright). Apart from the packaging, they are exactly the same as back in the UK.
Before 1988 Minstrels where known as "Treets". These came in Peanut, chocolate and toffee, the toffee ones were known as for a while as "Relays" before being dropped altogether. Bourbon biscuit is pronounced Borebon, not like the Whiskey
Wine gums are my favorites. One can find them here in the States (I'm from Seattle too); but not a variety of brands. When I was a kid in the '60's/'70's my family would visit our Canadian relatives about 3 or 4 times per year. Canada has much greater access to things British than the States do, so we would almost always get British candies (especilly wine gums) on our way home. We also had black current candies, and sometimes a hunk of milk chocolate from a Canadian candy store.
Quick note, we don't pronounce Bourbon the same way as the american alcoholic drink, its pronounced Bore-ben! Also I agree with why didn't Nestle rebrand the toffe crisp? Theres quite a few things in the US that are slightly different brands to UK like Dove and Galaxy, Three Musketeers and Milky Way.
The Jaffa Cake bribery thing reminds me that they were used as a form of currency at one point in my secondary school. Anyway, to take the reverse tack for this video, what always surprises me about American chocolate when I go there (barring the usual cracks about Hershey tasting like vomit) is how many peanut butter based products there are there, and how there's always a 'with peanut butter' variant of the same chocolate bars we have. Understandable given how big an agricultural product it is there, but it must suck to live in the US if you have a nut allergy...
Love a Jaffa Cake, but they're over too soon for the price. Found an alternative to the Jaffa, Happy Shopper do a cheap version of the Jaffa, box of 24 for £1, a bit smaller and dark choc instead of milk and they're nice to binge on, found in all small garage shops or small local run shops.
love jaffa cakes :D you definitly should try it some time, you could do some sort of british taste tests. Not one is better that the orginiol in my opinion but most of the non-original they're still pretty good :D
The German company Behlzen make one's which taste as good, they are a rectangular shape as this is more efficient in zee production process. Also the last few times I've bought McVities the chocolate was all broken up & it looked like someone had trodden on them. This does not happen with Behlzen as they are German & it is impossible to make a less than perfect Jaffa Cake there ;-)
Andrew Warrener oh yeah we have rectangular onces too, not sure if they’re the same ones? I like them both. The rectangular once’s that we have (don’t know if their the same think) I think have much stronger in the orange flavour while the original have a more subtle orange taste, both are good though I prefer the rectangular in the fridge and like the hard chocolate with the sharper orangy tase while the originals I don’t mind :) Edit/ just realised the rectangler once’s we has were lemon and lime taste, that’s why they had a sharper taste, lol
Jaffa cakes: From a culinary perspective ‘cakes’ go hard when stale, and ‘biscuits’ go soft when stale. Since many american cookies are soft when fresh, there is actually a culinary (as opposed to cultural / linguistic) differece between ‘biscuits’ and ‘cookies’. Thus, in the uk we have cookies AS WELL AS biscuits
Jaffa Cakes come in different flavours now too, including rasberry, strawberry and lemon and lime although usually they're available for only a limited time. I'm surprised Mars don't sell Minstrels in the US under their Dove brand. A Mars Bar is also not the same in the US as it is in the UK, neither is a Milky Way. And that Yorkie advert would never be allowed today. Another snack food you don't find much in the US is Bombay Mix. It's all over the place here in major supermarkets and corner shops but when in the US I could only find it in specialty Indian stores of which there aren't many.
Oooo, we’re looking forward to sampling all of the different flavoured Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋 And what is Bombay mix? Sounds really good!
M&M stands for ‘Mars and Murrie’, with the ‘Mars’ in question being Frank Mars’ son, who took over the company after he died. Murrie was a disgruntled ex board member of Hersheys who left when Milton Hershey didn’t put him in charge when he left. M&Ms then became part of the Mars company, which annoyed Hershey, thus leading to the rivalry that the two companies have.
Bonsoir Grace & Eric,such a shame that America can't experience these UK snacks, as a compulsive dunker Hobnobs are being dunked as I type this and I had no idea that Jaffa Cakes had such an interesting history. I always enjoy your channel and you are a great team.. Thanks for sharing.
The only negative with Jaffa Cakes is you have to eat them all before they go stale 😥
The only positive with Jaffa Cakes is you have to eat them all before they go stale 😅
@@purestrangeness1839 I always thought that it was the stepmothers that were supposed to be cruel 😁
Yeah but if you leave Jaffa cakes long enough to go stale then you don’t deserve to have the Jaffa cakes in your house 😂
No problem going stale. They are so moreish, they don't have have a chance of going stale
There are no negatives with jaffa cakes. Stale or fresh. I buy them in a long tube. Or several tubes. And they're all mine. They are transcendental. Beyond space and time. If I could get lodging at one of the plants I would. I wonder if I'm not obsessed with them. But they are delicious.
Once I open a packet of jaffa cakes then they gone in mins 2 at a time no chance to go stale
We pronounce Bourbons Bore-bon. The american whiskey we pronounce Ber-bon
Oh! We didn't know Brits say "bourbon" differently! Thanks for letting us know :D
@@WanderingRavens
Somebody will contradict me!
@@tonycasey3183 I always pronounced them Boor-bon!
@@WanderingRavens We only say Bourbon differently in reference to the biscuits, for the whiskey we say it in the way so do
Definitely Bore-bon
In the words of Tom Holland, “if your Nan doesn’t offer you Jaffa cakes, is she even your Nan?” (If you know, you know)
This is bad news for my American Nan then 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels how dare you!!!! lol
@@WanderingRavens To answer your question, there is no better jaffa cakes than mcvities jaffa cakes, they're cakey spongey kings of the snack world. They also release them in different flavours like lemon and lime, strawberry and pineapple.
@@MagentaOtterTravels there is now a new flavour of Jaffa Cake ....Lime
He’s not wrong though!! Like if she doesn’t who is she ????😂
Hershey' s chocolate tastes foul makes me feel sick!
Yep, to me there's a vomit like taste to them! I don't think it can legally be called chocolate because there's not enough cocoa in it lol
@@rockracingfan Apparently its supposed to! I saw it on QI, something about the ingredients having an enzyme found in vomit(I think I've remembered it correctly!)
Chocolate in the UK- In the UK, chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa solids. In the US, on the other hand, cocoa solids need only make up 10%.
A Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains 23% cocoa solids, whereas a Hershey bar contains just 11% So chocolate bought in UK tastes richer to chocolate bought in the States
@@chrislawley6801 but even the Hershey marketed to the UK is horrible.
@@chrislawley6801 To be honest, you'll find that accross the board with food standard differences between the UK and the US.
When I was in the army, Yorkies were briefly contracted to be used in 24hour ration packs. They changed their slogan accordingly to "Not for Civies".
Jaffa Cakes are amazing. The only danger is that whenever they enter the house they barely last a day between my family
They sound delicious! We're looking forward to sampling many Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋
A whole day?? I'm impressed. A standard pack lasts about 80 seconds in my house.
After a day they turn into biscuits.
Sadly I don't like them, or any chocolate orange flavoured treat.
Family? They wouldn't last a day if I was on my own.
Another argument about the Jaffa cake court case apparently was that cakes when they go stale go hard where as Biscuits( Cookies) go soft.
Mcvities just launched a pineapple flavour Jaffa cake
Glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😂
the pineapple flavour ones aren't great, it's kind of bitter
@@TheHarleyEvans I agree, there ok if you were offered them but I wouldn't buy them again
@@paultipton743 yeah they're something you can eat, but don't really want to. i bought mine today and i guess i'm going to finish them off later so i don't have to worry about having a pack of jaffa cakes i dont want to eat in the cupboard
@@TheHarleyEvans Yeah... that's what I did.
"ooh, these are new... I'll get a pack!" Regrets. But like... not awful regrets where I had to throw them out (like pringles hoisin duck rice infusions) but certainly never getting again.
Had an American mate staying and he asked me to get a bar of Dove from the shop. was a bit confused when I gave him a bar of Dove soap
😂😂 we have Dove soap in the States too though so it was his fault for not specifying haha
Ha ha, he didn't know we call it Galaxy.
I was honest suprised the first time I went on holiday to the US and saw dove chocolate it has the same packaging same logo everything is exactly the same as our galaxy but the names different same thing with lynx and axe I
That's classic 🤣🤣
You think that's bad, imagine the slap I received when I mentioned camels' toes to an American girl who asked me if her fanny looked nice in the jeans she was wearing!!!
I cant be the only English man to despise the word 'candy'? Blurgh
Nah mate you definitely ain't.
Unless it's candy floss😉
Yes. They are sweets, never candy. I don't like the word.
Unless it’s a beautiful woman.
Not only that but I've been duolinguoing and "cookie" is starting to grate now too.
5:00 we have Reeses in the UK too and nobody gets them confused with toffee crisp
Funny how we can't sell Toffee Crisp in the US because, 'it looks too much like Reese's', but Reese's can sell their stuff here.
Do the two brands look too much alike or don't they, Reese's? Either they do or they don't. Pick one.
Fair point
There's even no nuts involved, though may still contain traces of nut.
UK have reeses here aswell and we can tell them apart. I cant say ive ever got home from buying a reeses peanut butter cup and realise ive picked up a toffee crisp instead lol
@@SereneJudo reeses and toffee crisp are similar in the uk. The fact one is a chocolate bar and the other is choc cups of peanut butter is the major difference. We can easily shop without getting mixed up in the uk
@@stacyjob6279 the reason hersheys doesn't sell in the uk it's because its shite
Hershey’s is disgusting,it tastes like vomit 🤮
Wow, Hersheys really screwed you guys out of some seriously tasty confectionery 👀 lol
What's worse is important in the UK and shops sell hersheys chocolate no idea why Americans can't get nice British chocolate
@@chriskidner7287 Because American companies can't stand competition if it could be more popular well as we see them do multiple times also apparently Hershey apparently think the American public illiterate as shit.
Truss it's peak
Apparently, the slogan "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" was originally developed for Mars Treets in the UK in the 1960s. These came in two varieties, peanuts covered in chocolate with a brown glazed sugar shell, and a flattened chocolate in a brown glazed sugar shell. The latter was superceded by the similar 'Minstrels' in the late 80s. Peanut Treets were reintroduced a decade back.
[btw, 'Jaffa' pronunciation: In Britspeak, it has 2 short 'a's like cat or mat - not longer 'a' as in bath or hearth!]
Good to know! Thank you :D
Toffee Crisps are my favorite and I get a stash brought to me once a year by a friend who visits from England. Need to ration them. I have seen them recently in the tiny British food section of a local chain grocery store, but they are unbelieveably expensive for a candy bar so I rely on my yearly stash. Good video
You have a good friend! We used to do the same thing when we lived in South Korea and were unable to find savoury american snacks so we know the feels haha
I love McVitie's Penguin biscuits. Like a bourbon but a softer texture and covered in chocolate. I think you can buy them from online stores in the US imported from the UK.
Please stop calling them Joffa Cakes 😂 Also, McVitties is pronounced as it's spelt, not like "McVeeties". It's a Mancunian institution so we take it seriously up here.
Keep it up, guys. I am loving your videos.
If you look closely at a packet you'll see McVitie's only has one "t", so the Ravens made a valid (if incorrect) first pronunciation choice.
@@greenisnotacreativecolour You're both wrong, it does only have one T but Chris was closer, and is therefore pronounced "M'ck-Vit-EASE" (stress on capitalised syllable); not "M'ck-Vit-TEASE" as Chris (technically) wrote or "M'ck-VEET-Ease" as they were saying.
@@BigAlCapwn Actually, if you'll notice, I never stated how it should be pronounced, only one possible pronunciation based on first viewing of the word, and while your own suggestion is also valid based on first reading, it is alas, also incorrect. What you fail to realise is that the "V" is actually a Latin character that, whilst it resembles the English capital "V", is actually pronounced as the letter "U". On top of that, the "t" is silent, so the correct pronunciation is in fact pronounced like "McEwies", or "M'k-you-ease". Only a select few at the top of the company (and myself) know this, and you lucky reader, are now also party to this exclusive knowledge.
Why do you care so much about how it is spelt
@@ethancantwell8549 Why don't you?
*_Fun fact:_* Minstrels used to be the one of sweets in a bag of Treets which were marketed for the same "melt in your mouth not in your hand" reason. Peanut Treets became part of M&M in the UK and Chocolate Treets became Minstrels and Toffee Treets became Relays (discontinued quite quickly).
Yikes! Americans are missing out on loads of great chocolates!
I know!! 😭
But they make up for it by having concentrated vomit bars going by the name of Hersheys.
And proper chocolate 😁
@@billythedog-309 Somebody bought me a Hersheys chocolate bar the other day (I don't live in the US or the UK) and while I was eating it I was really thinking, "This thing tastes like vomit". I didn't want to offend the person so I finished it, but never again.
@@jlr108 so your vomit tastes of chocolate? I myself like our chocolate,but only kind I have had. Can't afford even that now.
Dammit, guys, I can resist everything except temptation! I’ve just finished my bag of Jelly Babies and now I feel compelled to head out and pick up a Toffee Crisp. For good measure I might get a Crunchie while I’m at it!
Got a four pack of Toffee crisps in the fridge for just such a problem.
DO IT!!!!
Those crispy bits need freedom. You know you should.
Back in the early years of this century I used to live just a street away from the Nestlé factory here in York (home of the Yorkie bar) - the area smelled delicious. They also used to make the official Wonka chocolate at the time - I never heard the distant singing of Oompa-Loompas though. ^_^
Sounds like a magical place to live 😋
York being home to several chocolate and sweet manufacturers (mostly now taken by larger corporations, sadly) at times I think there used to be a sugary scent hovering over most of the town.
I lived in Hereford, near a huge cider factory. At certain times of year it smelt like a thousand grannies were baking apple pies.
Gotta say, liking the progression in the editing. Those little touches make you stand out from similar channels.
Thank you so much! Eric has waaay too much fun with all of the effects 😂
Best alt-jaffa cakes have to be the ones from Marks & Spencer. They're rectangular, have a higher jelly:sponge ratio and come in a range of flavours including Raspberry, Lemon & Lime and Cranberry!
Oooo, we’re looking forward to sampling all of the different flavoured Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋
Yeah, I'm a fan of Marks and Sparks jaffa cakes as well, they're softer too yummy 🤤
I'd claim the superiority of the Greek raspberry version. We buy them every holiday. They go nicely with coffee without milk
Random fact about Mcvities: they have a longstanding relationship with the royal family. Often making wedding and celebration cakes for the royals. Prince William and Catherine ordered a cake made from rich tea biscuits for their wedding. The factory is about 10 minutes from my home but unfortunately we don't get free biscuits 😂 we also have the sweets/candy company Swizzels within 10 minutes too 😀 my grandparents said that when they were young children the factory workers would throw sweets to the local children from the windows! My Grandad ended up working there when he was in his late teenage years (probably about early 1950s) for only about half an hour, he was put on the mint production line and he was so overwhelmed by the smell of the mint that he walked out! 😂 Apparently the factory was based originally in London but due to the war had to moved to up north to the countryside!
What a delightful story. One of my friends used to live near the swizzles factory and the aroma was intoxicating.
Chocolate Hobnobs are awesome! 😋
We're looking forward to trying them! 😋
Oh yes I did notice the picture only had the original hobnobs and the milk chocolate hobnobs. In my humble, the best are the red packet, which are the plain chocolate.
In this case ‘plain’ chocolate means dark chocolate.
You asked about other 'Jaffa cake' brands. The German manufacturer Bahlsen makes a particularly toothsome one, but it's rectangular rather than round. These are occasionally found in France, so you may spot them.
We'll keep an eye out 🕵🏻
Agreed, some of the items can look pretty similar. But do Hersheys actually believe that people can’t read ? TOFFEE CRISP v REESES......completely different Scrabble values 😂
This says a lot about Hersheys' target audience 😂
It's not because people will get them mixed up. It's because Hershey's don't want the competition.
Remember large corporations buy politicians.
@@alanlee1355 Yes. Hershey's chocolate sucks so they definitely don't want any competition.
its selfish greedy corporate wankyness
I actually think shops own branded Jaffa cakes are often better than the original. Lidl are particularly good. 😘. I think your right about cakes go hard when stale Biscuits go soft when stale. Yet a good cookie is soft and chewy when fresh. I think this is possibly the difference between cookie and a biscuit in the UK!?
Jaffa cake are the best the box never makes it home I eat them all on the way home
Can't wait to try them!
@@WanderingRavens you will not be disappointed
@@WanderingRavens you will be disappointed, their disgusting lol
There are a couple of channels that taste test British sweets and crisp etc. They get a lot of them from UK stores online and some of their subscribers send them packages.
Those sound like fun channels! Maybe we should try that too haha. It would make for a really delicious video shoot 😂
When cakes go stale they harden, when biscuits go stale they soften
We found the court case details so interesting! We're glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😋😂
It still amazes that this need to go to court. Surely the biggest clue is in the name?
@@WanderingRavens Fascinating isn't it? A really quirky case but it raised so many esoteric points of English law that it's still referenced in courses and has made its way into urban mythology. Thanks for another great video - and I *really* appreciated the Cadbury gorilla cut in. Made me laugh and realise that you probably "get" it.
Another fun fact about Jaffa Cakes: the original recipe was altered owing to the mentioned impending Court case as the sponge was previously crispier than it is today. That was to comply with the ‘biscuits soften, cakes harden’ ruling given by the Court in their definition of what constitutes a cake. Best regards from Jersey, CI
Sounds scientific! Glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😋😂
I always feel slight disappointment when a Wandering Ravens video finishes.
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I have so many favourites but Welsh cakes are really up there. They're discs about a centimetre thick similar in taste and texture to a scone but cooked in a heavy bottomed pan or on a griddle which gives them a more delicious toasty taste in my opinion. You serve them warm with butter and sometimes jam or if they're particularly good homemade ones sometimes they're just tossed in sugar. My great uncle used to make them when I visited him and my great aunt as a child and they just bring back such lovely memories of holidays in Wales with my family and getting to see my cousins and extended family. You should definitely try them next time you're in Britain.
the 'Ja' in Jaffa Cakes is not pronounced as 'jar', the 'a' is pronounced like the first in 'America'. It is a quick 'a', not a long one.
Good to know! Thank you :D
As in “gaff” .... 🙀
the way they say Jaffa cake is so weired. I thourt everyone called them the same
Why you putting an R n Jaffa - let's start pronouncing American incorrect
jah like in alladin
The holes in a Bourbon are there to allow steam to escape after they have been baked, to stop the soft biscuits from cracking or collapsing.
Budweiser USA sued Budweiser Czech over the name. Bud USA lost and the judge said no one who tasted both would ever confuse the products.
For reals? That's a great story! Of course Czech beer would win out over American beer 😂
@@WanderingRavens There have been a number of cases brought by Budweiser Anheuser-Busch (USA) against Budweiser Budvar (Czech) in several different territories. AB have lost in most (other than North America) usually because Budvar came first.
@@WanderingRavens Hey! there are some excellent craft beers being produced in America by micro breweries, and that endorsement is from an English person.
@@pjani14 Budvar registered their beer before the US was discovered!! Hence why AB lost their European suit.
However, I believe McDonalds won theirs when they took Mr McDonald, who ran a fish and chip shop in Scotland, to court over trademark infringement!!
Hey guys!
I loved your mafia puns at the beginning, and I have another one to add to the list, The Chockuza :D The finger quotation marks for Hershey 'chocolate' and the comment about them knowing their target audience were quite savage too :D
I found some Digestive's I hadn't tried the other day, they were Bakewell Tart flavoured and Strawberries and Cream flavoured! They were quite tasty in all honesty. Still, they didn't beat the humble HobNob :P
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Thank you for the giggles this evening!
Take care and have a lovely evening!
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So glad you enjoyed this one, Ben! And those sound like some good digestives! Haven't tried those yet, so let us know what you think :D
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Minstrels are like M&M's? How dare you. Minstrels are awesome. M&M's well, not so much.
Bourbon Biscuits - that'd be pronounced 'bor-ben' biscuits where I'm from.
Toffee Crisps are THE best chocolate bar on Earth in my opinion. Never had anything to beat them. It was a sad day when they made them slightly thinner so they could sell you less for the same price. I think if they're missing from the good 'ol US of A then that's their loss.
Is a jaffa cake a biscuit or a cake, there's at least a page full of comments heading your way. (mc-vit-is not mc-vit-ees btw).
Realised I watch all your videos, usually comment too but never offer praise.
Great video as usual, keep up the good work.
Hi Mark!
Oh! We didn't know Brits say "bourbon" differently! Thanks for letting us know :D
Toffee crisps sound incredible - haven't had one yet, but will soon as we're back in the UK ;)
And thank you for the compliment! We're so glad you enjoy our videos and we always appreciate reading your insight.
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@@WanderingRavens Bourbon the drink is pronounced the same but the biscuits are 'bor-bun'
@@WanderingRavens Toffee crisps where even more awesome-er before they shrunk. I can't remember when it happened but there was a point in time when all the manufacturers started downsizing their products. Snickers got shorter and thinner, so did Mars bars, Twix's. Toffee crisps were yet another of the casualties. Piece of personal history - my mother used to work for Rowntree Macintosh (the original makers of Toffee Crips who were taken over by Nestle). Staff could buy 'seconds' or sub-standard produce at a heavily discounted rate. So I grew up on mis-shaped toffee crisps, lion bars, kit-kats, etc. Kit-kats were the best because sometimes they'd be missing the wafer so they were just solid chunks of chocolate. Also they all usually came in packs of 13 (don't know why 13) so we had lots of chocolate.
I just ordered some yorkie candy bars off of Amazon. Also, my wife order some gluten free bourbon biscuits a month ago, and we enjoyed them. Great video!
I think you should a video on pronouncing the names of British snacks
Brilliant idea! thank you :D
Or British irony
Great videos guys I buy a version of Jaffa Cakes from Aldi. In my opinion there just as good as McVities and about half the price.
I just remembered that I bought my dad a yard of Jaffa Cakes for Christmas
FYI we/I pronounce bourbon as boar-Bon like “pour” with a b not ber-bun like the whiskey. Also the Jaffa cake vat problem also included the fact a biscuits go soft when stale but a cake goes hard when stale which we in uk know to be the case with Jaffa cakes. This I believe is the definition which still allows there vat free status.
Some of your pronunciation was rather suspect in this video! Jaffa cake was my favourite! I'm northern so for me it's definitely an a sound not an A sound, I've never even heard posh people pronounce it with an A sound. I love all the things you've mentioned, sad for Americans that they can't get these things. I hate Hershey's, I think it smells and tastes like vomit so to hear that they're the reason you don't have some of our most delicious treats is rather rude! Love watching your videos x
Yeah, apologies for the butchering of some of the pronunciations 😂😂 And we agree with you on Hershey's! I think the consistency and taste is rather like wax haha
Bourbon biscuits have holes in to release pressure during manufacture. The BBC showed the factory making them a few months ago.
Full moon
Half moon
Total eclipse!
That was a good advert. Can't have jaffa cakes now as I have problems with wheat.
That’s a shame. I wonder if there is gluten free Jaffa Cakes?
Great video always enjoy them🤪 the argument that won then the Jaffa cake case was that biscuits go soft when there left out but cakes don’t. Jaffa cakes don’t go soft when you leave them out 👍
Hershey's - Americas favourite monopoly?
Unfortunately - bleh!
@@WanderingRavens To be fair I can see their point. What would they do if some European types rocked up in the USA and started showing Americans what proper chocolate is supposed to taste like?
@@markrichardson3421 I'm American and just tried a Belgian chocolate brand called Tony's Chocolonely. AMAZING. I'll never eat hershey's again. 😂
@@kaylat.9104 Yeah, the Belgians tend to do pretty decent chocolate. As much as I hate to admit it being a brit.
@@kaylat.9104 Tony's Chocolonely is actually Dutch but agree - it's delicious!
I laughed when you played part of The Imperial March from Star Wars when mentioning Hershey's (and thanks for the cute puppy when saying Barkshire). I was a bit surprised Eric didn't mention Haggis again :P
Lol.....
I approved of the puppy too
I didn't even hear that!
Glad you enjoyed it! And shoot! Did we forget our lord Haggis in this one?!!
My favourite is Cadbury creme eggs, anything cadbury is the best
Jacob's used to make a product called Pims which was similar to a jaffa cake, but had a cherry filling with a white chocolate half coating. Vastly superior, but no longer available. You can find it if you do a search on UA-cam.
Aldi has the best jafa cake
We'll try it next time we're there!
There is a good one at lidl too. i have also had ones with different flavours from a Polish shop
Sorry but no. The only proper Jaffa Cake is the one where the tangy orange jelly actually sets. The Jaffa Cake don that is the McVities Jaffa Cake.
I heard that the difference between cakes and biscuits is that cakes go hard when stale and biscuits go soft when stale. I have never tested whether it is true or not cakes and biscuits don't get the chance to go stale.
Sounds reasonable! Glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😋😂
I love all of them
They're so delicious!
@@WanderingRavens even when you said bourbon wrong
@@nellloveridge4890 Oh no! How do Brits say it? 😂
@@WanderingRavens boolborn
@@WanderingRavens Bourbon is boar-bon well it is if you learnt English in Devon
Favourite treats: Creme egg, Wagon Wheel, egg custard, battenberg, Nestle After Eights, Maynards Wine Gums
Tried Hersey kisses a couple of years ago. Yeech!.
🤢🤢 Hershey's is the worst!
@@WanderingRavens there used to be an American Candy shop in my hometown, Reeces Peanut butter pieces are ok and you can get them anywhere but I've got a thing for the Jelly Belly beans although I tried both the chocolate and Root Beer and both are just YUK!
Aye, Hershey's genuinely tastes like sick. Dunno WHAT the company puts into their products, but...
Let’s not be too smug, though. There’s a shop in Auckland, New Zealand specialising in American groceries, where I recently bought some Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Squares. They are as good as any filled chocolates I’ve ever tasted, anywhere.
I use to work for a vending machine company and we use to get tons of samples sent and got hershy's kisses, they looked really cute and loved how they opened so was excited to try them, yuck! I spat it out assuming it was off, only to be told nope! That's what they actually taste like, needless to say, we didn't buy any🤢🤮
Mcvities jaffa cakes are sold in the UK in the biscuit aisles of the store. They also make them in lemon &lime flavour and also pineapple its a jelly inside and really yummy also they make a strawberry one also
There pronounced jahfa cakes
Oh no! Thanks for letting us know :D
@@WanderingRavens it a commen American mistake
Wandering Ravens Phonetically it’s ja fa, with a hard A. Think of Haha, with a J and F. Jaffa. No H sound as suggested above, that reads too much like Jarfa. Now repeat after me - ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa, ja fa.
@@SteveBlakeProduction I think it sounds like joffa cake and I have heard a lot of Americans say it that way.
@@johnr4876 ... common
I have heard about that story you mentioned regarding Minstrels and M&M s , but it was supposed to have been Smarties that was invented ,I wonder which one is right .
Hmm, that's interesting. I'll look it up again to see if there are details that I missed
Smarties were around in the UK a long time before minstrels. I remember the launching of galaxy chocolate and that was years after smarties which have been around longer than me. I'm in my sixties.
The law here in Ireland is a bit different: cakes are not considered a "staple" and thus are subject to VAT, partly because of the amount of added sugar needed in a cake. This is one of reason Subway bread is not considered "bread" for tax purposes, and thus is subject to VAT: it contains substantial amounts of added sugar.
As a kid, my mum would always have four types of biscuits at all times; Custard Creams, Bourbons, Rich Teas and Digestives. The four types of biscuits she'd put into a 'barrell', it was really a plastic tub. We'd get out the 'biscuit barrell' whenever we'd make tea/coffee. Sometimes a rare treat would be Party Rings or Jammy Dodgers!
Also it seemed that Brits like different biscuits in their packed lunches. My childhood top three would be Penguins, Gold Bars and Wagon Wheels. Nostalgia filled biccies.
The best Jaffa Cakes are often supermarket brand ones, as they put more jelly in them. McVities ones are quite dry, but still a great snack! My favourite biscuit is the Choco-Leibniz which is actually a German biscuit - favourite British biscuit? Chocolate hobnob.
Loved the editing 👍👍
Yorkie is a chocolate bar made by Nestlé. It was originally made by Rowntree's of York.
Good to know! Thank you :D
Hob Nobs are sooooo good.
There is a white chocolate & cherry version of Jaffa Cakes, they're called PIMS :P
I read for the difinitve version to prove the Jaffa is a cake, they discovered when you put cakes in a refrigerator they go stale and hard, when you put biscuits in a refrigerator they go soggy.
Sounds scientific! Glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😋😂
Who the hell puts either in the refrigerator!
They walk among us
Cakes go hard when left out and biscuits go soft. I think you are in Paris? Have you seen Pims in the supermarket? They are the European version of Jaffa cakes but the flavours are awesome. Orange, lemon, raspberry, pear, cherry etc.
We found the court case details so interesting! We're glad that McVities was able to prove Jaffa Cake's cake-liness in court 😋😂
Surprised Terry's chocolate orange wasn't on your list, I absolutely adore them 🤤🤤🤤 great video again guys
Marking Terry's down for part two! :D
On the subject of trade marks, when McCain introduced Oven Chips to the UK in 1979, due to a mistake they were trademarked as McCain Oven Chips rather than Oven Chips, As a result of this competitors were able to call their products the same and the unique name became generic.
I'd consider the McVities Jaffa cakes are definitely the best. Though the posh (but high quality) UK supermarket Marks and Spencer makes their own thin and small rectangular Jaffa cakes that are outstanding! There's a few flavours like the standard orange, a lime one and a strawberry based one. Love them! 😍
We'll have to give various versions of Jaffa cakes a try next time we're in the UK 😋
‘They melt in your mouth and not in your hand’ was originally used for Treets before M&Ms and Minstrels. Treets were discontinued when Mars introduced peanut M&Ms although eventually brought back after a twenty year gap. My preference in these bagged sweets is for Revels, yet another Mars variation but with multiple flavours.
Whilst I’m on can I mention Topic? Quite like a Mars bar but with added hazelnuts. The adverts used to go ‘What’s got a hazelnut in every bite? Topic!’ Which was adapted by every schoolchild as ‘What’s got a hazelnut in every bite? Squirrel shit!’
Happy days😀
Nice video!
Oh. I love Minstrels. But you can't eat them in the cinema due to the crunch they make when you eat them. I haven't eaten them in a while actually
We haven't had them before! They sound delicious though
@@WanderingRavens Warning! Don't start! First it'll be "I'll just have one" and before you blink it'll be "I'll just have one packet" 😱 🤣🇬🇧
When we were little, my dad used to open a box of Jaffa cakes, on our way around the supermarket. We would eat the whole pack between us. Probably a bit naughty to do that but it’s a fond memory for me! Also they are pronounced like Jaff-uh... less emphasis on the a and more on the ff. that was hard to explain 😂 you need to try them though they’re bloody gorgeous!
That's a really sweet memory! And yes, we’re looking forward to sampling many Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋
There are various brands that do Blackcurrant Jaffa Cakes, around Halloween McVities usually put out various different 'scary' flavours, Blackcurrant included.
7:30, Sorry to correct you again, but I've never heard it pronounced any way besides Jaaffa, as in an a sound rather than an ay or uh. That's just me , so I don't know.
Good to know! Thank you :D
The biscuit that tops all those you mention is McVities Homewheat Dark.
Also the "a" in Jaffa is like the "a" in hat or fat, so the word sounds like Jaffer.
Interesting video
Keep up the great work guys!
Thanks, Lucas!!
Grace and Eric I want to tell you how very much I enjoy your Wandering Ravens videos and thank you for these informative videos. The Hobnobs look like Moon Pies to me,have you ever tried Moon Pies?
So glad you enjoy our videos! ❤️️❤️️
Chocolate Hob nobs are the best ever biscuit. Especially for tea dunking.
Here in Slovenia you can get Jaffa Cakes, but made in Serbia by a Serbian company (no copyright). Apart from the packaging, they are exactly the same as back in the UK.
Before 1988 Minstrels where known as "Treets". These came in Peanut, chocolate and toffee, the toffee ones were known as for a while as "Relays" before being dropped altogether. Bourbon biscuit is pronounced Borebon, not like the Whiskey
If interested in trying when in France there are LU Pim's which are similar to Jaffa Cakes but with dark chocolate.
In the UK we have Hershey’s at the bottom shelf in the Tesco chocolate to go section. Me and my friend sometimes buy them
Fun fact in the uk instead of saying V.A.T we just say Vat it is basically the same way u would say cat but instead of the C there is a V 😂
Lol really. I always said it as Initialism (V A T)
Wine gums are my favorites. One can find them here in the States (I'm from Seattle too); but not a variety of brands. When I was a kid in the '60's/'70's my family would visit our Canadian relatives about 3 or 4 times per year. Canada has much greater access to things British than the States do, so we would almost always get British candies (especilly wine gums) on our way home. We also had black current candies, and sometimes a hunk of milk chocolate from a Canadian candy store.
Quick note, we don't pronounce Bourbon the same way as the american alcoholic drink, its pronounced Bore-ben! Also I agree with why didn't Nestle rebrand the toffe crisp? Theres quite a few things in the US that are slightly different brands to UK like Dove and Galaxy, Three Musketeers and Milky Way.
Good to know! Thanks for setting our pronunciation straight :D
McVities Jaffa Cakes are the best texture imo, but lots of supermarkets do other flavours so if you don't like orange there are choices.
The Jaffa Cake bribery thing reminds me that they were used as a form of currency at one point in my secondary school. Anyway, to take the reverse tack for this video, what always surprises me about American chocolate when I go there (barring the usual cracks about Hershey tasting like vomit) is how many peanut butter based products there are there, and how there's always a 'with peanut butter' variant of the same chocolate bars we have. Understandable given how big an agricultural product it is there, but it must suck to live in the US if you have a nut allergy...
Love a Jaffa Cake, but they're over too soon for the price. Found an alternative to the Jaffa, Happy Shopper do a cheap version of the Jaffa, box of 24 for £1, a bit smaller and dark choc instead of milk and they're nice to binge on, found in all small garage shops or small local run shops.
love jaffa cakes :D you definitly should try it some time, you could do some sort of british taste tests. Not one is better that the orginiol in my opinion but most of the non-original they're still pretty good :D
We are looking forward to sampling many Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋
The German company Behlzen make one's which taste as good, they are a rectangular shape as this is more efficient in zee production process. Also the last few times I've bought McVities the chocolate was all broken up & it looked like someone had trodden on them. This does not happen with Behlzen as they are German & it is impossible to make a less than perfect Jaffa Cake there ;-)
Andrew Warrener oh yeah we have rectangular onces too, not sure if they’re the same ones? I like them both. The rectangular once’s that we have (don’t know if their the same think) I think have much stronger in the orange flavour while the original have a more subtle orange taste, both are good though I prefer the rectangular in the fridge and like the hard chocolate with the sharper orangy tase while the originals I don’t mind :)
Edit/ just realised the rectangler once’s we has were lemon and lime taste, that’s why they had a sharper taste, lol
Really interesting guys , like the sound of a candy shore :)
Hi Alan! And yes, we're going to trademark that and start the candy shore business 😂
Indeed. I’d like to go there on holiday
Jaffa cakes: From a culinary perspective ‘cakes’ go hard when stale, and ‘biscuits’ go soft when stale. Since many american cookies are soft when fresh, there is actually a culinary (as opposed to cultural / linguistic) differece between ‘biscuits’ and ‘cookies’. Thus, in the uk we have cookies AS WELL AS biscuits
I lived in florida for 10 months and wal mart sold most of these things in the British section but they were super expensive
Digestive creams are the best! Hard to find but lovely!!
Jaffa Cakes come in different flavours now too, including rasberry, strawberry and lemon and lime although usually they're available for only a limited time. I'm surprised Mars don't sell Minstrels in the US under their Dove brand. A Mars Bar is also not the same in the US as it is in the UK, neither is a Milky Way. And that Yorkie advert would never be allowed today. Another snack food you don't find much in the US is Bombay Mix. It's all over the place here in major supermarkets and corner shops but when in the US I could only find it in specialty Indian stores of which there aren't many.
Oooo, we’re looking forward to sampling all of the different flavoured Jaffa cakes next time we're in the UK 😋 And what is Bombay mix? Sounds really good!
M&M stands for ‘Mars and Murrie’, with the ‘Mars’ in question being Frank Mars’ son, who took over the company after he died. Murrie was a disgruntled ex board member of Hersheys who left when Milton Hershey didn’t put him in charge when he left. M&Ms then became part of the Mars company, which annoyed Hershey, thus leading to the rivalry that the two companies have.
Good to know! Thank you :D
And the Sweet is was based of was Smarties, originally released by Rowntree UK (also not avaialble in the US)
Bonsoir Grace & Eric,such a shame that America can't experience these UK snacks, as a compulsive dunker Hobnobs are being dunked as I type this and I had no idea that Jaffa Cakes had such an interesting history.
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Love the jaffa cake information👏
Fun fact, in Britain we call an infertile man a "jaffa"...meaning "seedless orange"
Do we? I've never heard of that.
@@WibblyWobblyBob Really? I thought everyone knew that one.
Well you definitely won't have heard this one...in Ireland a jaffa is a protestant.
It’s really weird because you can purchase reeses bars in any uk supermarket. Wonder if Hershey bribed nestle so they can sell reeses bars in the uk.
🤔 candy is a serious business!
You CAN purchase reeses, but would you? really? If it was next to some toffee crisps?