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Since the move away from 12's I've been struggling to find the optimal consumption quota for Jaffa cakes.  It doesn't help that packs seem to come in either 10's or - and this really messes with my OCD - 11's.

Three in a go used to be spot on with a cup of coffee. However I've upped that to 5 on the trot with the decimal packs since the change.

The elevens create chaos at elevenses though as I have to vary 4-4-3 but still end up with a few leftovers from the second batch come Friday (So my weekly allowance is now 4-4-3-4-7) as a pack cannot be left open over the weekend for fear of going stale. It's driving me up the wall!

Should I start a petition to McVities to reinstate the venerable dozen pack? There's a reason the Romans found this such a useful denominator!

Help!


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 3:15 pm
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Buy an 11 pack and put in the freezer. Every time you open a new 11 pack, take one jaffa out of the freezer and hey-presto, you've got a 12 pack again...


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 3:19 pm
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Why is this even a question? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t eat a packet in one sitting


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 3:19 pm
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Just buy them by the yard.


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 3:19 pm
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but still end up with a few leftovers

Eh?


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 4:06 pm
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Why is this even a question? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t eat a packet in one sitting

This.

Three in a go used to be spot on with a cup of coffee. However I’ve upped that to 5 on the trot with the decimal packs since the change.

5, 3 and 3.

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Posted : 04/10/2018 4:07 pm
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Tesco are doing strawberry flavoured ones.

I didn't think I could hate Tesco any more than I do / did.

I'm about 180 days clean off the Jaffa cakes. Are you telling me they don't do the 15 cake tubes anymore?


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 4:19 pm
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No packet of biscuits should be opened unless all are to be eaten. Yes that includes those tins you only buy at Christmas.


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 4:19 pm
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I’m about 180 days clean off the Jaffa cakes. Are you telling me they don’t do the 15 cake tubes anymore?

Not for about a year.


 
Posted : 04/10/2018 4:20 pm
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0 is the optimal number of jaffa cakes to consume, they're like stale cheap biscuits with chemical tasting sludge spread on them


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 8:01 am
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No packet of biscuits should be opened unless all are to be eaten. Yes that includes those tins you only buy at Christmas.

Biscuits? Biscuits?


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 8:16 am
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Shit. Cakes too


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 8:20 am
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Tesco are doing strawberry flavoured ones.

I didn’t think I could hate Tesco any more than I do / did.

Having to explain to the office why I'm laughing....


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 8:46 am
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they’re like stale cheap biscuits with chemical tasting sludge spread on them

You're doing it wrong. One does not taste a jaffa cake. One eats, nay consumes a jaffa cake.

do not taste, just nom nom nom.


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 9:03 am
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Have they reduced the number of Jaffas in one box? I swear they looked shorter last time I passed it in Morrisons.

If so, all your equations are no use. Even the (Jaffas eaten in one sitting = jaffas in the house) one becomes less satisfying.


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 9:48 am
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I dread the day they reduce both chocolate and orange flavour to reduce prodution cost... 😮


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 1:35 pm
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Buy 3 packs at a time and then you have 10 sittings of 3 each....


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 1:41 pm
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 10 sittings of 3 each….

The zero is in the wrong place.


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 2:01 pm
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Buy supermarket value ones? They're nicer anyway.


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 2:10 pm
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Shit. Cakes too
Is that like some kind of superpower?! Only fair you let everyone know where they've come from though!!


 
Posted : 05/10/2018 2:11 pm

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