failure to dismantle an orange cake...

yes, you've guessed it: it's the lidl version of the jaffa cake. following on from the success of the jammy rings, paul and i thought we'd try these. lidl did offer us a choice of 'orange cakes', 'raspberry cakes' and 'cherry cakes', but we thought we'd go with the most like a traditional jaffa cake.

i can only imagine that these taste very like the mcvities version. i can't say for certain, however, because i have never eaten a fully assembled jaffa cake. you see, eating a jaffa cake is all about the experience of disassembling it and eating the constituent parts. my preferred method of deconstructing a jaffa cake is to bite off all the chocloate covered cake around the raised bit of orangey stuff. then i remove the chocolate covering the orangey stuff, separate the orangey stuff from the cake and eat the two separately. the 'choc me' jaffa cake does not allow for such easy dismantling.

i suppose this is because choc me are far more generous with the orangey stuff than mcvities. an orange cake is about the same size as a jaffa cake, but the entire sponge base is covered with orangey jelly. i did try disassembling one to no avail. instead i was forced to eat the entire assemblage. it tasted perfectly nice and everything, but i couldn't help but be disappointed at the lack of interactivity in eating one. it's just not as much fun if you can't play with your 'food'!