People realize the “right” way to eat a Jaffa Cake and that changes everything

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First, we learned that potatoes should not actually be roasted in olive oil (especially extra virgin olive oil).

Then came the news that Yorkies weigh only one gram more than Dairy Milk; they are just a different format.

Just when I thought I had enough mind-blowing food facts to last a lifetime, a new little thing comes to mind and torments my troubled brain: It turns out I’ve been eating the Jaffa Cakes wrong, too.

What do you mean by that? What is the “right” way?

McVities, the owner of Jaffa Cake, asked food scientist Dr. Stuart Farrimond to find out the optimal way to consume these savoury cakes.

He recommended the all-rounder method, where you first nibble on the edge of the cake and then bite into the orange center.

This is because it offers the best balance of chocolate, orange jelly and fluffy cake, the scientist said.

“Because the orange marmalade layer is in the middle segment of the Jaffa Cake, different eating habits result in different combinations of these three layers in each bite,” he told Good Housekeeping.

“Our research has shown that the ‘all-rounder’ with the middle piece of the Jaffa Cake offers the optimal sweetness, taste and aroma when eaten whole. And this only comes into its own when you nibble off the edge first and then eat the middle piece on its own.”

Other methods include biting the cake into a half-moon shape, moving directly towards the jelly and pushing it down in one go.

That’s not all – you eat them upside down

A 2020 post shared on Family Lockdown Tip & Ideas by a user named Dave showed a screenshot between himself and the official Jaffa Cake page.

In it, he asked: “Which side of the Jaffa Cake is the base?” to which the McVities-owned brand replied: “Hi David, our Jaffa Cakes are filled through a reservoir of chocolate, so the chocolate is the base. Thank you, Jaffa Cake.”

That means we technically ate them all upside down (woah). No wonder commenters wrote: “OMG this turned my world upside down” – Dave himself responded to Jaffa Cakes: “What the f*** dude.”

I don’t trust anything anymore…

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