June 18: Take the Cake

O jammed genoise whose silken chocolate coat

Breaks crisply and then melts on the tongue

And radiating warmth all down the throat,

For decades has your loveliness been sung;

The Jaffa Cake, throughout the world renowned,

Almost fell victim to its own success-

Initially, a tax tribunal found

The cakes were biscuits, but there was redress:

Though they seemed similar when side-by-side

A court deemed cakes distinct from biscuitkind,

And strict criteria were then applied

That future cakes need not be redefin...