I have a handy link in my Firefox bookmarks which takes me to a random Wikipedia article, it’s very useful for killing time at work performing valuable research.

So I clicked the link and was taken to a page about Pringles. All very interesting, especially the bit about a court case in June 2008, where Procter & Gamble successfully argued that Pringles are not crisps, thereby excluding them from 17.5% VAT in the UK. Funny how they haven’t changed the price yet…

While reading around the same subject I came across another revalation - Jaffa Cakes are officially and legally cakes, not biscuits, again for tax reasons. The funny thing about this one is that biscuits and cakes are zero VAT rated, while chocolate covered biccies are taxed at the standard rate.

And then the database calculation completed its run through the last few thousand records, so I tried to look busy until lunchtime. Mmmm, biscuits.