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[venta]

What a wonderful sentence:

"[The Supreme Court of the US] acknowledged the botanical reality of their fruithood, but ruled that in common understanding and usage, they are treated as vegetables and should be taxed as such."

(From an article about tomatoes, as read out by my boss this morning.)

In other news, I have betrayed the Marmite. I just had lemon curd on my toast.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

There was a discussion about jaffa cakes on QI a week or so back.

Cakes are soft, and go hard when they're stale.
Biscuits are hard, and go soft when they're stale.

Apparently McVitites baked a really, really big Jaffa Cake, so it could be analysed.

The peculiarity is that cakes are not subject to VAT, and biscuits are. Because biscuits are a luxury, but cake's an essential!

[stompyboots.livejournal.com]

Yet 'female sanitary products' (the last time I checked) are considered a luxury item, and carry VAT.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't think they are any more. I think sense kicked in a couple of years ago, though I might be wrong.

[stompyboots.livejournal.com]

That's good, because it was ridiculous when they were. Some things (soap, toothpaste, deodorant, etc.) I don't think should be classed as luxury, more as 'vital to ensure your fellow man isn't tortured by the horrible stink you're producing'.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Did the price noticeably drop by... um... 17500/1175 percent? Because if not, it's not like it made much difference to the consumer other than the satisfaction of knowing that it's now the retailers rather than the government who is pocketing the additional cash.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think you dropped these:
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But anyway, actually, yes the price did fall, though I didn't calculate the exact percentage.
In fact, Tesco dropped the price in advance of the legislation, and had little signs up saying so.