[manarth]

  > "how else do you define what a particular product is?"
  > "companies will just market it as something else that still hints it's the thing it's not"

Through extraordinarily detailed discussions of its characteristics (e.g. when it goes stale, does it go hard, or soft?)

Jaffa "Cakes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Legal_status

[willyt]

That kind of exemplifies a very British problem that we have with very vague and increasingly slow bureaucracy. There’s often no clear cut answer to a question. I think it’s one of the reasons why we get the least amount of productive work done per hour in Western Europe. In our national mythology we think of ourselves as a low bureaucracy country compared to say France, but in actual fact in those countries you will quickly be told no if something is not permitted whereas here there’s a lot of equivocating until, after 6 months of uncertainty you reach a seemingly random semi compromise result.

[paleotrope]

That's an interesting observation.

[iandinwoodie]

After reading that, I have a new appreciation for the page’s opening sentence: “Jaffa Cakes are biscuit-sized cakes …”