Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
Jaffa cake
noun · first attested 1927
Named for an orange shipped from a port now swallowed by Tel Aviv.
A small British cake of sponge base, orange-flavored jelly, and a chocolate top.
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- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1927
- Part of speech
- noun
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Jaffa
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Jaffa cake
McVitie's launched them in 1927 and took the name from the Jaffa orange, the fragrant variety exported through the old port that is now a district of Tel Aviv. A 1991 British tax tribunal had to rule whether they were cakes or chocolate-covered biscuits; cake won, and they escaped value-added tax.
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