For my maiden post, I was about to start out with a short anecdote to discuss the evils of ring-fencing in policymaking – creating ‘exceptions’ to the rule for certain groups of firms / industries / people. But it appears that other people have already talked about the ludicrous Jaffa Cake legal controversy in the UK.
(In the UK, cakes are exempted from value-added tax but biscuits are not. How a Jaffa Cake is classified has serious tax implications. McVities may argue that it is a cake, but you are more likely to eat a Jaffa Cake in substitution for or together with other biscuits.)