Oh goodness, I was just watching Hotel Babylon on Netflix and someone had a battenburg cake. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I would LOVE a slice...or a whole cake...right now...

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

So you're watching a racy show and you take from it the fact that you quite fancy a cake.
Spot the woman.

I have eaten a whole cake at one sitting ....more than once

Jummy

Huh - who knew?

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Battenburg

"Battenburg is a town somewhere in Germany in Hessianland which is, oh, right about the middle. It is divided into the yellow quarter, the pink quarter, the yellow quarter and the pink quarter. The few people that live there are employed by Battenburg Ltd., a large scale bakery operation that produces all sorts of fancy namby-pamby tea cakes. These cakes are exported all over the world and are best enjoyed by wimps drinking tea. Naturally the very best tea is stolen from East India Trading Company ships by pirates. However if supplies of jacked tea are limited, then it may also be enjoyed with unjacked tea but with far less satisfaction to the wimps, and the pirates... but I digress."

But even more worrying ...

On 10 April 2008 the British Food Standards Agency asked for a voluntary ban on artificial food colourings and suggested that the ban would be practical by the end of 2009. This would mean that certain foods such as mushy peas, battenberg cakes, Turkish Delight and tinned strawberries might disappear temporarily or permanently, unless an alternative natural food colouring is found

Ah there you are...I thought you'd like this thread. lol

Why would mushy peas and tinned strawberries disappear? Peas are naturally green and strawberries naturally red the last time I checked.

Not when they are processed for canning...both are a greyish colour

Well, then I guess we'll all have to learn to live with greyish color peas and strawberries. I'd rather have them grey, than with artificial colors.

Well Strawberrys are easy the natural food colouring for them is cochineal! which is cruched up insects...job done! easy....
natural isn't always palatable! that said I personally don't have a problem! I am not vegetarian?

Love the stuff, I miss it too ! Just the marzipan would do !

Hello...we don't often see you in here.

Marzipan is sold in tins here! I have found they tend to be supermarkets that cater to the latin american market, hope this helps? also if you are near CT I have 3 tins you can have.