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Pladis launches new Jaffa Cake campaign

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The new campaign plays on the perennial debate of whether the Jaffa Cake is a cake or a biscuit with straplines including ‘We’re a Cake! You biscuit’ and ‘Say Biscuit One More Time… We Dare You’. Another treatment will stop commuters in their tracks at…

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