shut up,
I'm being needlessly controversial.

It's the marzipan that makes it, I reckon. The sponge I could take or leave. Unless I've eaten the marzipan. You can't get a slice of battenberg and just eat the marzipan, that would be rude.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 12:26, archived)

Battenburg is the generic choice for granny's everywhere.
It's about as imaginative as chocolate digestive.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 7 May 2009, 12:29, archived)

I think that's most of its appeal,
it's such a wonderfully twee cliche.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 7 May 2009, 12:30, archived)