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Biscuits
Oct 16, 2022 9:22:12 GMT
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Post by mulv on Oct 16, 2022 9:22:12 GMT
I can live without cake and puddings, and those popular fancy fairy cakes with a diabetes-inducing amount of fondant icing on leave me cold, but I do love a nice biscuit.
Hob-nobs are the ones we usually go for, but Tunnock's Caramel Wafers are a special treat.
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Post by anglais on Oct 16, 2022 9:50:24 GMT
We do not have a sweet tooth so rarely buy biccies. Chrissie does occasionally bake oat biscuits and they are lovely. Those Tunnocks thingies are lovely too, it must be 50 years since I have hade one.
My favourite biscuits are Garribaldi, Bourbons and Dead Fly Biscuits, correctly known as Fruit Shortbreads.
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Post by mulv on Oct 16, 2022 10:24:58 GMT
Haven't had a Garibaldi in ages. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw any on a supermarket shelf. ☹️
All biscuits are good except those tasteless expanded polystyrene pink wafers. Those are only good for practical jokes, which I'll tell you about on another thread.
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Post by will on Oct 16, 2022 10:36:23 GMT
I hardly ever eat biscuits, but last week at the hospital, when offered a cup of tea and a selection of biscuits after 26 hours with no solid food I wolfed down a couple of Bourbons.
Apart from that, I like shortbread at Christmas time, but that's all.
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Post by anglais on Oct 16, 2022 12:39:16 GMT
Club biscuits were good as well.
Mom always used to buy us those round chocolate meringue things. I used to lick off the chocolate, eat the meringue then throw the digestive biscuit on the bottom away.
I used to do a lot of business with an American machine builder called Lamb Technicon who had an assembly facility in Mildenhall near Newmarket. I used to have to trek down the A14 and A11 every Wednesday morning for a meeting with them for 9 years, then during machine assembly I stayed for months on end at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhall.
At the start of the first meeting with with Lamb they had all sorts of biscuits from the USA, but we refused to commence the meeting until they had Jammy Dodgers. No Jammy Dodgers no meeting. Jo Bramham who worked with us would eat a whole packet to herself. I could not stand them. If Jo was not there we used to take the box of them back to Longbridge for her.
Mom also used to buy those Iced Gems. Blooming horrible things. The worst biscuits on the planet.
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Post by anglais on Oct 16, 2022 12:44:47 GMT
Haven't had a Garibaldi in ages. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw any on a supermarket shelf. ☹️ All biscuits are good except those tasteless expanded polystyrene pink wafers. Those are only good for practical jokes, which I'll tell you about on another thread. Those pink wafers stick to the roof of your mouth, dreadful things. My Nan used to work at Hughes's biscuit factory in Bordesley Green Road. Every week she used to give us one of those cuboid tin plated biscuit tins full of broken biscuits. We used to scrounge them too from the Wrensons grocery shop in Small Heath that they used to sell loose in the same cuboid biscuit tins.
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Post by Su on Oct 16, 2022 13:25:35 GMT
Club biscuits were good as well. Mom always used to buy us those round chocolate meringue things. I used to lick off the chocolate, eat the meringue then throw the digestive biscuit on the bottom away. Tea cake. I have very fond memories of taking a penny to Cranmore Infant School to buy one a break time. The penny seemed huge in my little hand. The tea cakes were in big boxes and stacked in plastic trays. No wrappers on them. I’d hand my penny over and the teacher/dinner lady would pass me a tea cake. I’d smash it on my head then pick off the chocolate before eating the marshmallow then the base with jam on it. Aaaah. Thank you for reminding me Anglais
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Post by will on Oct 16, 2022 13:52:57 GMT
Club biscuits were good as well. Mom always used to buy us those round chocolate meringue things. I used to lick off the chocolate, eat the meringue then throw the digestive biscuit on the bottom away. Tea cake. I have very fond memories of taking a penny to Cranmore Infant School to buy one a break time. The penny seemed huge in my little hand. The tea cakes were in big boxes and stacked in plastic trays. No wrappers on them. I’d hand my penny over and the teacher/dinner lady would pass me a tea cake. I’d smash it on my head then pick off the chocolate before eating the marshmallow then the base with jam on it. Aaaah. Thank you for reminding me Anglais That explains a lot!
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