I'm not surprised to see Maryland Coookies as a favourite. It was made by Nabisco in my day. Nabisco were a small player on the UK market, couldn't get it on enough shelves; but I always thought that if it was ours, with our retail muscle, it would do well. Those chunks of chocolate were a lovely deadly hit. Ahead of its time in the 70s.
I'm not surprised to see Maryland Coookies as a favourite. It was made by Nabisco in my day. Nabisco were a small player on the UK market, couldn't get it on enough shelves; but I always thought that if it was ours, with our retail muscle, it would do well. Those chunks of chocolate were a lovely deadly hit. Ahead of its time in the 70s.
Seem to recall them sponsoring football related stuff in the late 70's early 80s (England youth internationals??)
Chocolate digestives can't be beaten. The biggest question is Dark or milk chocolate!
MILK!!!!!
Without question MILK ............. only old people/grown ups like Prague like dark chocolate (filth)
Okay so let me tell you about the real filth. Victoria Assortment. Basically, an assortment of luxury chocolate biscuits, of which many were not sold separately. This was basically a Christmas line. When I tell you that bourbons were in there, as were Gipsy Creams, but they looked like the poor relations in that box, that is the level of fully enrobed dark chocolate filth we are talking about here....
@SporadicAddick can't say I recall that Nabisco sponsorship, but maybe I didn't notice. Nabisco didn't bother us. They basically had two lines, Maryland, and Ritz crackers.
But speaking of the opposition, Associated Biscuits (the Jacobs lot) had one biscuit we did not have and which I always liked : Huntley& Palmers Lemon Puffs. Crispy flaky pastry sandwiching a lemon filling...
In case anyone's interested the brand line-ups in those days were:
UB: (40% share of market): McVitie's, Crawfords, MacDonalds, Carr's. Also KP, a completely separate division and market. AB: (20% share) Peek Freans, Jacobs, H&P and then there were Burtons (mainly junk), Fox's.That was about it, I think.
and then there was retail own label, the fox that UB let into the coop, with disastrous long-term results.
@SporadicAddick can't say I recall that Nabisco sponsorship, but maybe I didn't notice. Nabisco didn't bother us. They basically had two lines, Maryland, and Ritz crackers.
But speaking of the opposition, Associated Biscuits (the Jacobs lot) had one biscuit we did not have and which I always liked : Huntley& Palmers Lemon Puffs. Crispy flaky pastry sandwiching a lemon filling...
In case anyone's interested the brand line-ups in those days were:
UB: (40% share of market): McVitie's, Crawfords, Carr's. Also KP, a completely separate division) AB: (20% share) Jacobs, H&P and then there were Burtons (mainly junk), Fox's.That was about it, I think.
and then there was retail own label, the fox that UB let into the coop, with disastrous long-term results.
Oreos I used to consider nasty, but I like the Oreo Goldens. For controversy where do Pink Wafers fit in? Clearly not dunkers, and it seems to me of late that the creamy gunk in Pink Wafers has got less leaving them too dry. But the central question is are Pink Wafers biscuits?
Oreos I used to consider nasty, but I like the Oreo Goldens. For controversy where do Pink Wafers fit in? Clearly not dunkers, and it seems to me of late that the creamy gunk in Pink Wafers has got less leaving them too dry. But the central question is are Pink Wafers biscuits?
Definitely. And the good news is, they are environmentally friendly.
By this I mean that the wafer is made from the waste on the production line of the more expensive biscuits.
Used to like the smell from Peak Freans ?? biscuit factory as you approached London Bridge going in to town as a youngster .
I forgot about them. They were Associated too, I'll have to amend the list.
Mind you that smell was as nothing to what you'd get from the McVities factory at Harlesden because that was where choccie biscuits were made. Almost made up for the horror of having to go to Harlesden in the late 70s. I honestly never knew such a shithole existed in London.
Chocolate digestives can't be beaten. The biggest question is Dark or milk chocolate!
MILK!!!!!
Without question MILK ............. only old people/grown ups like Prague like dark chocolate (filth)
Put me in the Prague camp then, add @Redmidland too although his biscuits have to be soaked in milk for him these days not unlike new borns with a Farleys rusk! 😉
What's the general opinion of those thin malty brown biscuits, with a waist of sorts, that you get in it's personal wrapper sometimes when you get a coffee eating out?
What's the general opinion of those thin malty brown biscuits, with a waist of sorts, that you get in it's personal wrapper sometimes when you get a coffee eating out?
I dislike them intensely - but still always eat them! (and my wife's).
Oreos should not feature on any list of good biscuits.
Once upon a time I woulda agreed with you - ghastly yank abomination Some radical colleague recently anonymously put a pack of Oreos in the company biscuit tin A revelation! Crisp, tasty, a most agreeable biscuit - doesn't hold up well dunked in tea, which marks it down. I reckon they only look like the septic original, I reckon the British manufacturer has upgraded them for our superior palettes.
Butter on a Rich Tea? - maybe, but I am yet to eat a biscuit that isn't improved by a generous dollop of unsweetened crunchy peanut butter
Biscuits generally are great so long as they're not soft, squidgy in the style of numpty american "cookies" yuk "maryland cookie" just marketing bullshit for the enthusiastically gullible - it's a chocolate chip cookie - anything other than milk chocolate and nutty bits in a crisp biscuit is more foolishness for effwits Jaffa Cakes's so called cakiness is a blatant tax dodge - we all know they're a biscuit. The other thing forgotten about the whole phoney VAT case is that chocolate coating on a biscuit has to be actual chocolate - like on a kitkat or twix - for the biscuit to be standard rated for VAT, if it's just chocolate flavoured coating - remember the United biscuit? - that's a zero-rated for VAT biscuit cos it's food not confectionary - yeah all bollocks but HMRC lost the case to the financial might of McVities
Used to like the smell from Peak Freans ?? biscuit factory as you approached London Bridge going in to town as a youngster .
My mum worked at Peak Freans for a time and used to come home every Friday with a bag full of broken biscuits. We kids would dive in first for the chocolate half of the broken bourbons and give the garibaldis to the dog.
What's the general opinion of those thin malty brown biscuits, with a waist of sorts, that you get in it's personal wrapper sometimes when you get a coffee eating out?
I love them Lotus Biscoff or any of them Italian biscotti with coffee. I used to like them Hovis biscuits shaped like a loaf of bread. Dont think you can get them anymore though
What's the general opinion of those thin malty brown biscuits, with a waist of sorts, that you get in it's personal wrapper sometimes when you get a coffee eating out?
I love them Lotus Biscoff or any of them Italian biscotti with coffee. I used to like them Hovis biscuits shaped like a loaf of bread. Dont think you can get them anymore though
Oooh, yes you can ! Buy mine from Sainsbury's.
Every lunchtime we're at home, I have water biscuits and Hovis digestives with a thick layer of Philly on top.
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MILK!!!!!
But speaking of the opposition, Associated Biscuits (the Jacobs lot) had one biscuit we did not have and which I always liked : Huntley& Palmers Lemon Puffs. Crispy flaky pastry sandwiching a lemon filling...
In case anyone's interested the brand line-ups in those days were:
UB: (40% share of market): McVitie's, Crawfords, MacDonalds, Carr's. Also KP, a completely separate division and market.
AB: (20% share) Peek Freans, Jacobs, H&P
and then there were Burtons (mainly junk), Fox's.That was about it, I think.
and then there was retail own label, the fox that UB let into the coop, with disastrous long-term results.
Useless as a dunker though!
For controversy where do Pink Wafers fit in? Clearly not dunkers, and it seems to me of late that the creamy gunk in Pink Wafers has got less leaving them too dry.
But the central question is are Pink Wafers biscuits?
By this I mean that the wafer is made from the waste on the production line of the more expensive biscuits.
You're welcome!
Mind you that smell was as nothing to what you'd get from the McVities factory at Harlesden because that was where choccie biscuits were made. Almost made up for the horror of having to go to Harlesden in the late 70s. I honestly never knew such a shithole existed in London.
My favourites, but a biscuit?
Definitely a biscuit.
Plain chocolate is wrong on any biscuit.
I dislike them intensely - but still always eat them! (and my wife's).
Milk chocolate digestive
Ditto hobnob
Ditto Leibnitz
Dark chocolate digestive
Ditto hobnob
Ditto Leibnitz
And the king of biscuits, the Bourbon.
Some radical colleague recently anonymously put a pack of Oreos in the company biscuit tin
A revelation! Crisp, tasty, a most agreeable biscuit - doesn't hold up well dunked in tea, which marks it down.
I reckon they only look like the septic original, I reckon the British manufacturer has upgraded them for our superior palettes.
Butter on a Rich Tea? - maybe, but I am yet to eat a biscuit that isn't improved by a generous dollop of unsweetened crunchy peanut butter
Biscuits generally are great so long as they're not soft, squidgy in the style of numpty american "cookies" yuk
"maryland cookie" just marketing bullshit for the enthusiastically gullible - it's a chocolate chip cookie - anything other than milk chocolate and nutty bits in a crisp biscuit is more foolishness for effwits
Jaffa Cakes's so called cakiness is a blatant tax dodge - we all know they're a biscuit. The other thing forgotten about the whole phoney VAT case is that chocolate coating on a biscuit has to be actual chocolate - like on a kitkat or twix - for the biscuit to be standard rated for VAT, if it's just chocolate flavoured coating - remember the United biscuit? - that's a zero-rated for VAT biscuit cos it's food not confectionary - yeah all bollocks but HMRC lost the case to the financial might of McVities
Apart from my Grandad, who forgets most things
I used to like them Hovis biscuits shaped like a loaf of bread. Dont think you can get them anymore though
Every lunchtime we're at home, I have water biscuits and Hovis digestives with a thick layer of Philly on top.
Yum !