Biscuits

[Alpinestarhero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc

I'm on peter kays side...rich tea are crap!

Matt

[missyburd]

i don't each rich tea for precisely that reason, shorties are a bit crap too...definitely hobnobs/digestives all the way especially the chocolate ones :smt007. Oh and shortbreads :D

(I'm a biscuit fiend I'm afraid to say :lol:)

[krhall]

Rich tea Biscuits are the b******s dipped in tea, mind you chocolate digestives aren't bad either.

But the king of bicuits are these:

http://i20.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/da/d3/b112_1.JPG

Lotus caramelised biscuite - yum-yum!

[wyrdness]

Lotus caramelised biscuite - yum-yum!

+1

[krhall]

My problem with these babies, is that I start out to eat a couple and 15 mins later I'm looking down the barrell of an empty packet!!!!

Which my marathon training suffer from badly!!!

[missyburd]

My problem with these babies, is that I start out to eat a couple and 15 mins later I'm looking down the barrell of an empty packet!!!!

That's one of YC's habits too, once he gets started there ain't no stopping him! I however have some willpower :p

[Kate Moss]

I am going through an oreo phaze!

[StreetHawk]

I bring Rich Tea's into work cos nobody nicks em and I won't eat the whole packet in 5 mins :-)

Best biccie for me would be the choclate covered hobnob.. :-)

[FG1]

Biscuits...........Thames Valley in the Shire..................

You don't want to know...........................................

Who prefers Mars bars instead......

[Grinch]

I like the challange and excitment you get with dunking a Rich tea, is not the same with a hobnob, at any moment you might be fishing it out of your tea.

Who need extream sports, me, nice bug mug of tea and a packet of Rich teas.

[DanAbnormal]

Rich Tea's are great.

As are Nairn's oat cookies.

YUM!

[krhall]

I like the challange and excitment you get with dunking a Rich tea, is not the same with a hobnob, at any moment you might be fishing it out of your tea.

Who need extream sports, me, nice bug mug of tea and a packet of Rich teas.
Grinch - now you're talking!!! The perfect dip:

Keep the biscuit in long enough for it to be all soft, but not too long for it to wobble and drop in the tea, although attempting to fish it out with another rich tea is quite a sport!!!!

[Alpinestarhero]

pah, OneDips are weaklings, pathetic biscuts. Theres no challenge, just a let down. It just goes soggy, like wet cardboard

Now digestives, thats a discut for dunking. Gotta break it in half first mind, but you can get a good dunk

And bourbons

and custard creams

ooo yea

Matt

[Dicky Ticker]

No no no you are all wrong------------GINGER SNAPS---------------def winners

[krhall]

And bourbons

and custard creams

ooo yea


Yuk - granny biscuits! Ginger Snaps are all good as long as you get the cheap one, that have a real bite!!!!

[Grinch]

Mmmmh custard creams, I can eat them by the packet.

[Alpinestarhero]

Mmmmh custard creams, I can eat them by the packet.

see krhall? they are good biscuits; the grinchmeister said so.

Nowt like a packet o' custard creams wi' me brew

I feel sick after though

Matt

[mister c]

Fig Rolls :smt045:smt045:smt045:smt045 Not for dipping, but just for eating.

Dippy Biscs has to be Bourbon Creams :):cool::cool::cool:

[pmapp]

I'm a good old traditional chocolate digestive kinda guy.


But I do like the odd ginger nut too.

[krhall]

Maybe I was given too many as a kid or something then because I cannot stand them or Bourbons!!

[Grinch]

Me and Jax have a 'Tea and Biscuits' day sometimes and everyone get a invite...

Heres a link to one of the threads (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=88426&highlight=Biscuits%27).

[Grinch]

And photos from the day -

...just click on it.
http://lh3.google.com/image/sv650r/RkYnoCUVz3E/AAAAAAAAAQ0/WpHOwkNF0f4/s160-c/TeaAndBiscuits.jpg (http://picasaweb.google.com/sv650r/TeaAndBiscuits)

[Law]

At the moment I am into double chocolate Viennese biscuits.

I also liked dunking ginger nuts into tea... fruit shortcake... double chocolate cookies...

Me and Jax have a 'Tea and Biscuits' day sometimes and everyone get a invite...

Heres a link to one of the threads (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=88426&highlight=Biscuits%27).

They are great fun, cake as well last time.

[Grinch]

They are great fun, cake as well last time.

Cheers... ;-)

[Skip]

Maryland Cookies, Chocolate Hobnobs, Ginger Nuts and for savoury treat you cant be a bit of Philadelphia spread on a Hovis digestive! Yum! :D

[krhall]

Skip - Hovis digestive with Extra Mature Stilton and small chunk branston - that is a biscuit treat everyone should have more often!!!

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

Marks and Spencer white chocolate covered biccies are my fave.. :D

But yeah, custard creams, choc covered hobnobs and..... what are those round biccies called with jam and cream in them? they're not jammy dodgers, its the other ones :confused:

Ooo I cant remember what they're called :(

but I like them :D

Maria

[missyburd]

Mmmmh custard creams, I can eat them by the packet.

+1 although I go through phases with those, on the shortbreads at the mo!

[hovis]

Maryland Cookies, Chocolate Hobnobs, Ginger Nuts and for savoury treat you cant be a bit of Philadelphia spread on a Hovis digestive! Yum! :D
:cheers:

[Girth]

Mmmmmmmmmmm Oreo's!

Eat half of a big packet early.

[hovis]

im quite fond of
malted milk

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

im quite fond of
malted milk

You tried malted milk creams biccies?

Maria

[hovis]

You tried malted milk creams biccies?

Maria

no...........

that souns like a cross bread with custad creams

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

They are.

Tasty though :D

Maria

[Skip]

Skip - Hovis digestive with Extra Mature Stilton and small chunk branston - that is a biscuit treat everyone should have more often!!!

Hmm not keen on branston myself - have had a few with Danish Blue Vein tonight though :smt045

[dizzyblonde]

I like biscuits and particularly like cake....whats absolutely brilliant is that Im Indoors likes neither so theres always more for http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_4_15.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MXGB) me!!!
and I agree with MissYC, when her beloved comes to visit, not only does he say get kettle on, after about minutes he says' got any biscuits??'
He knows I'd be lying if i said i didn't

[missyburd]

I like biscuits and particularly like cake....whats absolutely brilliant is that Im Indoors likes neither so theres always more for http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_4_15.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MXGB) me!!!
and I agree with MissYC, when her beloved comes to visit, not only does he say get kettle on, after about minutes he says' got any biscuits??'
He knows I'd be lying if i said i didn't

hehe he certainly has a weakness for them, worse than the dog! Don't know where he puts them all though, I know where they go when I eat them :oops:

[flibble]

what about jaffa cakes??

... and do know you don't have to pay any taxes on jaffa cakes because they're not classed as choc covered biscuits (which you do have to pay vat on). interesting fact of the evening :p

[Law]

Marks and Spencer white chocolate covered biccies are my fave.. :D

But yeah, custard creams, choc covered hobnobs and..... what are those round biccies called with jam and cream in them? they're not jammy dodgers, its the other ones :confused:

Ooo I cant remember what they're called :(

but I like them :D

Maria

Happy Faces!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Faces) Yum

[Stig]

Biscuits...........Thames Valley in the Shire..................

You don't want to know...........................................

Who prefers Mars bars instead......

LMAO. Digestives are the preferred biscuit for that particular game. :lol:

the biscuit winner has got to be ginger snaps. Those babies can soak up more coffee than any other biscuit I know.

[Frank]

any one remember sports biscuits.m mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[hovis]

any one remember sports biscuits.m mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

YES indeedy......they still make them, i think

[krhall]

Not my favourite, but we had a packet of Party Rings on the weekend which was a nice change!!!

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/media/partyrings.jpg

[missyburd]

Not my favourite, but we had a packet of Party Rings on the weekend which was a nice change!!!

oooh they bring back memories :)

do fig rolls class as biscuits or mini cakes?

[hovis]

Not my favourite, but we had a packet of Party Rings on the weekend which was a nice change!!!

yuk.......... i hated them

[krhall]

they were great but no good for dipping, all the coating dissappeared.....

[Gra]

Thank goodness somebody has mentioned fig rolls. They are splendid.

[missyburd]

Thank goodness somebody has mentioned fig rolls. They are splendid.
but are they cakes or biscuits?

[Grinch]

Simple rule... When a cake goes stale it goes hard, when a biscuit goes stale it goes soft. Thats why Jaffa cakes are cakes, just little ones as they go hard when they go stale.

:-)

[missyburd]

Aha thankyou Grinch, I had forgotten all about that little rule! I think that makes them cakes then :cool:

[krhall]

good rule!

This thread is no good for my waist line! Everytime someone mentions some different biscuits I am compelled to go and remind myself how they all taste......

[wyrdness]

Simple rule... When a cake goes stale it goes hard, when a biscuit goes stale it goes soft. Thats why Jaffa cakes are cakes, just little ones as they go hard when they go stale.

Absolutely correct. This was actually the subject of a court case, when the government wanted to charge VAT on Jaffa Cakes:

Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes — they are "zero rated". Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVities classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991 this was challenged by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise and the case ended up before the courts. This may have been because Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit. A question that the court asked itself was "what criteria should be used to class something as a cake?" McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes. In doing so it produced a giant Jaffa Cake to illustrate that its Jaffa Cakes were simply mini cakes.
McVities argued that a distinction between cakes and biscuits is, inter alia, that biscuits would normally be expected to go soft when stale, whereas cakes would normally be expected to go hard. It was demonstrated to the Tribunal that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale....

Mr Potter ruled that the Jaffa Cake is a cake. He further ruled that, if it is relevant, it is not a biscuit. McVities therefore won the case and we do not pay VAT on Jaffa Cakes

So eat Jaffa Cakes and celebrate a victory over the taxman :D

[dizzyblonde]

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_4_22.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MXGB) Now I am mostly eating a lot of Cadburys chocolate digestives

[missyburd]

stop it now, it's gonna be another 4 hours before I can have a brew! Really need to start bringing a flask with me to uni on long days :(

[Grinch]

Don't say that, though I would love a Jaffa cake right now...

[wyrdness]

Don't say that, though I would love a Jaffa cake right now...

This is offtopic, as it's just been established that Jaffa Cakes aren't biscuits.

But.....

Does anyone else think that the new Lemon & Lime Jaffa Cakes are fab?

They tried Blackcurrant too, but those weren't very good.

[Grinch]

Urgh, I can't stand lemon or lime...

[dizzyblonde]

I particlularly liked the cranberry and orange ones they did at christmas.........mmmmmmm

[Gra]

I used to strip Jaffa Cakes until it was just the jelly bit left. I say used to..

[Jester666]

Doing that is witchcraft!!!

Ohhh hang on, your name...........



**Taxi!!** :lol:

[Grinch]

I loved picking them apart untll just the orangy bit is left. Theres even a place in Southampton that will make you a Jaffa Cake milkshake, it lovely. Though the orangy bits do sometimes get stuck in the straw.

[missrubberduckofdeath]

I loved picking them apart untll just the orangy bit is left. Theres even a place in Southampton that will make you a Jaffa Cake milkshake, it lovely. Though the orangy bits do sometimes get stuck in the straw.

Aww wow i want one of those! =P~

[Gra]

Doing that is witchcraft!!!

Ohhh hang on, your name...........



**Taxi!!** :lol:

:p

That is a quip borderlining 'Dad' territory!

[ooger]

Viennese fingers.

http://www.english-shop.de/images/Foxchocvie1.jpg

Anything else is just crumbs stuck together.

[Gra]

Viennese fingers. Another gem among gems.

[Grinch]

Viennese fingers.

http://www.english-shop.de/images/Foxchocvie1.jpg

Anything else is just crumbs stuck together.

Excuse me, but that could be said of all biscuits.

[ooger]

But the love that comes with the viennese fingers is solely due to the mastery of the way the two uniquely separate biscuits are gelled together with the chocolately compound.

Mmmm. viennese fingers.

Oh, I have one more thing to contribute here:

http://www.english-shop.de/images/Tunnocks%20-%20Caramel%20Wafer%20Biscuits.jpg

[krhall]

Caramels - I'm salavating now!!! I used to get those in my lunchbox on the days when my mum had run out of club biscuits, which were also superb, all except for the one with fruit in - YUK

[missrubberduckofdeath]

Mmmm club biscuits were great, and viscount mint choc biscuits. I love those!

[dizzyblonde]

now if were going to post piccies to make everyone salivate

how about these babies
http://www.kjz.menagerie.org.uk/cookie/images/pinkwafersx2%20copy.GIFhttp://www.expats-shoppingarcade.co.uk/thumbs/yyy24.JPG and i just found this website

http://www.kjz.menagerie.org.uk/cookie/cookie.htm

[dizzyblonde]

there secret is out my real identity is
http://sideways8.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/cookiemonster_1.jpg

c is for cookies i love them very much......hehehehehe

[Alpinestarhero]

now if were going to post piccies to make everyone salivate

how about these babies
http://www.kjz.menagerie.org.uk/cookie/images/pinkwafersx2%20copy.GIFhttp://www.expats-shoppingarcade.co.uk/thumbs/yyy24.JPG and i just found this website

http://www.kjz.menagerie.org.uk/cookie/cookie.htm

YES!!! im not the only one who likes them. I'll have those, and custard creams, and a huge mug o tea. You can find me in the corner getting fat and feeling icky

but i wont stop eating the pink wafers until they is all gone

Then when im fat, I'l use my weight to go crush all those rich tea's

Matt

[ooger]

Some things should never have changed. I blame a lot of problems in the world on TRIO biscuits having disappeared from our shelves without due warning or forward planning.

[missyburd]

I used to strip Jaffa Cakes until it was just the jelly bit left. I say used to..
i used to do that too :D
Mmmm club biscuits were great, and viscount mint choc biscuits. I love those!

clubs are amazing as are pink wafers :mrgreen:

what about those gold bars or fox's classics? they're definitely up in my top 50 of biscuits.

And what's the difference between viennese whirls and viennese fingers?

[krhall]

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/media/mikado.jpg

This too is a biscuit where one will never be enough, keep eating then sit in the corner feeling sick!!!!

[krhall]

Did anyone ever get the 'Morning Coffee' biscuit vibe. That is a biscuit I never really could work out?