Biscuits

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

There is no finer biscuit than a Mint Club.

Discuss.

[JohnW]

Alright!
This is the kind of thing I joined this forum for!

Now let me think.

[Barrington Boots]

Custard cream all the way!

Nowdays, with the shops full of artisan quadruple chocolate cookies with stem ginger chunks and the like, there is safety and serenity to be had in the simple custard cream: a staple of a childhood where getting a custard cream was a genuine treat and Brexit, Trump and Putin were yet nightmares undreamed of.
Satisfyingly old school in appearance, solid in texture, and definitely not expensive.
As an adult I have developed more appreciation for the humble Rich Tea, but for me a custard cream remains the pinnacle of biscuits.

[JohnW]

Barrington Boots: a man with the courage to fight his way undaunted through Nightmare Castle;
A man with the wisdom to know the true worth of own-brand custard creams.
This is a man I can follow.
I march beneath his trifle banner.

[wedgeski]

McV's Digestives. Cup of tea and a small stack, dip your way to heaven.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Barrington Boots: a man with the courage to fight his way undaunted through Nightmare Castle;
A man with the wisdom to know the true worth of own-brand custard creams.
This is a man I can follow.
I march beneath his trifle banner.

I don't know what's worse. The cowardly custard creamer, or the coward who lets a cowardly custard creamer decide for him.

[JohnW]

Oh go on then! Line up alongside Brexit, Trump and Putin!

[JohnW]

 

[Barrington Boots]

Barrington Boots: a man with the courage to fight his way undaunted through Nightmare Castle;
A man with the wisdom to know the true worth of own-brand custard creams.
This is a man I can follow.
I march beneath his trifle banner.

I should print and frame this and stick it on my wall.

I don't know what's worse. The cowardly custard creamer, or the coward who lets a cowardly custard creamer decide for him.

Harsh words from the mint club contingent!

[JohnW]

I will extend an olive branch to my fancy-pants hoity-toity mint club brethren with their judgemental attitude and dodgy politics, and admit that I have been this very afternoon been eating Tesco chocolate orange cookies.
Not bad at all.

But artisan quadruple chocolate cookies with stem ginger chunks are false idols. They will not save you.

[pauljholden]

Spare a thought for your pals who have had to excise gluten from their diet, and subsequently have had to face a life time of slightly rubbish biscuits. There are *SOME* ok ones, Schar chocolate digestive for example (which looks chocolate digestive but tastes faintly of coconut) and the biscuits that turn up in Lidl, Dunnes, Tescos and Sainsburys that all have different boxes but in fact are the exact same biscuits (I favour the triple chocolate ones) that go soft once they hit the air and have suffered from so much shrinkflation, at this point they look less like chocolate biscuits and more like chocolate buttons...

[Trooper McFad]

Well well this is a difficult choice a bit like which of my children do I like most 😳

Back to the biscuits - what should I go for the chunky chocolate of a fruit club or the dunkablity of a Hobnob but maybe I should be classy with a fox's Classic but surely a digestive with a smear of butter tops them! No the one I'd pick over them all is a Gold bar (just)

Now we have to convince Colin to do one of his long running competitions with every biscuit on the shelf 😁

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Well well this is a difficult choice a bit like which of my children do I like most 😳

Back to the biscuits - what should I go for the chunky chocolate of a fruit club or the dunkablity of a Hobnob but maybe I should be classy with a fox's Classic but surely a digestive with a smear of butter tops them! No the one I'd pick over them all is a Gold bar (just)

Now we have to convince Colin to do one of his long running competitions with every biscuit on the shelf 😁

OOOH! A Classic. Not had one of them for years, maybe decades. I am going to get myself a packet.

[The Legendary Shark]

Hob Nobs all the way, with Chocolate Hob Nobs for special occasions. It's a strong biscuit, a tasty biscuit, a no-nonsense biscuit.

[nxylas]

Asda apparently has an own brand chocolate orange bourbon, but every time I order it as part of my weekly online shop, it gets replaced with a substitution. I feel like they're taunting me (I like chocolate orange flavour things, in case it needs explaining).