Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 973539)

They were saying on TV this morning that the old favorite biscuits are dying out and new fancy biscuits are taking over, do you still like suggestive digestives, Fig biscuits, rich tea, Bourbons, ginger snaps, to me you can beat the old ones, but the new cookies are okay for a change

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 973544)

The fancy ones are taking over because they are more heavily promoted and make more money for the manufacturers.

I like digestives, fig rolls, Bourbons, Nice, fruit shortcake... but I DON'T dunk them. Can't bear that sludge in the bottom of the cup... Yuk!

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 973539)

They were saying on TV this morning that the old favorite biscuits are dying out and new fancy biscuits are taking over, do you still like suggestive digestives, Fig biscuits, rich tea, Bourbons, ginger snaps, to me you can beat the old ones, but the new cookies are okay for a change

Originally Posted by Less (Post 973548)

Happy days at school, the daily ritual for the bullies at school to dunk the nerds head first in the toilet and flush it.
My mates and I always looked like it had been raining and gave off the pungent aroma of san izal disinfectant as we dried out.

Also used to turn my stomach, all those bits floating about.

:)

Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 973573)

Breakfast for as long as I can remember three plain McVities digestive biscuits, pot of coffee, then the tablets.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 973582)

Love digestives for breakfast, they're great.

Recently someone brought out some special breakfast biscuits, ten times the price and not a patch on McVities.

Originally Posted by lettie (Post 973610)

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Tim Tam biscuits (similar to Penguin ), are great with a brew. Bite off a bottom & top corner, hold the bottom corner in your coffee and suck your brew up through it like a straw.....Yum!!:D

Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 973629)

I can't have biscuits in the house otherwise I would just scoff them all at once and the same with cake and chocolate! I do like dark chocolate digestives

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 973580)

Less you would have had some karma for that if I hadn't already given you some today :):)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 973599)

Yes, I can imagine Cashy!(not wild ones I hope)

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 973643)

I stopped buying biscuits when I went on a sugar free diet for six months in the autumn of 2010.
I lost any sweet tooth I had and one stone in weight!

I have recently resumed resumed buying biscuits but now I am aware of trans fats and hydrogenised fats, my choice is limited. These are wholesome -
Jules Destrooper Almond Thins
Ingredients -Wheat Flour, Brown Sugar, Butter, Almonds (10%), Salt, raising agents: sodiumbicarbonate.
- a pack can last me 2 weeks if no-one helps me eat them.

Before I became a fussy eater I loved dunking Thin Arrowroot - you had to be a fast dunker or have a spoon handy.

Originally Posted by Less (Post 973636)

Kestrelx will be on soon, he will enjoy Pointing out your addiction.

I hope you've no guilty secrets about going on a mugging spree to pay ASDA for being your supplier during your weakness!

Originally Posted by steve2qec (Post 973662)

Fave biscuit: Penguin
Least Fave: Wagon Wheels (hate 'em!!)
....and I don't dunk

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 973679)

Got a packet of Penguins this weekend steve, packet of 12 and 12 more free:D

Originally Posted by steve2qec (Post 973682)

A good deal! Where from?

Originally Posted by steve2qec (Post 973682)

A good deal! Where from?

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 973615)

That, lettie, sounds disgusting!
What sort of a noise does it make?

The secret with dunking, susie, is that it must in and out very quickly,then you don't get it dropping in your cup and the biscuit is still crunchy.

Originally Posted by Less (Post 973637)

Thank you very kindly, not only for the karma but, also letting the world know.

Believe it or not, I don't play that game, I rarely give or take it. I have always been against it.
But it has always been part of the site, so please, don't be upset if I don't do tit for tat, giving or taking, I appreciate it enough if someone answers my posts, whether they are for or against.

Originally Posted by steve2qec (Post 973662)

Fave biscuit: Penguin
Least Fave: Wagon Wheels (hate 'em!!)
....and I don't dunk

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 973688)

The Zoo, believe there's a BOGOF on Anteaters next week !;)

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 973688)

The Zoo, believe there's a BOGOF on Anteaters next week !;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 973695)

Is that Aardvarks or just plain old run of the mill anteaters Dave:D

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 973735)

You want to try Armadillos Dave, they are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Dime Bar - Armadillo Advert - YouTube

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 974267)

Holy what!!!:D Holy Cow...isn't that Desperate Dan?

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 974278)

I thought that was cow pie:confused: A real horny meal;)

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 973735)

You want to try Armadillos Dave, they are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Dime Bar - Armadillo Advert - YouTube

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 974391)

Yes I like that one Eric, I might get the mug...

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 974930)

So many biscuits to choose from but I have to say that the old ones are still the best. Plenty of new ones appear each year but there are only so many ways they can dress up biscuit, chocolate and sugary filling and they'd done that well enough by the time I started eating them in the early 1980s. Fig rolls, Nice biscuits, malted milk and the guilty pleasure of pink wafers - they all hit the mark for me.

However, Bourbon creams remain an old favourite and are probably the stock choice at Rishton Towers.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 975554)

Another similar are those with a plain biscuit base and really squdgy pink and white sticky creamy stuff on top with a light dusting of desiccated coconut. Not sure what they're called or if they even make them any more.

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 975720)

Mallows by Jacobs

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 975923)

Aye Ma, while we were doing a big shop to fetch stuff back I'm sure we saw some, but it could've been any of Asda, Tesco or Morrison as we traipsed round quite a few of them.

Bit to squishy for me Sue, but if you put choccy over 'em well that's a different matter, what I do like though is "Tunnocks" the Jockanese choccy, caramel wafer, used to get them as kids from the bread van that came round the estate. :)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 976021)

Bought a packet of Tunnocks Caramel wafers while we were in Llandudno.......they were delicious.(and banned for Ma, but it didn't stop her from eating half of one....and greedy mare that I am, I ate the half that was left....well, it saved it from going off :D)

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 975923)

Bit to squishy for me Sue, but if you put choccy over 'em well that's a different matter, what I do like though is "Tunnocks" the Jockanese choccy, caramel wafer, used to get them as kids from the bread van that came round the estate. :)

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 975959)

Can't imagine choccy on Mallows, but I do like a nice Tunnocks now and again...

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 976021)

Bought a packet of Tunnocks Caramel wafers while we were in Llandudno.......they were delicious.(and banned for Ma, but it didn't stop her from eating half of one....and greedy mare that I am, I ate the half that was left....well, it saved it from going off :D)

Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 976088)

I'd have polished the packet off! I just can't resist!

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 975554)

Know what ya mean about pink wafers - but WHY are they a guilty pleasure?

Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 976292)

I admire your restraint so much! If I bought them they'd be niggling away at the back of my mind until they were all gone, which is why I just don't buy them. I'm the same with sweets, chocolate, cake and I couldn't possibly buy a tin of Roses or Quality Street at Christmas or I'd be like Worzel Gummidge's Aunt Sally after she's been stuck into the cake with it all over her face! Oh for a bit of willpower but I know my limitations!

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 976295)

I'm very, very partial to Asda's jammy doughnut bites. They're not really biscuits but they go beautifully with a brew and I'm afraid once they're opened it's pretty much game over.

That box of 20 doesn't last as long as it should.

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 976294)

I can afford to feed my pink wafer addiction....