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In honour of Tank and taking the smutt out of blonde, here is a tribute to all my favourite biscuits. Ambiguous 'are they biscuits, are they cake, are they chocolate bars?' are more than welcome. Feel free to post your own.

Up first, the one I always go for first in a foxes biscuit tin, followed by taking the first layer off the top, taking them out of the bottom layer then replacing the original layer to give the impression we have only started on the top layer: The jammy dodger

Next up is the sports biscuit, this is a real triple threat of a biscuit. First of all you are entertained by the picture of sports, often I would pump my fist in the air and scream 'come on local sports team' in triumph before I realised it was s static image of stick men. Secondly there is a collectors element to it, often you will see a rare sport like lacross which doesnt figure much in sports biscuit history, other times I like to rifle through the box to find a boxing or football biscuit and have that before anything else. Finally they taste well nice when you dunk them in tea.

Can you buy a pack of just sport biscuits?

What are they called? I'm completely sold and I want some.

Yep, they are just called sports biscuits and you can buy them seperatley and they also appear in some variety packs.

http://www.foxs-biscuits.co.uk/product.php?id=sports

A biscuit you can eat but also collect wrappers?

I'm in.

Sorry Rich, no wrappers, when I said collectors element I just meant a collectors appeal, you cant actually keep them (unless you don't eat them).

Couple of great picks there...

On the weekly shop there is always this:

2 x Fox's Jam Sandwich Creams
1 x Sports Biscuit
1 x Marks ans Spencer Digestives

(No surprise I've put on 2 stone in a year).  This thread wont help.
 ;kev;

I need help on one, a biccy I loved as a kid that I dont know what they are called.

They were rectangular with a cocunuty marshmallow coating on top, this coating was shaped in 6 equal circles in rows of two and were either pink or yellow.

Found it pretty much by typing the description above into google, they were called Jacob's Mikado. Probably havent had one for 25 years but always seemed to have them at kids parties, I used to like to eat the marshmellow first without denting the biscuit (I did the same with the chocoloate on twixs back in the day but Im too old for that shit now).

Unless, I'm mistaken, the first picture in OP is of a Jam Cream and not a jammy dodger.

they're called mikado now - when we were kids they were just called 'mallows' I think.  loved 'em.

other chiildhood favourites of mine:

happy faces

(http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/media/happyface.jpg)

pink wafers

(http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/UNE/UNE005/pink-wafer-biscuits_~u11385018.jpg)

toffee pops

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4438754454_4d8019055c.jpg)

Yeh that top pick is no Jammie Dodger!
I love pink wafers! Can't beat a ginger biscuit though!

Ive known the first biscuit as a jammy dodger for nearly 31 years, this is really messing with my head.

Cow Biscuits.

jammy dodgers look like this:

(http://londonist.com/attachments/Rob/jammy-dodger-big.jpg)

or this:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qnE0eIaNp6M/RzxIgio5TFI/AAAAAAAAAEA/hbFyPT5PZV8/s400/250px-Jamiedodger.jpg)

I just pointed at my OP and my missus said it was a jammy dodger, then I said everyone said it wasnt and she said 'actually technically it isnt a jammy dodger'

If she has lied to me about this, what else has she lied to me about?

Ok let's point you in the right direction on this very important thread. The question often asked is biscuit or cake? When a biscuit is stale it goes soft. When cake goes stale it goes hard. I hope that clears things up.

never ask questions like this out loud

Two entrants


Creme crunches
(http://www.foxs-biscuits.co.uk/images/400x200/crunchgolden.png)
and

Chocloate viennese!
(http://www.foxs-biscuits.co.uk/images/400x200/viennesechoc.png)

sigh, will any of these threads ever deliver? We start at biscuit perfection with the jammie dodger and it's not even a pic of one.

Mo I had a pack of cow bisquits lastnight
we used to call them milk biscuits

my fav are chic digestives on offer at the super Market
1large pack £1.00 or 2 large multi pack for £2.50
WTF I found myself telling people in the biscuit isle hey look
it's cheaper to by them seperate fml
I know the best thins that has come out of my marriage
split is that I can buy loads of shit when I go shopping
I saw my mates wife in marksys food store
last week my reilly was so full of shit she pissed herself laughing
I like to put strange things in peoples trolleys when their not looking
e.g see a reilly full of food ect and put some dog and cat food in their reilly
niall loves playing this game when we go shopping
his mother can't understand why he does a fist pump when I tell him we are going shopping
also I let's him eat stuff while walking around the shop keeping the lables to scan them obviously

mmmmmmm I feel like going shopping

I prefer the slightly less-fashionable digestives

Me and my flatmate used to do this when we went shopping. When we went into Mozzy's we would both select the same item that we didnt want and had to dump it in sumbodys basket/trolley. If you didnt offload ur item then u had to pay for it at the end of the shop!

Yeah, malted milks, we called um that and cows.

I'n sure these had cow's on when I was a lad.

different biccies dewi - similar though

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WXbJfJ-veLI/SgRPH5gYxAI/AAAAAAAACo0/p0pmO0WS4OY/s200/malted+milk.jpg)

I used to love these when i was younger, not really pushed these days.But still deserve a shout.




(http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/may2008/9/6/BE6D5C09-BA15-6684-B149564CE06A73D2.jpg)

Why is there not a custard cream on this thread yet ?

2 bourbons and 2 custard creams with a cup of tea = heaven

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3253/chocolatehobnobs.jpg) (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/chocolatehobnobs.jpg/)

Chocolate hob nobs ftw, they have to be milk chocolate and mcvities as well.

Dark chocolate biscuits ftw. Might have to go buy some now actually.

PMSL
POTW

The 3 all time classic biscuits are imo :

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/278231732_2b12151d24.jpg)

(http://bexgoes4you.com/BISCUITS/nestle%20breakway%20milk%20choc%209%20pkt.jpg)

(http://www.bestofbritish.com.au/Uploads/Images/digestive-250g.jpg)

Blue ribbens>>>>>>>>>> breakaway's

ooh used to love tunnock's caramel - got them off the milkman I think

onto a different choccie biccie - remember these adverts (can't find the original)?

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCpe7mPhGfI

You got the name wrong, that aside your so so wrong!

Stick the breakaways in the fridge hmmmm

Ooooh i am sorry about my awful spelling of riband! But still blue ribands >>>>> breakaways!

Some great choices on here, I'm gonna have a think.

In the meantime, take a finger or twix, bite off both ends leaving as much as possible to eat. Now take a hot cup of tea and use the twix as a straw and suck until the tea reaches your mouth thru the biscuit.  The resulting biscuit is total heaven

your welcome

This

I didn't technically sleep* with him.


*I was awake all the time

Biscuit bars. While obviously containing biscuit are these really biscuits?

Kit Kat. Oldschool style with the foil. Prefferably 4 fingers so you can run your finger through the foild and snap a finger off.

BoB

THIS except I think the coconut caramel ones have an edge, delicious chewiness

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hR7F-MqvRzI/SRlIBxcD6BI/AAAAAAAADiU/KvB1UTT3uUE/s400/caralog2.bmp)

since he is on holiday, I would like to include in his absence

wtf is that? looks like sawdust and cardboard!

Ahh, I dinnae think you have ony in England

http://www.thechocolatereview.net/2008/10/29/tunnocks-caramel-log-wafer/

pretty sure I have some in my kitchen actually.  only they are covered in vinyl and called 'worktops' :D

Hello winner....

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

Party rings lost their appeal to me when my fingers became too sausage like to fit in the holes.

If you can't put five on each hand and casually nibble then wtf is the point.

:D They do look a bit unappealing and you end up with a mess of coconut all over you but you can easily devour 4 in a sitting :o

Kimberley Biscuits... wtf is that all about?

(http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/media/kimberley.jpg)

Things that look picture looks like

[ x ] McDonalds hamburger
[ x ] 2 girls 1 cup
[   ] biscuit

Things that picture taste's like

[   ] Biscuit

Forget classics; these

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hR7F-MqvRzI/S5VGEmIYheI/AAAAAAAAIwA/CzU-3J6jiC8/s400/carabisc1.bmp)

are amazing

And possibly dangerously addictive

even looking at them sets my teeth on edge...

Wins.

only way to eat a party ring is to suck the icing off first - goes all nice and crystillized.  bit sickly for me generally though.

kimberley's are lovely - got quite addicted to them when I was shacked up with an irish dude many years ago

On the international feont, ex Aussie bird used to rant and rave about how excellent Tim-Tams were.

*would insert pic of timtams here, but on my phone*

We got ahold of some, they're like Penguins but edible. Actually pretty good.
 

One of my best mates is an Aussie and he went crazy about tim-tams, his family used to send them in the post for him, they used to hide them in other things because I dont think they were allowed to send food in the post. I finally had one after about 3 years of hearing how great they were and yep, very much like penguins, not bad.

Should probably also menrion the yank biscuit, the Oreo. Been widely available over here for a few years as part of the gradual Americisation of our fine land.
Our American cousins love this biscuit, either they're deeply entrenched in the American way of life or they have a wizz of a PR agency or both. There's been countless references to this biscuit in popular culture, including of course our very own Rounders. What looks like a film about poker is actually a film about poker and biscuits.


*picture of Oreo biscuits would go here were it not for aforementioned phone thing*

I don't see the fascination with the things personally. They're not to my taste, I'll eat them but would probably swerve if another biscuit was available.
My life loves the things, and my daughter attacks them with the same fervour as my old Labrador would attack a pig's ear. Full of chemicals I'm guessing.

Onto the debate about what should be considered a biscuit and what should not. My rule is pretty much if you can buy one unit individually in a newsagent, its not a biscuit. So a mars bar is not a biscuit, but a Trio is. Controversially a twix is not a biscuit, and an individual twix in a pack of five twixs is also not a biscuit (My logic here is that if you can consider that a biscuit you can, by the same token, consider fun sized mars bars a biscuit and even worse, a celebration.

So without further ado, a classic biscuit that looks like a chocolate bar, a 54321.

Uber chewy and the advert was great

Tim tams are the ones where u bite off a corner at top n bottom and use it as a straw to drink ur tea thru! Then eat the amazing biscuit afterwards!

see my twix post for the uk version

yea I saw mate but cba quoting it ;) off me phone!

OMG!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLzflX6r5Q

Can I move that word 'reputable' be added to proceed newsagent in your biscuit definition so as to make it more universal?

There were some tinky newsagents up my bit wot sold individual Trios and the like.

Quite sure Barry will agree that the Ginger Nut is a true majestic star in the biscuit world.

Ginger nut is an odd one for me, they are the sort of biccy I avoid and will always opt for something else in a selection type box, however when I do have one I usually have about 20 in a row, very moorish and undoubtedly a great companion to a cup of tea

Yep, not much of a biccie on its own but when dunked in tea, it is undoubtedly the king of biscuits.

Coffee fella, drink of champions...

Indeed, the tasty allure of God's chosen biscuit does sneak up on you and when it does, you quite happily succumb to the Ginger Nuts embrace.

(http://www.seabird.org/assets/gallery/birds/puffin13.jpg)

Happy to help.

Is the puffin bar the Tesco own brand penguin?

an OMG thread without boobies??? wtf????? pls ban!!

If you haven't seen it... a must see!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0FQoU2UYqo

*Patiently waits for the probable "Well, there's one tit on here now." comment*

any love for a club biscuit? orange was my fav

"If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club"

Mint FTW tho Trigger!

Probably mint my favourite, also liked the blackcurrant one

this.

what about these beauties?

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0blTorkigqY/0.jpg)

its a bad pic but they were incred!

yep, +1

Just bought a 27 pack of penguins, getting my missus to hide 18 of them so I don't power through them tomorrow afternoon. The jokes on the back are as crap as ever and the chocolate melts easy, but its still the best £2.19 I've spent in a while.

so you're still going to have 9 tomorrow then? good work

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/3764365351_f0fc00a8d2.jpg)
Forgot all about these. Surely worth a mention on this thread.

they look nice

Is it true those biscuits can only be made in a certain region of France?

how exactly is the name of the biscuit pronounced?  I like to think of them as 'pleasant' biscuits coz i think it's a, erm, nice, name, but my mum told me when i was a nipper that you say it like the name of the french place.

Is that why your mother only ever had them out when her sister's daughter had come round?

my mother never got them out in company tyvm!

PUT DOWN THE INNUENDO AND MOVE AWAY FROM THE GUTTER.

Maryland Choc Chip Cookies!!

I demolished a full pack of em in about 10 minutes today!!

My mum always use to call them after the French place and on the basis that Mum's are never wrong, we can only assume they are correct.

Another top choice is of course, Fig Rolls -

ban plz!

http://www.arnotts.com.au/our-products/products/plains.aspx

(http://uk.ar-cdn.com/Recipes/XLarge/b8b57db0-4568-4b13-ab27-da1f34e629f8.jpg)

+1

Fig biscuits are probably the only biscuit I have a problem being on the thread, worst biscuit ever, stayed at the bottom of our biscuit barrels for years because nobody wanted them. Die fig biscuits

+1

any love for wagon wheels???

Not since they got smaller.

Mmmmmmmm Nom nom nom nom!

MADNESS ! !

They are tasty & help keep you regular.

stepping away from the shop bought varieties for a minute I've made these babies more than once.  The amount of chocolate they contain is pretty farcical - reckon they're probs close to a zillion calories each, but pretty damn heavenly

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=100

to dunk in your beetroot soup?

Can anyone provide the stats re number of times Girgy has said this on Blonde ?

I believe it's his catchphrase ?

Good man !

For those other souls -

Healthy ! (http://www.elements4health.com/figs.html)

Things that are highly unlikely to happen in our lifetime:

The Loch Ness monster is proved to be reality......

Aliens are found roaming the streets of Stockport......

Girgy posts a bird who is actually fit.....

Evilpie agrees with Bainn.....

Figs are tasty.

meh - any biscuit that has any health benefit at all should be insta-banned from the thread

you forgot the bainn shaves off his redic food catching beard!!

Really ?

Look at some of the benefits -

"A Sweet Way to Lose Weight

Figs are a good source of dietary fiber. Fiber and fiber-rich foods may have a positive effect on weight management. In one study, women who increased their fiber intake with supplements significantly decreased their energy intake, yet their hunger and satiety scores did not change. Figs, like other high fiber foods, may be helpful in a weight management program.

Fruit and Cereal Fiber Protective against Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

Results of a prospective study involving 51,823 postmenopausal women for an average of 8.3 years showed a 34% reduction in breast cancer risk for those consuming the most fruit fiber compared to those consuming the least. In addition, in the subgroup of women who had ever used hormone replacement, those consuming the most fiber, especially cereal fiber, had a 50% reduction in their risk of breast cancer compared to those consuming the least. Int J Cancer. 2008 Jan 15;122(2):403-12.

Fruits richest in fiber include apples, dates, figs, pears and prunes. When choosing a high fiber cereal, look for whole grain cereals as they supply the most bran (a mere 1/3rd cup of bran contains about 14 grams of fiber)."

Girgy learns to use captilisation properly is another.

It took you 8 minutes to open the packet  :dontask:

 rotflmfao

Top of the pops, any youngsters watching etc. etc.

I have stayed in Newcastle a few times & in different hotels, there is always a Club Orange in the room, is this particular to Newcastle?

It's only if you are going Dutch.

punny :D

As well as Bainn learns to spell capitalisation obviously.

Yes, even I am capable of making the odd error.

Once every 5 or so years I believe, so mark it in your diary Squire.

I like Bainn. I like Evilpie.

It's like Tank Abbott vs the Dean of Mean Keith Jardine.

????

*Goes off to Google*

Ah.

I see Matt's resemblence to Keith.

 rotflmfao

Wait 'til you find Tank!!

You'll be impressed.

Hhhmmm.

Tank requires longer beard.

You know better than this, what about the day those girl scouts knocked on your door and tried to sell you some cookies?
You asked how much and they told you it was $3.50 a box.
You said 'I aint givin you god damn tree fiddy! Your that god damn Loch Ness monster!'

Pretty weird morning not to remember mate.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZu4EFr6H7s