The Great Heartland Biscuit Thread™

[SmileySister]

I don't buy biscuits now the bin lids have gone off to Uni but if I did have to choose, it would be short bread
and I would not dunk.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

I don't buy biscuits now the bin lids have gone off to Uni but if I did have to choose, it would be short bread
and I would not dunk.

I never doubted you Laura. a Queen amongst women.

[Afflikönig]

I don't buy biscuits now the bin lids have gone off to Uni but if I did have to choose, it would be short bread
and I would not dunk.

Good choice

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

But shortbread (and fruit and shortbread are 2 separate entities and should remain so) dunked is a delight to the senses

[SmileySister]

Chocolate chips in shortbread are a good thing.

I think you like shortbread because there are Scottie dogs on the tins EmmaPeelWannaBe

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

Even better Smiley, sometimes the tins are shaped like scottie dogs and filled with scottie dog shaped shortbread

But yes on chocolate chips and also stem ginger

[EvilBastard]

I fear a schism brewing. There are biscuits (cf The Noble Bourbon), there are cakes, and there are breads. I am prepared to stretch a point and allow Jaffa Cakes to be dunked since they resemble biscuits, but I'm afraid that otherwise cakes and breads are right out when it comes to dunking. Don't be dunking shortbread, Soreen malt loaves, or Tate & Lyle ginger loaves in your tea-time beverage. No good can come of this.

[emilystrange]

On the tea front, I can confirm that the Yorkshire biscuit and toast/jam teas are Very Nice.

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On the tea front, I can confirm that the Yorkshire biscuit and toast/jam teas are Very Nice.

What is a Yorkshire biccie? And it might be a bit heretical, but what is so good about Yorkshire Tea?!!!

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I don't buy biscuits now the bin lids have gone off to Uni but if I did have to choose, it would be short bread
and I would not dunk.

I should think not!

[markfiend]

And it might be a bit heretical, but what is so good about Yorkshire Tea?!!!

WHAT??? Yorkshire Tea is the only tea I'll drink!

[mh]

Is Yorkshire Tea like: "you were lucky, our dad used to put razor blades in our tea"?

[markfiend]

[emilystrange]

Biscuit and Toast and Jam are the tea flavours...

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Biscuit and Toast and Jam are the tea flavours...

Good grief. I blame the hipsters! Do hipsters exist in Yorkshire?

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Biscuit and Toast and Jam are the tea flavours...

Good grief. I blame the hipsters! Do hipsters exist in Yorkshire?

i dunno Greg but i do know they dont/cant/never have grown tea there... 'appen.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

fig rolls are like the RLYL of biscuits and so underrated

[emilystrange]

i love them!

[markfiend]

I have recently rediscovered the mighty Penguin. OK they seem a little smaller than when we were kids (although that might be the Wagon Wheel effect - they seem smaller because we were used to holding them in tiny children's hands) and the variety of coloured wrappers has gone (they're all red; no blue or yellow) but by the Biscuit Gods are they good

[Pista]

I have recently rediscovered the mighty Penguin. OK they seem a little smaller than when we were kids (although that might be the Wagon Wheel effect - they seem smaller because we were used to holding them in tiny children's hands) and the variety of coloured wrappers has gone (they're all red; no blue or yellow) but by the Biscuit Gods are they good

Do they still have a joke on the wrapper?
Or am I thinking of something else entirely?

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I have recently rediscovered the mighty Penguin. OK they seem a little smaller than when we were kids (although that might be the Wagon Wheel effect - they seem smaller because we were used to holding them in tiny children's hands) and the variety of coloured wrappers has gone (they're all red; no blue or yellow) but by the Biscuit Gods are they good

Do they still have a joke on the wrapper?
Or am I thinking of something else entirely?

They still have the joke! They are definitely smaller though. As are most wafers (as they were called in Derry). Does anyone remember YoYos though? Quality biccies or maybe they were bars. But can you have a round bar?

[eastmidswhizzkid]

I have recently rediscovered the mighty Penguin. OK they seem a little smaller than when we were kids (although that might be the Wagon Wheel effect - they seem smaller because we were used to holding them in tiny children's hands) and the variety of coloured wrappers has gone (they're all red; no blue or yellow) but by the Biscuit Gods are they good

Do they still have a joke on the wrapper?
Or am I thinking of something else entirely?

They still have the joke! They are definitely smaller though. As are most wafers (as they were called in Derry). Does anyone remember YoYos though? Quality biccies or maybe they were bars. But can you have a round bar?

i remember Yo-yos. like Viscounts but not mint.

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Do they still have a joke on the wrapper?
Or am I thinking of something else entirely?

They still have the joke! They are definitely smaller though. As are most wafers (as they were called in Derry). Does anyone remember YoYos though? Quality biccies or maybe they were bars. But can you have a round bar?

i remember Yo-yos. like Viscounts but not mint.

Ah they were mint but a bit more chocolatey!

[eastmidswhizzkid]

They still have the joke! They are definitely smaller though. As are most wafers (as they were called in Derry). Does anyone remember YoYos though? Quality biccies or maybe they were bars. But can you have a round bar?

i remember Yo-yos. like Viscounts but not mint.

Ah they were mint but a bit more chocolatey!

Yo-yo's were mint too? i remembered them as being orangey. maybe they came in different flavours. or more likely the 1970's are only accessible through a fog of -many fog constituents actually

[OLDFART]

I remember club biscuits from when I was a kid , hated the orange one's .