http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/reviews.php3

Garrybaldy

Singular favourite is too hard.

Not in any order:

Chocolate Kimberley
Milk Chocolate Hobnob
Jammy Dodger
The Chocolate ginger biscuit thing in Cadburys tins

It changes daily.

Bourbon
Rich tea
Anything free

After nearly 40 years of investigating this very topic, the king of biscuits is most definitely the humble chocolate hobnob.

Hobnob obvs…

Anything free

This. Apart from Rich Tea, they are the celery of the biscuit world.

Garrybaldy?

Vegan – Bourbon

When not a vegan [ the past] – Tunnocks

Chocolate coated would be KitKat.

Regular biscuit would be Aldis Oaties. We had a blind taste test at work and find them better than Hobnobs and Sainsbury’s versions too.

I am very found of a bourbon too.

I like a good plain choccy digestive. Lidl’s own brand are nice.

I have 2 in joint top position.
Chocolate hobnob, a classic.
Aldi Specially Selected chocolate chip cookies. Filth, just plain filth.

The answer is hobnob.. Anyone saying different is lying or deluded

I didn’t know Bourbons were vegan. That means they must be healthy, right?

Absolutely – must be at least one of your 5 a day per three biscuits eaten I reckon

EDIT: Just checked you need to eat 4 to make sure it counts 😉

We had this discussion at work recently and all agreed that it’s the milk chocolate hobnob – the Royal Marine of the biscuit world (operates in and out of tea).

Whatever is in the biscuit box is full of win.
An empty biscuit box is full of no biscuits = lose.

Viennee sandwhich obviously.

Milk-choc Hobnobs may be the most overrated biscuit ever to have existed.

Whenever I go to France, I come back with a few packets of these:
Energy bar of champions. Although after a few packets while snowboarding, you can feel a little sick 🙂

I am quite partial to Co-Op stem Ginger cookies too.

I’m not allowed a biscuit tin – I have no self-control.

See Milk choc hobnobs are ace but after too many quite a few, they rip the top of your mouth to pieces.

I am a big fan of McVities milk choc & basically the majority of biscuits going.

Not a fan of hob nobs. Peter Kay said it was the para of the biscuit world. He’d obviously never had a shortbread finger, they are the SAS/SBS of the biscuit world. Proper hard and can survive in tea conditions for hours.

My fave has to be caramel choc digestive or the choccie bourbon

If we are talking about individually wrapped ‘biscuits’ then Tunnocks wafer or a TRIO

If I’m buying, Jammy Dodgers, although some (very kind, dear, generous) friends bought us some Fortnum & Mason heather honey biscuits for Christmas and they tasted and smelled utterly divine.

Custard Cream or shortbread

Another vote for chocolate hob nobs here. Although after getting a tin of fox’s biscuits for Christmas the crunch creams are pretty close!

Dundee Biscuits

As big as your face when you were a kid, with ‘Dundee’ embossed on them in a rugby ball shape, and made, as the name suggests… in Northwich.

Sold in a celephane wrapped stack of about half a dozen so the pack was the size and shape of a cake

Eating the edge of an orange chocolate club used to be fantastic.

Rocky robin to feel sick after 2 of them

Taxonomy of biscuits

Cakes
Usually easily distinguished from biscuits by their sheer size however individual cakes can be a bit tricker, for instance the macaroon. Also the Jaffa Cake despite having the word cake in its name can confuse some people.

Crackers
Crackers are aimed at savory use such as cheese and crackers, however you sometimes get those hovis sweetmeal digestives, I don’t know why, in big boxes of crackers, which is obviously confusing. Generally you wouldn’t want to dunk one in your tea.

Chocolate covered
Half way between biscuits and chocolate bars, are the chocolate covered biscuits. A bit of a grey area but this is where we encounter individual foil wraps, and strange quasi cake, biscuit hybrids like the Waggon Wheel. Also the home of the Jacobs Club biscuit, although this is a sad shadow of its former self thanks to the French again.

Chocolate Bars
The Kit Kat is a good example of the transitional phase from chocolate covered to full chocolate bars like the picnic.

How to spot biscuits

They come in packets
They have two sides
You could dunk them in tea
Entry level
They come in clear cellophane wrappers
They aren’t so nice that you could eat a whole packet
They are homogeneous
Mid range
Anything with a currant, or some sort of fruit in it
Twin layer affair with some sort of cream up the middle
Wrapper has pictures on it.
Some sort of USP
Luxury
Any thing with chocolate on top.
May be in a cardboard box

FAQ

Q. Are Jaffa cakes biscuits.

A. No, no the’re not. Apart from being called cakes they obviously have a sponge base. Granted they appear to be some kind of luxury biscuit being chocolate covered and shipping in a box.

Q. Why are ‘Nice’ biscuits called that?

A. I don’t know because they are possibly one of the nastiest biscuits ever, perhaps its sarcasm. Also if you are new to this site and are about to email me saying “Actually its because they are named after the town in the south of France” don’t. They’re not from there, nobody there has ever heard of them. Hop on an Easyjet flight get yourself down there and ask around, you’ll get even blanker Gallic looks than usual. Back when they were invented Huntley and Palmer were knocking out over 450 sorts of biscuits, so naming new sorts of biscuits was probably a matter of just going through the phone book or index in the atlas. Anyhow I don’t like them.

Q. Whats the best biscuit ever?

A. Well I would have to say the Abbey Crunch, see my page on this ground breaking oat based biscuit.

Q. Can something that is individually wrapped be biscuit.

A. Its pushing it isn’t it.

Q. Whats the story with pink wafers?

A. Well they have dropped out of fashion, and rightly so as they are unpleasant at best. Wafers in general have had to move up into chocolate covered jobs like the Tunnocks wafer, or chocolate bars like the Kit Ka

Quirrel – Member
Q. Are Jaffa cakes biscuits.

A. No, no the’re not. Apart from being called cakes they obviously have a sponge base. Granted they appear to be some kind of luxury biscuit being chocolate covered and shipping in a box.And yet you can keep them in a biscuit tin and dunk them like a digestive. Curiouser and curiouser.

Agree that Aldi Oaties beat the HobNob. They don’t seem to do a chocolate coated Oatie though.

Tunnocks Caramel Wafers if you want them individually wrapped.

Though I must confess I have done my duty, indeed, probably exceeds expectations, in helping my colleagues demolish the mountain of Jaffa Cakes someone brought in to the office yesterday. 8)

Rich tea

get. out.
I really have no idea why rich tea still exist, they are a god awful biscuit. Surely they were one of the first evolutionary steps to get to the modern biscuit, should be assigned to history books.

Chocolate digestives are good (and addictive) I don’t buy them but mrs does, usually with detrimental consequences for my calorific intake, very moreish. Foxes cream crunch are nice but I’ve never tried eating a load – possibly too sickly, hobnobs are a good shout for a plain bicuit. Custard creams bourbons and malted milk featured heavily in my childhood so not a fan now.

partial to a bit of shortbread myself. Dunked in coffee.

In no particular order;

Bourbons
Jammy dodgers
Caramel and chocolate digestives
Hobnobs

How hasn’t anyone mentioned partyrings? Delicious if a little unpredictable for dunking. Crunchy one second, soggy at the bottom of the mug the next.

There’s no way Tunnocks fall into a proper “biscuit” category; delicious though they are. If we’re going to broaden our definition so widely, I give you…………..

mint Clubs. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Rich tea

get. out.
I really have no idea why rich tea still exist, they are a god awful biscuit

+1 g/f keep suggesting this but has in 10 odd years, never bought a packet & happily eat my biscuit selection (lidl fancy ones are my current “go to” biscuit) & no I will not be buying any for her!

Swiss Brunsli Biscuits – nutty chocolate almost yummyness, the attached recipe is the closest I can find online, but grandmas recipe is still the best! (ground almonds instead of whole and a tablespoon of kirsch!)

Disco.

I really have no idea why rich tea still exist, they are a god awful biscuit

Agreed. They taste no better than the packet they came in.

Now for taste:
McVitie’s Plain Chocolate Digestive
McVitie’s Ginger Nuts
and now and then
Fig Rolls

Plain chocolate hob nob. There is no contest.

Fox’s butter crunch. Bit of a danger-dunk but delicious.

I do enjoy an Aldi Digger biscuit too, bite off opposite corners and suck the brew through the biscuit and consume, also works with KitKats.

1. Fox’s Classic
2. McVitie’s dark choc hobnob
3. McVitie’s dark choc digestive

Fox’s make both the best biscuit base and chocolate.

Fig roll or McVites Ginger nut for me.

I’m addicted to rich tea biscuits. I’ve been known to ‘drink’ a Stanley flask purely by dunking!