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Can anyone explain why biscuits within a selection box (in this instance McVities family circle) taste like utter horse crap compared to their individually packaged namesakes?
Come on McVities, surely you can just take Choccie Digestives/Bourbons/Custard Creams off the regular production line instead of producing some cold-war era fake biscuit facsimile.
They don’t even hold up to a dunking 🤬
FFS
They've probably been in the box for a while
Even a freshly opened new box contain biscuits made from a sawmill’s floor sweepings
Bourbons/Custard Creams
These taste like crap regardless of packaging receptacle.
Because, in a tin, everything equilibrates - so any flavour / aroma in the biscuits slowly absorb into all the products in the tin. Plus tins get left opened / non-consumed for along time ...
Packaged biscuits have abetter quality barrier around them and are all the same type of product.
I used to be a food technologist working in the biscuit industry ....
Plus tins get left opened / non-consumed for along time …
Not round here they don't!
mrmoofo
Full Member
Great post.
I was going to try to say the same thing in a much worse way.
Also some of the biscuits will have been made in diffent factories at diffent times and poorly transported to where the tins are put together... Don't think that helps either.
These taste like crap regardless of packaging receptacle.
I have reported you to the moderators. This sort of talk warrants a lengthy ban - we cannot be having people with such views round here!
😉
Plus tins get left opened / non-consumed for along time …
I admire your self control!
*adds IHN to the list*
I appreciate the cross contamination etc but these are definitely different biscuits to their standard offerings, the choccie digestive isn't even the same size
Bourbons/Custard Creams
These taste like crap regardless of packaging receptacle.
are we just going to ignore this?!?
Custard creme is the king of biscuits (am with you on the bourbons tho)
Mrmoofo - experts are overrated
Can’t we have some conspiracy theories please
I appreciate the cross contamination etc but these are definitely different biscuits to their standard offerings, the choccie digestive isn’t even the same size
Custard creme is the king of biscuits
They are my biscuity kryptonite.
We should have a post-Xmas biscuit swap-shop.
I've eaten It now, well, I say eaten, I actually fished the mush out from the bottom of my mug so I can't give photographic evidence of a size comparison. I'm not going to buy a box of substandard 'biscuits' for this cause, we'll have to wait until Christmas.
These taste like crap regardless of packaging receptacle.
Reported.
Lidl custard creams fine.
Aldi custard creams, taste like flower.
Don't know how they can screw up custard creams.
A bit of biscuit thread nostalgia - who was it who said ‘if the custard cream is the king of biscuits, the fig roll is more of a shady political adviser’..?
I’m paraphrasing of course, but it still makes me chuckle…
I love this place sometimes.
*starts a thread about biscuits*
"Well, I'm a former biscuit technologist and..."
I used to be a food technologist working in the biscuit industry ….
Biscuit scientist. Only on STW
Bourbon creams FTW! Especially the 3 packs in those things that used to happen in ancient history....work meetings and conference type things.
As an aside my first long distance ride as a teenager was fuelled by fig rolls! Yum!
Is the fig roll a biscuit or a cake?
Feels more like a cake to me
Is the fig roll a biscuit or a cake?
You mean is the fig roll actually meant to be edible or is it really an unholy abomination against the great gods of snacking, an act of biscuit blasphemy, a pastry pariah never to be welcome in the house of any true believer.
Is the fig roll a biscuit or a cake?
Depends whether is goes soft or hard when stale.
Important thread, thanks for posting OP!
choccie digestive isn’t even the same size
Just to check, do you mean not the same size as a chocolate digestive from a pack of only chocolate digestives? I have noticed that Chocolate digestives are smaller than normal digestives.
Both still epically good with tea or a glass of milk however
Fair point, not sure of the status of fig rolls, but I like them. I also really like garibaldi biscuits and Eccles cakes 🤣
Aldi custard creams, taste like flower.
Why have you been eating flowers?
You should clearly be buying fox's biscuits selection boxes, that's where it's all going wrong.
Custard creams meh, bourbons FTW! Also I'm of the opinion currently that the christmas only white chocolate covered oreos are the greatest thing EVER!
white chocolate covered oreos
... and you were doing so well until then, too.
Garibaldi.. GAHHH!!!
white chocolate covered oreos are the greatest thing EVER!
is disappoint. All credibility lost..... so sad
Oreos are made from monkey bums. Fact
I'm with IHN, custurd creams and bourbons are poor subsitutes for biscuits.
Pffffht you both probably like Rich Teas
Is it just me that will eat a whole packet of biscuits without drawing breath?
Needless to say; I don't buy them very often, But I love a good ghetto-biscuit.
AMUSING CUSTARD-CREAM ANECDOTE -
A few years ago I was working on an old lady's house with a couple of other chaps. The lady was absolutely lovely and kept furnishing us with pots of tea and the stalest, rankest, oldest custard creams that were ever served this side of the war. Now we didn't want to appear ungrateful and were eager to keep the tea lines open, so after every break, one of us would pop up the ladder and deposit the biscuits onto the roof. I often wonder if they are still there. Might check Google Earth.
Dunking biscuits in tea is wrong. Sure mixing liquid with solids is fine if you're eating a rusk or a weetabix. But they should be kept separate when enjoying a cup of builders.
Custard creams should have been outlawed when we went decimal. A 1960s biscuit if there ever was one.
A few years ago I was working on an old lady’s house
Is this some sort of euphemism?
Yes it’s impossible to open a packet of (good) biscuits and not finish the lot. Even those extra large packs of choccie digestives 🐷
*also adds Alex and nickc to the list*
Dunking biscuits in tea is wrong.
Now that's a very bold position to take.
Dunking biscuits in tea is wrong. Sure mixing liquid with solids is fine if you’re eating a rusk or a weetabix. But they should be kept separate when enjoying a cup of builders.
Bite the ends off a Twix and drink your tea through it like a straw. Messy but good.
Bite the ends off a Twix and drink your tea through it like a straw.
It's not just me then?
* fist bump *
Dunking biscuits in tea is wrong.
You know I'm right. You're just not admitting it in public.
Honestly, who has not suffered the disappointment of a much anticipated biscuit soggily decapitated in a now grainy tea soup? Ruins both the biscuit and tea experience.
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to tea. It should be served with something appropriate. A slice of fruit cake and a strong cup of tea are a basic human right to a Yorkshireman. But you wouldn't see us dipping that in the tea! Biscuits are the slippery slope here...
Bite the ends off a Twix and drink your tea through it like a straw. Messy but good
I cannot decide to be impressed or appalled. On balance, the latter I think!