# I'm a (British) Biscuit addict **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2003, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212 "2003-05-19T09:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/41 "2003-05-21T14:15:22Z")
What about Iced Gems? Nasty little tiny biscuits about the size of a penny with a swirl of rock hard luminous icing. Sidekick extroadinaire to Party Rings in the hyperactivity stakes. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/42 "2003-05-21T14:16:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*Jaffa Cakes are, of course, **Cakes** and will not be mentioned in this thread again! 😉 \*\* Don’t count on it. Jaffa cakes…_yummmmm…_ ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/43 "2003-05-21T14:17:37Z")
bloody iced gems. not only was the icing rock hard but the biscuit was nasty too anyone for pink wafers? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/44 "2003-05-21T14:18:54Z")
Iced Gems ming. The biscuit was too sweet, the icing was yucky, and just, eurgh. But enough sugar in them to turn any well behaved child into the Incredible Hulk. Oohh… Pink wafers! Now, what are really nice are the Italian hazlenut wafers you get in coffee shops, with a nice cappucino… :drools: ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Doris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Sir\_Doris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Doris)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/45 "2003-05-21T16:28:13Z")
**Angua** , d’ya mean the tube shaped oned with the praliney stuff in? Available at your local Waitrose or Lidl. **Garius** , do the various Tunnock’s varieties count as biscuits? If so, they are my faves along with jam-and-cream types (the best being the one that comes in the Fox’s Assortment, but Happy Faces are an acceptable substitute). ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/46 "2003-05-21T16:31:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Doris \* > \*\ ***Angua** , d’ya mean the tube shaped oned with the praliney stuff in? Available at your local Waitrose or Lidl. > \*\* Nah, the one’s I’m on about are foodstuff of the gods. They’re like the pink wafer biscuits, but with vanilla wafers, and hazelnut cream filling, rather like the pink wafers. Looking at the packets, they tend to be called things like Loacker, and appear to be imported from the Continent. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/47 "2003-05-21T16:35:29Z")
I’m begining to think we here in the Colonies know [Inothing\* about a decent cookie. In the meantime, can someone please pass those Keebler Fudge shopppe peanut butter patties? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/48 "2003-05-21T16:38:39Z")
Trio - true biscuit or small chocolate bar incorporating biscuit? ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/49 "2003-05-21T16:41:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*Trio - true biscuit or small chocolate bar incorporating biscuit? \*\* Your question pleaes me strangely there was an ad campaign run here, and maybe there, too, for all I know about Kit Kat Man AIt was all aouThe scene was really w ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/50 "2003-05-21T16:43:44Z")
Trio - chocolate bar incorporating biscuit. no different from Twix. Tunnock’s varieties - _Just_ biscuits. But under close survellience for any un-biscuity activity. **Thus I have ruled and thus it will be.** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TelcontarStorm \* > \*\*In the meantime, can someone please pass those Keebler Fudge shopppe peanut butter patties? \*\* KILL THE HERETIC! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/51 "2003-05-21T16:46:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*Trio - true biscuit or small chocolate bar incorporating biscuit? \*\* Your question pleases me strangely There was an ad campaign run here, (and maybe there, too, for all I know) about Kit Kats The ad was a row between two people as to the exact nature of a Kit Kat “It’s a biscuit” “It’s a bar” “It’s a biscuit” "It’s a bar This of course, was usually subsequently acted out by various infantile people I know (ahem) and resulted in all of us getting bashed roughly around the head by said Kit Kats. Great fun and by far the best way to dispose of Kit Kats, nasty chocolate and whispy bloody wafery things as they are! Ignore post number one from yours truly, obviously my pc was having a Midget Gem moment. Sorry about that ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/52 "2003-05-21T16:46:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\* > KILL THE HERETIC! > > 😃 \*\* Calm down. 😃 Its not the Yanks’ fault that they don’t know what real biscuits are. That said, my uncle who lives in the States will not eat American “cookies”. He comes over to the UK every few years, and will stock up on proper biscuits. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/53 "2003-05-21T16:52:12Z")
Then your uncle will be allowed to live when the Revolution comes 🙂 Wish me luck guys. I’m about to get the stop-at-every-station Picadilly Line Tube all the way from Holborn to Hounslow East just because i know the Tesco’s there has rich tea fingers. Even though it means an extra twenty minute walk home afterwards. They better bloody have some in stock! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/54 "2003-05-21T16:58:54Z")
Good luck! Oh, and what do you expect, my uncle did live in Europe (Italy I think it was), before emigrating to America, some 25 years ago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/55 "2003-05-21T17:10:41Z")
Sigh. Merkin cookies ming compared to the beauties discussed here and by Nicey on his wonderful site. Sigh. And so do Merkin candy bars. If I lived over there I’d weigh 400 pounds (how much is that in stone?) with even more crap teeth than I have now. I loves me some Boost, and Topic, and them. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/56 "2003-05-22T07:21:07Z")
Boost and Topic’s are chocolate bars!! Iced Gems did indeed ming hugely. Anyway personal biscuit crisis over - I found some McVities Chocolate Digestives after much hunting. I am currently scoffing them at work and growling at any Brit ex-pat that wanders into my air space with an “Oooo look choccy digestives must have one” look on their face and hand out streched. Which is to be honest all of them - but they are mine!!! Hope **garius** found his fingers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/57 "2003-05-22T09:27:08Z")
two measly bloody packets! i went all the way to hounslow for two frickin packets! surfice to say i am a cranky **garius** today. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/58 "2003-05-22T10:48:36Z")
Iced gems are still available and still almost as yucky - I think the biscuit base is just a little blob of digestive now, rather than that weird dry hollow stuff that they used to have. Chocolate gems, on the other hand (sometimes seen under the name ‘Yum Tums’) - a little round bead of digestive with a little rosette of milk chocolate on top - are rather nice. I’m not a huge fan of Rich Tea - they are the lowest common denominator of biscuits IMO. Custard creams I have been known to devour whole packets of. Anything sweet and oaty like digestive or hobnob is good. Fox’s used to make something called ‘SunBreaks’ (maybe they still do, but I can’t find them) - wafer thin, crisp buttery vanilla flavoured melty biscuits, fantastic with ice cream or mousse. I tried Oreos a couple of years back, but I find the filling too sweet and gloopy. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/59 "2003-05-22T10:58:13Z")
Not sure we ever got a straight answer to this . But, man, I’d kill for a packet of Orange Creams. Seriously. Just tell me who you want rid of. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/60 "2003-05-22T11:00:56Z")
'Kayy… try again: Not sure we ever got a straight answer to .[THIS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=163937) . But, man, I’d kill for a packet of Orange Creams. Seriously. Just tell me who you want rid of. (Bah!!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212.md?page=4)