# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/81 "2003-05-22T15:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*Yes, they follow your biscuit/bar rule, but they break the biscuit/cake rule. To test whether it’s a biscuit or a cake, leave it on a plate over night uncovered. If it’s a biscuit it will be softer in the morning than it was beforehand, if it’s a cake it will be drier. \*\* In British law it is illegal to have the cake/biscuit debate without pointing out that “biscuit” literally means “twice-baked” in some form of French. Jaffa cakes are cakes. Yummy cakes. Very, very, _very_ yummy cakes. If you’ll excuse me for a moment, I just have to pop off to the store for something right now… ---
**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 22, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/82 "2003-05-22T15:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > > 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’ll check that out after work. They were very nice indeed. Aren’t **Jaffa Cakes** officially a cake (in that they attract no VAT) or is that an urban legend ? come to think of it I haven’t had a biscuit in months. Not since my **White Chocolate Finger** phase. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Clone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@Another\_Clone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Clone)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/83 "2003-05-22T15:38:21Z")
Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. The name speaks for itself. ---
**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, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/84 "2003-05-22T22:22:18Z")
ladies! gentlemen! please - we’ll have no talk of **jaffa cakes** here. this is a thread about biscuits for biscuit people! ---
**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, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/85 "2003-05-22T23:03:38Z")
Is there some way of plotting the biscuit/bar rule against the biscuit/cake rule? The point at which they intersect is bound to be worth exploring. ---
**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, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/86 "2003-05-22T23:14:58Z")
no **Mangetout** i’m sorry but i can’t allow it. Who knows what we would find out. The knowledge is just potentially too dangerous. ---
**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 23, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/87 "2003-05-23T07:52:00Z")
**Mangetout** , no Sunbreaks to be found in my local Waitrose, but they had “Langue de Chat” (or something like that) which were basically the same thing (different shape, more expensive). **Garius** , Waitrose had loads of Rich Tea fingers, enough to fill a suitcase, probably 😛 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/88 "2003-05-23T08:20:12Z")
now thats just not fair ---
**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 23, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/89 "2003-05-23T10:38:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*no **Mangetout** i’m sorry but i can’t allow it. Who knows what we would find out. The knowledge is just potentially too dangerous. \*\* I shall carry on the work in my secret underground laboratory(that nobody knows about) - this bank holiday I intend to isolate the bar/biscuit/cake fusion point, the world shall hear from me on Tuesday\* Bwahahahaha! \*[/sup](This may be put back to Wednesday if the weather is good enough for a picnic outing on the Monday)[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/90 "2003-05-23T10:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*no **Mangetout** i’m sorry but i can’t allow it. Who knows what we would find out. The knowledge is just potentially too dangerous. \*\* You get **Jaffa Cake Bars** of course, an experiment that went horribly, horribly wrong. Can we talk Girl Scout cookies now? ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/91 "2003-05-23T10:45:51Z")
British Biscuits I like: Choccie digers, caramel choccie digers, custard creams (used to hate them), bourbons, malted milks (MALTY! Also good fun to nibble off the edge before eating the rest), chocolate chip cookies (the hard British kind), langues du chat, almond biscuits (the round ones with the fluted edge). Biscuits I do not like so much: The Pink Wafer One, the party ring, the Rich Tea, the garibaldi Foreign Biscuits I like: Viennese shortbread, Amaretti macaroons, French butter biscuits (like rich tea/mornign coffee biscuits, but a lot more buttery. Will generally disintegrate when dunked), Flemish malty/cinnamony/almond thins, Swedish thin biscuits, chocolate Leibniz (it’s a biscuit! It’s a chocolate! It’s a MONAD!) I also like my own home-made shortbread. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/92 "2003-05-23T11:44:27Z")
God’s work: Hob Nobs, Malted Milk, shortbread (real and the pikey stuff - both are good), Bourbons (suntanned custard creams admittedly - but good), digestives, plain chocolate digestives and the daddy of them all: Gingernuts Satan’s floor scrapings: Pink wafer thingums, jammy dodgers, lemon creams, milk chocolate digestives and from hell’s darkest heart: coconut creams. ---
**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 23, 2003, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/93 "2003-05-23T12:10:28Z")
Now I know that this thread is specifically about what non-American-yet-native-English-language-speaking people call biscuits **and** I know Ireland is not part of Britain. Not going to offend anyone now am I? Good. Then I give you… Jacobs dark chocolate coated Kimberlys [These ones look like milk chocolate, though](http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/previous.php3?item=22) Most delish even though they are feindishly individually wrapped so you only get about 6 in a box, unless it is Christmas, in which case you buy a big tinful and invite all your pals round to gorge. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/94 "2003-05-23T13:36:04Z")
> [@](#): > > chocolate Leibniz (it’s a biscuit! It’s a chocolate! It’s a MONAD!) Arf! ---
**Author:** ![Salty\_Captain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Salty\_Captain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salty_Captain)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/95 "2003-05-23T14:03:12Z")
mmmm… rich tea biscuits… damn this thread. I must confess to having party rings in the kitchen, but my favourites are pink wafers (but someone in my house always ruins them by leaving the biscuit barrel open and they go all soggy. ergh.) I also love hobnobs and these strange coconut things that i found downstairs earlier. Whenever we have a packet of ‘nice’ biscuits (the ones with the word nice on them) i alway eat the whole lot, i can’t help it! damnit i really want rich tea fingers now and all we have is party rings. I think that if the devil isn’t some kind of humanesque mutant then he must be made of shortbread. That stuff gives me bad dreams. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/96 "2003-05-23T15:34:03Z")
The coconut ring **Captain**? Uniquely, that doubles as either a tasty biscuit or a nasty fairground accident. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/97 "2003-05-23T15:57:43Z")
All my life I’ve wondered what digestives were like. A Canadian friend finally just sent me a few packets – two each milk and dark chocolate. I am hooked for LIFE. You know, this thread is cruel and unusual punishment for us folks with no access to proper biscuits except expensively ordering them off the Internet! ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/98 "2003-05-23T16:08:33Z")
My co-worker brought in and ate an _entire tin_ of biscuits for his breakfast this morning. He is 20 years old and can eat eleventy bajillion biscuits and remain skinny. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/99 "2003-05-25T00:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*My co-worker brought in and ate an _entire tin_ of biscuits for his breakfast this morning. He is 20 years old and can eat eleventy bajillion biscuits and remain skinny. Bastard. \*\* hmmm - if i hadn’t met you i’d be worried that I was unknowingly that co-worker. 😃 Just got back from a visit to my dear old grans - why do od ladies insist on mixing different biscuits in one big tin?! Its such a crime - they **ALL** end up tasting skanky. You end up with foul bastard-son biscuits such as the the Ginger Tea Finger and the Bourbon Digestive ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212/100 "2003-05-25T03:14:42Z")
Question: Why is a thing that is actually a treat called a “Digestive?” To me, a Digestive sounds like medicine to relieve heartburn or some other stomach or innards problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-british-biscuit-addict/176212.md?page=6)