Is it possible to buy Graham Crackers in the United Kingdom, or do they have a UK equivalent?
Graham Kerr crackers
Just out of curiosity…what is the frequency of threads being moved toGeneral Questions?
You need to go back and read the forum descriptions, Celyn.
All right, all right so I am very new and very stupid, and you are wonderfully knowledgable and clever. I thought perhaps that counted as a sort of “practice post”, and now I know it doesn’t.
Don’t feel bad. Just hang on and let TubaDiva move it over to its soon-to-be home in GQ. It’ll actually get answered there.
Hey Celyn, don’t count yourself amongst the stupid, you’re just new here. Welcome to the board, dear!
I trust you’ll figure it out. Any problems, just ask me or any of about 300 or 400 other regulars. We tend toward the non-exclusionary.
No need to move the thread if it’s just practice.
The problem with the UK is it’s never really equivalent, is it? More tangential, or even contrary.
I’ll go ahead and move it to General Questions.
You’re welcome to practice here all you like, the best thing to do, if you’re going to practice, is to show that it IS a test post . . . if you simply leave something behind that looks like it’s misplaced, that’s everybody’s assumption.
BTW, I dunno if graham crackers are readily available in GB, it’s one of those wacko American health nut inventions, no? Like Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Post Grape Nuts and etc. (Today it’s just breakfast, in the past it was A Way Of Life In the Fight Against Sin. Or Self Abuse.) But then again, these things are sold by big multinational corporations, so I would think you could find 'em, the English are just as susceptible as we are.
Can someone with some experience set us straight here?
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
All I know is that Graham Kerr is actually a New Zealander.
plain digestive biscuits or wine biscuits or nice biscuits are very similar
As someone who used to love graham crackers, and who has now been living in the UK for six years, let me just say I have never seen them once here. That’s not to say that they are unavailable, just that they are not easily available. I’m sure there must be somewhere in this graham-cracker-forsaken country where they can be found, but I’ll bet it’s a US military base.
Primaflora, plain digestive biscuits, wine biscuits and Nice biscuits are very fine, but somehow just not the same. Neither the texture or the flavour are quite like those of graham crackers.
Don’t even get me started on the utter lack of decent donuts here.
Celyn, welcome, and don’t take it personal if Mr.C jumps your butt about something–he does that to everybody. (bad Mr.C, no biscuit! Be NICE to the newbies, you cantankerous old critter!)
Celyn, here’s another piece of friendly advice. If you give your threads a more accurate name, you’ll have a better chance of actually getting your questions answered. For example, if this thread were titled, “Can you get graham crackers in the U.K.?” you’d be much more likely to get a useful response.
However, do not despair! All you need to do to fix it is to e-mail Manhattan, he’s the moderator for GQ, at the e-mail address given above, and ask him very nicely if he’ll please, please, pretty please change your thread title for you. (And don’t let him give you any static about it requiring the life of your first-born child–that was only back when we had UBB, but after the switchover to vB the mods aren’t supposed to require a blood sacrifice anymore to change thread titles.)
This also holds true for all the forums. This isn’t a “catchy thread title” contest. We appreciate knowing more about what we might be getting into before we click on a thread. Some of us have limited time slots to do this, on our lunch hour or whatever, and we have to be choosy about what we open. Vague titles like “What does this mean?” or “What is this?” drive us crazy, and a lot of us just ignore them.
Of course, titles over in MPSIMS like “Girls love my big hot 16 inches!” are fairly self-explanatory. However, be warned that it’s considered tacky and self-aggrandizing to give your thread a sexy title just to get people to open it. Don’t be a tease.
Did you know you can make your own graham crackers? I saw a recipe somewhere.
Major oopsie, it’s Mister Ecks, not Mister C. What I get for posting with Pokemon on the Tee-vee.
An extra biscuit for Mr. C. by way of apology. :o
Celyn said:
If you keep that firmly in mind, you’ll go far.
Duck Duck Goose said:
It’s actually MysterEcks, and I’m one of the nicerpeople around here. I think I deserve a whole box of biscuits.
Thanks to all for trying to help - sadly, I think I have ruined Duke’s whole day - sorry! I have a US friend who lives here in the UK and says they don’t exist here - having a new internet toy to play with, I took to looking for them, which is how I found Straight Dope in fact. Anyway, seems that she is correct after all.
It’s OK, Celyn, after six graham-cracker-free years I had pretty much given up the ghost anyway. The hunt for a decent donut, however, continues.
Duke, rest assured that if I had any graham crackers in the house, I’d wrap 'em up and mail 'em to you.