Another season, another reason, for eating cookie...

[redscharlach]

According to a spurious survey in the news this week, Britain's favourite biscuit* is the custard cream. A disappointing choice, since while the custard cream lies above the cardboardy depths of horridness associated with the Rich Tea** (bleurgh), it still isn't anything to write home about. Either the nation's collective snack-life is much more

Comments

[marysiak]

The greatest biscuit of all time was the Lemon Puff! But then they changed the recipe and it went from a lemony glaze of orgasmic proportions that was like no other biscuit to a custard cream that tastes a bit of lemons. Never was my heart broken so thoroughly by a purveyor of food stuffs.

I am also rather fond of a dark chocolate digestive, but ginger is where my biscuit loving heart lies these days - having been betrayed by lemons.

[redscharlach]

Gosh, I think of Lemon Puffs and I am instantly transported to my late grandma's house. I did like them as a child but you're right: the biscuity bit was completely different from the biscuity bit of any other sandwich biscuits, so if they've now changed it, it does defeat the object. Hmph.

My top six

[huskyteer]

1. Milk chocolate digestive
2. Bourbon Cream
3. Ginger nut
4. Malted Milk
5. Jaffa cake

[redscharlach]

I love a Jaffa Cake, and it would probably be my number 7, but I am in favour of insisting that they are cakes not biscuits, if only because it keeps them tax-free and inexpensive. Also, the totally-covered-in-chocolate Jaffa cakes were the bee's knees, but didn't last long, either in my kitchen or on the supermarket shelves.

Have you seen the Jaffa cakes at Peyton and Byrne? P&B seem to specialize in overpriced designer versions of popular biscuits: they also do their own interpretations of fig rolls and Jammy Dodgers. Worth a try if you're feeling flash...

[san_valentine]

As I was saying before my stupid computer ate my comment....

I've been buying some very English biscuits to take to America for the people I'm staying with next month. I've got Jammie dodgers, Fig Rolls and Wagon Wheels, though I'd like to add either/and Cadbury's Fingers and Jaffa Cakes. I've also got Thornton's Special Toffee in both liquorice and Treacle. As Ron owns a restaurant, I've got him a bottle of Henderson's Relish (www.hendersonsrelish.com) too.

One of my favourite biscuits is the chocolate-coated malted milk. Mmmmmm

[redscharlach]

Is the cat in your icon really called Shiraz? I do feel strangely drawn to it and I think the subconscious prospect of nice wine is playing a part there...

[alkari]

Alas, they seem to have stopped making them, but I always loved the "squashed fly" biscuits, and would gladly grab a couple of packets if I found them. I *think* they were called date sandwiches, or some such thing - not to be confused with the Spicy Fruit Roll biscuits. And Iced Vo Vo's ... sadly, if I ever weaken and buy a pack, I go through the lot in one evening. Chocolate Montes are also nice, because they are coated in dark chocolate.

[redscharlach]

Over here, squashed fly biscuits are more properly named Garibaldis...