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  • custard creams

    4 19.05%
  • shortbread

    4 19.05%
  • jaffa cakes

    7 33.33%
  • garibaldi

    0 0%
  • digestive

    2 9.52%
  • chocolate derivatives

    1 4.76%
  • pink wafer

    0 0%
  • jam ring

    1 4.76%
  • none of the above hence other.....

    2 9.52%
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Thread: biscuits

  1. #1
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    well on the back of the other threads.

    several questions.

    what is your favourite biscuit?
    to dunk or not to dunk (any change in biscuit choice)?
    guilty secrets of biscuit eating?

    :lol: :lol:

  2. #2
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    so for me

    i suppose the favourite has to be custard creams

    and has to be dunking! but with something like a digestive, custard creams just don't stand up to the treatment!!!!!

    guilty pleasure i will take a biscuit apart, ie eat each layer just to take my time! :lol:

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    keehotee Guest

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    Plain chocolate hobnobs.

    And as for the second part - I refuse to answer, as dunking is a crime against nature, and should not be tolerated in modern society. h34r:

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    yonorri Guest

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    Plain chocolate hobnobs for me too.

    and dunking is a crime against biscuits B)

  5. #5
    KathyXB Guest

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    Scientifically speaking, dunking will actually help to release the flavour of the lovely biscuits, as little bits will become dissolved...

    h34r:

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    keehotee Guest

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    ..... to end up as a vile slurry at the bottom of what would otherwise be a quite luvverly cup o'tea.

  7. #7
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    well stop getting that type of biscuit!! choose one that doesn't leave a slurry...

    i have to confess to having dunked a cake before now!!! :lol: :lol:

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    My favourite biscuit, the Jaffa Cake, does not respond well to normal dunking procedures. I am not a great fan of dunking in general but, if carried out in the privacy of your own home, I belive it can be an acceptable diversion.

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    nobbynobbs Guest

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    definately. dunking is a guilty pleasure to be undertaken while at home!!

    i'd never eat all the choc off the outside of a twix or penguin when out in public!!!!

    i feel another thread coming on!!!!! :lol:

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    Hey, Mr Nobbs... Shouldn't this be a Poll? Come on... Get the list of biscuit candidates up for us to vote for our favourites.

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    Shortbread every time for me

    No I don't dunk, yuk sugery tea??

    Failing - just don't leave the whole packet anywhere near me!

  12. #12
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    would do but can't open the poll choices now the thread has been posted.

    guess we'll just have to muddle through as it is. though with all the various options the list would be huge.

    anyone been to that weird website NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com

    they rate all the various types of biscuits! and you thought we were mad!! :lol:

  13. #13
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    ta for the instructions bill poll added. :lol: what contructive use of the admin controls :lol:

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    keehotee Guest

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    errrr Matt - you've already had two votes for Hobnobs in this thread, so why did you miss them off the poll? (unless they're under "chocolate derivatives" ???)(But what if they were plain Hobnobs?)

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    nobbynobbs Guest

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    can you see what time i posted the change?????

    the fact that it is fairly understandable english is a minor miracle!!!!! :lol: :lol:


    i think really it is either a chocolate derivative or a digestivey type biscuits really!! that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it. :lol:

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    KathyXB Guest

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    Originally posted by keehotee@Feb 4 2007, 06:00 PM
    ..... to end up as a vile slurry at the bottom of what would otherwise be a quite luvverly cup o'tea.
    Only if you are too slow with the biscuit and let it break and fall in :P

  17. #17
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    i have heard of someone making two cups... one for drinking and one for dunking

    :lol:

  18. #18
    Alice Band Guest

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    Jaffa Cakes - Cake or biscuit?

    I'm surprised you dont have a packet of HobNobs lurking in your kitchen cupboard Nobby *throws a packet down to the South Coast*

  19. #19
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    any time you want to visit with a packet feel free. jaffa are cakes as held up in court a few years back!!!


    the normal gag for me is peanuts or crisps.... have you never seen the packets of nobby's crisps or nobby's nuts :

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    Alice Band Guest

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    Originally posted by nobbynobbs@Feb 7 2007, 09:20 PM
    the normal gag for me is peanuts or crisps.... have you never seen the packets of nobby's crisps or nobby's nuts :
    Oooh yes, a Birmingham brand. We have the entire range here and poster adverts which advise people to 'nibble nobby's nuts' :huh:

  21. #21
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    if you can get me a copy of that poster i would be eternally grateful :lol: a real spare room picture i think

  22. #22
    Alice Band Guest

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    Our brand, from the local shop:



    And of course, the clincher (from the Australian version):



    Which suddenly makes this Jerky range very frightening


    If I were you Nobby I'd start wearing a cricket box

  23. #23
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    :lol: :lol: :lol:

    like anyone needs to be told that i'm nuts!!!

    and the least said about the other two the safer all round i think!!!

    i just like the idea of a large poster saying "nobby's nuts" B)

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    Alice Band Guest

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    After finding this, I think you should be worried about other things

  25. #25
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    rumours !!! that's all. you can't prove any of it..... probably. :lol:

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    keehotee Guest

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    Hmmmmm - I'm betting I could prove at least half of it - with photographic evidence to back the claims!

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    nobbynobbs Guest

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    :lol: :lol:

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    Alice Band Guest

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    *Tries to imagine Nobby being Monkey-like* :

  29. #29
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    doesn't bear thinking about really does it :lol: :lol:

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    Originally posted by Alice Band@Feb 11 2007, 11:31 AM
    *Tries to imagine Nobby being Monkey-like* :
    Monkeys!? Where!?





    It's too late
    If there was a competition for witty signatures, I'd come last.

  31. #31
    paul.blitz Guest

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    Originally posted by Mrs Blorenge@Feb 5 2007, 09:55 AM
    My favourite biscuit, the Jaffa Cake,
    Ah, but by legal definition, the jaffa Cake is NOT actually a biscuit, it's a cake (and that is why there is NO VAT on a Jaffa Cake, but there IS VAT on any other "chocolate covered biscuit")

  32. #32
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    as proved when they turned up in court with a full sized version. :lol:

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    I had a packet of Strawberry 'Jaffa' cakes yesterday?

    Why are they still called 'Jaffa', isnt 'Jaffa' an orange?

    Just wondered like!

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    Strawberry? Sacrilege!

  35. #35
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    i think you can get blackcurrant as well!!

    still favour my own home made shortbread though

  36. #36
    Alice Band Guest

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    Nothing beats an excellent 'Rocky Road'. Now is that a cake or biscuit?

  37. #37
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    i'd say cookie which is a biscuit.

    if it has pastry or sponge it's a cake. not that it makes it a bad thing !!!

  38. #38
    keehotee Guest

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    So is a scone a cake or a biscuit?
    I have to ask, because in some parts of the World (ahem) they're called biscuits and they're used like we'd use dumplings - in stew....!!?

    And what's the difference between a biscuit and a cracker? ie If someone offers you cheese and biscuits, they're almost always crackers. (unless there are digestives there too - with stilton - oh yummmmmm)
    But graham crackers are sweet?

    And flapjack? cake or biscuit? Or some other as-yet-undefined third category?

    confused yet? I am?

  39. #39
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    you're not sure of scones as they get used as dumplings!! so since when was a dumpling a biscuit?

    scones are cakes as are flapjacks.

    crackers are biscuits.

    happily see a poll on best cakes

  40. #40
    Alice Band Guest

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    Almost as confusing as an English Muffin and an American Muffin - One has Marmite or Marmalade and one has chocolate

    Discovered that my bakers sell 'Bottom Muffins' the other day.

  41. #41
    keehotee Guest

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    you're not sure of scones as they get used as dumplings!! so since when was a dumpling a biscuit?
    In the US savoury scones are called biscuits !!!!!!
    (Are you sure scones aren't breads instead??)

    Almost as confusing as an English Muffin and an American Muffin
    Careful there too - in Minnesota "English Muffins" are crumpets !!!!

  42. #42
    keehotee Guest

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    And while I'm being pedantic.......

    Meat Loaf - bread or cake (or cue the run of fat singer jokes)
    Banana Bread - ditto (without the fat singer bit...)
    malt loaf - ditto
    kendal mint cake - cake, biscuit, or confectionary?
    Balm cake - bread or cake???

  43. #43
    KathyXB Guest

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    Originally posted by keehotee@Mar 5 2007, 12:20 PM
    And while I'm being pedantic.......

    Meat Loaf - bread or cake (or cue the run of fat singer jokes)


    kendal mint cake - cake, biscuit, or confectionary?
    Meat loaf is surely more of a terrine (god that sounds posh LOL) its only called "loaf" because you make it in a loaf tin.

    As for Kendal mint cake, its solid sugar - must be a sweet or confectionary item?

    :lol:

  44. #44
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    we all know what americans are like!!

    they call rugby ( with padding) football.

    so don't use them to explain odd names of stuff!!

    scones being breads. well possibly but they certainly aren't biscuits :lol:


    banana bread. is bread with bananas in it....
    likewise malt loaf.

    meat loaf is as kathy said.

    and the only balm cake reference i could find was as a reference to someone who is mentally unstable.... so maybe we're all that.

    now dunking cakes.... not the crumbly ones but nothing wrong with dunking a nice solid one.
    or just have a ice slice of dundee cake with a cup of tea :lol:

  45. #45
    keehotee Guest

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    banana bread. is bread with bananas in it....
    likewise malt loaf.
    Malt loaf is bread with bananas in it?? Eeuuuurrgghhhhh....lol

    and the only balm cake reference i could find was as a reference to someone who is mentally unstable....
    Balm cake is what they call baps oop north.... (apparently)(well - on Coronation Street anyway)

    So, what is the difference between a cake and a biscuit then? It's not ingredients - and is a soft cookie a cake rather than a biscuit? And when does bread become cake? (bearing in mind you can have sweet breads)

    So many questions, so little time (before my lunch break is up)

  46. #46
    KathyXB Guest

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    Cake recipes usually call for eggs whereas I think most biscuits may not...but being culinarily challenged at times I am willing to be corrected...and probably will be!

  47. #47
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    sorry to have to contradict some biscuits do have egg.

    mainly it's the rising agent.

    breads are risen using yeast. ( okay i know soda bread isn't but it was invented by the irish&#33

    cakes are risen using baking powder and tend to be spongy in nature.

    biscuits don't usually use any rising agent or maybe a small amount of bicarb for cookies.

    pastries are made using sweet pastry.

    at the end of the day as long as they are full of sugar, fat and then have more sugar, cream or chocolate added what does it matter what they call each? :lol:

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    keehotee Guest

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    breads are risen using yeast. ( okay i know soda bread isn't but it was invented by the irish&#33
    ...and pita bread, and naan bread, and flatbread, and sourdough bread, and chapatis, and pizza bases, and tortilla...........

  49. #49
    nobbynobbs Guest

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    check again.... naan bread

    pita bread

    pizza dough

    sour dough bread is risen using the yeasts that are in the atmosphere not specifically added from a packet but still yeast.

    chapatis are more of a pancake than bread.

    tortilla are crisps!! or the other version of them are also pancakes


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