Whacky Signs.

[martin_wynne]

6 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Many of their 'cookies' are called cakes for an unknown reason: Tea Cakes, Eccles Cakes, Jaffa Cakes etc.

 

Cakes get harder when stale. Biscuits get softer.

 

Cakes are classed as "food" and zero-rated for VAT. Biscuits are classed as "confectionery" and charged 20% VAT. Hence the famous court case about Jaffa Cakes.

 

Martin.

[Ozexpatriate]

23 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

Cakes get harder when stale. Biscuits get softer.

Yes to cakes - not necessarily with biscuits. Certainly not with home-baked biscuits - which can start out soft and moist and dry out and get harder. Most home bakers will put slice of bread in with their biscuits to prolong their texture. 

 

Edited Thursday at 05:50 by Ozexpatriate
Clarification

[kevinlms]

9 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Whatever those things are, I do not think that I would pay two for a penny for them, they look evilly disgusting.

Anything would be better than those reconstituted Pringles!

[Ozexpatriate]

2 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Anything would be better than those reconstituted Pringles!

Once you pop you just can't stop.

[kevinlms]

1 hour ago, martin_wynne said:

 

The key difference is that "Nice" biscuits contain coconut. Also usually sprinkled with sugar. And a serrated edge. 2nd row on the left:

 

linked from: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/17qthe4/a_cool_guide_to_british_biscuits/#lightbox

 

Several missing: fig rolls, Abernethy, shortbread fingers, coconut rings, shortcakes.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_biscuit

 

Martin,

Most of those available in Australia, some of them with different names, such as the 'Jammie Dodger'.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Most of those available in Australia, some of them with different names, such as the 'Jammie Dodger'.

And quite possibly better. 😉

[Tumut]

Hello All,

In"...you learn something everyday..." compartment, Martin Wynn's illustration of "The best of British Biscuits", the Garibaldi slice (?) I have always known as a date or fruit slice, (my late Nana used to buy them loose, remember that, buying mixed loose biscuits from the grocer, in our case 4 Square ?) yet a quick search of Google brought up both the Australian Women's Weekly, and New Zealand Women's Weekly recipes for Garibaldi Slice / Biscuit, first time I have heard of that !  Aldi Australia sells them as Fruit Slice biscuits,

Regards to all from Australia, Tumut.

[Tumut]

Hello All, what the hell is a Jammie Dodger ? Tumut.

[kevinlms]

19 minutes ago, Tumut said:

Hello All, what the hell is a Jammie Dodger ? Tumut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_(biscuit)

[Compound2632]

RMWeb is notorious for thread drift but this really takes the biscuit.

[BluenGreyAnorak]

That chart is a travesty - it's lacking the king of biscuits, the chocolate hob nob!

[martin_wynne]

52 minutes ago, Tumut said:

the Garibaldi slice (?) I have always known as a date or fruit slice,

 

Hi,

 

Known in the UK as "squashed fly biscuits". The fruit is currants:

 

"INGREDIENTS: Currants (40%), Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, Wheat Starch, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Whey Powder (Cows' Milk), Salt, Raising Agents: Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate."

 

[steve1]

I’m glad the list did miss off fig rolls. Disgusting things.

 

steve

[martin_wynne]

1 hour ago, Tumut said:

Hello All, what the hell is a Jammie Dodger ? Tumut.

 

 

 

[Tumut]

Hello Martin Wynne, and others, sold as Arnott's Raspberry Shortcake in Australia, regards Tumut

[Phil Parker]

14 minutes ago, steve1 said:

I’m glad the list did miss off fig rolls. Disgusting things.

 

steve

 

Someone is spoiling for a ban! 😁

[martin_wynne]

7 minutes ago, steve1 said:

I’m glad the list did miss off fig rolls. Disgusting things.

 

steve

 

A recent visitor here said he hadn't seen one for years -- and ate half the packet.

 

Two designs -- traditional open-ended and clearly cut from a long extruded length:

 

 

And closed ends -- which cost more but actually give you less filling:

 

 

Martin.

[franciswilliamwebb]

32 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

 

clearly cut from a long extruded length

 

 

Not dissimilar to my thoughts on the infernal things 😉

[Jeremy Cumberland]

3 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

And closed ends -- which cost more but actually give you less filling:

 

Noooooo! That's an abomination. It's as bad as putting a layer of cream in a Jammy Dodger

[PhilJ W]

Drifting a bit further when I was at school (60+ years ago) we used to get a bag of broken biscuits for 2d. (Thats two old pennies.)

Edited Thursday at 09:03 by PhilJ W

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, martin_wynne said:

 

A recent visitor here said he hadn't seen one for years -- and ate half the packet.

 

Two designs -- traditional open-ended and clearly cut from a long extruded length:

 

 

And closed ends -- which cost more but actually give you less filling:

 

 

Martin.

 

I'm surprised that they don't advertise "with added fig wasp corpses"* to enhance their natural credentials...

 

* Ever wondered why figs have a gritty texture? 🤔

 

[kevinlms]

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

RMWeb is notorious for thread drift but this really takes the biscuit.

Oh, crumbs!

[kevinlms]

2 hours ago, BluenGreyAnorak said:

That chart is a travesty - it's lacking the king of biscuits, the chocolate hob nob!

And Tim Tams.

[Chris M]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Drifting a bit further when I was at school (60+ years ago) we used to get a bag of broken biscuits for 2d. (Thats two old pennies.)

We were giving out broken biscuits to Statfold exhibitors to have with their tea. 

[Chris M]

 

Now that’s what I call a biscuit.