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Post by Sneelock on Dec 11, 2020 20:13:45 GMT
Yeah, there's a good strong cocoa flavour to the biscuit, as Guy pointed out. Maybe some of the Americans can verify this - I think you can get a very similar cookie in the US but because they're called HYDROX they didn't really take off (sounds like chemistry). But apparently they're still made. I wonder. It was the sunshine baking company that made them back in the day. no competition for NABISCO. i had some Hydrox 10 years or so back. They tasted like Oreos. Sorry, Dad.
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Post by Charlie O. on Dec 11, 2020 20:16:05 GMT
I wasn't aware that Hydrox was still in business (I remember them from the '70s), but yeah - same idea.
There are also Oreos that have twice the white stuff in the middle, which I don't understand. You gotta have the balance right!
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Post by DarknessFish on Dec 11, 2020 20:18:10 GMT
Give me a good old fashioned fruit shortcake above any of these bastards. And whither the garibaldi? Or ginger nuts, if I'm feeling particularly crazed with my own testosterone.
Party rings are an arid evil though.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 11, 2020 20:18:52 GMT
Yeah, there's a good strong cocoa flavour to the biscuit, as Guy pointed out. Maybe some of the Americans can verify this - I think you can get a very similar cookie in the US but because they're called HYDROX they didn't really take off (sounds like chemistry). But apparently they're still made. leafbrands.com/hydrox/They were competitive, until they weren't. As US grocers consolidated, and went national, it cost more and more to buy the shelf space in the stores and hurt a lot a small regional brands.
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 11, 2020 20:19:40 GMT
it had better have some chocolate on there. do you have any idea how unappetizing the word "digestive" is to an American? it makes me think of enzymes!
Americans know nothing of biscuits. Or chocolate
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 11, 2020 20:23:01 GMT
it had better have some chocolate on there. do you have any idea how unappetizing the word "digestive" is to an American? it makes me think of enzymes!
You call them 'Graham' tho' - what the FUCK is that all about? *stomps off absolutely fuming*Graham is just a type of flour used in crackers and pie crusts, maybe those "graham crackers" would be considered a biscuit in the UK? Funny enough, if one served any of these standard UK biscuits in the US, people would think you were pretentious or "putting on airs". They are rare in the US, certain large grocers, and overstock retailers carry them, and of course Amazon.
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 11, 2020 20:23:09 GMT
The Leibniz is sold here as ‘petit ecolier’ by Mondelez.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 11, 2020 20:28:14 GMT
You call them 'Graham' tho' - what the FUCK is that all about? *stomps off absolutely fuming*Graham is just a type of flour used in crackers and pie crusts, maybe those "graham crackers" would be considered a biscuit in the UK? Funny enough, if one served any of these standard UK biscuits in the US, people would think you were pretentious or "putting on airs". They are rare in the US, certain large grocers, and overstock retailers carry them, and of course Amazon. This really interests me. You probably know but 'tea and biscuits' is a regular occurrence in most UK homes, for some it constitutes a meal. I don't think you do anything even similar in the States, do you? Coffee and pie?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 11, 2020 20:28:24 GMT
Americans know nothing of biscuits. Or chocolate Mark of a civilisation.
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Post by Sneelock on Dec 11, 2020 20:30:20 GMT
cousinlou wrote:
you gonna fuck it or eat it?
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 11, 2020 20:30:31 GMT
Graham is just a type of flour used in crackers and pie crusts, maybe those "graham crackers" would be considered a biscuit in the UK? Funny enough, if one served any of these standard UK biscuits in the US, people would think you were pretentious or "putting on airs". They are rare in the US, certain large grocers, and overstock retailers carry them, and of course Amazon. I don't think you do anything even similar in the States, do you? Coffee and pie? Yes, definitely amongst Midwesterners of Scandinavian stock in the farm states like Iowa, Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, etc.,
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 11, 2020 20:33:03 GMT
cousinlou wrote:
you gonna fuck it or eat it?
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 11, 2020 20:37:57 GMT
cousinlou wrote:
you gonna fuck it or eat it? Some people frown at eating them. But rather that than fucking a petit ecolier.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 11, 2020 20:40:26 GMT
Yeah, I think Snee should(n't) have used a translator
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Post by The Red Heifer on Dec 11, 2020 20:58:45 GMT
Just leaving the biscuits themselves to one side, this whole sudden plethora of absolutely terrible lists is a scourge on society.
On Australian Twitter we have a self styled "list king" named Bruno Bouchet (his day job is Executive Producer on the godawful Kyle & Jackie O radio show) and he has put out any number of deliberately provocative lists clearly to generate inane banter. And, without knowing too much about the biscuits in question, the fact that the list in the first post is an apparent mess leads me to believe this is what's happened here.
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