The King of Biscuits???
January 19, 2014 by warzan
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I voted custard cream, but dudes? where was pink wafers?
Added 😉
Yeah, pink wafers are ordinary enough to qualify fir this list I think. They’re not too ordinary or average like the plain digestive yet not too fancy like the afore mentioned biscuit with chocolate on the inside. Penguins , Club, and that sort of individually wrapped chocolate biscuit pass in to the “too fancy” bracket with Oreos and stuff like that. Stuff that’s a bit too expensive for the humble wargamer. We’re talking ordinary to semi ordinary here!!
Warren, have you loaded the vote? one vote each for Bourbons, custard creams and rich tea at 33% and then a vote for pink wafers at 1%. somebodies maths is dodgy 🙂
Opps, I was trying to change @demyse vote to his bloody pink wafers 😉
Fixed now
I don’t think I can get any of those here, so I vote for more block lifting for Warren.
If it was for the purposes of dunking in coffee I’d have said ginger nuts, for tea, has to be choc hobnobs and rammed in ones gob in one go. Nothing more attractive than spending the rest of the day with chocolate in the corners of your mouth.
as any bona-fide three to seven year old will tell you , no doubt…. hahaha (lolz) spending the rest of the day with chocolate in the corners of your mouth – that is. Until your mum comes along and spits in her hankie to wipe your face clean of the chocolate smeared all over it…. I swear this hasn’t happened since I was seven years old…. honest.
These days I’m capable of eating like a human being; (as opposed to the cookie monster method of mastication (chewing) hahaha
COOKIES (said in the voice of the Cookie Monster)
Ha ha ha. I am actually munching a chocky digestive while watching Backstage. They get my vote…mmm… So chocolatey, so… digestivey…. garrrrrrr 🙂
Bourbon isn’t a biscuit. Bourbon comes in Square bottles.
Rich tea for the win! especially with cheese on!
Agreed! Although.. Bourbon (Creams) are the best biscuit in the specialist category of dunking IMHO, but Rich Tea is the King of Biscuits because it is so versatile. As you say, Rich Tea + cheese = win!
Nobody mentioned cheese…. tis isn’t a damned tea party, it’s real men’s building work! And the same goes for Pink Wafers! We don’t need any of that fancy rubbish …. Keep it simple. Chocolate hobnobs bourbon creams and custard creams are about as fancy as it should get. Although I might make a wild card request for some Garibaldi biscuits if that’s not pure sacrilege and Justin doesn’t object too much.
And what’s the general consensus on Oreos? lolz
We’re talking a slightly different kind of bourbon here, my friend. But your comment doesn’t fall on deaf ears…. hahahaha. But I think the particular drink you’re speaking of (rhyming with Dack Janiels’ is not actually a Bourbon. Strictly speaking it’s a Tennessee Whiskey. Quite what it is that defines the difference , I don’t know but I have observed that it’s never reffered to as a Bourbon in adverts for it and it doesn’t say anything about being a bourbon on the rather famous and distinct bottle either. Although I can’t say my pallet is sophisticated to know a Bourbon from a Scotch from a Tennessee whiskey or for that matter a Kentucky Bourbon for that matter. But congrats on a well made pun, Sir. chortle-chortle.
Khong Guan Raisin Biscuit. (AKA: Sultana…the name says it all.) I’m with Justin…filling inside the biscuit is best!
The sucking one! You suck it through then put it back on the plate for someone else to pick up.
My sisters used to dunk toast in tea! And yes it was buttered toast…… yuk!!!
Buttered toast is for dunking in soup… well it was, pre-diet.
Btw, Choc Hob No here. Yummie. Although dunking Marathons as my favorite all being told. 🙂
The effects of Fit Club are kicking in. Everyone is obsessing about biscuits.
Chocolate digestive. End of. The Emperor of biscuity goodness.
Where’s the plain Digestive ?
In my digestive system 😛
Nahhhhh , the problem with plain Digestive biscuits is they are just a little too ordinary and boring for a tea break snack/munchy. That goes for Rich Tea biscuits too. That’s why the chocolate digestive is the best invention ever – in the history of time, the universe and every thing! Plain Chocolate is best but Milk Chocolate is a very acceptable substitute. Chocolate Chip Digestives is another thing, like Ginger Nut Creams that I think were exclusive to Tesco and I used to frickin’ LOOOOOOOVE them! Sort of like a chocolate chip cookie but some how slightly less indulgent than a cookie, (probably just as fattening and tooth rotting…)
Other world dominating evil supermarket Empire’s are available…. probably coming soon to that little corner shop that just closed down the other day near you! until all our little convenience stores and petrol stations are run by one or other of the big four Supermarket chains , swamping the high street with endless branches of your favourite and not so favourite supermarket names. (this may be an exclusively UK phenomenon…. I hope)
Watch it Lloyd, dissing the chocolate hob nob is fighting talk.
I second Gingernuts and especially now ive discovered Gingernut Creams in Tesco. Errrm not that i’m eating them at all…. just looking…..sort of
Gingernuts sound like a racial slur for some reason.
NOOOOOoooooo…… The Noble Gingernut is one of those things that’s perfect in its simplicity. When you start adding cream and sh*t to it you’re messing about with a perfect formula. As indulgent and drule-ingly delicious as it might be to add cream to it , it’s really unnecessary and probably skyrockets the cost of the thing to excessive proportions. This is what I’m saying about “Luxury biscuits.” Things like Chocolate Digestives Hob-nobs and Ginger-nuts is about as luxurious as it needs to get. Otherwise you have to keep them under lock and key in the biscuit cupboard or you’ll find that they’ve been reduced to a trail of crumbs next time you open the cupboard , expecting to find the half eaten packet you bought with yourself in mind (and sort of every one else, but mainly just you cause you love eating them so much and you had to restrain yourself not to eat the whole lot when you bought them.) And talking of restraining myself; I had better leave it there or I’ll be replying and commenting on every entry under this topic. Ohhh no; there’s another one… Topic Bars! (the slightly smaller but more refined cousin of the Snickers chocolate bar (Marathon for any one that’s old enough to remember it- pre name change in the UK. Around the time of the advent of the European Union or the common market ;- I forget which…….which I think was the reason it changed it’s name to snickers, along with Opal Fruits becoming Starbursts) tut. and now I’m really deviating from my point. Anyone remember when this site was about war gaming? lolz
ah, finally a XLBS episode with some interesting content.
XLBS – Extra Large Biscuit Survey.
Justin’s Stupid F**king Cookie, got my vote!
@warzan
I thought of you when I seen the backstage video today, Peter Kay came to mind.
Enjoy the brief video below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAYglwe3HU
Ohhh , (moan of disappointment…) I thought this would be the one about , “your biscuit falling in your brew.” That’s a frickin’ classic. hahaha (grinning from ear to ear as I reminisce about it…..)
Of course none of those are over here, at least not by those names. But if you haven’t had chunky chocolate chip cookies, you are missing the emperor of cookies.
Kit Kat straw for the win!!!
nahhh; you see – again like the Club and the Penguin, the fine and noble Kit Kat is a bit too fancy for this poll I think. Besides ; you can easily argue that it’s closer to a chocolate bar / chocolate wafer than a biscuit. And as for dunking your Snickers Bar in your tea/coffee , don’t even get me started on why that isn’t a biscuit and there for doesn’t count…. That’s almost as barbaric as deep frying your mars bar! (note to self…. still need to try me a deep fried mars bar and maybe deep fried snickers/marathon too….) lolz
Having said all this I will defend the Kit Kat as a “chocolate bar” until the end of my days! As tea break snacks go , it’s pretty damned perfect for the building site or office tea break. And Dark Chocolate Kit Kat are the absolute best! Orange Kit Kat is okay too and mint but once you start adding cream or raspberry sauce or caramel to your Kit Kat then once again you’re meddling with something that doesn’t need meddling with… you’ve gone too far basically.
(note to self [no2] must try drinking tea / coffee through a Kit Kat straw! if I haven’t done already – and if so , it’s been far too goddamned long since I last did that. (things are far too civilised round here sometimes at “Zeppelin Towers” N.B. not my home’s real name. lolz)
Ginger Nut biscuits, the true lords of all biscuitdom
I will always associate Ginger nuts with having them with milk in nursery school…. (yes – I know. Laugh all you want. (grimaces and shakes fist angrily at computer screen.)
King of Biscuits???
Yugi Muto would say:
ITS TIME… TOO
DU DU DU DU
DUNK!
Yes, whenever I saw that opening I had to resist the urge to smack the telly to stop it skipping like that
In Australia we have the Tim Tam.
Truly the greatest!!!
Yep.
You need to get yourself to somewhere that stocks Australian Biscuits, and do a review of Tim Tams. Then you need to organise a petition to ask Arnotts why they are holding out on you guys.
I was looking for the Tim Tam mention. The other superior alternative is the Kingston. Interesting we seem to have the top two selections on the planet.
Tim Tams are just Penguins in disguise 😛
Just thought id add, not really a biscuit but when I vist Japan I go to the closest 7 Eleven or Lawson and try to find the strangest flavour of Kit Kat …
So far Red Bean Sandwich (you just have to taste it to believe how weird it is) or Edamame Soybean are the close winners, but they are not always on sale which is annoying if you go in the wrong part of the year
In China I always get the Oreo flavors they have. I’ve had mint, grape and peach, strawberry, birthday cake and ice cream
Maryland Choc chip & Hazelnut COOKIES (always said in Cookie Monster voice! 🙂 @arcanechris )
….. and yes a reason to be a member of Fit Club!
My problem is that I am incapable of opening a packet of biscuits and eating one or two. I eat the whole lot in one go! COOOOOOOKIES!!!!!! (especially Maryland choc chip!)
I voted pink wafer due the lack of a jammy dodger option.
What about good old Scottish Shortbread – some are shaped like bricks and substantial enough not to fall apart after dunking …..
Shortbread isn’t a biscuit, its a meal.
Chocolate hobnob for me… but you expected that, right ?
:giggles:
Hob nobs. As the video response informs you, the marines of the biscuit world!
This kind of brings into stark contrast all the talk we’ve had about regional differences. Someone help a yank out. What’s the difference between a biscuit and a cookie? Where do scones fit in all of this? Where are the cinnamon rolls?
A biscuit is what you would call a cookie, a cookie is a specific type of biscuit, usually with chocolate chips, and the closest things you have to scones i think, is what you would call a biscuit. You usually serve these with gravy i believe.
oh and cinnamon rolls are a cake.
The yanks eat scones with gravy?
mind blown.
What a waste!
No. We have scones. Biscuits are like dinner rolls but crumbly and dry, savory not sweet (except in the commonwealth, where apparently biscuits are just an arbitrary line drawn between different kinds of cookies). Some people eat those with gravy as a breakfast food, but that is far from the usual which is as a side like a dinner roll. And I wasn’t asking what cinnamon rolls were. I was asking where they were, as in, “Why don’t you have any?”
In oz, it’s common to use the following biscuits; Anzac biscuits; ginger nut bikkies; timtams; choc chip bikkies
I have a question, what the hell is a king of buscuits?
Hob Nobs/Chocolate Hob Nobs are the king of dunkers, which is the only truly important criteria on a building site.
I’ve got your back Justin.
I know nothing of these biscuits, But I’ve got your back Justin!
Chocolate digestives. But the dark ones not the milk ones.
Although it would really be the Jaffa cake. But as they ‘are actually’ cakes they don’t count.
Correct Mr @tasker we’re not into those VAT dodgers 😉
Jammy Dodger on the other hand…
😀
I’ve “done” 2 packets of chocolate hob nobs since yesterday, my arse is gonna start spreading.
The hobnob or chocolate hobnob, but unfortunately probably contains the highest amount of calories per biscuit out of the choice that were given.
Must admit I had to wiki biscuits and tea. Typical American morning is coffee and a powder donut. I need to find a suitable English lass to roll dice with and tell me the glories of biscuits.
She should be able to introduce you to baps too! 😉
While we don’t use that term in Australia, we hear you brits go on about it so much we are very familiar with the term. I guess there’s a lot of Americanisms that we are familiar with, but don’t use.
Dare I say ‘ Garibaldi ‘ ?
Malted milk….FTW.
Sadly one of my favs is missing the classic Malted Milk biscuit mmmmmm but the custard cream is a close second lol
Don’t drink tea or coffee so no dipping…
Why damage a good biscuit!
What about milk?
Holy Sh*t ITS JOHN 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh78T–ZUxY
I freakin love that guy
Hey who remembers the drop pod build video and the stompa…
They are classic and top shelf
Well I remember and if you read this John you were greatly missed my friend !
I guess I can forgive your lack of Tim Tam option since the Tim Tam slam is not widely known outside of Australia… Suffice to say, no biscuit makes for a better combination with tea or coffee.
We do have tim tam’s but over here they’re called penguins.
As an American I feel left out. 😉
Don’t feel left out join in! Order loads of biccies online and some PG Tips and go nuts.
I wish I could but the BoW fit club is my master now.
Hmm Chocolate Digestive is good but for dunking in tea it has to be a Rich Tea!
In the states here….. We have Pecan Sandie’s… Shortbread with bits O pecans.,.. Made by the wonderful Keebler Elves…… Lol
one bisquit too far?
Anzac biscuits for the absolute win, even Lafayette would agree (it’s one of the few biscuits that has sustained Aussie diggers thru every conflict that Australia has sent soldiers to!)
Not an easy question to answer – and I drink coofee and beer not tea 😉
and kitkats and oreos , don’t count. we’re talking ordinary biscuits here and they’re much too fancy….. the BoW budget would be bust in no time if they existed on a diet of kit-kat and Oreo type biscuits. I’m not saying they’re not nice but they are a bit of a luxury. Jammy Dodgers just pass in to the bracket of ordinariness , even though they’re tipping the scale a bit but the fine mention of custard creams, which I always consider in the same bracket as bourbon creams cause they’re the white and black brothers from another mother if you ask me and more than pass the test of being more than ordinary biscuits, without passing in to the next bracket of being luxury biscuits.
And there was me thinking this was a Gaming website, for discussing the merits and misdemeanours of wargaming…. lolz
i’m no brit, but i’ve had jammy dodgers and i quite like them
its gotta be the hobnob, texture, strength and size!
Refrigerated bourbon, in the mouth in one go, add milk in said mouth to personal taste. Result.
For tea it’s got to be rich tea, can’t beat the old classics.