My new favourite biscuit..

Merlin5

Merlin5

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I've been eyeing these for ages thinking, hmm, might be nice but probably a bit boring.

But they're amazing. Lovely crispy snap to the biscuit and the taste of the chocolate in between is so nice. I can't stop eating them. Well I can, but I could eat packetfuls very quickly :p
I'll have to try some more Bahlsen snacks.


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jpaul said:
my bible kev says they have the same biscuit as leibnez,
they look like an inverted version of those, in sandwich form, with less chance of getting chocolate on the keyboard,
but there, the Aldi imitations, are better value and very close.

-now need a treble layer one - it is like the hamburger market
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Does Aldi do a Pick Up clone then? I'd like to try that.

It might be the same chocolate and biscuit as Leibniz, but It's the sandwich form of Pick Up that makes it so nice.

But I love the biscuit, it's so buttery.

 
Ancientpencil said:
You can't beat an old-fashioned bourbon. Not latest product on the market but better than the rest.
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I like bourbons but the biscuit texture is fairly dull, same with custard creams. However, I recently tried some budget brand of custard creams, and also a budget chocolate version which effectively could be a bourbon (although still square shaped like the standard custard cream) but the biscuit on both had a really good snap making them really nice to eat. It really goes to show that texture in food is everything.
 
My absolute favourite biscuit that has to be in the house, regardless of bahlsen, jaffa cakes or anything else is these. I buy them almost every week. Don't buy the Patterson ones, they're rubbish, very dry.
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ArcticHeron said:
The only biscuit I have time for

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I've been considering getting a pack of those as I'm sure I really liked them as a kid. Recently I've been buying a lot of the regular Cadbury Snack choc coated shortcake in the blue and yellow wrapper, which basically taste the same as Cadbury Fingers. The sandwich snack is twice the price though. I can't remember, does it taste the same as Blue Riband?
 
ArcticHeron said:
They were quite commonplace in England some 5-8 years ago and where similarly priced to the regular snack bar biscuits. For whatever reason they dissapeared from most of UK shelves and you could only really import them from Ireland for the longest time.
For whatever reason Tesco just started restocking them again at an inflated price.

@Merlin5 I'd personally say they're nothing like a regular snack bar or a Blue Ribbond. The regular snack bar is just a chocolate covered shortcake style biscuit and the Blue Ribbond is pure wafer. This is more like 2 slices of very compressed rich tea sandwiching chocolate, then coated.

Aldi do a variant which I've been living off until I managed to find these again, the Belmont 'Chunky' which to be quite honest is equally as good if not better given how dire Cadburys chocolate has become.
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Funnily enough I've had my eye on the Belmont Chunky for a while and bought a pack today. Just ate one. Nice but nothing special, I prefer my Jacob's Club biscuits. But I see where my confusion was on the Snack sandwich as there was a similarly packaged Snack, but it was wafer and not sandwich, and discontinued in 2015. That was the one I used to eat.

www.irishtimes.com

Pink Snack bars to leave Irish shelves due to drop in popularity

Popular chocolate wafer treat first launched by Cadbury in the UK forty years ago
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