My new favourite biscuit..

Got back into nice biscuits (tescos) had forgotten how nice a bit of coconut is ?
they've joined Aldi fig rolls/shortbread for morning break cuppa.

otherwise - biscuits have shot up in price, RIP the lost penguin.
 
I usually just make my own now, store bought are all way to sweet these days and actually hurt my teeth. Usually use honey from my bees instead of sugar and oats, coconut or almond flour instead of normal flour.
Flapjacks are dead easy to make, just oats, butter and honey plus any extras you want to add like fruit, raisins etc.
 
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Huxton said:
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I had one of the new ones once, forgettable ... not tried one over last 10 years for sure.
The original Club Milk (made with milk chocolate) was joined by a Club Plain (made with plain chocolate). Two flavoured versions, Club Orange and Club Mint, were made by adding flavouring to the cocoa cream. The Club Fruit variant included raisins in the cocoa cream between the two biscuits. A further Club Honeycomb variety followed.

Club Wafer = Pale blue wrapper
Club Milk = Red wrapper with the queen of clubs
Club Plain = Green wrapper with a picture of a golf ball
Club Orange = Orange wrapper with a picture of an orange
Club Fruit = Purple wrapper with a picture of a bunch of grapes
Club Mint = Dark Green wrapper with a picture of a Mint leaf

In the mid-1990s both the Irish and British Jacob’s companies were acquired by French-owned Groupe Danone who redesigned both the biscuit and the packaging. The two biscuits held together by cocoa cream were replaced with a single biscuit, topped with cocoa cream. The real chocolate exterior was replaced with a thinner layer of chocolate-based coating. The original milk and plain biscuits were discontinued.

In September 2004 the Jacob’s brand was sold by Danone to British-based United Biscuits, who restored some of the traditional elements of the Club biscuit. From 2013 United Biscuits rebranded the product as McVities Club, using the Jacob’s brand for savoury biscuits and McVities for sweet products
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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?
 
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.
 
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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Merlin5 said:
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
www.irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com
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That's crazy! Never seen those before at all.

Shame you didn't like the 'Chunky'. I think it's the chocolate I like most on them. Very generous.
 
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