Page 4 | Totally off topic but Tunnocks related.

DialSquare · 2026-08-24T09:54:17+00:00

Sorry, I know this is off topic but thought some regular posters may be interested. I watched a YouTube video yesterday where one the vloggers took a Tunnocks teacake, put it in a brioche bun and squeezed so the teacake spread over the bun. He said it was really good so I think I’m gong to try it. He previously did a kitkat sandwich in another video and said the Tunnocks in a bun was better!

user293948849167 · 25/08/2026 16:02

quantumbutterfly · 24/08/2026 11:20

Heresy.

I've been cooling my tunnocks in the freezer lately (not a euphemism). Makes the chocolate nicely bitey & the mallow satisfyingly chewy.

Am on board with this, but a tunnocks bap is a step too far!

DontStopMe · 25/08/2026 15:58

Binglebong, you are lucky! I went to my local Co-op this afternoon and they had sold out of Tunnocks Tea Cakes. They did have brioche buns, but what's the point without Tunnocks 😞

Messedupmyusernameagain · 25/08/2026 15:58

Binglebong · 25/08/2026 15:51

Curse you all!

Jazzies marshmallows? Where did you get them from???

Messedupmyusernameagain · 25/08/2026 15:56

Grammarnut · 25/08/2026 15:14

Look, this is terrible. I'm doing Slimming Word (there's a forum on MN for it - I never look) and tunnocks are not on any healthy extra or free food lists. How am I supposed to manage? They sell them in the supermarket near me and now I am wondering if they work in croissants. Argggh!

I'm on slimming world too. They are 5 swips. You can have 3. Not in a brioche roll though!

Elieza · 25/08/2026 15:53

KrazyKatty · 25/08/2026 14:09

Ah, that’s really interesting. I thought it was very unusual when I first came across it and I wonder if your mum and my MIL were mates in their yoof? 😂

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maybe if yours was over in the govan/ibrox neck of the woods?

mine used to have it made by her mother when she was a child and called it a “chittering bite” which was a treat after swimming when they were cold on their way home from the baths on the bus or tram.

Binglebong · 25/08/2026 15:51

Curse you all!

SidewaysOtter · 25/08/2026 15:15

Grammarnut · 25/08/2026 15:14

Look, this is terrible. I'm doing Slimming Word (there's a forum on MN for it - I never look) and tunnocks are not on any healthy extra or free food lists. How am I supposed to manage? They sell them in the supermarket near me and now I am wondering if they work in croissants. Argggh!

The harder you squash them into your brioche roll, the more of the calories you squeeze out.

You're welcome

Grammarnut · 25/08/2026 15:14

Look, this is terrible. I'm doing Slimming Word (there's a forum on MN for it - I never look) and tunnocks are not on any healthy extra or free food lists. How am I supposed to manage? They sell them in the supermarket near me and now I am wondering if they work in croissants. Argggh!

lcakethereforeIam · 25/08/2026 15:04

😳

quantumbutterfly · 25/08/2026 14:31

lcakethereforeIam · 25/08/2026 10:48

Talking of marshmallow...I believe it's a thing to use stroopwaffles as the lid of a hot chocolate. I'd been wondering what would happen if you put a Tunnocks or two in a velvitiser. I decided the biscuit would make it weird but as the lid, floating in a hot chocolate that could be lush.

Google AI thinks magpies are ducks.

A utility(?) duck. Is that similar to a business goose?

KrazyKatty · 25/08/2026 14:09

Elieza · 24/08/2026 20:44

we like a Frys chocolate cream (the blue wrapped one, it’s a bar of fondant covered in dark chocolate) broken up into tiny chunks over a buttered scottish morning roll. The crunchiness of the roll and the soft butter melting into the fondant is lovely if you like sweet things.

my mums been eating that since the 50s or whenever it was made after the war as her mum gave her that as a treat. and she gave me it as a treat. i still like it.

Ah, that’s really interesting. I thought it was very unusual when I first came across it and I wonder if your mum and my MIL were mates in their yoof? 😂

KrazyKatty · 25/08/2026 14:00

You’ve not lived if you haven’t tried a Fry’s chocolate cream smooshed between Scottish plain bread.
My MIL’s favourite sandwich. (RIP Marion)

Bjorkdidit · 25/08/2026 13:30

Another Tunnocks related fact I've just remembered.

If you fly with Logan Air, they give you a free Tunnocks caramel wafer (I like them better than the tea cakes anyway).

For me it's a work trip so it's not my money that's paying for the relatively expensive short flight that means they can afford to give away little treats like this, as well as the world's smallest cup of water. I only ever use them to go from Liverpool to the Isle of Man so they don't have time to make people hot drinks, so water it is.

Messedupmyusernameagain · 25/08/2026 12:53

MarieDeGournay · 24/08/2026 11:20

DialSquare, that is the least accurate use of the phrase 'totally off topic' I have ever seen - this is FWR, FFS! Tunnocks are relevant to any topic on here!

I speak as someone who has never even seen a Tunnocks except in photos, let alone eaten one. But I respect other people's belief systems😁

I see that no-one else has replied to your post, I expect they're all too busy squeezing Tunnockses into brioche buns....

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you've never seen a Tunnocks teacakes? I presume you live in another country. But re the sandwich- surely that would dilute the taste? How can you take a bit off the top and lick out the inside if its crushed into a sandwich?

SidewaysOtter · 25/08/2026 12:49

PersuadingAnneElliot · 24/08/2026 19:48

Will have to track them down!

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They appear to be available on eBay, along with Caramel Logs.

Bjorkdidit · 25/08/2026 12:45

lcakethereforeIam · 25/08/2026 10:48

Talking of marshmallow...I believe it's a thing to use stroopwaffles as the lid of a hot chocolate. I'd been wondering what would happen if you put a Tunnocks or two in a velvitiser. I decided the biscuit would make it weird but as the lid, floating in a hot chocolate that could be lush.

Google AI thinks magpies are ducks.

The mention of both teacakes and stroopwaffles in the same post has now got me thinking about sandwiching a Tunnocks teacake between two stroopwaffles and heating/pressing them (George Forman grill?) so you get a melty squishy chocolate sandwich.

Which could then sit quite nicely on your hot chocolate and even be used to dip.

lcakethereforeIam · 25/08/2026 12:28

Apologies. I'll try to do better going forward.

BaronessBomburst · 25/08/2026 11:55

Stroopwaffels do not go with hot chocolate. That's sacrilege. It has to be coffee.

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DialSquare · 25/08/2026 11:15

Bananalanacake · 25/08/2026 11:04

Sounds like my German DH getting a Dickmanns and squashing it in a Brötchen.

That sounds filthy!

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Bananalanacake · 25/08/2026 11:04

Sounds like my German DH getting a Dickmanns and squashing it in a Brötchen.

JesseDavisGonnaHangOnInThereNSoul · 25/08/2026 10:58

AlexaAdventuress · 24/08/2026 11:28

People seem to like the teacakes on here, but I much prefer the caramel wafers. I'm having one at the moment. It says on the packaging that over 7,000,000 of these biscuits are made and sold every week. Just as well, I say.

Dark choc caramel wafers or the ones covered in toasted coconut.yum

TheyAreLovelyLovelyPeople · 25/08/2026 10:52

Elieza · 25/08/2026 10:27

for me, im on about a roll ‘n Frys chocolate cream.

So it’s not tunnocks and brioche, it’s Fry’s chocolate cream crumbled in a scottish morning roll. it’s a kind of harder shell crispy roll. totally different. it’s the balance of sweet Fry’s and savoury roll. The butter is for moistness.

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Oh god YES, a well-fired morning roll, oh boy oh boy oh boy.

lcakethereforeIam · 25/08/2026 10:48

Talking of marshmallow...I believe it's a thing to use stroopwaffles as the lid of a hot chocolate. I'd been wondering what would happen if you put a Tunnocks or two in a velvitiser. I decided the biscuit would make it weird but as the lid, floating in a hot chocolate that could be lush.

Google AI thinks magpies are ducks.

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DialSquare · 25/08/2026 10:39

ProfDrLapwing · 25/08/2026 07:58

OMG there’s a tea room totally devoted to Tunnocks?

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It’s not just Tunnocks as it does cakes, buns, lunches etc. but it is opposite the factory so sells all the products.

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Elieza · 25/08/2026 10:27

CervixSampler · 25/08/2026 09:40

Hang on, the brioche roll is buttered? That seems a step too far but buttering it with Nutella might be a winning recipe.
I’m off to the Trafford Centre )send thoughts and prayers please) and have added M&S brioche buns and Bonne Maman chocolate hazelnut spread to my mental list. I don’t buy Nutella anymore with the palm oil nastiness.

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for me, im on about a roll ‘n Frys chocolate cream.

So it’s not tunnocks and brioche, it’s Fry’s chocolate cream crumbled in a scottish morning roll. it’s a kind of harder shell crispy roll. totally different. it’s the balance of sweet Fry’s and savoury roll. The butter is for moistness.