Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Another 'What biscuit was this?'

6 replies

Palominoo · 02/04/2019 20:48

1970s/80s

Large single biscuit sold in clear cellophane. About 3/4 times bigger than a normal round biscuit.

It was round shaped but had a wavy edge.

Top was milk chocolate and the bottom was shortbread like, not actual shortbread I don't think, but similar. Sugar sprinkled on it.

I'm getting the word Chesthunt but can't find anything on Google.

At that time I was living in London/Essex and they were sold in most supermarkets.

OP posts:
marvellousnightforamooncup · 02/04/2019 21:55

Can't remember that. Sorry.Biscuit

marvellousnightforamooncup · 02/04/2019 21:56

That wasn't a sarcastic Biscuit

Palominoo · 02/04/2019 22:00
Grin
OP posts:

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

ChicCroissant · 02/04/2019 22:08

Dundee biscuits?

I was going to ask if they were the size of a Wagon Wheel, but I recall those being the size of a dinner plate in the 70's good times

uncomfortablydumb53 · 02/04/2019 22:09

I think Dundee biscuit too

Palominoo · 02/04/2019 22:23

Thank you ever so much. It was indeed a Dundee Biscuit.

I found this

Missing presumed discontinued
Description
Sold in stacks of five or six, wrapped as per Eccles cakes (i.e. in clear cellophane);
Approx. 3-4 inches across (as a kid this would have been 12-18 inches);
Shortbread-type base;
Circular, with a slightly crimped edge;
Rich chocolatey topping;
Chunky grains of sugar stuck to the underside;
The word DUNDEE visible on the underside (standing proud rather than embossed), written in a rugby-ball shape, so the initial D and trailing E were smaller than the rest, the central ND the biggest of all letters.
Thanks to Peter Lee for this detailed description.
Mark Conby writes

The Dundee biscuit was manufactured by a company called Broadhurst biscuits up to the early 80's, when i believe that the companys manufacturing site in Gadbrook Northwich was sold (I think) to Burtons. The factory was �closed soon after and production of the Dundee was moved to Utoxeter (near Alton Towers). I'm positive it was then discontinued in the early 90's despite attempts to bolster sales with the introduction of a delightful minty variant.
Terry got in touch to say
Just to let you know a company in Darwin Lancs are producing a Chocolate Dundee biscuit They are called Cottage Cookies, 17 Brunswick Street, Darwin, Lancashire

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page