What do you call this biscuit?

[numberonecook]

Blue ribband or a blue ribbon?

NEVER inhale while you're taking a bite of one - you will almost certainly choke. They are awful. Especially when you're expecting a toffee yo-yo in your lunchbox. Or a United.

Blue Riband is what we called it. Surely it would be called a Blue Ribbon otherwise.

Another one here for Blue Rye band, it sounds wrong in my head (I'm not saying that it is) to say rib and

I'd say Blue Ribbon

When I used to have these as a kid, we called them blue RibbAND.

RibbAND. Never heard it called ribbon at all.

Blue Riband. Because that's what it's called

RiBAND

Well after a quick skim through the posts I estimate it’s around 54 for ribannd/rybanned etc and 23 for ribbon. (Not totally actuate don’t shoot me)

The reason I asked was because me and DH have always called them blue ribbons and so have our parents and grandparents. One of our friends came round, saw them in the biscuit jar and exclaimed ‘oooo blue ribands, lovely!’. We were a bit

Haha I wonder if it’s a regional thing?

Those that say wafers are all correct.

Fact.

End of.

“Get a wafer out of the cupboard”.

Sums it up !

Haha I wonder if it’s a regional thing?

Which region sees a word spelled riband and thinks it's pronounced ribbon?
Do you have a husbbon, does he wear a bbonanna?

LittleDragonGirl

Ribbon...

But I've only realised due to this thread that it dosent actually say ribbon the little things in the life of a dyslexic

Same here. Only I'm not dyslexic

Actually the more I think about it, the more I have no idea what I call them. Blue ribbon. Blue Ribband. Nope. No clue. To be fair I never buy them either. They're all dry wafer and cheap chocolate. Give me a penguin any day!

Blooriband one word

With the D and, in my best Monty Python / M. Creosote... it's not a biscuit it is a waffer...

I pronounce it "Blue Ribbund". However "Blue Ri-BAND" (with the emphasis on the second syllable) seems to be the most popular pronunciation in my area (western Scotland).