I have an important question. It's about biscuits.

[WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo]

I'm sat having a cup of tea and a couple of packets nice biscuits. Or malted milk, the ones with the cows on.

When it occured to me I've never bought a branded packet of malted milk. I always get the cheapest, I mean a malted milk is a malted milk is a malted milk. They all look and taste the same. They even all have the picture of the cow and milk churn.

Same goes for custard creams, rich tea, digestives. All the plain biscuits. the cheaper the better.

I only really spend money on fancy biscuits, barring chocolate hobnobs since I discovered the superior, Aldi ones.

So who does. Obviously plain premium biscuit buyers are out there. But who ? And what's your reasoning ?!

I did try adding a poll but couldn't figure it out 🤨

@missyB1

Random question, does anyone remember sports biscuits? They were like a malted milk but with pictures of people playing sports. They may have been iced on one side I can’t quite remember

Yes, I remember them, and yes they were iced. I liked the rower and the fencer best!

M and S ginger biscuits covered in dark chocolate. Closer to a chocolate bar than a biscuit.

Otherwise more or less, OP. I buy branded on offer when they’re cheaper than own brand. But the ADSA really cheap in clear plastic are smaller and taste wrong.

Love a malted milk...we call them moo cow biscuits here. There's definitely a difference in the really cheap biscuits.

There are 3 types of custard creams:

1. Shaped like custard creams (wrong)
2. Very thin and narrow (also wrong but less wrong)
3. Approx 2:1 length to width ratio (the best sort).

Kipferl biscuits. Small Austrian/German? Buttery crescents replete with finely ground almonds, vanilla and too much sugar. Utterly delicious.

OR

"Scottish" shortbread fingers.

With both it's so hard to only have one, or two, or...

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Yabu to think that own brand digestives taste the same as lovely mcvities.

Oh no all biscuits are not the same. Try fortnum and masons biscuits. So delicious.

I normally like all biscuits!
But like you OP I often go for the cheap ones
I made the mistake of getting very cheap custard creams in Aldi (think they were 25p or something ridiculous) and they were not nice!
I was really shocked as normally the cheaper the better
I know not to get those ones again

@WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo
I slightly disagree about them being all the same. If you get the super super cheap custard creams from Poundland or Jack Fultons they are awful! I think it's just the supermarket own brands which are all the same

Chocolate biscuits are not for dunking in tea though they flavour doesn't go and make it slimy border line dunk in coffee .. creme biscuits also high risk for dunking..
Plain biscuits best... Waitrose digestives ok but think Tesco odd and Lidl horrible

Custard creams and bourbons are vile. I have actually come to realise that I'm not a big biscuit fan after reading this thread, and rarely buy them. If we're talking cake though.....

Biscuits are biscuits. Even fig rolls, which my dds love. Agree with malted milks, they’re always on my shopping list for dds.
Just don’t get cheap shortbread.

Oh my gosh yes agree 100% on the m&s dark chocolate ginger biscuits. Strong ginger, very dark choc. Beautiful. Only with coffee mind.

My DM makes amazing kipferl for Xmas...best bit of Xmas possibly. I should learn to make them too.

Asda Malted Milks are nicer than Sainsbury's Malted Milks.

@FippertyGibbett

A lot of the cheap biscuits have palm oil in and are vegan.

Pretty much everything has palm oil in. It's pretty much impossible to avoid unless you cook all of your food from scratch.

Why would anyone put butter on biscuits though?

My favourite biscuits are Tesco dark chocolate digestives and sugar free Mayland choc chip cookies .

I have to say I always thought McVitie's did the best biscuits, but I have discovered that Waitrose Essential chocolate digestives are even better!

God I knew I shouldn’t have opened this thread! I love a biscuit but just don’t eat them as once I start I just can’t stop.
I only keep the individually wrapped type of biscuits in the house so the kids can have them for lunchbox and snacks.
All this talk of dark chocolate digestives is actually making me salivate.

Bloody love biscuits. Can't have them in the house though as I wouldn't eat anything else

I love all cookies and while I can taste a difference between cheap or branded (as well as between brands) I'm perfectly happy with all. The only exception to this are Oreos. They are my absolute favourites and the cheap ones are just not up to scratch. Acceptable for cheesecake bases but not fit to be compared to the deliciousness that Oreo cookies are!

I always think I can take or leave a biscuit. Then realise I've no control around them. Hate some hateful Asda custard creams yesterday. Not worth having the three I planned. I do like a pick me up or a Choco Leibniz however. And a borders dark chocolate ginger

Fig rolls have to be Sainsburys own. The branded ones aren't figgy enough. I'm glad I'm not the only person who eats these

There's definitely a difference in digestive biscuits. I had a rabbit who loved a digestive but if you tried to fob her off with anything other than mcvities she refused to eat it. One lick and she knew

polka not a frequent muncher but sometimes I get an itch only a biscuit can scratch.

Biscuits like Rich Tea or custard creams are just too boring for a snack. If I do have a basic biscuit, you can’t beat a Biscoff. I had a packet of Biscoff during lockdown that were sandwiched with a vanilla cream...they were amazing. Haven’t bought them since though because I just snaffled straight through them!

I do like a naice biscuit. M&S do amazing cookies in various flavours. White choc and lemon - mmmm! I also like a wee home baked biscuit, I make my own ‘bourbons’ with an OTT chocolate frosting in the middle which are v.popular at work.