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

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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 🤨

Just putting this out there for those who take their biscuits seriously... hasn't been updated for years more's the pit:

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@DipSwimSwoosh

Aldi custard creams are rank.

I am of the opinion that most biscuits are the same, particularly custard cream. But you are so right, Aldi custard creams are horrible. Never again.

Back to Tesco for my custard creams.

I don’t see the point in biscuits. Just don’t like them. Just putting it out there

I can take or leave most biscuits - with the exception of custard creams or chocolate digestives. I think all major and supermarket own brands taste the same.

I also love shortbread to the point where I cannot buy it as I will eat it ALL is one sitting. It is like crack to me

Ooh home made bourbon could you share the recipe ?

Tesco and Lidl do very good copies of Choco Liebniz, both milk and plain chocolate versions. I can't tell the difference between them and the real thing. Palm oil free too (as are McVities Rich Tea).

I miss Abbey biscuits too, the Marks and Spencer tiny biscuits you get with your tea or coffee taste like them though.
I also miss proper lemon puffs, the rectangular ones with the sticky top.

Can I ask an important question about biscuits too?
Does anyone else eat digestives and rich tea squashed together with butter? Like a biscuit sandwich.
I'm NI and only eat them this way, DD has friends in England who are horrified by this, as is my English niece.

@BluebellsGreenbells

MIL worked at the biscuit factory. They are all the same. Made with the same ingredients and packaged differently for different brands.

Agreed. Cakes are the same. SF works in bakery factories all across the world from South Africa and Australia to Manchester! In most factories the end of M&S Bakewell Tarts (for example) production bell will sound and the packaging gets changed and they start rolling out (again, an example) Tesco Value Bakewell Tarts. Same products, new packaging.

Branded Original Hula Hoops have been found in Aldi hoop style crisps multipacks before now giving the game away.

That's not to say there aren't superior brands who don't share though. Fox's Raspberry Jam and Cream biscuits are nothing like any other Jammie Dodger style biccies. Same goes Party Rings. Just the memory of the horror that was a cheap knock off brand I tried makes me shudder.
Sometimes we have to pay the big bucks for the good stuff.

@Cocolapew

Can I ask an important question about biscuits too? Does anyone else eat digestives and rich tea squashed together with butter? Like a biscuit sandwich. I'm NI and only eat them this way, DD has friends in England who are horrified by this, as is my English niece.

Not both biscuits together but I have been known to smear a bit of salted butter on them once or twice. Not these days though. Straight to the hips it goes!

Oh I know cctvrec, I've just had 6 with tons of butter

I love shortbread but crikey almighty some of the branded ones are awful and hard like ships biscuits

I've found supermarket ones much better

Oh and if you like Jaffa cakes. M+S do some small lemon and lime ones with a much better ratio of sponge as in much less. They are gorgeous

I don't believe they are all the same recipe.
McVities Digestives taste very different toTesco Digestives. Also, the acrimb Ratio is very different. Tesco's are like cardboard, very little Crumb. And they leave a not altogether pleasant aftertaste, like burnt sugar.

Way way way back in the olden days in Yorkshire, Grandad's aunt refused to sell her Ginger Nut biscuit recipe to her neighbours at a biscuit makers owned by the Fox family. Somehow they got it anyway. So, Foxes Ginger Nuts were hers.

I've got a very faded, very fragile piece of blue paper with the recipe on it written in hard to decipher cursive that's been passed down 3 generations. Sadly no matter how many times I try, I cannot recreate the biscuits, even using the pounds and ounces, following that recipe like my grandma could. And gran's always came out the oven as Foxes ginger nuts!

I find McVities dark chocolate digestives just taste sugary and unpleasant and gritty. Tesco dark choc digestives are far superior and last better in the freezer.

For the fig roll enthusiasts I can recommend Sainsbury's as they are deep without the sealed ends.

What is the branded version of Malted Milk?? I buy Sainsburys - I don't remember seeing a branded version! McVities Rich Tea all the way. I haven't eaten Shortcake biscuits since Peek Frean's stopped doing them - Sainsburys are awful. I do buy those posh biscuits with more chocolate than biscuit - can't remember what they're called - where you only get about 10 in a pack and you need a mortgage for them. Bliss. Occasionally. Gingers nuts are the same all over - especially when you dunk them to improve the flavour...

YES Cocolapew, though I haven't done it since I was a kid (but you've given me an idea). Salted butter. Southern English kid. Yum.

For the shortbread aficionados I give you: M and S shortbread fingers. Lovely texture and you can practically suck the butter out such is their perfection . 99p I think.

When first married I asked dh to buy some nice biscuits to be eaten with a fruit salad I had made for new friends coming round. He was gone for ages but eventually returned saying he had gone from shop to shop and had finally found some. Reader, he had bought Nice biscuits, nearly 35 years later it is still remembered.

@Cocolapew; No, but I do like a buttered digestive with cheese.

Oh I haven't had digestives and cheese for ages

I’d forgotten about digestives with cheese. Used to love those.

My father keeps on about chocolate covered garibaldi biscuits, which I swear I’ve never seen. Anyone else heard of these?

Just thinking about those shortbread type biscuits which are half covered in chocolate. They are a swirly design.