Have most English people had a tunnocks tea cake before?

[Yummypancake]

Or is it quite an unusual thing to have? Looking to send a “Scottish” treat along with money to English relative (teenager) for birthday. Just a little token gift to go with the money.

I've eaten thousands of Tunnocks products (prefer the dark chocolate, but harder to find) over the years, but I'd still be really pleased to be sent some, and I'd understand the Scottish reasoning behind it of course.

My husband would rather you sent tablet or Edinburgh rock, and his teeth are testament to that

Edinburgh rock, tablet, empire biscuits, and Morton’s morning rolls are all hard to find in England. Or they were the last time I looked. (For the uninitiated, the rolls have a hard sort of outside layer and soft inside. Amazing with strawberry jam.

I’m not sure if pineapple cakes and raspberry cakes are rare in England? Can’t remember!

I’m still recovering from the thought of ‘inferior fudge’

I hadn't realised Tunnocks Tea Cakes are Scottish.
Just about every supermarket sells them!

To be fair, some people make an arse of making tablet. You've got to get it right!

Spied these in the Midlands this week. Absolutely delicious, as are the round tubs of mini caramel wafers, but they disappear far too easily...

Also now craving a slice of Mother's Pride plain loaf (toasted) or a proper West of Scotland morning roll (Morton's). With tablet ice cream for afters 🙂

But in response to op, I think sending down some tablet/macaroon bars etc would go down well with a teenager, mine would absolutely love that and he's half Scottish!

You can get them in Aldi..... much prefer the tunnochs wafers though.
I went to a wedding once and the wedding favours were tunnochs tea cakes

I’m English and I have tried both Tunnock’s tea cakes & caramel wafers. Both are overrated. Shortbread is amazing, though.

I buy them all the time and i'm right down south so I would imagine so.

I wouldn’t do shortbread. It’s always a mini Scottish shortbread that you get free everywhere - like at school open days / coffee mornings, at pretty much every (English) hotel ever free in the room, at any event where there is tea/coffee … I will have more of those mini shortbread packets in my kitchen at any given point than I do little free shampoo bottles in the bathroom.
It’s nice .. and I’m sure the ones you get free everywhere are not the best example of shortbread… but it’s too overdone.

Teacakes, whilst sold everywhere and I didn’t know they were Scottish, are nicer (IMO) and I’d be happier to get a load of them through the post.

Vacuum packed haggis is surely the answer.

I saw dark chocolate tunnocks in Waitrose tonight (Merseyside)

Yes. If Scotland leaves the UK there will be a UN Peacekeeping Force around the Tunnock factory to protect England's supply of teacakes and, more importantly, caramel wafers!

Also Tizer. You can keep Irn-Bru.

Empire biscuits are called German biscuits in NI - I’d love a jam and coconut one now.

I would have thought everyone has had one

Have always lived in SE England and have often had Tunnocks Teacakes and Tunnocks wafer bars (in fact I had one of the latter only today )

Tablet for me please! Although isn’t that basically hard-ish fudge…?!

Send some soor plooms along with the Edinburgh rock and caramel logs.

I think Mortons rolls would travel even less well than the teacakes. I never buy a Mothers Pride plain loaf as I could eat the whole loaf toasted with butter in one sitting.

Gotta love Tunnocks, almost much as I love Butteries ❤

Tunnocks are perfectly common. So is shortbread.

Tablet is not often seen, maybe around Hogmanay.

I think Edinburgh rock is a lot rarer.

Haggis are sedom seen and not popular. I notice they are often made with beef lung.

Tablet would be better I agree - although I’m the outlier that hasn’t had a Tunnocks tea cake!

And proper Irn Bru

I've had one but it wasn't until I moved to Scotland.

They’re cheap school break treats aren’t they? Just like Clubs, Viscounts and Blue Ribands.

I suppose some people must like them but maybe not as a birthday gift. Sorry OP.

@Mariell

I have never had one and wouldn’t try one as I don’t think they are suitable for vegetarians.

They are definitely suitable for vegetarians 😁

@OrangeSamphire

They’re cheap school break treats aren’t they? Just like Clubs, Viscounts and Blue Ribands.

I suppose some people must like them but maybe not as a birthday gift. Sorry OP.

It's not the gift itself. Read the op.

@CyanideInTheFishPaste

It's like an inferior fudge. Fudge is soft and sweet and buttery whereas tablet has a harder texture and is super-sweet, and you can't really taste anything aside from the sugar.

fudge is like tablet that hasn't grown up yet