What is the most miserable biscuit in existence?

[noblegiraffe]

DH and I are not eating sweet stuff for January and today he commented that he was so fed up with it he would even want to eat a really crap biscuit, so we were debating what that would be.

He reckoned the worst biscuit would be a Nice biscuit, but I think I would much rather eat one of those than a Garibaldi.

Is there a biscuit even more disappointing, that you would be less likely to accept an offer of than a Garibaldi biscuit?

Rich tea or those biscoffs that come individually wrapped in plastic - what a bloody waste - in cafes. They taste like burnt sugar 🤢

Bourbons, on the basis that although I wouldn't ever choose a rich tea or a plain digestive or a malted milk or a hovis, I would eat one to be polite. Whereas I'd never touch a bourbon. May as well eat a lump of coal.

So fun fact: Giuseppe Garibaldi, the namesake of the biscuit, is a hugely important historical and cultural figure in Italy. He was a revolutionary and a key figure in the unification of Italy in 1861, but he also spent quite a lot of time in the UK, especially on Tyneside. He is also the reason why Nottingham Forest play in red, because his followers were known as Redshirts.

My Italian family are all uniformly horrified that there is a British biscuit named after him and think this the height of sacrilege .

Digestive. Sadness in biscuit form

Yeah I know they are really 😂
But I still feel they're mocking me with that name.

Ginger biscuits,rich tea and pink wafer crap.

Chocolate covered custard creams from M&S are the best biscuits I have ever tasted in my entire life.

Rich tea are horrible and they evoke weak orange squash and the smell of community centre for me.
Nice are awful too, why do they taste like they've been somewhere that once held something coconutty.
My Great Gran used to buy all those awful multi packs of cream biscuits and keep them in the same tin so all the lovely Custard cream got infected with the rank orange and coffee flavoured ones.
Same with ginger nuts.

Have you tried dunking in coffee? The depth of flavour is enhanced through the strong bitter notes playing sharply against the sweet fig paste. Sublime.

I never accept party ring biscuits 🤢

Rich tea biscuits

One of those Lotus / biscoff things you get with a coffee. Crap biscuits they are.

Fruit shortcake and fig rolls
Love dark choc butter biscuits from aldi or poss lidl?

Arrowroot - even the name is miserable 😐

Rich tea are horrible and they evoke weak orange squash and the smell of community centre for me.

Omg yes, I'm getting flashes of trestle table.

I’m going to go with jam tart. I know they’re not technically a biscuit but the shop bought are so thin with the tiniest smear of jam that they might as well be.

Rich tea. Jammy dodgers. Pink wafers. And fig biscuits.

Bourbon, rich tea and custard creams are all at the bottom of my list but bourbon is unforgivable in mho as it looks tempting and chocolatey but tastes of burnt cocoa ashes.

At least the others can be redeemed by sandwiching Nutella between them or dunking them in hot chocolate or a really good tea.

Top of the list is a chocolate hobknob or those soft cookies in paper bags from supermarket bakeries.

Anything on this thread would be bearable as a snack when hungry, apart from a hobnob for me. Gritty, huge tooth-grinding bits of sugar, oats that stick in your teeth - just no

I can’t believe all the Rich Tea responses, you are meant to butter them and squash two together. (Real butter now.)

I can’t think of any biscuits, I love them all. If they are not good, add butter.

They are all wonderful!!!!

Has anyone mentioned arrowroot biscuits? Most pointless excuse of a biscuit anywhere, makes a rich tea seem exotic.

I've just been reading about him.

"So admired abroad was Garibaldi that in July 1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln offered him a Union command in the American Civil War; the offer was declined, partly because Lincoln would not make a sweeping enough condemnation of slavery, but also because he would not give Garibaldi supreme command of the Federal troops."

Why on earth did we name a biscuit after this guy?

I love rich tea, digestives etc as not too sweet but a custard cream or bourbon ……..🤮

Custard creams can get in the bin....

I came on to say Rich Tea. Seriously. Despair in biscuit form.