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?

Party rings are horrible but at least they add some colour to the world. Rich tea are depressing to look at as well as to eat. They have a platonic level of neutralness and beigeness.

Remember that sight of a plate of biscuits at a child's birthday party? Iced gems, party rings, Jammy dodgers, pink wafers. Every time. Never changed. 😆

I actually really like slightly dull biscuits like custard creams/Bourbons/Rich Tea and prefer them over chocolate biscuits or cake (not a cake fan), but the absolute nadir of the biscuit world is the fig roll.

Hideous things.

@TwigletsAndRadishes

I still love a party ring. I'm 44 😂

My partners mum used to give us bags of broken biscuits she acquired from when she worked at the Huntley and Palmer/Peak Freans/Nabisco factory in Reading. Urgh, stale, soggy and all tasted the same with biscuit crumb coating them. My partner who eats any old shit sweet stuff loved them.

Sadly for my middle aged tum, I've never met a biscuit that I didn't like. I literally like them all.

Right, because of this and another thread in Chat I have now bought some Lu Chocolate Biscuits and some Polish chocolate. They had better be nice.

The Pekingeses at Crufts always make me think of a Fig Roll that's gone down the back of the settee and got covered in fluff.

I have remembered an even more disappointingly dull biscuit..

Not sure how I came to be trying rather old british army rations.. but the stalwart 'Biscuits Brown'... UGH.

Like Dwarf Bread... you'll never truly be hungry if you've a pack of Biscuits Brown...

I did once ponder the fact that they must have been considerably out of date... and so tried some in-date ones. Nope. Still would rather eat my own ear.

@WiddlinDiddlin I mentioned these up thread, but said I didn't actually mind the fruit ones! Loved the colour of the fruit ones packets too! 😁

I love Garibaldi biscuits.

Rich Tea are pretty bland, but not the worst biscuit out there.

The worst biscuit prize goes to HobNobs 🤢

Same. And I’m 47 😂😂

@browneyes77 hahaha. I expect I was deprived of them as a child which is why I buy them now. That and gold bars 🤣

And what the hell ever happened to Abbey Crunch? Why did the biscuits that people remember favorably and genuinely enjoyed all disappear, leaving absolute dross on the shelves?

Ahh but a rich tea is good dipped in tea. Also quite nice buttered.

I hate those iced ring biscuits - can’t think what they’re called but they’re pastel coloured. So sweet they hurt my teeth!

My absolute favourite biscuit is a Tunnocks tea cake or a chocolate Hob Nob.

@WiddlinDiddlin those were the devil! I don't think I ever ate them, no matter how hungry. The 'pate' that went with it was vomit inducing. However, I was partial to the dead fly biscuits

Garibaldi

What's worse than a rich tea? A cocoa rich tea, absolutely vile. Not sweet enough, dry AF, yikes, just awful!

I opened this to immediately answer "Garibaldi" 🤣

Loved Morning Coffee with the lovely coffee pots and steam stamped into it. Yum.
I think my least favourite biscuit is a Figgy Roll. But I can see they are at least substantial.
Dark chocolate Garibaldis were good , do they still exist ? I can’t eat any of these any longer as I am coeliac, so I have to make do with the much less delicious GF fake versions. 😢

Biscoffi biscuit

Absolute filth, no redeeming qualities whatsoever

Oh I would not have eaten the pate if you'd paid me. I did like the squashed fly biscuits though, yes, still do. @MoonWoman69 are squashed fly the ones you mean?

@WiddlinDiddlin
Yeah, I hate Garibaldi, but the fruit ones with the hint of spice were lovely! The pate, I agree, was foul! 🤣

rich tea is the best for dunking. the perfect smooth texture. I wouldn't have one just to eat.

Rich tea or those dreadful Lotus biscuits.

Except that they're free. No one ever buys a packet do they? But if I'm given one with a coffee then I wouldn't spurn it.
(The lotus spread otoh really is filthy stuff. Biscuit ground up with extra fat and sugar.)