To ask you who actually buys Garibaldis?

[BowieFan]

In the staff room today there was a severe biscuit shortage and by the time I got in for a brew, there were only Garibaldis left.

These have surely got to be the worst 'biscuits' of all time? They're basically just cardboard with some currants in them. They remind me of going to my grandma's house circa 1983 where she always had a packet open that never seemed to actually deplete.

Who is buying these things? Oh, and what would you prefer to a Garibaldi? I'm partial to a nice Ginger nut, myself.

Choco Leibnitz are v good, u can bite off all the chocolate around the edge first (inner child speaking :-) )

SafariOrigami

I hope you've discovered chocolate covered malted milk biscuits. When I discovered them and ate a whole packet it was like a borderline religious experience.

They're very popular in this house. So popular that I've started hiding them in my tampon box (they'll never think of looking in there).

I once bought lemon puffs ironically, to go with ham sangwiches and a flask o' tae when out on a hearty freezing hill walk.

They were DELICIOUS! Delicious irony. As were the tea and sarnes.

Not proud, but I can easily eat a whole packet and call it 'lunch'.

Oh god why have I let myself read this thread. Now I'm craving biscuits (not garibaldis!) but am on day one of the annual diet.

to you all

I luffs a fig roll. Though there is a huge difference between a Jacob's and a Sainsbury's fig roll. Jacobs are the Ur fig roll. Sainer's is much cheaper imitation.

Inexplicably there was an interval of around 35 years from when I last had a fig roll in childhood to when I decided to buy them for my children... it was a seriously Proustian moment I can tell you. I imagine that no-one in their twenties EVER buys a packet of fig rolls. I stand to be corrected.

My dh loves them!

DocMcFanjo

I had the same when I "ironically" bought a travelling rug for when we had a picnic. It then eventually dawned on me that it stopped being ironic because I now have it over me all the time at night!

I am officially an old lady. I just need my little shopping cart next.

Oh and we both love fig rolls! I bought them all the way through my teens, twenties and thirties hillfarmer

Hillfarmer

I think you're right! I only bought fig rolls in my 20s if it was shopping for my mum or grandma.

I did some shopping for my MIL the other week when she was laid up with a broken leg and FIL had the flu. Blimey, it was like a list going back to the 1960s. Fig rolls, condensed milk, thin bleach. I had to make a point of telling the gorgeous looking lad on the Aldi till that the sterident wasn't for me, but he just smiled in a "Yeah alright Grandma" sort of way. Sigh.

Sorry Bowiefan it's been a little while since I bought them. Can you not still get them in the coop?

I don't know, but DS is going to find out in a minute when I send him out to find out

I remember learning in History in school ca.1985 that Garibaldi was a great Italian Revolutionary and hero.
But I couldn't take him seriously because of his biscuits.

I love them but can't buy them as I could easily munch through a pack in a day. Delicious.

nothing wrong with Garibaldi

Speaking of disappointing biscuits, has anyone noticed how small Wagon Wheels have got recently? They used to be the size of an actual wheel (OK, probably not but still!)

Pinkie you need to get on the phone to Jeremy Kyle "Garibaldis made my life a lie - DNA special". You'd be famous!!

I have always thought fruit shortcakes taste slightly of sick.

I like garibaldis.

I nearly did yesterday but thankfully my common sense kicked in and I reached past them for the chocolate hobnobs

Garibaldi and fig rolls.
Heaven.

And here's a great big to whoever mentioned chocolate covered malted milk earlier.

Diet ruined

Homemade garibaldis warm from the oven...

I reckon Garibaldi's are about 1/3 fruit, so virtually a health food...I wonder how many I should eat to count them as one of my 5 a day..

You can make Garibaldis?

What sorcery is this?

Agree with everything in your first post OP.

When I saw them mentioned, the first thing I thought of was school staff rooms, and I'm not even a teacher.