Blue Bloody Ribands

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My husband was going shopping this morning so I asked if he could get a pack of chocolate bars (we get some every week) He asked which ones so I said, Oh whatevers on offer. It's sometimes Boosts, sometimes Toffee Crisps, just get whatever's there.
He comes home 40 minutes later with a multipack of Blue Fucking Ribands. Actually proud of himself. Ok, I thought, breathing deeply, he's got them for himself, he will have of course picked up the chocolate bars I asked him to buy. Nope. Just a pack of 16 or so Blue Ribands. AIBU that Blue Ribands are ghastly and have a stupid name to boot?

They are lovely and we buy them every.

However, if I was expecting an actual chocolate bar like a Boost and got a Blue Riband I'd be extremely disappointed.

*every week

Yeh not ok. Clubs would be have been alright though.

Eat two for every toffee crisp you would have consumed and it won't be as bad!

We like Tunnocks but can’t get any for love nor money round here.

I havent voted as I love them but haven't had one for years... But they're not a chocolate bar! They're a biscuit to dunk in strong black coffee

Agreed OP

They are not chocolate bars. They are biscuits.

Blue ribbands are nice as a chocolate biscuit but not as a bar of chocolate

@mamansnet only two!?!

😋 they'd do me.

I'm diabetic (diet controlled) & 'not allowed' anything 'nice'🙄

But if I was expecting a nars or something and got Blue riband I'd be very annoyed!

What was he thinking??? That's a biscuit not a chocolate bar surely?!

YABU - I used to have them at my grandma's house - she always had a tin of Blue Ribands and Kit-Kats as well as a tonne of cakes and pies baked every Saturday without fail. And it was all washed down with full sugar Ribena in water, lemonade or milk! She was amazing!

SerenDippity Tunnocks closed their factory for lockdown at the end of March so probably why there is a supply problem.

Yanbu. A chocolate biscuit and a chocolate bar are not the same. Not even in the same area on the supermarket shelf. And yeah blue ribands are a bit shit.

I’d pop out and get some chocolate just for yourself.

So would you go so far as to say you have got the blue riband blues???

I had a blue riband this morning for the first time in years, it was horrible and not as I remembered

I feel your pain, my DP done the exact same thing to me last week!

I have to say though, he was excited as he remembered them being great from childhood and hasn't had one soon. He admitted it was a mistake after having one. Nice and all but nothing to get excited over and definitely not a replacement for proper chocolate!

Firstly they're biscuits, so he didn't even get a chocolate bar. Secondly, like most things over the years, they've become super naff, I used to love them in my lunchbox though.

So, no you're not until in my view.

YABU as they are lovely. They repeat on me though.

It would piss me off too

I love Blue Ribands, but they're not chocolate bars - how disappointing, op. I can understand you having a go at the name, in your frustration and anger, but Kit-Kat and Penguin aren't exactly sensible, if you think about it

Blimey, I thought he must have bought Snowballs.

YANBU. They are an awful bland apology for a snack. You might as well crumble some Flakes over a few sheets of tissue paper and eat that.

I like them, but more as a biscuit than a chocolate bar.

I think they are very underated like tunnocks caramel bars.

YABU, he got some biscuits, not choc bars.
They'll make you fat anyway