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?

Could have been worse. Could have returned with wagon wheels...

They are nasty aren’t they. Remember when you were a kid and they were the size of your head?

YANBU. DP went shopping the other day and I asked for some nice bisuits - he brought back cheap own brand garibalis! I was like wtf are you up to?! He was all pleased with himself. I feel your pain Blue Ribands are not what you want for a fix!

I hate fly cemetery biscuits. Yuk.

I love a Blue Riband! They’re totally underrated. You need a Twix or a Club or a Penguin to crush that chocolate bar urge. Blue Riband is what you eat when you’re in the Tunnocks caramel bar place (my favourite!).

YANBU.

Another to say they're alright, but they're not a chocolate bar, they're a chocolate biscuit.

@Spied - oh my God, wagon wheels! Yak. That would be unforgivable. As would the previously mentoned fig rolls.

What is the difference between a ribbon and a riband?

@BlueJava - what the hell was he thinking? That would be my last choice I think, even including blue bloody ribands and fig rolls. I can't understand what went through his mind at the time?

Send them here, I love them!

Blue ribbons are yum. (And they’re also on offer at the moment in lots of places, so maybe that’s why they ‘appealed’ to your DH!)

*Ribands

Yanbu. Blue Ribands are the bottom tier of chocolate biscuits.

Lime 'Jaffa' Cakes would have me levering up the loose patio slabs .

Blue Riband are like corrugated cardboard with chocolate (or chocolate flavoured coating most likely ) that you could use in a physics exam to measure how many microns thick it is .

Shabby .
Time Outs would've done .

Lime Jaffa Cakes??

Oh now I really want a Blue Riband and a cup of tea

League of Lunchbox Biscuits

1. Trio
2. Orange Club
3. Toffee Club
4. Raisin Club

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247. Blue Riband.

We've all developed raging hunger for Pink Panther wafers since finding a random packet at the back of a cupboard on about Day 5. Now we are going through about 4 packs a week. Bloody luvverly.
Glad no-one remembers they exist, more stock for us.

I ike them- and only 98 calories, compared to 250 in a Boost bar, so I can eat twice as many and still feel virteous.

Never seen a toffee club in my life!

I would class them as lunchbox chocolate bars rather than chocolate bars that you were talking about. I quite like them as they’re wafery.

I’m doubting myself now, altiara. I thought Clubs came in toffee, mint, raisin and orange. I’ll have to go on a trip down Memory Lane (which were definitely cakes).

I love them but they are wafer bars not chocolate bars! Id be fuming 😂

LTB 😉

They aren't something I'd buy but they are ok as a biscuit. They don't cut it as a chocolate bar though. Talking of chocolate biscuit bars, Echo bars were the best but I've not seen them got years.

Fig rolls are a health food with all that dried fruit, surely!

I have to hold my hands up and say I would eat a Blue Riband over a Kit Kat, lion bar or toffee crisp any day! Completely love them!

The did coffee ones for a while and they were even more immense!!