Farley Rusks… how are they still being sold?

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Everyone I know seems to turn their nose up at them and say they are full of sugar. But they are in every supermarket so who buys them? People must do otherwise they would lose their listing in the supermarket?

I was tempted to buy some as I did give them mixed with milk to my first child as a breakfast now and again. But I feel ashamed to buy this time for some reason.

OP you say who is buying them and then you report you've given them to your first child and have an unopened box for your second
I think you've answered your own question?

first child - 7 years ago and didn’t know they were frowned upon back then.

my parents bought the reduced sugar box. But never hear of anyone giving their child a rusk for a snack or as a breakfast alternative!

I used to give them to my hamsters, they bloody love them

I'm now getting Facebook targeted ads for Farley's Rusks. I'm sure they used to be a lot bigger than they are now.

Born 1983. Just a useless and incompetent mother who didn’t seem like to like or love me from Day 1.

My 60yo uncle eats them. When he was an RAF pilot he used to snaffle them in the cockpit.

We give them to our kids occasionally (7, 3 and under 1). They all love them. We usually do buy the reduced sugar ones though but I know they still have plenty of sugar in! The kids have never seemed to notice a difference between the two probably because they only have them fairly rarely between boxes. My husband loves them too but I'm not a fan. I definitely was weaned on them as a baby though - 90s child. And like other PP Ive never been overweight (although confess definitely have a sweet tooth!).

They are bloody gorgeous. There used to be a fancy milkshake shop near us that did a Rusk milkshake. I was OBSESSED!

Same

I was a 60’s baby so definitely had them when I was weaning, as a student in the 80’s I used to like them in a bowl with warm milk after a night out!