Good news about Tunnock's teacakes

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Don't you just love it when a company that makes stuff you like comes out as being ethically sound?

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What a wonderful excuse to add chocolate tea cakes and caramel wafer biscuits to my next grocery order.

I’m on a diet but the local food bank will be getting Tunnock’s tea cakes this weekend.

Public service announcement:
Iceland website has Snowballs, milk chocolate wafers and caramel logs
Asda website has milk and dark chocolate wafers and teacakes
Co-op website has milk chocolate wafers and teacakes

I've fallen out with Tesco so won't be checking their site

My phone background image is actually a display of caramel wafers - taken at a conference a few years back.

They were perfectly laid out on a white tablecloth, each uniformly balanced on the edge of white China coffee mugs (all handles facing the same way). All biscuits at the same angle, the cups set out in a perfect wedge. Whoever laid that out - well I was impressed!

It just appealed to me - the symmetry and the surprise of going to a Scandinavian companies event and finding caramel logs. People were there from all over the world and I was encouraging them to eat the strange biscuits (people were sticking them in their pockets to take home at the end).

Tunnocks treat their staff like shite (covid hotspot because they forced them into work after positive tests etc), fund the Tories and happily sold their Scottish heritage down the river in a bid to support the Union and Brexit. I really don't think this was a coincidence.

@EsmaCannonball

I once, briefly, thought my dog had testicular cancer. It was after a family birthday party and I picked him up and discovered a large, flesh-coloured lump on his genitals. Upon further, panicked, investigation it turned out he'd managed to get half a Tunnock's Teacake stuck to the side of his balls and he'd licked most of the chocolate off.

This would make an excellent All Creatures Great and Small storyline. James goes home to Scotland to visit the folks, then returns to Darroby with a box of his favourite Tunnocks tea cakes, that he stashes under the bed to stop Tristan and Siegfried scoffing them all. Tricky-woo is sent for a vacation with Uncle Herriot and discovers said stash, resulting in the unfortunate teacake stuck to balls incident described by Esme. Mrs Pomfrey and Siegfried in momentary panic at Tricky developing a tumour, only for the truth to out on closer inspection, and James being forced to share his stash with the rest of the family.

THEY DO COCONUT WAFERS???? This is brand new (and very welcome) information!

Think they're called caramel logs.

What???

No - I’m pretty sure there are the coconut logs... must check their website tunnocks.co.U.K...

I want this... tunnocks.orbgroup.co.uk/teacake-10oz-cotton-shopper

I went to a ceilidh in Edinburgh a while back and they had proper Scottish food and drink - Tunnock's tea cakes and caramel logs, shortbread and Irn Bru. Fabulous

Is the coconut identifying as caramel or something? #NoThankYou

It’s a different biscuit. Similar names though. You need to buy one of each for a comparison...

My shopping app has crashed, do you think a run on Tunnock’s is the cause?

and happily sold their Scottish heritage down the river in a bid to support the Union

What a ridiculous comment- grow up.

God, it’s a bloody business for heavens sake.

@KittenKong

No - I’m pretty sure there are the coconut logs... must check their website tunnocks.co.U.K...

Caramel wafers are chocolate covered wafers with a caramel filling.

Caramel logs are the same wafers with a toasted coconut covering.

Peyton and Byrne's cake cook book has a recipe for "Tunnocks" tea cakes which is fabulous. The filling is a thick , uncooked meringue. I have adapted Peyton and Byrne's recipe to make homemade "Tunnocks" snowballs. They are fabulous too. I have made plain and white chocolate as well as milk chocolate versions.

The pile on has been huge and Ann in Tunnocks reception has issued a 'we are investigating' statement? don't know if it's fake or not. but they could do with support ...

I'm sure my dog would love to be the inspiration for a storyline on All Creatures Great and Small.

In an addendum, removing a Tunnock's Teacake from the balls of a nippy breed of terrier is not fun. I suspect the secret ingredient is superglue.

Perhaps, to balance out sending a box of teacakes to the LGB Alliance, they could also send some to a certain Canadian transactivist. I can vouch for their waxing efficacy.

(No dogs were hurt during the production of this post. Warm, soapy water was used in removing the teacake from the scrotum.)

I hope they don't repent. Will buy some teacakes this weekend in support though I wish they'd make the dark choc ones more readily available in England. I can sometimes get them in Poundland, never in the supermarkets. The dark choc ones are amazing.

Esma

Oh my God, EsmaCannonball. I was imagining a golden retriever or some other placid breed. I have a medium sized terrier with large teeth and it takes two of us to wash him, one to manage the head and one to wash because he is very private about his privates (although he doesn't actually have any balls anymore).

This was only three years ago!

www.thegrocer.co.uk/marketing/sexist-tunnocks-tea-cakes-tennis-poster-ad-banned/563070.article

@Purpletomato

I hope they don't repent. Will buy some teacakes this weekend in support though I wish they'd make the dark choc ones more readily available in England. I can sometimes get them in Poundland, never in the supermarkets. The dark choc ones are amazing.

Amazon has them but readily accept that they're not a popular shopping choice.

I suspect the secret ingredient is superglue.

Whenever I've made marshmallows the kitchen is covered in a fine dust that is ready to turn into a giant glue glob at the slightest increase in humidity. The whole area needs to be covered in drop cloths in a way that would lead someone to think they were about to be Dexter'd.

@CaddieDawg

Tunnocks treat their staff like shite (covid hotspot because they forced them into work after positive tests etc), fund the Tories and happily sold their Scottish heritage down the river in a bid to support the Union and Brexit. I really don't think this was a coincidence.

Gosh. They should probably repent, those tunnockfuckers.

Oooh, spot the SNP-bot who believes that if you're not fully on board with independence, you're either anti-Scottish, a Tory, or selling your Scottish heritage down the river.

Jeezo.

I still think the original tweet was unfair. Whoever posted it must have known the inevitable pile-on would happen.

It wasn't an endorsement- it was a marketing exercise. There's nothing wrong with a marketing exercise. I would not have any issue with Mermaids, as another registered charity, asking for a box of tea cakes and being given them.