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I live in the US and don't think I've ever had a UK style biscuit. What are the asbolutely must try brands/types?

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[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no idea if that’s a real thing.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

It does sound like a fake British thing xD

But's they're real and very tasty!

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

$18/£13.3 for a single sleeve of biscuits off Amazon's US site. If I get them I'll have to hide the price from my partner.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What that's insane! There has to be a better supplier out there.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are. I can get them for $4 at a grocery store by me

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Where do you live? I can get hobknobs at grocery stores in New Jersey (NYC metro area). They are like $4 Wegman’s carries them.

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deep south, I'll look for them next time I'm at a Fresh Market.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you have a local city with a large enough UK ex-pat community they should beeasy to find.

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Still from the show Arrested Development of the sign for "Wee Britain"

Not sure I've got one nearby, but I can look!

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

My pick is Irish and it’s Jacob’s Club which is a plain biscuit with chocolate. It’s like a kit kat with a cookie middle rather than a wafer

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just be sure to watch out where the lanes reverse direction!

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Find others, they are not one of those that you have to get the brand. Every spermarket here has their own one.

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Malted Milks!

If you're feeling adventurous, chocolate Malted Milks!

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I resdiscovered them and tbe coconut polo buscuits from my youth and ate myself sick in two sleeves.

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they similar to Royal Dansk butter cookies?

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd say they have less snap than butter cookies, slightly denser, more akin to shortbread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malted_milk_(biscuit)

TIL there's a custard cream malted milk biscuit! I must now find them :)

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think I got them from Sainsburys. They are doing rhubarb and custard custard creams too.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've not seen the rhubarb and custard ones. Mine has lemon meringue pie custard creams, and neopolitan ice cream bourbons. I think there's some hot cross bun custard creams(?) still hanging around from Easter. I was expecting those to have gone by now. They had some strawberry custard creams a couple of years ago, and I've been hoping they will return.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago

I went back and I don't see them anymore, but it has also been a while. They seem to cycle through these limited edition versions far too quickly.

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

Nice! I shall investigate further!

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Overhyped penguins in my experience

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I worked with a bunch of Australians once and see had this constant debate about Penguins or Tim-Tams which led to blind taste tests...

Tim-Tams won

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard of these but never knew what they were. Kind of remind me of a snack my mom would make with Ritz crackers.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Same. They've started selling them in Sainsbury's recently (or at least I only noticed them recently), and I've still not tried them.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

People are going to call me a fancy bitch or a fake Brit, and both are true; I recommend Waitrose's Nº1 dark chocolate and ginger thins.

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Choco Liebniz is the king of biscuits, so I would leave those for a bit as all other pretenders will seem insipid in comparison after.

[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I figured y'all would like Fig Newtons more than Choco Leibnizs /s

They look really good, will definitely get some.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Venetian biscuits - Australia (possibly elsewhere)

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[–] mudbug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'd eat that

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Some schoolboys used to make these, one at a time. I believe they were called something else though...

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago
  • Custard creams. A small sandwich biscuit with a vanilla filling
  • Chocolate caramel digestives. Digestives are about the closest thing to a "default biscuit" in the UK. The chocolate caramel ones fancy it up a bit
  • Some good shortbread. This is probably worth just making yourself; it's quite easy, and there are a lot of disappointing commercial shortbreads. Mary Berry's recipe is good. Don't bother with the almonds, and you can swap the demerara sugar with more caster sugar if you want
[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

start with classic Digestives and use as point of comparison

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Lemon puffs!

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where we live, there's an independent supermarket with blue badge parking. They do a certain biscuit there that you can't get it anywhere else. It's like a viscount with minty interior that my wife likes. It's a minty biscuit. It's a minty biscuit and it's got two halves, chocolate on the top. It's wrapped in silver foil. Right, she's very fond of them and it's got a sort of soft centre in the middle. A minty biscuit. And it's the only place you can get this minty biscuit. So sometimes in order to get it... It's got quite crunchy. It's a crunchy biscuit. A crunchy minty biscuit with chocolate. Well this biscuit, the crunchy minty biscuit that she likes, you can only get it from this particular shop. Well she likes this biscuit and sometimes I can't get there unless I use the blue badge to go and get it. It's a very nice biscuit. It's baked and it's a chocolate affair. It is delicious. Its very nice. It's a lovely one. I've eaten the biscuit, don't get me wrong. I've had one and they're jolly nice. They're mostly for my wife and the neighbour comes around, he's quite keen on them. He doesn't like the orange ones but he likes the minty ones and I've gone round and got that for them. The orange one isn't so nice it's the minty one really.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Bourbon, custard cream, ginger nut, digestive, rich tea, nice, garibaldi, malted milk, jammie dodgers, hobnobs, oaties, party rings...

To name but a few.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Welsh teacakes/shortbread

  • Sort of a mix between a sconne and shortbread, pretty great
[–] Emsquared@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

More UK-wide i'm partial to Fox's biscuits too:

You have GOT to have Mcvities plain chocolate digestives. They MUST be plain.

[–] Emsquared@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Empire biscuit - Scotland specific but you might find them south of the bordr. Can be done badly (I'm looking at you Tesco) and come in sizes handy to "I'll never manage that but I'll give it a good try". For reference: https://baynes.co.uk/product/empire-biscuits-2-pack/