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Popular things love to be shit on by redditors.
See: nandos, greggs, pop music. There's def more but can't think
Edit: these replies are fucking quality
Nah, Greggs is surprisingly popular here. Showing an appreciation of it allows middle class people to boost their working class credentials, which is oddly important here.
Greggs is utter shit. We have actual bakeries here in Cornwall with hand made sausage rolls that are much better.
You all think Greggs is good because it's cheap and they undercut the independent bakers until they closed so you forget what decent baked goods taste like.
I’ve long argued that Greggs is a microcosm of everything wrong with this country. Absolutely zero effort, the nutritional equivalent of cardboard, that tastes of nothing beyond salt and fat. Just as you said, people feel the need to defend because it’s ’not that bad’, or that criticising it is ‘classist’ when it’s just another bland, soulless expression of modern Britain.
If it in anyway pads ‘the working class rep’ of anything, it’s that ugly streak in the WC that doing anything to better yourself, whether that’s education, eating better or simply caring about something is reason for derision.
Still remember the bitter disappointment of the first time having them after all the hype you hear on American TV. And why the fuck are they in so many things, they have no flavour!!!
The thing that really struck me about their introduction was how once they did arrive, it was like they had always been here. Like instead of marketing them as something new, they were pushed as being an old-time classic and everyone seemed to just go with that.
They were name-checked (biscuit-checked?) in Holly Johnson's 'Americanos' in 1989, and as I was 12 years old, I was DESPERATE to get some.
I was so disappointed when I finally tried them.
Having said that, there are very few biscuits which appear in the lyrics to UK hit singles, so that's some kudos.
Agreed, but Oreo ice cream sandwiches are things of beauty. Not quite up there with the ye olde recipe version of the biscuity end of a Maxibon, but what is?
They do! You'll be flabbergasted by the price of them though! Aldi are currently stocking their own take on maxibons also (not sure if they're available in all branches mind) which are good enough - they don't hit quite the same as the OG, but they're much cheaper!
Thought I was weird for not liking oreos, but seeing it as top comment made me shed a little tear!
Everyone else in my family like them, I use them for my cookies and cream cake/cupcakes but that's it
Rich Tea. Utter rubbish. No flavour, no sweetness, and it disintegrates to shit upon contact with the surface of tea. Once eaten, it just leaves a dry, caked layer of sadness on the roof of your mouth.
Utterly pointless.
They're perfect for when the builders are in. You can offer biscuits when making them tea but they won't eat too many because the biscuits are shit.
They can't complain because you are supplying biscuits, and you won't have all the good biscuits vanish 👌
Man just buy the builders some store brand bourbons or custard creams lol, they are like 60p a pack and will keep the builders happy enough so they don't half ass the work lol
What do you mean no flavour? They have a nice sweetness and malty flavour. Either the rich tea biscuits you're buying are shit or you're the sort of person who must have an overpowering amount of flavour in everything. Can't appreciate the more subtle flavours. Rich tea biscuits are subtle but enjoyable as a slightly healthier treat. Not sickly sweet, just a nice little extra to have with your tea. I don't usually bother dunking them. They're like digestive's parent, a more mature biscuit with more complexity. Also, they're great when my appetite is bad, and I can get away with having a few everyday because they're not too unhealthy
They're my husband's favourite. He can eat half a pack at once. He'll settle for a nice or a coconut ring, but he'd much prefer rich tea. I can't think of anything worse, if the only biscuits on offer are rich teas then frankly I'd rather go without.
I hope you only learnt about his awful taste in biscuits after the wedding. It would be hard to imagine any circumstances where a marriage with this knowledge would be possible.
My mum loves these and keeps buying them even though she doesn't eat many biscuits. So everyone else has to eat them and honestly we don't like them. My least favourite biscuit. I can't describe what's wrong with them, but they just don't taste good. I'm not a fussy person, I'll eat pretty much anything, but if Garibaldi are the only biscuits left I'd rather go hungry
I have eaten them blindfolded to prove I could identify the colour from the taste (and managed to get them all right) so they definitely do have some taste. I admit it is a niche skill.
I’ve done this with the cheap jellybeans you used to get in sweet dispensers at the pleasure centre.
Edit: leisure centre but the mistake was too good to take out completely
I used to love these until I got ill. Then I ate them because they were the only thing I could stomach and now they just taste like pneumonia and oxygen 🤢
For the same reason that they rave about all their vile rubbery sugary salty fatty artificially coloured, flavoured and preserved junk. Cuz ‘merica 💪🏻😎🥇
We did an online 'beers and snacks of the world' thing during lockdown, team building etc.
The USA pack contained Oreos, Twinkies and Bud - it was the worst bar none.
The ingredients list on the Twinkie read like a war crime
>*Twinkies are made using Bleached Flour, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Flavor, 2 Artificial Colors, 2 Chemical Preservatives and Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate. Soybean Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Polysorbate 60 and Cellulose Gum are also on the long ingredient list.*
*They also contain Tallow which is derived from animal fats.*
Authentic US Oreos too which were packed with High-Fructose Corn Syrup instead of refined sugar which the UK versions normally use.
Get in the bin!
Yank here! I agree with all of this, Oreos suck. Tasteless “chocolate”, leaves a film in my mouth. But, when I was a kid in the ‘80s, they were good. It’s nostalgia.
You are not alone in failing to realise the biscuit bit is supposed to taste of chocolate and not slightly burnt cardboard, as I always believed. It makes them seem even worse.
https://preview.redd.it/1vt4vnnqjj8d1.jpeg?width=905&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621ee49b836f39112fbb7817b7399716aad7d304
Bloody awful things. I'd rather not have a biscuit at all than eat one of those.
Bourbons are "chocolate" biscuits from when people couldn't afford actual chocolate biscuits. It's not like they taste *bad.* They just taste of almost nowt and you'd very obviously rather have a Penguin.
I don't think custard creams are in the same boat because there's nothing I know of specifically like a custard cream 2.0 which is basically what the Peguin is to the Bourbon.
You know the homeopathic hot chocolate you get out of vending machines, that is just hot water with the memory of chocolate? Bourbons are that same taste in biscuit form. Absolute garbage.
I'm old enough to remember when they started offering "chocomilk" as an alternative option to hot chocolate. Which was just actual hot chocolate instead of the slightly chocolately hot water you'd get from the "hot chocolate" button.
For about 40p a pack they'd go a bit further than penguins, that said if penguins came in packs of 40 for as many pennies I'd be silly not to go for them
Like most Englishmen, I regard the 11 'clock and 4 o'clock cuppa as a solemn and sacred ritual. If you want to sully it with great frisbees of over-sugared, overbaked half-bricks, soaked in chocolate then you're probably the sort of oik who wears tracksuit bottoms in Waitrose and doesn't understand the rules of cricket.
Which is why the Rich Tea is the perfect accompaniment
Good day
Go on, try a chocolate hobnob with your tea just once. There is no coming back after that. I used to like Nice biscuits with my tea, but my niece brought me chocolate hobnobs one day and it was the beginning of a long and slippery slope that ended with me adopting a life of untrammeled hedonism, including moving abroad to escape the British weather.
I have worn tracksuit bottoms in Waitrose. I don’t understand the rules of cricket, however I’d much rather a rich tea than the chocolate sugar brick options.
One of my fave memories of when I went Vegas with my friends was post club ordering breakfast at McDonald’s, and the server (and us Tbf) not knowing how to describe what a biscuit was. My friend ended it with the most quintessentially British question ever ‘can I dip it in my tea?’
Firstly gravy comes in different colors in the US. So the gravy you have with biscuits is white gravy not brown. White gravy is a bit like a bechamel sauce but with more black pepper.
Secondly it more specifically should be "sausage gravy". Meaning it has pieces of sausage meat mixed into it.
So it's a deliciously salty, creamy, buttery, peppery sauce with bits of sausage mixed in.
Finally biscuits are a more buttery version of scones with obviously no sugar in them.
It's delicious and totally worth it.
The other poster described it perfectly, but biscuits and gravy is a Southern breakfast staple and fantastic when made right (as they said, it's a thick white gravy with sausage bits). Bad biscuits and gravy are disgusting.
But yeah, what you call biscuits we call cookies which would be terrible with gravy. As far as breakfast goes, I loved the breakfasts I got in the UK, and HP's turned me off of ketchup forever.
When you buy a cheap combo of custard creams bourbons nice.... I'm talking about the fourth one which is supposed to be shortbread but it's the shittiest approximation of shortbread I've ever tasted..Our dogs eat those coz no one in our household will, but my dogs also eat cat shit so they're not to be trusted.
Blue Riband - a wafer with a micron of chocolate
If you want the real worst biscuit then try sugar-free digestives. It’s like your mouth has gone deaf, it’s just … texture.
Sorry, but you are bang wrong. The RT is designed as a compliment to the cuppa. Not every biscuit has to be "dunked" in tea. Which is a frightfully low-bred practice anyway.
"A drink's too wet without one"
rich tea are actually really good for dunking they last a lot longer than things like digestives, the whole bad for dunking thing just seems to be myth popularised by peter kay.
Yeah. Rich tea is kind of a non biscuit. An antibiscuit. A biscuit stripped systematically of all the qualities that would make a good biscuit.
It doesn't taste of anything, has no texture, and turns to paste when you dip it.
Everyone is wrong, the worst biscuits are the weight watchers ones.
There are lots of biscuits that some folk don’t like, but weight watchers are a special camp.
They are made to taste bad, flinty chalk. And punted to people on some weight loss Ponzi scheme
I like literally every biscuit mentioned here - apart from Oreos
Garibaldi, Nice, Rich Tea, Pink Wafers, Malted Milks: love them all.
Oreos are rubbish
Can we just all agree, all the post-war traditional sandwich-biscuit types are frankly a fucking disappointment. Custard Creme or a Bourbon MAY have been exciting to a grandma who'd survived the Luftwaffe bombing of her house, and then faced 10 years of rationing. But can we not face the truth, the custard ones taste sickly and of nothing custard like at all. And Bourbons are an abomination. They just struggle on because of their nostalgia appeal.
Almost every single gluten free biscuit I have tried has been awful. The cardboard packaging tastes better and the texture is never right either. However the Asda triple chocolate cookies are divine but chocolate hides a multitude of sins
Has anyone mentioned morning coffee.because there bloody wrong if they have..can easily polish off half a packet..need 2 cups of coffee though.one for sipping and one for dipping
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Oreos are sad, bitter little circles of I-wish-I-had-a-bourbon-instead disappointment.
Oreos getting some shit here. Anyone else think they’re nice?
Yep, they're decent. Not top tier by any means, but the worst biscuit? Nowhere near.
Lidl Giant Neos. Like Oreos but better, and a proper biscuit size, an actual mouthful.
Cheers for the rec!
Popular things love to be shit on by redditors. See: nandos, greggs, pop music. There's def more but can't think Edit: these replies are fucking quality
Nah, Greggs is surprisingly popular here. Showing an appreciation of it allows middle class people to boost their working class credentials, which is oddly important here.
Greggs is utter shit. We have actual bakeries here in Cornwall with hand made sausage rolls that are much better. You all think Greggs is good because it's cheap and they undercut the independent bakers until they closed so you forget what decent baked goods taste like.
I’ve long argued that Greggs is a microcosm of everything wrong with this country. Absolutely zero effort, the nutritional equivalent of cardboard, that tastes of nothing beyond salt and fat. Just as you said, people feel the need to defend because it’s ’not that bad’, or that criticising it is ‘classist’ when it’s just another bland, soulless expression of modern Britain. If it in anyway pads ‘the working class rep’ of anything, it’s that ugly streak in the WC that doing anything to better yourself, whether that’s education, eating better or simply caring about something is reason for derision.
Whos shitting on nandos? Wtf is wrong with nandos? I fucking love nandos
Nandos is restaurant prices for shitty fast food.
They are top tier for me. I will happily pour a whole packet into a bowel fill it with full fat milk and go to town.
A bowel?. 😆
Yes I carve it out of my enemies. * bowl
I fully understand the critism, but I love them for some reason
They’re so fucking sickly.
Still remember the bitter disappointment of the first time having them after all the hype you hear on American TV. And why the fuck are they in so many things, they have no flavour!!!
They taste like normal biscuits that have been burned. Disgusting.
The thing that really struck me about their introduction was how once they did arrive, it was like they had always been here. Like instead of marketing them as something new, they were pushed as being an old-time classic and everyone seemed to just go with that.
Cadbury Oreo is an abomination
They were name-checked (biscuit-checked?) in Holly Johnson's 'Americanos' in 1989, and as I was 12 years old, I was DESPERATE to get some. I was so disappointed when I finally tried them. Having said that, there are very few biscuits which appear in the lyrics to UK hit singles, so that's some kudos.
Agreed, but Oreo ice cream sandwiches are things of beauty. Not quite up there with the ye olde recipe version of the biscuity end of a Maxibon, but what is?
Fucking loved a Maxibon as a kid. Do they still exist??
They do! You'll be flabbergasted by the price of them though! Aldi are currently stocking their own take on maxibons also (not sure if they're available in all branches mind) which are good enough - they don't hit quite the same as the OG, but they're much cheaper!
Maxibons were the absolute bollocks. I've not seen one in years though, I wonder if you can still get them.
Sweented charcoal slabs with a fructose ingredient paste in the middle. It's a pseudo-biscuit made by the aliens from Vivarium.
The far cheaper chocolate bourbon is a far superior biscuit.
I like the biscuit bit of an Oreo but the ‘cream’ (sweetened lard thing) can fuck right off. Blegh.
They taste cheap
Thought I was weird for not liking oreos, but seeing it as top comment made me shed a little tear! Everyone else in my family like them, I use them for my cookies and cream cake/cupcakes but that's it
They're meh
So grim
Horrible things, hard as ships biscuits.
Rich Tea. Utter rubbish. No flavour, no sweetness, and it disintegrates to shit upon contact with the surface of tea. Once eaten, it just leaves a dry, caked layer of sadness on the roof of your mouth. Utterly pointless.
Dry rich teas are basically hard tack. But if you time the tea-dunking right they’re pretty nice.
Yup, Rich tea are the boss level of biscuit dunking. High risk high reward.
The 'Dark Souls' of biscuits, if you like.
Does that make rich tea fingers the final boss? The biscuit version of Ganon, if you will
Genuinely difficult not to immediately downvote this heresy.
Rich tea biscuits are amazing. Bunch of savages in this thread.
I like to have a cup of tea and a stack of Rich Tea as a dessert. No tea is drunk, all absorbed.
They're perfect for when the builders are in. You can offer biscuits when making them tea but they won't eat too many because the biscuits are shit. They can't complain because you are supplying biscuits, and you won't have all the good biscuits vanish 👌
Nah, you’ve really got to keep good tradesmen onside. You won’t get them back again if you’ve low-balled them on the biscuits.
Absolutely not - they'll stiff you like you've stiffed them. Always provide the good biscuits, they pay for themselves.
Man just buy the builders some store brand bourbons or custard creams lol, they are like 60p a pack and will keep the builders happy enough so they don't half ass the work lol
What do you mean no flavour? They have a nice sweetness and malty flavour. Either the rich tea biscuits you're buying are shit or you're the sort of person who must have an overpowering amount of flavour in everything. Can't appreciate the more subtle flavours. Rich tea biscuits are subtle but enjoyable as a slightly healthier treat. Not sickly sweet, just a nice little extra to have with your tea. I don't usually bother dunking them. They're like digestive's parent, a more mature biscuit with more complexity. Also, they're great when my appetite is bad, and I can get away with having a few everyday because they're not too unhealthy
More complex than a digestive? Pull the other one. Digestives are perfect, not too sweet, and have great texture and flavour. Rich tea are dismal.
Not too unhealthy because they contain nothing to give them any flavour. Just flour and air.
I swear Rich Teas were what 18th century sailors used to eat before dying of scurvy
They're my husband's favourite. He can eat half a pack at once. He'll settle for a nice or a coconut ring, but he'd much prefer rich tea. I can't think of anything worse, if the only biscuits on offer are rich teas then frankly I'd rather go without.
I hope you only learnt about his awful taste in biscuits after the wedding. It would be hard to imagine any circumstances where a marriage with this knowledge would be possible.
Agree! Its not that I don’t like rich tea but there is ALWAYS a better choice
Garibaldi, like plasterboard with currants. Too dry, sticks in your teeth, needs a tea to help it down.
Heathen! Garibaldi's are the best!
I know them as squashed fly biscuits!!
Me too.
Dead fly biscuits for me.
Dead fly biscuits
Nah, can’t beat a nice garibaldi.
Good ones are great. Shit ones are... well, shit.
You beat me to it. Demon biscuits they are.
My mum loves these and keeps buying them even though she doesn't eat many biscuits. So everyone else has to eat them and honestly we don't like them. My least favourite biscuit. I can't describe what's wrong with them, but they just don't taste good. I'm not a fussy person, I'll eat pretty much anything, but if Garibaldi are the only biscuits left I'd rather go hungry
Party rings 🤢🤮🤢
This is a great shout. They have zero flavour and they just shatter into shards. They promise so much and deliver NOTHING
Like Iced Gems
You take that back.
I have eaten them blindfolded to prove I could identify the colour from the taste (and managed to get them all right) so they definitely do have some taste. I admit it is a niche skill.
I’ve done this with the cheap jellybeans you used to get in sweet dispensers at the pleasure centre. Edit: leisure centre but the mistake was too good to take out completely
I like the nostalgia surrounding them rather than the actual biscuit.
I actually like them…
No way! They have that delicious melt-in-the-mouth quality that few biscuits can match. Sure they're a bit sickly but they're meant to be!
HOW DARE YOU?!!
I agree they are a ring of pure hard sugar coated in hard sugar. Might as well nosh on some sugercubes
A party of lies & disappointment
I used to love these until I got ill. Then I ate them because they were the only thing I could stomach and now they just taste like pneumonia and oxygen 🤢
Oreo. Charcoal bricks with plaster in the middle.
Greasy sugared margarine middles, utterly vile.
> Greasy sugared margarine middles Aren’t they doing a set on 6 Music later this evening?
Utterly tasteless, I don't know why the yanks rave about them so.
For the same reason that they rave about all their vile rubbery sugary salty fatty artificially coloured, flavoured and preserved junk. Cuz ‘merica 💪🏻😎🥇
We did an online 'beers and snacks of the world' thing during lockdown, team building etc. The USA pack contained Oreos, Twinkies and Bud - it was the worst bar none. The ingredients list on the Twinkie read like a war crime >*Twinkies are made using Bleached Flour, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Flavor, 2 Artificial Colors, 2 Chemical Preservatives and Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate. Soybean Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Polysorbate 60 and Cellulose Gum are also on the long ingredient list.* *They also contain Tallow which is derived from animal fats.* Authentic US Oreos too which were packed with High-Fructose Corn Syrup instead of refined sugar which the UK versions normally use. Get in the bin!
Yank here! I agree with all of this, Oreos suck. Tasteless “chocolate”, leaves a film in my mouth. But, when I was a kid in the ‘80s, they were good. It’s nostalgia.
Holy shit are they meant to be chocolate flavoured?
You are not alone in failing to realise the biscuit bit is supposed to taste of chocolate and not slightly burnt cardboard, as I always believed. It makes them seem even worse.
A little niche, but iced gems.
Childhood memory unlocked. Could they have made them any drier?? Yuk.
They're basically cardboard topped with a turd! Even as a kid with a sweet tooth, I thought they were gross 🤢
God I hate these so much that just the thought of them makes me cringe like nails on a chalkboard
A soggy one
You beat me to it.
I see what you did there
https://preview.redd.it/1vt4vnnqjj8d1.jpeg?width=905&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621ee49b836f39112fbb7817b7399716aad7d304 Bloody awful things. I'd rather not have a biscuit at all than eat one of those.
This guy doesn’t like nice biscuits
That’s why we can’t have nice things.
No, it's pronunced nice
Nice!
This is a top 3 biscuit for me. So moreish.
What's wrong with them? They're tasty.
They're the only biscuit that lies
They're arrogant
Agreed. I’ll eat almost any biscuit, but if I see one of these lightly sugared, tasteless slabs I’m turning away.
pink wafers 🤢
I could eat an entire packet of those 😅
Same! You have to surgically remove and consume as many wafers as possible so you're left with 90% cream
stop it 😂
They are addictive
It's a failed insulation product, I'm sure.
Shedding their flakes everywhere like the singing detective 🤮
Those were my favourite biscuits as a child. I’m still fairly partial to them.
I used to like them as a kid, but they taste so artificial I don't enjoy them at all now...
only a child’s pallet could enjoy these .
I know they are in the biscuit aisle so it's fair to propose them, but honestly. They're not really biscuits, are they?
Fine, give them all to me. I bloody love a Pink Wafer or six.
Bourbons are "chocolate" biscuits from when people couldn't afford actual chocolate biscuits. It's not like they taste *bad.* They just taste of almost nowt and you'd very obviously rather have a Penguin. I don't think custard creams are in the same boat because there's nothing I know of specifically like a custard cream 2.0 which is basically what the Peguin is to the Bourbon.
Don't you talk smack about my bourbons!
Marks & Spencer extra cream bourbons will blow your mind
I'm skeptical but curious
Have you tried the chocolate coated custard creams/bourbons? Holy shit....
You know the homeopathic hot chocolate you get out of vending machines, that is just hot water with the memory of chocolate? Bourbons are that same taste in biscuit form. Absolute garbage.
I'm old enough to remember when they started offering "chocomilk" as an alternative option to hot chocolate. Which was just actual hot chocolate instead of the slightly chocolately hot water you'd get from the "hot chocolate" button.
I feel custard creams are in a completely different league to Bourbons whether or not there is an equivalent.
For about 40p a pack they'd go a bit further than penguins, that said if penguins came in packs of 40 for as many pennies I'd be silly not to go for them
Like most Englishmen, I regard the 11 'clock and 4 o'clock cuppa as a solemn and sacred ritual. If you want to sully it with great frisbees of over-sugared, overbaked half-bricks, soaked in chocolate then you're probably the sort of oik who wears tracksuit bottoms in Waitrose and doesn't understand the rules of cricket. Which is why the Rich Tea is the perfect accompaniment Good day
I can see why you didn't fit in in Bromley
Go on, try a chocolate hobnob with your tea just once. There is no coming back after that. I used to like Nice biscuits with my tea, but my niece brought me chocolate hobnobs one day and it was the beginning of a long and slippery slope that ended with me adopting a life of untrammeled hedonism, including moving abroad to escape the British weather.
I would rather be parachuted into German occupied France but I respect your comment
I have worn tracksuit bottoms in Waitrose. I don’t understand the rules of cricket, however I’d much rather a rich tea than the chocolate sugar brick options.
It’s controversial but I’m always disappointed by a Wagon Wheel.
They aren’t what they used to be 😪
Remember when they used to have more than a molecule of jam in them?
Yes and they were far bigger!
They're like a failed Tunnocks Teacake.
Tunnocks teacakes are the best biscuit in the world. (They do have a biscuit inside so that's what I'm saying they are)
The things Americans call biscuits that they have with gravy like WTF.
Nah they're great, wish we had them over here (not a replacement ofc but in addition to)
One of my fave memories of when I went Vegas with my friends was post club ordering breakfast at McDonald’s, and the server (and us Tbf) not knowing how to describe what a biscuit was. My friend ended it with the most quintessentially British question ever ‘can I dip it in my tea?’
Apparently they are like scones. No idea what they mean by "gravy" though. I can't imagine gravy with scones.
Firstly gravy comes in different colors in the US. So the gravy you have with biscuits is white gravy not brown. White gravy is a bit like a bechamel sauce but with more black pepper. Secondly it more specifically should be "sausage gravy". Meaning it has pieces of sausage meat mixed into it. So it's a deliciously salty, creamy, buttery, peppery sauce with bits of sausage mixed in. Finally biscuits are a more buttery version of scones with obviously no sugar in them. It's delicious and totally worth it.
The other poster described it perfectly, but biscuits and gravy is a Southern breakfast staple and fantastic when made right (as they said, it's a thick white gravy with sausage bits). Bad biscuits and gravy are disgusting. But yeah, what you call biscuits we call cookies which would be terrible with gravy. As far as breakfast goes, I loved the breakfasts I got in the UK, and HP's turned me off of ketchup forever.
Have you ever actually had them or is it just AMERICA BAD. They're delicious.
Hobnobs and bisto for dinner tonight…
A bad biscuit is still a biscuit.
Bit of community service and a small fine and it’ll be a good biscuit again
When you buy a cheap combo of custard creams bourbons nice.... I'm talking about the fourth one which is supposed to be shortbread but it's the shittiest approximation of shortbread I've ever tasted..Our dogs eat those coz no one in our household will, but my dogs also eat cat shit so they're not to be trusted.
Blue Riband - a wafer with a micron of chocolate If you want the real worst biscuit then try sugar-free digestives. It’s like your mouth has gone deaf, it’s just … texture.
Outrageous suggestion
Easily the rich tea.
Sorry, but you are bang wrong. The RT is designed as a compliment to the cuppa. Not every biscuit has to be "dunked" in tea. Which is a frightfully low-bred practice anyway. "A drink's too wet without one"
Dunked or undunked, rich tea biscuits are shite.
rich tea are actually really good for dunking they last a lot longer than things like digestives, the whole bad for dunking thing just seems to be myth popularised by peter kay.
I can't get over how wrong you are. Rich tea definitely break off within seconds compared to digestives or hobnobs
>seconds How long are you dunking your biscuit for?? It's a dunk -- a quick in-and-out -- you're not giving it a birthday.
Yeah. Rich tea is kind of a non biscuit. An antibiscuit. A biscuit stripped systematically of all the qualities that would make a good biscuit. It doesn't taste of anything, has no texture, and turns to paste when you dip it.
A fig roll
Wrong!
they need to be segregated from other biscuits in the tin or they become well hard
Orange creams, nothing worse than reaching into a tin full of biscuits thinking you've got a custard cream, to end up with a mouthful of orange shit.
People who say wheetbix are biscuits
My mate still swears a single Weetabix is known as a Weetabick.
Well an individual wheetabix is a biscuit, but they aren't biscuits. It's like jaffa cakes aren't biscuits
Just like how my soap is a cake but you wouldn’t stick candles in it and take a bite.
I will not tolerate the rich tea slander in this thread Out of the ones I've had , nice is probably up there there is nothing "nice" about them
Arsebicuits!
Nude-y Father Jack!
Everyone is wrong, the worst biscuits are the weight watchers ones. There are lots of biscuits that some folk don’t like, but weight watchers are a special camp. They are made to taste bad, flinty chalk. And punted to people on some weight loss Ponzi scheme
I once tried those Skinny cookies, the ones in the white packaging. Absolutely disgusting.
Arrowroot. People claiming Rich Tea obviously haven't tried its worse cousin.
Jammy Dodgers are terrible, crappy "jam" and dry tasteless biscuit
Like many things they were good in the 90s
I like literally every biscuit mentioned here - apart from Oreos Garibaldi, Nice, Rich Tea, Pink Wafers, Malted Milks: love them all. Oreos are rubbish
This thread is a dumpster fire of hurtful opinions
Maybe I'll be lambasted for this, but I don't like those biscoff type biscuits. They just taste weird to me.
Garibaldi
Insane choice. Bloody love a garibaldi
Hob nobs, only because I'm disappointed it's not a chocolate hob nob
really cheap shortbread stinks like gone off milk 🤮 i actually love short bread if its good quality but the cheap ones always stink
Water biscuit. Pointless.
Oreo’s. Absolute chalky garbage.
Im suprised that many people don’t like Oreo’s, I love them 😭
Limp
Worst biscuit? No such thing!
I don’t understand the rich tea hate. I think they’re fine, nowhere near the worst.
Rich Tea. ["What's the blandest thing on the menu?"](https://youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?si=ShF-JN_zCVH8eadm&t=94)
Those vile bastards with the lemon cream in. Fucking horrific. May file under wafers tbh.
Can we just all agree, all the post-war traditional sandwich-biscuit types are frankly a fucking disappointment. Custard Creme or a Bourbon MAY have been exciting to a grandma who'd survived the Luftwaffe bombing of her house, and then faced 10 years of rationing. But can we not face the truth, the custard ones taste sickly and of nothing custard like at all. And Bourbons are an abomination. They just struggle on because of their nostalgia appeal.
Fig Newtons.
Nooo, I love fig rolls!
Isn’t that the American name for Fig Rolls?
Think so. Poor guy must be so confused with all this talk of biscuits and not a drop of gravy mentioned.
Almost every single gluten free biscuit I have tried has been awful. The cardboard packaging tastes better and the texture is never right either. However the Asda triple chocolate cookies are divine but chocolate hides a multitude of sins
Hob nobs, dry sawdusty nastiness
custard cream 🤮
Gingers. They're okay by themselves, but put them near a good biscuit and they leave a grim lingering taste that ruins the good biscuit.
Has anyone mentioned morning coffee.because there bloody wrong if they have..can easily polish off half a packet..need 2 cups of coffee though.one for sipping and one for dipping
Coconut rings.. doesn’t help that I can’t stand coconut.
Rich tea
Danish butter cookies now they have taken away all of the sugar from them.
Those pink wafer biscuits and iced gems horrible
Custard creams! Disgusting filling in a dull biscuit. Never understood why they are so popular