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All thse pics of sh1te hawks have made me thirsty for a brew and a biccy ..Mines Andy the psio . Closely followed by a chocolate hob nob .
There you go Martin . Happy to help .
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In reply to mike123:
A lovely penguin biscuit for me.
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In reply to mike123:
Or a bustard cream.
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In reply to mike123:
Actually, it would be a Dunnock’s Caramel Wafer.
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In reply to mike123:
Hmmm….. maybe a Jaffa Crake ?
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In reply to mike123:
You know what, you can’t beat a Garibaldi gul…/
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In reply to mike123:
It has to be a top 5 really. One of my favourite casual conversation questions, along with 'top 5 crisps/bar snacks'.
I think it's only a few supermarkets who do them own-brand but chocolate chip digestives.
Dark choc hobnobs
Stem-ginger cookies
Peanut butter oreos
BNs (providing I have a mug of tea to dunk them in; otherwise too dry)
In reply to PaulJepson:
Its too close to call between dark chocolate hobnobs and crunch creams for me.
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In reply to Bottom Clinger:
> Actually, it would be a Dunnock’s Caramel Wafer.
Why so much sniping over biscuits? I like cake and as we're on Colonsay I thought we'd have corncake but it's the wrong time of year.
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In reply to mike123:
Fig roll, no contest!
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In reply to mike123:
Giant chocolate chip cookie with white chocolate chips. I'm not proud of it but it's the truth.
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In reply to mike123:
McVities Fruit Shortcake. We had a packet today. That great fat lump Mrs Num Num gobbled one of them, leaving me with only nineteen.
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In reply to mike123:
I can't believe none of you Philistines have mentioned the caramel digestive. The ultimate dunkable.
You can close the thread now.
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In reply to NaCl:
I wrote a poem once upon a time, seems appropriate for the thread...
An ode to a fallen comrade:
Where valliance ends above a cauldron hot
Defiance of gravity can continue not.
The hardened spine of oat did break
The dark, sweetened coat could no longer take.
Oh why did you fall o wonder of me?
Sweet hobnob dear, you fell in my tea.
RIP milk chocolate hobnob, 22/10/12
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In reply to mike123:
Chocolate hobnob, or if I want to be healthy a fig roll.
Is a fig roll a biscuit?
In reply to mike123:
Rich Teal for me (in the absence of any obvious Digestive pun).
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Bought 'Rhubarb and Custard' Creams a month or so ago thinking they were just the standard Custard Cream.
Be careful out there folks, don't fall down the same trap I did.
I cant even open the biscuit tin anymore with out the overwhelming sweet sickly smell hitting me. At least I haven't eaten a biscuit in a month?
EDIT: I only just realised this was a play on words of bird types - I just thought you lot couldn't spell or been down the pub too long!
Post edited at 09:03
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In reply to mike123:
Kite Kat?
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In reply to mike123:
I’m covering all bird puns, and going for Dunnocks Teal Crake.
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In reply to Bottom Clinger:
Out of doors I like lots of different crakes, oatmeal, or otherwise though sometimes fieldfare snacks take a savoury tern
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In reply to montyjohn:
> Is a fig roll a biscuit?
If it goes hard when it's left out on the bunker to go stale, it's a cake. If it goes soft, it's a biscuit. As determined by the Jaffa Cakes vs HMRC case a few years back.
I'm afraid the best I can come up with for a bird-related biscuit pun is Crakeaways.
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In reply to mike123:
Tough tie between choc hob nob and jammy dodger!
In reply to drunken monkey:
Cakes go hard with age but biscuits go soft!
In reply to Martin W:
> As determined by the Jaffa Cakes vs HMRC case a few years back.
I'm not sure they completely cleared up the philosophical question, that legal precedent probably only provides a definitive answer for tax purposes.
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In reply to Rampart:
BC did that one already I’m afraid.
Can I suggest cob nob?
Or even hawkalot cob nob?
In reply to mike123:
Carr's Wader Biscuits
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In reply to CantClimbTom:
I like a Beakaway.
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In reply to mike123:
See also Henry Normal's poetry on biscuits...
Why do rich people insist it's
posh to eat plain biscuits
It seems to me Rich Tea
are for the miserly
and Nice are not nice at any price
Shortbread I particularly dread
I'd sooner have a Happy Face instead
Tradition is fine for old codgers
but the young at heart want Jammy Dodgers
A plain Digestive
is strictly for the restive
and not suggestive
of anything festive
Similarly Garibaldis
are for the oldies
as only old fogies
can be force fed a sandwich of bogies
Morning Coffee are easy to debunk
being impossible to dunk
An Arrowroot bicky
can also be tricky
Abbey Crunch or Bourbon Creams
are not the munch of my dreams
I'd sooner walk on hot coals bare foot
than eat Fig Rolls or Ginger Nut
and I'd sooner be aborted
than touch Teatime Assorted
yet I can eat Chocolate Hobnobs
no probs
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In reply to ben b:
It's funny and it's true, I've seen a ginger nut hatch real fear and loathing.
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In reply to deepsoup:
I fluctuate between:
- dark chocolate digestive
- rich tea fingers (not the normal round ones, they are a completely different biscuit imo)
- Oreos.
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In reply to mike123:
Dunnock's Caramel Wafers
just seen Bottom Clingers 'Dunnock's Teal Crake'. I withdraw my entry and bow to his genius.....and if I had been clever like him I would have said
Dunnock's Caramel Waders.
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In reply to Slackboot:
> Dunnock's Caramel Waders.
Most excellent! To be honest, a while back Lankyman gave graphic detail on the Dunnocks mating strategy, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they wore caramel waders. They’re well dodge.
In reply to Bottom Clinger:
Nothing surprises me now after learning what little bustards penguins are!
In reply to JCurrie:
> BC did that one already I’m afraid.
I should read the whole thread before jumping in.
Doesn't look like anyone's partial to a Rocky Robin yet, though. Too obvious, maybe.
In reply to mike123:
Experience in the mountains tells me that any biscuit will do after the right number of vertical-metres-ascent. What we NEED is a table and a ranking.
A stem-ginger biscuit is probably grand after the lofty heights of your average residential stair-case but supermarket, own-brand "tea biscuits" surely need well over 2000 metres – less if one is on skins, perhaps, but still more than one is likely to do on your average day out. (Do they have a place on expeditions and epics? I'm certainly not carrying them!)
Actually, one could do some non-linear optimisation, here, because the chance of structural-failure increases non-linearly with ascent and not all biscuit breeds taste as good as crumbs. A good, South African "Ouma's Rusk" is quite burly and will surly survive until the optimal consumption height – which, since they're also quite nice, won't be too high – and they're also edible even after serious abuse.
Conversely, Great British Jaffa Cakes are rubbish in a hot summer: too sweet and sickly to enjoy until at least a bit of perspiration has been achieved and yet nasty after they've been over-heated. (I don't declare this opinion at the border.)
In reply to Bottom Clinger:
Legally they are cakes
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