Florentines are one of my favourite things, BT.
But I also admit to liking fig rolls and garibaldis, and I wouldn’t say no to a rich tea biscuit either.
Florentines are one of my favourite things, BT.
But I also admit to liking fig rolls and garibaldis, and I wouldn’t say no to a rich tea biscuit either.
I'll eat nearly anything if someone else paid for it.
OK, I'll eat almost anything anyway, but someone else paying can be the clincher.
Anything with chocolate is automatically a good biscuit, . . . .
There are those of us who’d beg to differ.
You can beg all you want. You are not getting any of mine.
My begging to differ means yours are safe, at least from me. 😉
The love that most people have for chocolate is totally lost on me. While there are a few chocolate things I really like, I can, for the most part, take or leave it. (Except when it comes to cake or ice cream; I don’t like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream at all, and only eat them when politeness requires.) For me, chocolate in a small supporting role is almost always better than chocolate in a starring role.
Florentines are one of my favourite things, BT.
But I also admit to liking fig rolls and garibaldis, and I wouldn’t say no to a rich tea biscuit either.
I'll eat nearly anything if someone else paid for it.
OK, I'll eat almost anything anyway, but someone else paying can be the clincher.
Does it have to be offered to you or are you some sort of omnivorous kleptomaniac? Am wondering if I need to hide my new laptop from your chompers.
Anything with chocolate is automatically a good biscuit, . . . .
There are those of us who’d beg to differ.
You can beg all you want. You are not getting any of mine.
My begging to differ means yours are safe, at least from me. 😉
The love that most people have for chocolate is totally lost on me. While there are a few chocolate things I really like, I can, for the most part, take or leave it. (Except when it comes to cake or ice cream; I don’t like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream at all, and only eat them when politeness requires.) For me, chocolate in a small supporting role is almost always better than chocolate in a starring role.
It just means more for the rest of y’all.
I am with you all the way. On the other hand, lemon, count me in.
Anything with chocolate is automatically a good biscuit, . . . .
There are those of us who’d beg to differ.
You can beg all you want. You are not getting any of mine.
My begging to differ means yours are safe, at least from me. 😉
The love that most people have for chocolate is totally lost on me. While there are a few chocolate things I really like, I can, for the most part, take or leave it. (Except when it comes to cake or ice cream; I don’t like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream at all, and only eat them when politeness requires.) For me, chocolate in a small supporting role is almost always better than chocolate in a starring role.
It just means more for the rest of y’all.
I am with you all the way. On the other hand, lemon, count me in.
For me it would be almond. Or caramel. I’m powerless to say no to either one.
Florentines are one of my favourite things, BT.
But I also admit to liking fig rolls and garibaldis, and I wouldn’t say no to a rich tea biscuit either.
I'll eat nearly anything if someone else paid for it.
OK, I'll eat almost anything anyway, but someone else paying can be the clincher.
Does it have to be offered to you or are you some sort of omnivorous kleptomaniac? Am wondering if I need to hide my new laptop from your chompers.
🤣 It does have to be offered, I think the laptop is safe... unless you have brown sauce?...
I think I was in my early 20s when I learned the proper term was Garibaldi. Had always called them squashed fly biscuits. Never touched them before the bourbons or custard creams were gone, but always before we resorted to rich tea and pink wafers.
Yesterday I was obliged to go and buy biscuits for a group I run as the usual refreshments guy was absent. I bought custard creams and bourbon as they were within the budget. Few were eaten. Actually just five ( 1 CC, 4B ) amongst 13 people.
Yesterday I was obliged to go and buy biscuits for a group I run as the usual refreshments guy was absent. I bought custard creams and bourbon as they were within the budget. Few were eaten. Actually just five ( 1 CC, 4B ) amongst 13 people.
Am I the only person in the world who doesn't like digestive biscuits, even with chocolate on them?
I really like fig rolls, don't mind Garibaldi biscuits though I'm not that bothered by rich tea ones. My favourite biscuit is probably stem ginger cookies though.
I am sorry I do not like figs. I think it is because as a kid I did not like how fig newtons tasted. Another thing I have never liked is beets. Only way Mom could get me to eat them is by hiding them in chocolate cake. Portion is about one cup of ground beets per cake.
I used to like Bourbons, but went off them years ago.
Ordinary, non-chocolate digestives are my favourite biscuit, but they had to be McV's, or used to, all others were too sweet, or the wrong texture. I'm pretty sure they changed their recipe a few years ago, and the texture isn't right any more.
Lidl's digestive biscuits have replaced them as my favourites, they are a bit too sweet, and don't have the slight salty hint that McV's have, but I do like their crumby texture.
Other than them I love dark chocolate ginger biscuits, originally M&S ones, but again they have been superceeded by Lidl's version - they are thinner & crisper (not to mention cheaper!).
You know you're getting old, or have got old, when a discussion about biscuits interests you FFS
And the high point of the week is when the BBC 'Radio Times' plops thru' the post box. I really must get out more. Perhaps when it's warmer ....
Speaking of dentures. I am struck as to how American Dentistry has changed. Three of my grandparents had full dentures when I was a kid. My dad had a partial, but with me I have had three implants and am thinking of getting another one or two. When I was in my 30s, I was told I would have dentures before I hit 60. Now I am in my 70s and I have some crowns and implants. Times have changed.
Back in my mid forties I realised that I could no longer fool myself that I was young, as it was my eldest son’s first wedding. He is just about that age too now, I’m fully retired, spent 3 months of 2024 in hospital but I am up and about and determined to stay that way as Mrs Sioni has the cruise bug!
Back in my mid forties I realised that I could no longer fool myself that I was young, as it was my eldest son’s first wedding. He is just about that age too now, I’m fully retired, spent 3 months of 2024 in hospital but I am up and about and determined to stay that way as Mrs Sioni has the cruise bug!
Back in my mid forties I realised that I could no longer fool myself that I was young, as it was my eldest son’s first wedding. He is just about that age too now, I’m fully retired, spent 3 months of 2024 in hospital but I am up and about and determined to stay that way as Mrs Sioni has the cruise bug!
Mts Gramps and I like to cruise too.
I suspect saying “we like to cruise” to mean “we like to take cruises” rather than … something else … may be yet another sign of being older.
Speaking of dentures. I am struck as to how American Dentistry has changed. Three of my grandparents had full dentures when I was a kid. My dad had a partial, but with me I have had three implants and am thinking of getting another one or two. When I was in my 30s, I was told I would have dentures before I hit 60. Now I am in my 70s and I have some crowns and implants. Times have changed.
Even my dentist is surprised at 87, I have all of my teeth
I think that for my grandparents' generation (and to a lesser extent, my parents'), having one's teeth removed was almost a right of passage. Both my grandmothers (born in the early 1900s) and my mother (born in 1927) had at least one set of dentures.
David's grandmother had her teeth taken out in anticipation of the family moving to Australia, but shortly afterwards discovered she was expecting his father, so the move didn't happen. My life would have panned out very differently if it had ...
My father was very proud of the fact that, although as he put it, he "had a mouth full of lead", he still had all his own teeth.
Have you noticed as you age the hills are getting steeper and longer? Walked six blocks today. Downhill not too bad. Had to take a tea break back up, though
I think that for my grandparents' generation (and to a lesser extent, my parents'), having one's teeth removed was almost a right of passage. Both my grandmothers (born in the early 1900s) and my mother (born in 1927) had at least one set of dentures.
My great-aunt, born in 1890, had all her perfectly healthy teeth taken out, paid for as a 21st birthday present from her parents. It was expected that it would save her trouble, pain and expense in her later life.
My dentist ( from around 1994- 2018 when he retired) had many patients who insisted on having their teeth removed to save trouble, rather than having fillings, root canal treatment etc. This was in a northern UK city.
I think that for my grandparents' generation (and to a lesser extent, my parents'), having one's teeth removed was almost a right of passage. Both my grandmothers (born in the early 1900s) and my mother (born in 1927) had at least one set of dentures.
My great-aunt, born in 1890, had all her perfectly healthy teeth taken out, paid for as a 21st birthday present from her parents. It was expected that it would save her trouble, pain and expense in her later life.
It used to be fairly common. In an age after the widespread ability of sugar but before the widespread availability of flouride toothpaste and antibiotics (for potentially fatal abcesses) it may have been a sensible precaution.
A question on a TV quiz programme today wanted the names of various items no longer in use as they have been replaced by 21st century versions. Think Betamax, Ceefax, floppy disc, sundial……. It struck me that most people under the age of 40(?) would not have a clue.
A question on a TV quiz programme today wanted the names of various items no longer in use as they have been replaced by 21st century versions. Think Betamax, Ceefax, floppy disc, sundial……. It struck me that most people under the age of 40(?) would not have a clue.
I’m 65 and had never heard of Ceefax until reading this post.
A question on a TV quiz programme today wanted the names of various items no longer in use as they have been replaced by 21st century versions. Think Betamax, Ceefax, floppy disc, sundial……. It struck me that most people under the age of 40(?) would not have a clue.
Those two well known ladies Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel.
A question on a TV quiz programme today wanted the names of various items no longer in use as they have been replaced by 21st century versions. Think Betamax, Ceefax, floppy disc, sundial……. It struck me that most people under the age of 40(?) would not have a clue.
Those two well known ladies Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel.
A question on a TV quiz programme today wanted the names of various items no longer in use as they have been replaced by 21st century versions. Think Betamax, Ceefax, floppy disc, sundial……. It struck me that most people under the age of 40(?) would not have a clue.
Those two well known ladies Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel.
I never thought of it like that. It's like Toy Story, as both were eclipsed by (fizz-bang-peeowww) Lazer Jet
(ETA - I found a big folding pile (you'll know what I mean) of tractor-feed paper at our industrial museum the other day. Not an exhibit, just something being used for making rough notes. I bet a deceased pensioner donated it, having no further use for their Amstrad PC-something-or-the-other WP system).
(ETA again. In my world, Dot and Daisy's friend Pen(ny?) Plotter was also cruelly discarded)
(ETA - I found a big folding pile (you'll know what I mean) of tractor-feed paper at our industrial museum the other day.
Great for comedy speeches, that. You walked in clutching a block of it, said you'd just be saying a few words, start reading off the top, and drop the bottom of the stack so it unfolded as it fell.
My very first job involved putting those sheets into folders. I could never work out which way to attach them, so they tended to be inside out, and the next person who needed to use the file had to take them out and turn them round!
This is why I'm always patient when training new girls - I remember what I was like!
Reminds me of the sketch where a chap goes into a HiFi shop (are they still around?) and asks for a gramophone.
My grandchildern don't have a DVD player,and as for music, well, they just don't download files from the internet, they 'ask Alexa'. Who plays it. At MP3 resolution. Ugh!
As to PCs, I remember when 16K was a lot of memory in your PC. now I wish my brain had that much!
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You can beg all you want. You are not getting any of mine.
I hear tell chocolate affects the same receptors in the brain as cocaine. Takes a lot more chocolate to have the same effect as cocaine, though.
And you look bloody peculiar if you try to administer it by the same route!
But I also admit to liking fig rolls and garibaldis, and I wouldn’t say no to a rich tea biscuit either.
I'll eat nearly anything if someone else paid for it.
OK, I'll eat almost anything anyway, but someone else paying can be the clincher.
The love that most people have for chocolate is totally lost on me. While there are a few chocolate things I really like, I can, for the most part, take or leave it. (Except when it comes to cake or ice cream; I don’t like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream at all, and only eat them when politeness requires.) For me, chocolate in a small supporting role is almost always better than chocolate in a starring role.
It just means more for the rest of y’all.
Does it have to be offered to you or are you some sort of omnivorous kleptomaniac? Am wondering if I need to hide my new laptop from your chompers.
When you visit Oz go to a supermarket & check out Arnott’s Chocolate Monte biscuits….
I am with you all the way. On the other hand, lemon, count me in.
🤣 It does have to be offered, I think the laptop is safe... unless you have brown sauce?...
Unless the anything else is Nice biscuits, which I concur are vile.
Should have got rich tea .....
I really like fig rolls, don't mind Garibaldi biscuits though I'm not that bothered by rich tea ones. My favourite biscuit is probably stem ginger cookies though.
Ordinary, non-chocolate digestives are my favourite biscuit, but they had to be McV's, or used to, all others were too sweet, or the wrong texture. I'm pretty sure they changed their recipe a few years ago, and the texture isn't right any more.
Lidl's digestive biscuits have replaced them as my favourites, they are a bit too sweet, and don't have the slight salty hint that McV's have, but I do like their crumby texture.
Other than them I love dark chocolate ginger biscuits, originally M&S ones, but again they have been superceeded by Lidl's version - they are thinner & crisper (not to mention cheaper!).
And the high point of the week is when the BBC 'Radio Times' plops thru' the post box. I really must get out more. Perhaps when it's warmer ....
We're too old for that sort of thing
Steady on, old chap!
The bits get stuck in your dentures.
Why, what were you thinking of?
😇
Mts Gramps and I like to cruise too.
Even my dentist is surprised at 87, I have all of my teeth
David's grandmother had her teeth taken out in anticipation of the family moving to Australia, but shortly afterwards discovered she was expecting his father, so the move didn't happen. My life would have panned out very differently if it had ...
My father was very proud of the fact that, although as he put it, he "had a mouth full of lead", he still had all his own teeth.
My great-aunt, born in 1890, had all her perfectly healthy teeth taken out, paid for as a 21st birthday present from her parents. It was expected that it would save her trouble, pain and expense in her later life.
It used to be fairly common. In an age after the widespread ability of sugar but before the widespread availability of flouride toothpaste and antibiotics (for potentially fatal abcesses) it may have been a sensible precaution.
Those two well known ladies Dot Matrix and Daisy Wheel.
Ah yes, screeches and stutters, respectively.
I never thought of it like that. It's like Toy Story, as both were eclipsed by (fizz-bang-peeowww) Lazer Jet
(ETA - I found a big folding pile (you'll know what I mean) of tractor-feed paper at our industrial museum the other day. Not an exhibit, just something being used for making rough notes. I bet a deceased pensioner donated it, having no further use for their Amstrad PC-something-or-the-other WP system).
(ETA again. In my world, Dot and Daisy's friend Pen(ny?) Plotter was also cruelly discarded)
This is why I'm always patient when training new girls - I remember what I was like!
My grandchildern don't have a DVD player,and as for music, well, they just don't download files from the internet, they 'ask Alexa'. Who plays it. At MP3 resolution. Ugh!
As to PCs, I remember when 16K was a lot of memory in your PC. now I wish my brain had that much!