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Ever played the biscuit game?

 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:02 / 18.01.03
The Harry Potter thread got me curious.

If you need to ask, you probably haven't, but check here anyway.

well?
 
 
Brigade du jour
01:04 / 18.01.03
Afraid not. In fact, the only other place I've ever heard of it was in Blackadder.
 
 
Ganesh
01:09 / 18.01.03
No. I suspect it's something of an urban myth.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:13 / 18.01.03
yeah, but I can hope. Actually I heard of via Lovely Stephen Fry's The Liar, (some of the best posh-fetishit-porn *ever*. trust me on this one.)
 
 
Ganesh
01:19 / 18.01.03
So good you named it thrice...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
01:22 / 18.01.03
moderator request already sent, reason:

'So excited - baaaaaaaaaby - I posted it thrice'

 
 
The Strobe
09:46 / 18.01.03
Well, I've never played it, but rumours of it being played in the boarding house dormitories were usually a good way to stir people up.

Many apologies, but I went to a school like that where the biscuit game probably really did happen. But probably not in my time. Unless, of course, the rumours about certain acquaintances of mine in Newick were true.

It is probably an urban myth, but more believable when you hear it on the corridors of a formerly-all-male public school. I have never played it. I was too sensible to board, and thus still have my anal virginity.
 
 
that
10:44 / 18.01.03
Sounds pretty horrible, to me - but coercive sexual encounters don't really do it for me, ever. Having eaten (dear god, the horror) my ex's semen on a cracker 'cause he wanted me to, I also know it's pretty fucking disgusting.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
13:58 / 18.01.03
Gracious. That's horrible. There was a rumor that the golden boys in my high school show choir (rawk, show choir!) played this game, but that none of it was completely voluntary. I'm not sure if I believed it or not at the time; I don't remember giving a damn.

Doesn't sound like atypical hazing. Freshman year of college, boys came back to the dorm with bruises on them and stuff. Mr. E, who was my best friend at the time, came back to the dorms after a week of having stayed at his fraternity house for part of the hazing. He wouldn't tell me hardly any of it (they weren't supposed to tell)--not that I even really wanted to know. But what little he did tell me was horrible--torturous or humiliating.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
14:00 / 18.01.03
but that none of it was completely voluntary

I don't know why I do this sometimes. That's the opposite of what I meant to write. I meant that the rumor was that this biscuit thing was completely voluntary.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
07:08 / 19.01.03
Not strictly on topic, but it sounds a little like the Japanese practice of Bukkake, in which a woman (historically an adulterer) is showered with semen.

Originally it was used as a form of punishment, whereby the woman was humiliated in a public place, with each man in the town ejaculating over her to show his distaste.
 
 
Bill Posters
13:58 / 19.01.03
Eeeeewww! (Just Googled that but all I got were porn sites which I can't click on here at work.)

No, I have never played the biscuit game, but I - even in my limited experience - have never found semen an unpleasant thing to consume, be it mine or another's. I have a feeling that women are infinately more revolted by it than men. Why, in some cultures men are expected to consume their own jism, and medically-speaking, it's a waste of protein not to, or so I am told.
 
 
Bill Posters
14:14 / 19.01.03
Oh and this is also possibly off-topic (hence I didn't think of it the first time) but Cakes of Light used in Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass are made of semen and menstrual fluid. But they are not soggy, nor would one know what was in 'em.
 
 
rakehell
22:48 / 19.01.03
Once when talking at the end of a party, with only maybe 10 people left, the conversation turned to sex and then sexual practice oddities. One of our friends asked if we'd heard of the game, you know that game, the one where the guys stand in a circle... we all played dumb, knowing he meant "Soggy Biscuit" yet enjoying his rising frustration at his failure to recall the name.

Searching his memory banks he finally cried "you know the one... eat the biscuit!"

I guess he played with different rules.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
22:57 / 19.01.03
I have a feeling that women are infinately more revolted by it than men.

Not that I talk about this regularly with my women friends, but when semen has come up, it's not been an Eww Topic. But then, I don't really like to hang out with people who think bodies and their processes are unspeakably icky.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:37 / 19.01.03
I think the Soggy Biscuit Game is particularly gross (even assuming consensuality) because when you abstract the bodily fluids from the body, they somehow get yuckier. Imagine the difference between sucking on a scratch or sucking on an old sticking-plaster, or between swallowing your own saliva and swallowing the same saliva once it's been spat out into a cup.

Or maybe I'm just being strange again.
 
 
paw
00:40 / 20.01.03
ah soggy biscuit, when i was at school i heard the blokes in my class i didn't really know laughing about this occasionally and i was a little worried cause i didn't know what the fuck they was talking about and hoped they didn't ask me infront of the girls... best days of my life
 
 
Jackie Susann
01:21 / 20.01.03
I played it once, as a Scout, but the guy who lost refused to eat the biscuit. Disappointing, but still...
 
 
Brigade du jour
01:32 / 20.01.03
oh my god. are you guys trying to say that this biscuit game (of which you speak) involves some form of ... ejaculate consumption? and what was that about anal virginity? jesus ... I'm glad I never went to a public school.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
04:15 / 20.01.03
I've always wondered, never having played myself- what type of biscuit? Something sweet like a Digestive perhaps, or maybe an already-salty savoury, such as a TUC cracker?
 
 
The Strobe
07:19 / 20.01.03
I believe a Digestive is the traditional biscuit.
 
 
The Strobe
07:22 / 20.01.03
And FeliciaHTB: the line abuot anal virginity was a joke. Buggery is not rife on the corridors of public schools, you know.
 
 
Loomis
07:36 / 20.01.03
In Australia I only ever heard it called called Soggy Sao, Sao being a brand of square water cracker.

The fact that it has such a specific name leads me to believe that someone in the country must have played it, at least once anyway, or a couple of times to choose the best kind of biscuit. And as the jingle goes on the advert - you can't beat a Sao for a snack!

Not played it myself, but a friend of mine said he played it voluntarily while training for our illustrious armed forces.
 
 
that
10:15 / 20.01.03
Yeah - I agree with Mordant. I never had any problem swallowing when I slept with men (never really liked it either, mind you - semen is not usually terribly pleasant tasting as far as I am concerned). But cold semen, having left the body for an amount of time not measured in milliseconds, is fucking horrible - has a really shudder-worthy texture, too, which is much more noticeable when cold. I think it's partly having to think about consuming it, whereas you don't really have to give it much thought if you're swallowing straight after the gunk has been ejaculated.
 
 
Bill Posters
11:33 / 20.01.03
Ahh, 'kay, I get it.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:41 / 20.01.03
I second Cholister. It's definitely a warmth thing, which is probably why when I thinbk something's particularly disgusting I may say that it's "about as appealing as a cup of cold sick". As though warm sick would, somehow, be more appetising.

But, yes, semen, blood, saliva, vomit, snot and vaginal fluids all get conisderably less appealing the longer they're left to cool. But that's what microwaves were invented for, right?
 
 
Bear
13:50 / 20.01.03
There's money to be made here somewhere! Remember the how popular pop tarts were when they first came out?

I wonder if people would be so willing to eat if it moved, you know if the lil sperm boys where more into action and wriggled around visibly. I don't think these pills are agreeing with me..
 
 
Linus Dunce
13:59 / 20.01.03
I reckon if you put it in chocolates, wrapped them up in a nice box and called it "Creme de Garcon" with some suitably onanistic TV advertising it would be, er, lapped up.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
14:11 / 20.01.03
Whisky Priestess, there's something wrong with your brain.
 
 
Saveloy
15:32 / 20.01.03
Nope, not done it, or ever encountered anyone who has claimed to. Tom Baker does talk about playing The Wanking Game in his autobiog, but biscuits aren't involved. I doubt I'd enjoy it, for the reasons suggested by Chol and Whisky. It would have to be straight from the cow. Er, bull. What I've always wondered is how, in a real game, does everyone manage to do the business on something as small and fiddly as a biscuit. Surely a pizza would be more practical?

Loomis:

"Not played it myself, but a friend of mine said he played it voluntarily while training for our illustrious armed forces."

I've heard of another army game to be played during long marches. Private 1 picks nose, passes bogey to Private 2. Private 2 picks own nose, adds to bogey 1 and passes to Private 3, who does likewise, etc, all the way up the line. This continues until the sergeant shouts halt, at which point whoever is holding the massive ball of snot that has been created must eat it.
 
 
William Sack
15:38 / 20.01.03
There were vague rumours that this game was played at my old school by cadet corp types. Frankly I didn't believe the rumours, even though they were fairly specific. Apparently Paul W______ was the one to watch - 12 seconds from a soft start.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
05:31 / 21.01.03
"I reckon if you put it in chocolates, wrapped them up in a nice box and called it "Creme de Garcon" with some suitably onanistic TV advertising it would be, er, lapped up."

Well, you can already buy Gentleman's Relish...
 
  
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