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BISCUITS are bloody great!

 
  

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12:42 / 28.07.05
sold in the biscuit isle

Mmmmmm. Imagine being macarooned on the biscuit isle.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
12:42 / 28.07.05
Anyway, best biscuit ever is a McVities Rich Tea, covered in butter with another Rich Tea slapped on top.

Then dunked in coffee.


W. Perhaps this should be posted in 'The things i do to punish myself' thread!!!!!
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
12:45 / 28.07.05
Hey Quantum, keep your goddam sweets outta the goddam biscuit thread!!!!! Big smiles to you.
 
 
Char Aina
12:52 / 28.07.05
We may need more convincing.

you'll just have to come to glasgow then.
i'll give you a biscuit if you ever do.
 
 
Quantum
12:53 / 28.07.05


See?
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
12:55 / 28.07.05
Sorry they don't look like biscuits. Thread rots your teeth!
 
 
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13:01 / 28.07.05
and anyway, those are barley sugar. Too orange for cough candy.
 
 
Quantum
13:02 / 28.07.05
It's not rot it's not! *stamps petulantly* I have to show Boboss that biscuits for cheese are simply more biscuity than sweet biscuits, it's crucial to my life! Don't you see?
 
 
JOY NO WRY
13:03 / 28.07.05
The question of biscuits has to put into context. You really need to know what they're going to be dunked in. If its milk, its going to have to be the humble choclate digestive. You got to leave it there a while, I admit, but the cool milk keeps the chocolate hard whilst the biscuit becomes saturated and delicious. But that would never work for tea. Oh no. Who wants scalded, chocolaty hands? You need a tough, insulated biscuit like a hobnob for a tea job. Its obvious.

If you're not dunking at all (e.g. if you're lost in a desert with no water), then a more refined biscuit is required. I reccomend the half-chocolate coated ginger biscuits from Forman and Field with the little bit of crystallised ginger in the middle.



Can you see? Those ones at the front. Biscuit perfection.
 
 
iamus
13:09 / 28.07.05
You know, all this talk of biscuits is all well and good, but isn't it just deflecting attention from the Really Pertinent Issue in society today?
 
 
Haus Of Pain
13:17 / 28.07.05
No! This space is not for fucking crumpets it's for fucking biscuits, so if you want to talk crumpets then take your own advice. Leave us to talk about biscuits.

It's not about what's best, it's about WHAT'S THE BEST FUCKING BISCUIT ALLRIGHT.
 
 
Psych Safeling
13:25 / 28.07.05
sold in the biscuit isle

I actually read this and thought 'oh, do people actually call this the Biscuit Isle? Cool!'

All this talk of scotch fingers has made me wonder about those kind of hard sponge ones, the size and shape of a giant's finger that has been absent-mindedly left under, say, a hardback copy of Infinite Jest (large print) for a couple of hours. They had a liberal dusting of sugar (slightly unimaginative decorative touch). They also came in a see-through plastic covering. Strictly for birthdays in my family. Erm, sponge fingers?
 
 
Psych Safeling
13:26 / 28.07.05
sold in the biscuit isle

I actually read this and thought 'oh, do people actually call this the Biscuit Isle? Cool!'

All this talk of scotch fingers has made me wonder about those kind of hard sponge ones, the size and shape of a giant's finger that has been absent-mindedly left under, say, a hardback copy of Infinite Jest (large print) for a couple of hours. They had a liberal dusting of sugar (slightly unimaginative decorative touch). They also came in a see-through plastic covering. Strictly for birthdays in my family. Erm, sponge fingers?
 
 
Psych Safeling
13:28 / 28.07.05
They're probably cakes and not biscuits, dammit.

(Thanks to my flapjack and cracker allies.)
 
 
Psych Safeling
13:31 / 28.07.05
It's them Savoiardi, sorry. Sketchy reading and exclusive Anglophilia did for me.
 
 
iamus
13:37 / 28.07.05
It's not about what's best, it's about WHAT'S THE BEST FUCKING BISCUIT ALLRIGHT

It's Ok. It's Ok. I'm just saying, right? That when the chips are down and you need.... something. Something sweet, something tangible to go with your cuppa, what can you rely on?

Biscuits? Sure, they work alright. They'll give you that fleeting moment of crunchy, munchy pleasure.

But only a moment.

A crumpet? A crumpet'll see you through to the end m'boy. Its sweet refrain lingering long after you down the dregs and daub the crumbs up with a buttery thumb.

A crumpet is your friend
 
 
Spaniel
13:57 / 28.07.05
I've eaten a lot of crumpets recently and I can authoritatively say that biscuits (the sweet, crunchy, non-flapjack variety) are better.

I thank you.
 
 
Psych Safeling
14:03 / 28.07.05
[We] will RESPECT [Boboss's] AUTHORITY!

Turns out crumpets are not as nice as biscuits. I have been wrong all these years. Very wrong. Some of those years I actually remember as agonisingly long pauses between crumpets.
 
 
haus of fraser
14:15 / 28.07.05
I think the decision should belong to MUMMY as to whether crumpets are allowed in hir thread...
 
 
Spaniel
14:19 / 28.07.05
They most certainly should not be allowed in this thread. I was merely pointing out that in a contest of taste biscuits will win over crumpets every. single. time. because they are OBJECTIVELY nicer.
 
 
iamus
14:20 / 28.07.05
We may be dangerously close to TC Hell here...
 
 
Quantum
14:21 / 28.07.05
Shit. Boboss has a handle on objective truth, that means we're all wrong. Arse. At least ze admits plain choc digestives rock, that's good news.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
14:22 / 28.07.05
I like Roast Dinner Biscuits. Beef, roast potatoes, greens, carrots and yorkshire pudding, followed by lashings of rhubarb crumble and custard. Perfect for dunking in your tea.
 
 
Spaniel
14:25 / 28.07.05
Don't be absurd.
 
 
Spaniel
14:27 / 28.07.05
And choc digestives rock. OBJECTIVELY.
 
 
Quantum
14:34 / 28.07.05
PLAIN CHOCOLATE, please be specific.

(Any news on the existence of God while you're dispensing objective truth?)
 
 
Spaniel
14:41 / 28.07.05
Sorry. Plain chocolate.

Apparently God does exist, but he's very lazy.
 
 
Quantum
14:43 / 28.07.05
He? Shit, I owe my Xian friend a fiver...
 
 
Spaniel
14:50 / 28.07.05
Course God's a bloke. Haven't you seen the pictures? He's the one with a beard (well, I suppose that doesn't guarantee the sex but it makes it significantly more likely).
 
 
Psych Safeling
14:58 / 28.07.05
Look, if God's not a biscuit then he has no business on this thread, nads or no nads.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
15:21 / 28.07.05
OH come on it's so bloody obvious isn't it?

If God wasn't a bloke he would be called Mrs God or Martha or Berol or some other girls name. God is a mans name everyone knows that.
Also just found a bit in the Bible that refutes the existence of crumpets so that's that cleared up. Unless of course you want to start a full scale war with GOD?

Didn't think so.

As for MacGuyer's stupid comments about roast dinners, well, untill i find a roast dinner biscuit then he should be treated with utter contempt. He obviously isn't a biscuit fan and should thus be treated as an enemy of Tiffin.

McG. DON'T MESS WITH THE TIFFIN CREW!!
 
 
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16:51 / 28.07.05
Sorry, Tiffin is definitely cake.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
17:17 / 28.07.05
I'm afraid you are incorrect, the tiffin that i refer to is a midday meal. A cake may have been called tiffin rather lunch a brunch bar is called. However the origins of the word refer to sipping a drink, however the term is now used to describe a midday meal in India, dating back to Raj days.

You are however welcome to bring some of your tiffin cake to Tiffin, however i warn you all the guests will be eating delicious biscuits.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
17:52 / 28.07.05
Savoiardi is also known as ladyfingers.

And, omigod, on image-googling for "ladyfingers", I discover that you can now buy biscuits on Amazon (though, since they're American, I should probably refer to them as "cookies" to avoid confusion). This means you can now add them to your wishlist! (I foresee a dance card project...)
 
 
Warewullf
18:49 / 28.07.05
I can't believe image-Googling "Ladyfingers" doesn't bring up any porn...
 
  

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