london 10.14pm 8.3C tuesday 2017
i forgot to buy biscuits. and now i am seeing a tv program as to what is the most favourite britain’s biscuits. from 10th to 1st, it is wagon wheels (10)(i never heard of them but they look nice, might buy some to try), digestives(9), ginger nut(8), jaffa cake(7), (went to court to prove it is a cake and so no VAT on it) but it is quite expensive even without the VAT. chocolate bourbon cream(6), shortbread(5), custard cream(4), jammie dodger(3) never heard of this. its a shortbread with a jam filler. chocolate hobnob(2), chocolate digestive (1).
i buy rich tea(14), digestives, nice, bourbon cream, ginger nut.
the digestive and shortbread got two entries in the top 10. what surprised me is the rich tea is not more popular. it and the plain digestive are the two biscuits i buy the most often.
i wonder what number the wafer biscuits come in. i like them a lot, esp since they were around when i grew up in malaysia. here in uk, i dont see them on sale much. and they dont seem to figure in the top 20 even. they have to be eaten very fresh though, because if they are stale they lose their crispness.
people seem to like dunking their biscuits in tea or coffee, but it is not a thing that i do. i find the biscuits lose their crispness , and that is what i like about them in the first place. so i cannot understand what is the rationale to dunking them.
it looks like there is more than one result because there seem to be many polls taken, and it gives different order of favourites. the above was the order given in the tv program i saw, but here is a link to another top 20 which have different order of biscuits.
here is a list of all the biscuits in uk