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Carr's Water Biscuits

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  • 19-04-2016 11:35pm
    #1
    Broken Hearted Road
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    I absolutely love these crackers with cheese and sometimes some relish on top. Sometimes I use them for dips too. I love a beetrrot dip and these crackers are lovely with that.

    Last time I did an online tesco shop, I added a few packs of these crackers but they were not available. Dunnes stopped stacking them too. My local spar and petrol station also stopped stocking them.

    Anyone else like these crackers and missing them?

    I googled them and their factory experienced flooding with the storms.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/food/12112737/Carrs-water-biscuits-halt-production-after-factory-flooding.html

    Is there anywhere I can source similar crackers from? Like marks and spencer have a store brand water cracker. I mainly shop in Aldi and they don't have anything similar. I know there's always cream crackers but they're not the same. I love the water biscuits.


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    jimgoose
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    The local Dunnes here has them, IIRC. I like the Carrs Melts.


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    The Sidewards Man
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    Is this a first world problem?


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    The Backwards Man
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    This is a thread all us crackers people can get behind :)


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    The Sidewards Man
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    This is a thread all us crackers people can get behind :)

    +1


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    Crumpets
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    I like crackers


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    #7
    degsie
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    The Sidewards Man wrote: »
    Is this a first world problem?

    Yes, second time around


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    One eyed Jack
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    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »

    I googled them and their factory experienced flooding with the storms.


    They make water biscuits, and they had to stop because of flooding...


    :confused:


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    smash
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    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    I googled them and their factory experienced flooding with the storms.

    Camera pans across factory floor.
    - insert voiceover
    <David Attenborough>
    And here we see some wild Carrs water biscuits in their natural environment.
    </David Attenborough>


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    FunLover18
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    The Sidewards Man wrote: »
    Is this a first world problem?

    Nope, the third world aren't stocking them either


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    Broken Hearted Road
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    The Sidewards Man wrote: »
    Is this a first world problem?

    It absolutely is.


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    Broken Hearted Road
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    The local Dunnes here has them, IIRC. I like the Carrs Melts.

    I'm on my way to being fairly skint so maybe a few weeks into May, I might consider travelling around Ireland to pick up a supply of crackers.


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    The Sidewards Man
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    Buy some corn flakes and cook them in oil.


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    jimgoose
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    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    I'm on my way to being fairly skint so maybe a few weeks into May, I might consider travelling around Ireland to pick up a supply of crackers.

    Fine. Go without, then - that's what you get for living in the Third World! :D


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    The hack of your life. Water biscuits are for ducks


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    CFlat
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    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    I'm on my way to being fairly skint so maybe a few weeks into May, I might consider travelling around Ireland to pick up a supply of crackers.


    Will you go buy Carr?



    Sorry about that.


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    jimgoose
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    The hack of your life. Water biscuits are for ducks

    They're for sailors, actually - a more genteel version of the old "Hardtack", or Ship's Biscuit, made without any shortening. And ideal as a cheese-carrier. :D


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Would they stop you from getting scurvy


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    parasite
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    About a decade ago, there was pretty much the exact same story with flooding. The water biscuits disappeared for a few months, never quite the same since, probably an excuse to cheapen ingredients ...

    edit : yep, 11 years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4439499.stm


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    [Deleted User]
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    I never ate crackers, kinda hated them, until I discovered Jacobs Mediterraneo Olive Oil and Oregano. I eat those with the Philadelphia cream cheese stuff in the tub, with garlic and herbs. It almost broke my Doritos addiction.


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    #21
    fatknacker
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    I was once a big wheel at the cracker factory, you know.


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    Esel
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    Subliminal Jacob's thread?

    Oatcakes ftw.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #23
    mansize
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    I only found out Jacobs invented Cream Crackers!


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    #24
    jimgoose
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Would they stop you from getting scurvy

    No, they just last a long time.


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    hairyprincess
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Would they stop you from getting scurvy

    Maybe, they won't stop you getting curvy though :/


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