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Carr's Water Biscuits

  • 19-04-2016 10:35pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    Is this a first world problem?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


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

    +1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


    I like crackers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭degsie


    Is this a first world problem?

    Yes, second time around


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack



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


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


    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    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>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Is this a first world problem?

    Nope, the third world aren't stocking them either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    Is this a first world problem?

    It absolutely is.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    Buy some corn flakes and cook them in oil.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    The hack of your life. Water biscuits are for ducks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,843 ✭✭✭CFlat


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Would they stop you from getting scurvy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,614 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Subliminal Jacob's thread?

    Oatcakes ftw.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    I only found out Jacobs invented Cream Crackers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Would they stop you from getting scurvy

    No, they just last a long time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    Would they stop you from getting scurvy

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


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