Why are bourbon creams so cheap compared to other types of biscuit?

tdf7187

You can get own brand Dunnes Stores, Tesco, Lidl/Aldi for only around 40c. That's a lot of biscuit for the money - nice biscuits too. Even the branded versions seem quite good value.

Flippyfloppy

They're made of bats.

bilbot79

Oh Lord. I have to follow this thread

athlone573

tdf7187 wrote: »

You can get own brand Dunnes Stores, Tesco, Lidl/Aldi for only around 40c. That's a lot of biscuit for the money - nice biscuits too. Even the branded versions seem quite good value.

Brown hides a lot, same reason gur cake is cheap

Edit:fun fact, first biscuit on the moon.

tdf7187

athlone573 wrote: »

Brown hides a lot, same reason gur cake is cheap

Hmm. Interesting. I think you're onto something there.

I'd sooner have no biscuit than a fcukin burboun cream

odyssey06

Do they contain any bourbon... or cream?

Do digestive biscuits aid digestion?

Can you have a rich tea biscuit... with coffee?

Are you allowed to eat a hobnob if not hobnobbing?

Car99

Because they are made from all thr **** you cant put in any other bag of poison cheap biscuit ****.

Mississippi.

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

e.r

Mississippi. wrote: »

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

Now that’s a quality biscuit.

Ubbquittious

There are other cheap biscuits. Custard cream, 'own brand' rich tea and several others around the 40c mark. They consist of mainly dust and sugar and pumped out by the million in some factory.


I wonder if the owner of the factory took a sh1t, put it in the oven till it was nice and dry, ground it up into a fine powder and spread it out over a year's worth of biscuits would any food safety crowd detect it?

Arthur Daley

Rich tea must be the cheapest to make. A bit more craft goes into making a Bourbon

murpho999

Out a long time, patent expired and lots of generics available.

swimming in a sea

ate a lot growing up, i think they were the only cheap "chocolate" biscuit around in the 80/90s...

Thank God there was no Aldi when i was growing up or Id be 25 stone

Quantum Erasure

Jesus I'd love a bourbon cream or two right about now...

Alf Veedersane

Ubbquittious wrote: »

There are other cheap biscuits. Custard cream, 'own brand' rich tea and several others around the 40c mark. They consist of mainly dust and sugar and pumped out by the million in some factory.

Speaking of Nice biscuits, a chap in the place I used to work was entrusted with buying the bread, butter and biscuits for the kitchen from petty cash. Always Nice biscuits ffs.

punisher5112

How do they get the figs into them

Jim_Hodge

Mississippi. wrote: »

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

As are Lidl own brand Chocolate Digestives.

This mania for cheap biscuits has no end.


I often wonder why anybody buys the bug brand biscuits when Tower Gate in Lidl are at least a quarter of the price with no difference in taste.

Mimon

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Jesus I'd love a bourbon cream or two right about now...

Stonerrrr!

BorneTobyWilde

Jersey Cream for me.

Pinch Flat

They're not made with real cream.

Surreptitious

You can't have your disco biscuit and eat it too.

ulster

tdf7187 wrote: »

You can get own brand Dunnes Stores, Tesco, Lidl/Aldi for only around 40c. That's a lot of biscuit for the money - nice biscuits too. Even the branded versions seem quite good value.

No one likes them in Ireland! Horrible biscuits. Should be confined to the Gates of Hell, from whence it came.

McGinniesta

Because toffee pops are amazing.

dmc17

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Speaking of Nice biscuits, a chap in the place I used to work was entrusted with buying the bread, butter and biscuits for the kitchen from petty cash. Always Nice biscuits ffs.

Did he buy nice bread and butter too?

Speedline

punisher5112 wrote: »

How do they get the figs into them

They are like a tube of dough. A Baker inserts some figs into them and give each one of them a thump of his fist to flatten them.

L1011

There a standard item on price comparisons so there's a deliberate effort to get them as cheap as possible. See also tins of kidney beans, a basic unbranded white sliced pan and so on.

They're there as they're seen as fancier than something like Rich Tea, but not too fancy.

corner of hells

odyssey06 wrote: »

Do they contain any bourbon... or cream?

Do digestive biscuits aid digestion?

Can you have a rich tea biscuit... with coffee?

Are you allowed to eat a hobnob if not hobnobbing?

Dont think to much about chocolate fingers.

km991148

L1011 wrote: »

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They're there as they're seen as fancier than something like Rich Tea, but not too fancy.

I'm a fan of the bourbon alright, but I don't think I've ever heard them called any level of 'fancy' before!

punisher5112

Speedline wrote: »

They are like a tube of dough. A Baker inserts some figs into them and give each one of them a thump of his fist to flatten them.

I don't know what a tracker mortgage is

Mimon

km991148 wrote: »

I'm a fan of the bourbon alright, but I don't think I've ever heard them called any level of 'fancy' before!

If Rich tea is the baseline level then they are fancier. Think that is the point of including them.

Mimon

Speedline wrote: »

They are like a tube of dough. A Baker inserts some figs into them and give each one of them a thump of his fist to flatten them.

:mad:

The One Doctor

Because they are plain crap baked into a biscuit. They are as manky and tasteless as yore ma.

km991148

Mimon wrote: »

If Rich tea is the baseline level then they are fancier. Think that is the point of including them.

Both top quality biscuits when in the mood, but fancy is too far!

km991148

What really takes the piss this is the custard creams. Like a really shyte bourbon.

mojesius

Bourbon creams are ****e. Custard creams are ****e.
Digestive biscuits either need to be crushed and mixed with butter for baking or covered in chocolate.

You can't dunk rich tea, they drink half your brew (Peter Kay did a funny segment about this years ago)

Jersey creams are the champion of the sub-one euro biscuit packet market.

embraer170

Very cheap because the butter is replaced with palm oil and the cream inside is another vegetable oil mixed with colourings and flavourings.

I wonder what they were made of 20 years ago?

monkeysnapper

Why did I bloody have to read this thread after the shops are closed ....

I loved bourbon creams as a kid ...... as I've become older and more successful I've moved up to chocolate aldi hob nobs.... I know if I'd worked a little harder or made more sacrifices I could have gone to the top but things didn't work out as planned.

I think its OK to admit to making small adjustments to life ..... I hoped I would be driving a Audi or something higher spec but driving a Korean car will have to make do...

Just be happy with what you have.... my wife says she loves me for what I am .... doesn't say much though from a woman that steals the cream eggs out of the children's bloody easter eggs...... the bitch

km991148

mojesius wrote: »

(Peter Kay did a funny segment about this years ago)

Doubt it.. !

Sharpyshoot

Never a fan of biscuits. Don’t get them at all. Rather eat cardboard.

Doublebusy

Cup of tea with 2 sugars and a few biscuits please
Serious amount of choice out there - even below 50 cent.
Id nearly eat any of them except ginger nuts

Wonder how long a 40c bourbon cream biscuit takes to get mouldy if you leave it out. They’re probably not even biodegradable!

Didn’t someone try that with burger from McDonald’s once, and found that it didn’t start to break down even after a number of months?

corner of hells

Doublebusy wrote: »

Cup of tea with 2 sugars and a few biscuits please
Serious amount of choice out there - even below 50 cent.
Id nearly eat any of them except ginger nuts

Round these parts ,(my house) , ginger nuts are first choice.

murpho999

ulster wrote: »

No one likes them in Ireland! Horrible biscuits. Should be confined to the Gates of Hell, from whence it came.

If no one like them in Ireland then why does every Irish supermarket sell them?

Greyfox

In fairness they taste much better than digestives, rich tea or custard creams but if your going for a sugary treat you may as well just do it properly with jaffa cakes, toffypops or Vicount.

Tpcl20

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Just be happy with what you have.... my wife says she loves me for what I am .... doesn't say much though from a woman that steals the cream eggs out of the children's bloody easter eggs...... the bitch

Own brand or the branded one?

Doublebusy

corner of hells wrote: »

Round these parts ,(my house) , ginger nuts are first choice.

Tell you what name the best brand of ginger nuts in your opinion and ill get a pack on me weekly shop. See if i can be converted

Doublebusy

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Wonder how long a 40c bourbon cream biscuit takes to get mouldy if you leave it out. They’re probably not even biodegradable!

Didn’t someone try that with burger from McDonald’s once, and found that it didn’t start to break down even after a number of months?

I remember reading this years ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313276/amp/Man-keeps-McDonalds-burger-14-years-looks-exactly-the-day-flipped-Utah.html

EmmetSpiceland

Workhouse biscuits. Yum.

mr_edge_to_you

I think I was 17 before I realised you could by them in packets rather than having 4 a year which came in the tin of USA at Christmas.

Danonino.

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

As are Lidl own brand Chocolate Digestives.

This mania for cheap biscuits has no end.


I often wonder why anybody buys the bug brand biscuits when Tower Gate in Lidl are at least a quarter of the price with no difference in taste.

I had this argument with a housemate once. Did a blind test. He couldn’t tell the difference.

I knew Mcvities Digestives from the 4 and one of them was the dunnes version cause they taste like stale fish water. The other two weren’t bad, but they were nowhere near the perfection of a solid Mcvities.

The fact he couldn’t tell the difference still meant that there was no difference apparently. Also he hated Malted milk biscuits so I found a new housemate.

I ain’t got time for that.


Also Tower Gate taste like compressed couch fibers.