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

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.

IngridM20

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?

How do they get the fig into the fig rolls?

BrosnanL27

mojesius wrote: »

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.

Re hob nobs - DIP ME. DIP ME SON I'M GOING NOWHERE.

NSAman

Ahhhh stop will yez... here I am cup of Barry’s and not a bourbon in sight.

Only fecking Oreo sh1te here...

Still they are better than the fanny biscuits... but what would I do for a bourbon now...hmmmm

Your Face

L'prof

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’m sure it’s the case with plenty of biscuits but when it comes to digestives and chocolate digestives it has to be McVitie’s. nothing else compares

Montage of Feck

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

They're made of bats.

Chicken of the cave.

Montage of Feck

L'prof wrote: »

I’m sure it’s the case with plenty of biscuits but when it comes to digestives and chocolate digestives it has to be McVitie’s. nothing else compares

It's easy to cover the cost cutting in sugary biscuits but the cheaper digestives just taste flat with a stodgy texture.

Graces7

Sharpyshoot wrote: »

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

Yep. The occasional dunked gingernut... and of course eg Mikado which are in a separate class altogether..

Jim_Hodge

ulster wrote: »

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

You've done a poll have you? Strange that so many shops sell so many brands of them if nobody in the country likes them.

punisher5112

Fox's creams are bleedin massive in a cup of tea.....