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

Pandiculation

There seems to be a world of little inoffensive, barely edible ‘biscuits’ out there.

Prefab Sprouter

Mississippi. wrote: »

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

And a much superior biccy to the Bourbon too.

Pandiculation

There are those extremely bad quality, tasteless biscuits that you get in an individually wrapped pack that are often provided with hotel room coffee. They’re just grim. Even bourbon is better.

woodchuck

I used to love eating the leftover bourbon creams after meetings in work. One of the downsides to working from home.

They're delicious when a free unexpected treat, but I'd never buy them myself.

Badly Drunk Boy

Arthur Daley wrote: »

A bit more craft goes into making a Bourbon

They have the little holes in them to allow steam to escape in the baking process, otherwise they'd snap before leaving the oven. Exciting, eh?

Penn

Proper Bourbon Creams are, to me, the best biscuit.

But, knock-off Bourbon Creams (the ones that are wider and a bit softer) are better for dunking.

I have done extensive testing on both.

Gamergurll

The woman that used to mind us as kids, she was horrible to us but anyway, every day after dinner we were allowed one biscuit, the chocolatey goodness of Bourbon creams were reserved for her precious son while we were given the fig rolls, the love-em-or-hate-em biscuits and I thought they were rotten. So did everyone in her family apparently that she offloaded them on me and my sisters!
I'm not a big fan of bourbon creams now but when I do have one I munch them thinking, "screw you Pauline." guess I hold a grudge! 😂

Prefab Sprouter

Gamergurll wrote: »

The woman that used to mind us as kids, she was horrible to us but anyway, every day after dinner we were allowed one biscuit, the chocolatey goodness of Bourbon creams were reserved for her precious son while we were given the fig rolls, the love-em-or-hate-em biscuits and I thought they were rotten. So did everyone in her family apparently that she offloaded them on me and my sisters!
I'm not a big fan of bourbon creams now but when I do have one I munch them thinking, "screw you Pauline." guess I hold a grudge! ��

You were forced to eat fig rolls??? That constitutes serious abuse!!!

Mad_maxx

big difference between mcvities rich tea and the 40 cents per packet crap they sell in aldi and lidl

you definately get what you pay for with biscuits

The only thing worse than finding a sewing kit after rattling a biscuit tin, was finding a packet of custard creams in there. You'd have to be starving to find any appeal in a custard cream.

Bourbons are no Jaffa Cake or Viscount, but they'll do.

Prefab Sprouter

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The only thing worse than finding a sewing kit after rattling a biscuit tin, was finding a packet of custard creams in there. You'd have to be starving to find any appeal in a custard cream.

Bourbons are no Jaffa Cake or Viscount, but they'll do.

Custard Creams are the Rolls Royce of Biscuits, followed closely by Jersey Creams and Mikado. Bourbons are the Ford Pinto of Biscuits and are Jaffa Cakes even a biscuit??? :D:D:D:D:D As regards Viscount, since the great "Purge" of April 2005, they arent the same. Orange trumps mint when it comes to biscuit filling, In my very humble opinion.

feelings

Don't knock the gur! Very hard to find 'real' gur cake these days though.

athlone573 wrote: »

Brown hides a lot, same reason gur cake is cheap

Edit:fun fact, first biscuit on the moon.

FrankN1

Better Value

Gamergurll

Prefab Sprouter wrote: »

You were forced to eat fig rolls??? That constitutes serious abuse!!!

Yep, she held us down and stuffed them down out throats

We rarely ate them anyway but my point was that bourbon creams were strictly off limits and she would make a point of us not having them because they were the 'good' ones. Whenever I hear bourbon creams I remember how traumatised I was, lol

bnt

Biscuits (cookies) are among the most basic things you can bake. They're the just about first thing you can teach young kids to bake. If you think about the simple ingredients in biscuits, the basic process involved, then you can see how the process can be automated for mass production and sold at such a low price.

If anything, expensive biscuits are the anomaly, since it's hard to see what you're paying for. McVities can easily be 4x the cost of the generic equivalent, and definitely aren't 4x as good. Where's that money going? Advertising & marketing, and paying for the "brand", seem to be the main cost drivers there. Trying to make your product "premium" is Marketing 101, after all.

SEPT 23 1989

Mad_maxx wrote: »

big difference between mcvities rich tea and the 40 cents per packet crap they sell in aldi and lidl

you definately get what you pay for with biscuits

There is no comparison

Capt'n Midnight

Arthur Daley wrote: »

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

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/index.php3

How to spot biscuits

They come in packets
They have two sides
You could dunk them in tea

Entry level

They come in clear cellophane wrappers
They aren't so nice that you could eat a whole packet
They are homogeneous

Mid range

Anything with a currant, or some sort of fruit in it
Twin layer affair with some sort of cream up the middle
Wrapper has pictures on it.
Some sort of USP

Luxury

Any thing with chocolate on top.
May be in a cardboard box

ohnonotgmail

Danonino. wrote: »

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.

a solid reason for removing somebody from your life. Aldi do a lovely version for practically nothing.

indioblack

odyssey06 wrote: »

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

Certainly not.......do you want to bring down the Empire?

Kivaro

I brought a packet of bourbon creams to a wedding once ............ and totally ruined it.

Cienciano

All the bolands "cream" biscuits are quality. Burbons, custard, jersey, are all great. Custard creams are the best.

I really like Bourbon creams.

They definitely fall into the category of "fancy" biscuits imo, that being those biscuits which parents in the 80s and 90s had to hide from their children for fear of them being eaten too quickly and not being there if visitors came or for after dinner on sunday. Much lower risk of that with digestives, rich tea, fig rolls, marietta, fruit shortcake etc. Ginger nuts were both non-fancy and nice. Custard creams ranked slightly higher than bourbons. Anyone else ever get the orange custard creams back in the 90s? They were great

Speedline

Deleted User wrote: »

I really like Bourbon creams.

They definitely fall into the category of "fancy" biscuits imo, that being those biscuits which parents in the 80s and 90s had to hide from their children for fear of them being eaten too quickly and not being there if visitors came or for after dinner on sunday. Much lower risk of that with digestives, rich tea, fig rolls, marietta, fruit shortcake etc. Ginger nuts were both non-fancy and nice. Custard creams ranked slightly higher than bourbons. Anyone else ever get the orange custard creams back in the 90s? They were great

I forgot about the orange ones. They were lovely.

xzanti

Tesco Butter Kecks. 75c a box. Best chocolate biscuit around imho.

Cienciano

Deleted User wrote: »

I really like Bourbon creams.

They definitely fall into the category of "fancy" biscuits imo, that being those biscuits which parents in the 80s and 90s had to hide from their children for fear of them being eaten too quickly and not being there if visitors came or for after dinner on sunday. Much lower risk of that with digestives, rich tea, fig rolls, marietta, fruit shortcake etc. Ginger nuts were both non-fancy and nice. Custard creams ranked slightly higher than bourbons. Anyone else ever get the orange custard creams back in the 90s? They were great

You can still get strawberry creams.

Rich Tea are bullshít. It's like animal feed or something. Although, throw some butter on it and they're not bad

Ave Sodalis

odyssey06 wrote:

Do digestive biscuits aid digestion?

Well, that's supposedly what they were created for.

tdf7187

Fact number one: Bourbon creams are a perfectly acceptable biscuit. Maybe not the most luxurious, but infinitely preferable to BORING rich tea, (non-chocolate) digestives, etc. Preferable to custard creams also, though I have nothing against the latter.

Fact number two: while the supermarket branded versions are perhaps not quite as nice as the brands, it is not worth paying up to ten times the price for the branded versions. No way, hose!

SEPT 23 1989

bewerbons

Capt'n Midnight

Cienciano wrote: »

Rich Tea are bullshít. It's like animal feed or something.

Rich Tea ? Luxury.

We used to have to make do with a stale Marietta and there were seven of us.

odyssey06

Cienciano wrote: »

You can still get strawberry creams.

Rich Tea are bullshít. It's like animal feed or something. Although, throw some butter on it and they're not bad

How dare you foul mouth this important biscuit!

You're meant to dunk them into tea.