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

maudgonner

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

odyssey06

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Rich Tea ? Luxury.

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

Between the seven of ye?

Sheep Shagger

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.

You do know chocolate digestive biscuits are only 45c a pack (home brands).

Danonino.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

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

I once thought I was being a bit harsh and questioning it. Then I woke up. Horrible dream.

For me it was Malted Milks, Mcvities Digestives and on a rare occasion a fox classic bar. All ‘rubbish’ apparantly, usually muttered as he munched on Maryland mini cookies and Towergate plywood. The cretin.

fussyonion

Try Centra Milk Chocolate Digestives and tell me they're not nicer than McVities.

As for Bourbons, they're what my Dad calls 'smelly boring biscuits'. See also custard creams, rich tea, Marietta, lemon puffs, Jersey Creams and Lotus.

the beer revolu

To those insisting that you get what you pay for in biscuits, imagine the following.

A person eats McVitte's digestives all their life. They try a budget brand.
These are not exactly the same as what they are used to so they are branded as inferior for ever.

Same if you only ever drink milk from one producer - all the others taste weird.

Supervalu chocolate digestives are lovely.
Tesco jaffa cakes are rubbish.
Aldi make my favourite fig roll.

Some budget brands are lovely some not so much but they all differ.

Try different brand cream crackers. They are all a bit different to each other but I couldn't say one is better than the other. However if you'd eaten only one brand all your life..... etc.

EddieN75

Tim tams are like penguin bars but are passed off as biscuits so you don't feel guilty about eating 3 of them. You wouldn't eat 3 penguin bars in a row

the beer revolu

fussyonion wrote: »

Try Centra Milk Chocolate Digestives and tell me they're not nicer than McVities.

As for Bourbons, they're what my Dad calls 'smelly boring biscuits'. See also custard creams, rich tea, Marietta, lemon puffs, Jersey Creams and Lotus.

I agree with much you have to say but you are wrong about much.
I assume that the centra milk chocolate digestives are the same as the Supervalu ones. They are excellent.

Your dad was right about bourbons, custard creams and lemon puffs.
Your family need to reevaluate rich tea (with butter), marietta (with butter), Jersey creams and lotus biscuits.

And to others, bourbons were never fancy, not in the 70s or ever. Always shlte and undesired.

Speedline

EddieN75 wrote: »

Tim tams are like penguin bars but are passed off as biscuits so you don't feel guilty about eating 3 of them. You wouldn't eat 3 penguin bars in a row

I'd go through a sleeve of them in a blink. Mug of tae and they're gone.

dxhound2005

The ingredients of a Bourbon Cream and a Jersey Cream are very similar.

Ingredients
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Nicotinamide, Thiamin), Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Sustainable Palm, Palm Kernel, Rapeseed in varying proportions), Dextrose, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder, Colour (Ammonia Caramel), Wheat Starch, Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Soya Flour, Raising Agents (Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate), Salt, Flavourings.

Ingredients
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Vegetable Oils (Palm, Palm Kernel, Rapeseed), Sugar, Wheat Starch, Dextrose, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Soya Flour, Dried Glucose Syrup, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Salt, Flavouring, Colour (Carotenes)

Sheep Shagger

Speedline wrote: »

I'd go through a sleeve of them in a blink. Mug of tae and they're gone.

Luckily Aldi have a version that are very close to tim tams.....can't be paying the fallon & byrne price of €7 odd a pack!!

beerguts

Rich Tea biscuits smothered in butter. It doesn't matter the brand because it will be smothered in the glorious butter.
In fact you could say my favourite biscuit is butter!!!

Yes I am a fat bastard

Badly Drunk Boy

Deleted User wrote: »

I really like Bourbon creams.

Anyone else ever get the orange custard creams back in the 90s? They were great

I'm not a huge biscuit-lover (and I also don't drink tea or coffee) but when I was a child in the late 70s/early 80s, my favourite biscuit was the orange cream. I can't remember the last time I saw them, but I particularly loved one brand. I can't remember if it was an 'own brand' but it didn't have the custard cream-type design on the actual biscuit. I think it was wavy lines or something...

the beer revolu wrote: »

To those insisting that you get what you pay for in biscuits, imagine the following.

A person eats McVitie's digestives all their life. They try a budget brand.
These are not exactly the same as what they are used to so they are branded as inferior for ever.

Same if you only ever drink milk from one producer - all the others taste weird.

I agree. I mean most Americans prefer their own types of chocolate despite the rest of the world knowing that they're wrong.

Actually, I saw a experiment done regarding chocolate where people from various countries tasted chocolate from these various countries. Most people preferred the chocolate they knew best but second place for most (who hadn't given it top spot) was the better quality chocolate (Belgian, I think).

Capt'n Midnight

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I agree. I mean most Americans prefer their own types of chocolate despite the rest of the world knowing that they're wrong.

Wasn't there something about butyric acid because in they days before refrigeration it took so long for the milk to get to the factory it had started going off ?

Or because they use cheap and nasty ingredients , like cheap and nasty beans, high fructose corn syrup and whichever of palm oil or marine diesel residue is cheapest ?

Sharpyshoot

People who go down on their cousins eat bourbons. Perhaps they dip them first, some say.

Badly Drunk Boy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Wasn't there something about butyric acid because in they days before refrigeration it took so long for the milk to get to the factory it had started going off ?

Or because they use cheap and nasty ingredients , like cheap and nasty beans, high fructose corn syrup and whichever of palm oil or marine diesel residue is cheapest ?

Yeah, I think I saw on QI where they said that vomit and American chocolate both have the same chemical (butyric acid) which causes the 'special' taste.

the beer revolu

Does anyone remember a cream sandwich biscuit, very similar to Jersey creams but if you separated the biscuit parts, the cream filling was in the shape of a stylised cat?

Badly Drunk Boy

By the way, I'm just watching Sunday Brunch on Channel 4 where they are doing their weekly 'King Of The Tin' section, to discuss their guests (and the nation's) favourite and least favourite biscuit.

This week's guest have nominated as their worst biscuit the Rich Tea (Giovanna Fletcher), the Party Ring (Olly Alexander), and the Kingston (Rose Matefeo). That last biscuit is from Australia.

Their favourite biscuits were the Chocolate Hobnob, Ginger nuts, and the double coated Tim Tam, respectively.

Nice to see the Rich Tea again get the recognition for its nothingness...:D

the beer revolu

That's not fair on rich tea.
Rich tea are an honest, inexpensive biscuit with no notions! They aren't pretending to be fancy.
I love them with butter.

Badly Drunk Boy

The fact that you need to put butter on it says enough! :pac:

km991148

the beer revolu wrote: »

That's not fair on rich tea.
Rich tea are an honest, inexpensive biscuit with no notions! They aren't pretending to be fancy.
I love them with butter.

No need for butter. Great dunker, five or six easily with a cuppa for that lovely sweet, mild, almost malty goodness.


Party rings tho.. absolutely misnomer and abysmal biscuit. All that glitters etc... No substance whatsoever.

Prefab Sprouter

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Their favourite biscuits were the Chocolate Hobnob,

Nice to see the Rich Tea again get the recognition for its nothingness...:D

Hobnobs, are they not a slim Weetabix???