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

tdf7187 · 22-04-2021 10:27PM #1

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 · 22-04-2021 10:27PM

They're made of bats.

bilbot79 · 22-04-2021 10:27PM

Oh Lord. I have to follow this thread

athlone573 · 22-04-2021 10:28PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:29PM

athlone573 wrote: »

Brown hides a lot, same reason gur cake is cheap

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

22-04-2021 10:29PM

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

odyssey06 · 22-04-2021 10:31PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:31PM

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

Mississippi. · 22-04-2021 10:32PM

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

e.r · 22-04-2021 10:36PM

Mississippi. wrote: »

Own brand custard creams are just as cheap.

Now that’s a quality biscuit.

Ubbquittious · 22-04-2021 10:37PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:38PM

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

murpho999 · 22-04-2021 10:39PM

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

swimming in a sea · 22-04-2021 10:39PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:42PM

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

Alf Veedersane · 22-04-2021 10:45PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:46PM

How do they get the figs into them

Jim_Hodge · 22-04-2021 10:48PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:49PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

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

Stonerrrr!

BorneTobyWilde · 22-04-2021 10:50PM

Jersey Cream for me.

Pinch Flat · 22-04-2021 10:51PM

They're not made with real cream.

Surreptitious · 22-04-2021 10:51PM

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

ulster · 22-04-2021 10:53PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:53PM

Because toffee pops are amazing.

dmc17 · 22-04-2021 10:54PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:57PM

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 · 22-04-2021 10:58PM

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 · 22-04-2021 11:00PM

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 · 22-04-2021 11:02PM

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 · 22-04-2021 11:03PM

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 · 22-04-2021 11:04PM

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.

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

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