Americans Try British Biscuits For The First Time 🍪
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- Two Americans try the UK's most popular biscuits! As a bonus, we're also going to rank them for you! Our list of UK snacks includes Jaffa Cakes, Hobnobs, Cadbury Fingers, Shortbread, Chocolate Digestives, Chocolate Hobnobs, and SO MANY MORE!!
Which British biscuits are your favorite? And how would you rank the 12 biscuits we tried today? Let us know down in the comments!
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Biscuits should Never, Never, Never be dunked in coffee, only Tea.
Agreed!!! I also would never dunk most of those biscuits. A good Rich Tea is perfect for dunking.
Italy - enters chat
I dunk digestives in coffee, what’s the big deal? You all seriously need to work out what’s important in life.
@@SvenTviking it’s sarcasm, nobody is truly serious, just having a bit of a laugh. People can dunk their toast in their tea or coffee for all anyone truly cares. Sadly, sarcasm doesn’t come across as well in written form.
Get over yourself. Of course biscuits should be dunked in coffee.
Your first mistake was dunking the biscuits in coffee! TEA! Tea is what you dunk biscuits in. Unless you have Ginger Nuts, then coffee is the answer. If you had tried the genuine article of all these biscuits instead of the off brand and gluten free efforts (I appreciate why you didn't though) you'd have got a proper idea of what they actually taste like.
I'm with you there. I'd go further and say that dunking chocolate-covered biscuits isn't a good idea. One of the joys of dunking, for me, is when the biscuit partly absorbs the liquid to give you a lovely tea/biscuit combination of flavours. Having even half the biscuit covered in chocolate hinders the tea from being absorbed, and the chocolate flavour tends to dominate. (Bourbons are one of my favourites, but I personally never dunk them.)
Correct, tea IS the best for dunking
Scottish all butter Shortbread is a comfort biscuit.
@@omegadeep1 Millionaire's Shortbread is the decadent version. So-called because it has layers of caramel and chocolate on top of the shortbread... and, in Scotland, only millionaires can afford such luxury ingredients ;)
@@omegadeep1 soooooo goooood
For me “cookie” is only used when it’s preceded by “chocolate chip”
Yes agreed here in the U.K. a cookie is a specific type of biscuit. So in America they say cookies for all what we say biscuits. But our “cookies” are their “chocolate chip cookies”
Or the big chewy ones sold in the bakery section
Its strange isnt it. Americans call all biscuits cookies and they have their own thing called biscuits which look like savoury/scuffed scones and they dip them in their weird yellow gravy. Just wrong. To us a cookie is a round shaped biscuit that has chocolate chips in it. Ive also taken notice over the years that america likes to claim a lot of thing as their own, such as the apple pie, they called it "The all american desert" or something lol when its obviously english. Most of the stuff they say is "their culture" and was made by them is actually from the UK lol, they are just all very unaware of this.
Weirdly, we do call some things cookies, while most are referred to as biscuits. In the UK, cookies are chunkier, softer and generally more moist than a biscuit. The word 'biscuit' derives from a Latin term meaning 'twice baked' and therefore biscuits are harder and generally thinner. There is a chain called Millie's Cookies, which is popular and serves cookies, not biscuits.
I believe cookie comes from the Dutch word for cake.
In latin twice cooked is 'bis cotus'
Which went to 'bescuit' in old french to 'biscuit' in english
@@RichardBarclay The German word is Kuchen (pronounced Koo-ken)
Exactly. Like we have chips and fries….
Oh, so it's like the same thing in a way but a different style... :? Thick and Thin... interesting. :p
Dunking in coffee? You need a croissant or pain aux chocolate, pan aux raisin...and to be en France.
You dunk British biscuits in tea old chaps.
No.
No, tea is crap for dunking. Tea and biscuit flavours don't even work together. Coffee always tastes good with biscuit. I drink loads of different tea and loads of coffee and never bother having a biscuit with tea, it just wastes tea and biscuit.
I’m British and I dunk biscuits in coffee!
I like it best with hot chocolate 🍪
@@SixtySecondYoga ur weird
Not lemony. Not vanilla-ey. The word you're looking for is "custardy" hence "custard creams"
Another clue is in the name moment 👍
But all the custard I've ever had is either lemony or vanilla-ey!! 😂
Maybe custard is different in the UK and USA...
well, custard is vanilla flavoured. However I have had some custard creams that have a lemony flavour, So i think it depends on the brand they bought- it might be a dodgey lemony one. Not a big fan of custard creams, rather have a bourbon.
@@WanderingRavens The word "custard" can sometimes refer to an entirely different food item in the USA than what it is in the UK. In the USA it can be a meal, presented like a tart/cheesecake type deal. In the UK it's a... thick sauce? Similar to (but not the same as) what Americans would call "pudding"... which is of course not what we call pudding lol
Just one thing:
Jaffa cakes are cakes, not biscuits (so the survey was wrong to include them). There is a debate on whether they are cakes or biscuits (as you already know) but tests show that they are cakes as they go hard when left out whereas biscuits go soft when left out. They're classed as cake for tax purposes which means less tax over biscuits (which you already know and is great because they're my favourite food). They're shaped like biscuits but are actually cake.
Surely there is a clue in the name.
They’re also literally called JaffaCAKES
They used to do Jaffa cakes completely covered in chocolate,they were even better than the normal ones.
@@matt7775 They sound like they would have been amazing! I want to try one so bad now.
@@hadz8671 Yep, but some people just don't wanna accept it. Another point to the argument is that you would never put Jaffa Cakes in a biscuit tin to help your self unlike digestive; hobnobs etc.
We use the word cookie to mean American-style biscuits, specifically ones that are soft rather than crunchy.
There's a quote I remember reading somewhere - "language abhors a synonym". Basically it was used to refer to the fact that very often if Brits use an American word for something we already have a word for, we tend to use it for a specific American TYPE of that thing. Another example is fries - to us they're a specific type of chips.
That is so true, I'd never thought of that. Tortilla chips is another one.
I mean or if something literally is a cookie as well you know the 5 pack you get that says cookies
I love shortbread, and if there's a plate of biscuits I'd normally go for it, but weirdly it's the the one biscuit that I manage to entirely forget the existence of until it in front of me
Same!!
Ditto
That's the best description of shortbread I've ever read.
Yep. That's me too. I cannot be left in a room with shortbread.
@@Nimmo1492 Thanks 🤣
I can't take anyone who doesn't like jaffa cakes seriously.
i’m allergic to them 😫😫
@@lr4593 you get a free pass
I’m allergic to people who don’t like Jaffa cakes
i literally just bought them online to try them since my country don't have them...a lot of British people love it but when americans review it they be all like "ew orange and ugh it's cake not crunchy" i mean jaffa is a type of orange and cake is cake...what do you expect lol...and im pure asian so i have a wide and more accepting taste buds compare to americans and i loveeeeee orange flavored sweets...so i can't wait try it!!!
@@Leeeeyes they're really really good!
I don’t accept that the choc part is the bottom of the Jaffa cake!
Where are the party rings and fig rolls!
Jaffa cakes and fig rolls aren’t biscuits though
Digestives - wheat based biscuit.
HobNob - oat based biscuit.
Speaking as someone who can no longer eat gluten, I can tell you there is no comparison between the original and the gluten free versions. There are some GF biscuits that are ok but they are nowhere near as good as the originals and way more expensive unfortunately.
I have a mild wheat allergy(makes me itchy), so I eat a lot of gluten free stuff and yes I agree it usually doesn’t compare
I second that. Coeliac alternatives are dry as dust, generally speaking, Even when branded such as the hobnobs. In fact I have to say that I prefer the Schär Alternative I think they’re called nibbles or something to the McVities.
Even something as basic as Bourbon and custard creams are dreadful and any company that makes the regular variety produces a true product of those two!
My mum is coeliac and says exact same thing. Bit of an unfair comparison that way
I’m GF too, but I can promise you that although that is true in most cases, GF hobnobs are identical to the real thing. To the point I had to keep checking the packaging said GF
@@bowbooks5659 as someone who recently had to stop gluten.... Gf hobnobs are nothing like normal hob nobs. Dry, and taste less. I miss the regular ones so much.
You got the Bourbon origin story all jumbled up - "Bourbon" does not translate as "10 holes" in German, but the inventor Hans Zehnloch's surname does! He named the biscuit "Bourbonn" by taking the first syllable from the location of the Cadbury factory in Bournville and the second one from his hometown of Bonn. The second 'n' was later dropped.
Ohhhhhh! Right! That's it! Thanks! 😂
Yeahhh, I was like wait a minute, Bourbon does not mean ten holes in German.
Thanks, I've been walking up and down the biscuit aisle looking for zehn Löcher cremes.
Bourbons are a Peek Freans invention ...c1910 but was originally called the Creola. - londonist.com/2015/10/biscuits
Never ever duck hobnobs in coffee please... Unless it's a biscoff😱😱 only duck in tea 😩
Plain digestives are often served as part of a cheese board, they work really well together!
Good heaven ,a digestive top with a thick slice of nature cheddar and a dollop of Branstan Pickle.
Cookie is the specific type of biscuit usually with chocolate chips in it.
Good to know!
Soft baked or crunchy ?
@@dave_h_8742 both
for a long time the Maryland cookies were the only biscuit sold here with the word cookie on the packet
Yes or big chewy ones found in the bakery section
Why are you dunking the biscuits IN COFFEE?!?!? 🙄
First thing I thought 😂
Shame on you for putting Jaffa Cakes and Chocolate Hobnobs so low.
Yeah, shame on you for having taste buds and an opinion LOL
Malted Milk - AKA Cow Biscuits - are my all-time favourite bickie.
Full name - Moo Cow Biscuits :)
We have those in the states too! I like those!
Sports Biscuits (Fox's), same but haven't seen them for years.
@@dinger40
Sports biscuits, or Fool's Malted Milks as I call them, were fun as a kid, but nowhere near as tasty as a cow biscuit. I saw some recently in Morrisons.
So a few points
1. Tins of Danish Butter Cookies are popular in the UK at Christmas time in the UK too, and they’re a type of shortbread. Shortbread is very common in the UK, particularly various types of Scottish Shortbread biscuits.
2. Cookies in the UK refer to Chocolate Chip Cookies, or similar, whether it’s the likes of Maryland Cookies or the larger and softer style cookies that you can find in packs of 4 or 5 in the bakery section of Supermarkets
3. Milk Chocolate Hobnobs are excellent
4. Try McVities Double Chocolate Digestives, where the Digestive part itself also has Chocolate in it.
5. In basic UK Biscuits, Digestives have a very common rival! Rich Teas, which are slightly larger and thinner, and are more brittle compared to Digestives crumbliness. Like Digestives the sweetness is dialled back a bit and understated. Unlike Digestives, plain Rich Teas are far more common than Chocolate ones, which do exist but can be hard to find.
6. Cadbury’s Chocolate Fingers are very definitely biscuits rather than sweets (candy)
Why are you dipping biscuits into coffee? It is supposed to be dipped in tea, PG or Yorkshire tea. Plain Digestives are supposed to go in tea. Same goes for Ginger Nut biscuits as well.
Yorkshire tea is amazing and you should subscribe to there official CZcams channel and have a cuppa a day
Jaffa cakes in a biscuit video..... *screams in British* 🥴
😂😂
It’s a cake, they proved it in court/ also you can get a full sized cake version.
@@andysutcliffe3915 Also, they’re called Jaffa... CAKES 😁
As the comedian Peter Kaye once said the Hobnob is the Royal Marine Commando of the biscuit world.....it'll drink all of your brew on you before it crumbles!!
Haven't heard that quote before! 😂😂
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Very true and the Ginger Nut is the SAS of biscuits. It just keeps going under for more!
@@frankbrown4780 yes they need to watch this
DIP ME!
I used to love lemon puff biscuits when I was little, but I've not seen them in shops for years, same with orange creams and the really rare raspberry creams that I only ever remember seeing in a multi-pack
Grandma biscuits.....
Lemon puffs - home bargains!
can still get them, they're good. Bolands in ireland make them and can get on amazon if struggling to find
I think being part Scottish I’m biased but a decent buttery shortbread might be the king of biscuits. I do love a plain hobnob, one of the only times in life where something isn’t improved by the addition of chocolate.
You absolutely can dunk a jaffa, just quickly. Tea gets absorbed into the sponge a bit, chocolate melts a bit. Delightful
I'll work on my technique then :D
Maryland Cookies are marketed as being American style biscuits, hence "cookies" and I would say the texture is what Brits think of as a "cookies". Also, if you can almost fold it and it bends before breaking, Brits think of it as 'American' style and therefore a "cookie". Generally, the larger biscuits, often sold 'fresh' in a bag from the bakery section, are considered "cookies" in the UK. I would say, these have really only become a thing in the last 20-ish years xxx
As a guy in his 50's, this bothers me kinda. When I was young, nearly all cookies were crunchy until the 80s, I think. It was common that many people would like home cooked cookies right from the oven while they were still soft and gooey. Some cookie manufacturer decided to market a cookie with a recipe that allowed the cookie to be soft right from the package. Now, I have to specifically look for the term crunchy or original on the package.
@@jkelley14701 When I was a kid, the home cooked stuff tended to be flapjacks - made from rolled oaks, raisins, butter, brown sugar and/or syrup, cooked in a tray and cut into squares (or cornflakes covered in chocolate). Not had a good flapjack in years. Most UK "biscuits" sold in a 'tube' like packet are crunchy, if they are in a bag, then they are probably giant and bendy 'cookies' xxx
Cookies are a specific type of biscuit here in the UK. Like the Maryland ones, they are chunky, kind of crunchier round the edge and softer towards the middle, and made from a thick dough. They also usually have chocolate chips in.
"cookie" in the UK refers to Americanised biscuits, and you get hard cookies like the Maryland ones and supermarkets often sell larger soft cookies. For it to be called a cookie it generally needs some broken up pieces of chocolate or fruit in it, or to be soft
Please can you try Rich Tea Biscuits! They are probably one of the top quintessentially British biscuits whilst being the most unpopular, favoured most by the older generations
Shortbread tends to be saved more as a treat at Christmas. Although can be bought all year round. Just Christmas boxes of shortbread is quite traditional
Good to know!
Also traditional to eat at Hogmanay/New Year in Scotland. Love me a bit of shortbread!
@@rosieM91 I love shortbread, but definitely try and find traditional Scottish Shortbread as tastes better than generic shortbread
I just have to say in all your recent food videos including this one I really love your camera work and editing. It feels like a I'm watching a segment in a magazine tv show. Keep up the good work.
Why would custard creams taste like lemon?? They taste like custard, hence the name.
All the custard I've had tastes either like lemon or vanilla :(
how strange! I've never heard of flavoured custard, it has it's own flavour
@@SB-fk1hb Most basic custard recipes include vanilla flavouring. Although, some custards have a much greater amount and use natural vanilla pods.
@@frankbrown4780 Yes I suppose so, I think a vanilla custard and plain old custard are different though, Maybe not 🤷♀️
@@SB-fk1hb A madagascan vanilla custard, tastes like melted vanilla ice cream, a standard yellow custard like Ambrosia, has a subtle vanilla taste, mixed with an eggish flavour as it's essentially a canned egg custard (Even though I'm not sure it contains actual egg anymore)
For me personally I usually think of a biscuit being firm and crisp to eat, a cookie is usually bigger and softer.
I would expect a cookie to bend, but a biscuit to snap, not really scientific though.
I'd agree with that
Shortbread is one of my favourites.
Sometimes at Christmas I make mincemeat shortbread - which is actually more of a dessert than a normal biscuit, I have it served with cream. Equally gorgeous though.
That sounds delicious!
In the UK a cookie is a softer type of biscuit it's more chewy than crunchy. They are normally bigger than most biscuits and have bits in such as chocolate chips, dried fruit and nuts.
Thank you! You always brighten up my day!
Tunnock's Dark Chocolate Caramel Wafers - by far the best biccie!
Where can you buy them?
Much as I love dark chocolate, it's got to be milk for me WRT Tunnock's
More a treat than a teatime biscuit though...
I also like pink wafers. They are in their own category of biscuits.
@@MeFreeBee Bit skimpy with the chocolate coating though.
Nothing comes close to the late lamented Abbey Crunch. A moment of silence please.
Genuine tears in my eyes right now.
Jaffa cakes are cakes because they go stale if they were left out whereas a biscuit will go soggy if it was left out! Also I love fox’s Viennese chocolate fingers, fox’s jam and cream biscuits and I love ginger nuts! 😍 yay biscuits!! Also I only use the term “cookie” when referring to something that has chocolate chips or fruit in it that is slightly soft and chewy whereas as a biscuit is crunchy and can be snapped into pieces!
Shortbread is amazing, I'm surprised it's never been recommended! Scottish shortbread fingers are a classic, and it's super easy to make at home too
Tesco digestives? Who briefed you? McVities only. Sorry. Stopped watching once I saw Tesco and the Schgg Gluten free
lol but I think your right.
The tesco brands were gluten free lol
If I eat gluten I die
@@WanderingRavens Even for realism I think we should avoid that, even if you have to lower yourselves to that level ;)
@@WanderingRavens I understand that but it's a difficult decision like-for-like when you have Tesco, or any non-branded product. Whatever you do you can't win! 😁 Perhaps a gluten free test and a separate "full fat" test,, or is it that we take our biscuits too seriously? I'll stand by your published list with the exception of Rich Tea which is the standard for dunking (not repeated dipping)! Back to the rugby.
@@foghornleghornish Good idea! I'll make Eric do a "full fat" biscuit test for you 😁
You’re dipping them in coffee that’s where you went wrong.. 😂
Yup!
A good milky tea dissolves biscuits much better.
Shortbread definately my favourite the good ones melt in your mouth 🤤 followed by plain digestives which i eat as a savoury snack with real butter spread on it sliced cheddar (real cheese not plastic) and sometimes sliced apple
Hey guys, I just realised a British snack that isn't on any of the American videos. In pubs you will find pork scratchings and Walkers crisps but another common pub snack is a bag of crisps called Scampi Fries. You can find them in supermarkets too, in a smallish green and cream pack.
Shortbread is my favourite biscuit. I leave next to biscuit factory in Edinburgh Scotland they bake shortbread there. We can smell it bake.
Oh my, would love my air to smell like that haha
I used to live near peek freans factory and each day you could smell a different biscuit baking. My Nan got a job at the factory and lasted half a day because she couldn’t stand the smell! 😂
@@BasherBrookes I used to travel up on the train to London Bridge and just “knew” where I was because of the smell from the Peake Freans factory... the delicious smells on “custard crepe” and”bourbon” baking days.... *deep joy sighs* happy memories
Did anyone else have iced rich tea biscuits in primary school??😆😆😆😆
Not me 😂
@@WanderingRavens You should try it- it's actually really nice😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@enorace5153 Look for Party Rings, closest thing you can get these days. Did you have the ones with stick men doing sports on the back?
Eric should try Cafe Noir biscuits.
@@sammygirl5835 Nope, we just had plain round rich teas with icing (and strawberry laces if we were feeling fancy!!). The biscuits with the sporty stick men on were also lovely, though😆😆
So glad to hear you 2 are back in the UK, living out your travel dreams. Hope you're having fun.
We're having a grand time!!
In some parts of Scotland, 'cream cookies' are split sweet bread buns, filled with cream. Over the past couple of decades, as in-store bakeries have started to appear, large sweet and usually soft biscuits called cookies have become quite popular. So we certainly use the word - but they're usually of the recently baked, soft luxury variety; rather than what we call biscuits, which are nowadays normally pre-packed with relatively long shelf lives. Biscuits usually have a degree of crunch, too. In Scotland, shortbread isn't really regarded as an ordinary biscuit by the way, but a luxury item for new year, etc.
With the Chocolate Fingers, you can bite both ends off, and use it as a straw to drink your coffee. This also works with Twix.
Excellent tip!! Thanks!
I would suggest the full size chocolate fingers for this
Or penguins which is then a British tim tam slam
With Twix? With A Twix you mean. You’ve wrote that like how Apple would talk about an iPhone
A Cookie is a specific kind of biscuit. Usually a chocolate chip thingy like the Marylands.
Thanks for clearing that up for us!
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Sort of, but not quite. English is a weird language because it has lots of words that are near, or even exact synonyms. You can say the same thing in many ways. So, in British English, we've always had two words for biscuits - "biscuit" (from French) and "cookie" (from Dutch). They have both meant slightly different things and their meanings have changed over the years. From the early to the latter half of the 20th century, cookie has come to mean an American style biscuit, but it has been part of the British English lexicon since the 1700s - as long as biscuit.
The chocolate digestives and hobnobs are coated chocolate side down too. That's the pattern, the shape the grill/conveyor belt they are traveling along on.
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Perhaps Eric should try glutenous digestives, McVities and/or Sainsbury's choc-chip. Some gluten-free foods can be awful.
shortbread is very popular but for some reason they're the biscuits we tend to forget about when we say our type of biscuits lol.
Also cookie is a type of biscuit here, so cookies are usuallyv biscuits with chocolate bits in, then its called a "cookie", while is the US cookie means biscuit, over here, cookie is a type of biscuit :)
So if you say to us, I'm going to get a cookie, but then get some shortbread, we'd probably be thinking, about a biscuit with cholocale bits in and wonder why you've gotten a shortbread instead, lol
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Jaffa cakes are cakes, I eat them chocolate side up. You need to try Ginger Nuts.
Biscuits. They are sold in the biscuit aisle not the cake one
A biscuit snaps, but a cookie will bend a little often slightly under baked on purpose in the centre.
Oh yes, according to McVities the chocolate on a digestive is on the bottom. There was an "inside the factory" program recently about them and they were most insistent about it, the marks in the chocolate are where they stand on a wire conveyor which skins over a vat of liquid choclate
"Biscuits" are the standard crunchy type (ie. Ginger nuts, digestives, bourbons). We use "cookie" when talking about larger, softer and moist biscuits, or (sometimes) biscuits with chocolate chips in. But definitely say biscuits most, by far
I was so hoping you'd fall in love with Custard Creams, the king of biscuits!
The gluten free version isn't nearly as good
"ARMADILLO'S! Smooth on the inside crunchy on the outside"
From the Dime bar advert
I love shortbread,but never tried dunking it, it never seemed like a good idea 😅 we do get them tins of Danish cookies, they famously get used as sewing kit storage tins after the biscuits have been eaten,or at least they used to be :) We (or at least where I'm from) still call them biscuits even though it says cookies on the tin.
We say Maryland as Mary Land, and the difference between biscuits and cookies for me is its texture size and ingredients. Usually a cookie will be softer and larger than a biscuit, and also usually have a second filling such as chocolate chips, smarties etc, where as a biscuit is usually only one type of thing, and at most either dipped or coated in chocolate.
My favourites are milk chocolate hobnobs for sure :)
Hi Jamie!! I was surprised by how good shortbread tastes dunked! Highly recommend! :D And thanks for clearing up the Maryland question for us and the definition of cookie! x
When I was younger my mother made shortbread biscuits. I used to bring them to school to share them with my friends. They were very good.
Love from Singapore.
And the final and most important point:
13. Gluten-free versions of these biscuits should not be assumed to be representative of their original glutinous counterparts in any way - the former do not do the latter justice. I assume that they're being substituted due to a medically recognised coeliac condition or other genuine intolerance - if gluten is being avoided for other (imaginary) 'health reasons' then you should grin and bear to try the real thing. I strongly urge anyone involved who can eat gluten to try the glutinous versions, rather than the poor imitations rendered gluten-free.
Pretty sure grace is medically allergic to gluten bro
@@Belsfc9999 Just wanting to be sure bro. Avoiding gluten without a genuine medical reason is not only unhealthy but serves to aid the spread of fashionable quick-fix-styley pseudoscientific bullshit about certain foods being objectively 'good' or 'bad'... Which is also infuriatingly irritating.
The problem with the gluten free versions is that they don’t tend to be as good as the proper versions. But unfortunatly there’s not a lot you can do if you’re gluten free.
Cookies here tend to be bigger and softer. Or they can be like the Maryland ones.
Also you should be dunking in tea, not coffee!
The exception to that is the Tesco gluten free shortbread - they are delicious and in a blind taste test you would not know they were not made from regular flour.
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Chocolate Digestives are also made chocolate side down. Jaffa cakes are cakes as they go hard if they were left whilst biscuits go soft.
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What! No Gingernuts or Iced Party rings. Next you won’t be drinking Dandelion and Burdock or Vimto!
A cookie is made of cookie dough and has “things” in it such as chocolate chips, macadamias, smarties, raisins etc. Basically the things you get from subway. Biscuits like digestives are made of a different kind of dough and are a different kind of thing.
My favourite was always Iced Gems as a kid. Small little bag of biscuits, with a hard sugary icing bit on top. I can never find them but they are glorious
'Maryland' is a brand name and we would call that type of biscuit 'cookies', but 'cookie' is that particular type and not a generic name for all biscuits.
Where in England are you from? Maryland cookies are cookies. They are the disruption of cookies and certainly are not biscuits!
@@alisonaustin5485 sorry but no. Maryland absolutely are a biscuit. the type of biscuit is a cookie the person is right it is not a true cookie.
@@churchill378 Cookie is ambiguous en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie However we are in an age where you are what you say you are, and Maryland cookies identify as cookies... Who are we to say they are not allowed in the ladies???
@@alisonaustin5485 Maryland biscuits is not made from cookie dough. Therefore it is not a cookie. It is a biscuit. Also their website even says they are a biscuit. So case closed.
I try to keep away from biscuits because i can not open a pack and just have one or two and put them back away for another day, i have to demolish the pack in one sitting because if i don't they never stop calling my name when ever i walk past the kitchen cupboard. Biscuits are pure evil.
Widja on that.
I haven't bought jammy Dodgers because I will eat the whole pack.
Jaffa cakes are delicious. My personal faves are bourbons and ginger nuts, even better with tea. To me a cookie is a specific type of biscuit, usually round, softer/chewier than biscuits, and with chocolate chips or raisins.
If you want to try some of the oldest types of British biscuit still sold, and don't mind tasting ones which aren't too sweet, iconic ones include Marie, Garibaldi, and Oatcakes and Water Biscuits (the last two especially with cheese)
Shortbread for the win 🏆
🥇...Shortbread rounds
🥈... Shortbread Fingers
🥉...Shortbread triangles
Told you i like them 😋 xx
Triangles are called petticoats
@@angusrae1069 Triangles in my hoose 😆
We'll take all of the above, please!!! Also, good to see you here, Lorraine! We've missed you! :D xx
@@lorrainequinn to each their own my mum always called them petticoats butt being from the NE Scotland she always was a bit persnickety
@@WanderingRavens In the middle of moving house 🤯 I've got lots of your vlogs to catch up on. Love & germ free hugs to you both 😍 xx
I feel like the hype isn lived up to coz ur trying the glüten free versions which fair enough for grace but eric could do a comparison gf vs classic
The make we usually buy is TAN Y CASTELL
Welsh cakes are nice (a flat round cake with either currents, chocolate or jam), there’s also BARA BRITH (a Welsh fruit loaf cake)
You need to try the chocolate finger as a straw for your tea or coffee. Bite off the top and bottom and suck like a straw ...AMAZING
Jaffa cakes, named after Jaffa oranges from Jaffa in Israel.
4:45 cookies have chocolate chips in them and are cookies; they are a specific type of biscuit
I love double chocolate Maryland. Cookies are either chocolate chip etc or softer, more goey than a hard crunchy biscuit.
Thank you, Tobey!
Jaffa CAKE..... 😀
We have Christmas cookies also. Usually made of Shortbread. (Danish butter cookies probably originated from Denmark.) I have a tin every year as I had them when I was a child. So they bring back memories for me.)
There's a clue in the name of Jaffa Cakes, they are cakes that just happen to be sold in the biscuit aisle. Difference between a cake and a biscuit is the crunch when you bite into it. Everything you tried on that table with the exception of the Jaffa Cakes had a crunch therefore it's a biscuit. Jaffa Cakes are soft to bite and therefore a cake.
Fruit Shorties are my favourite. 👍🏻
Gluten free biscuits will always taste crap.
A good tip for the fingers and dunking in tea. Bite off either end and use it as a straw, that way you can get the tea through the biscuit part
Shortbreads is quite common in Scotland and comes in many shapes but most Scots would rather have a Tunnocks Teacake or caramel wafer also Borders biscuits are very popular Chocolate gingers being my favorite and where were the ginger snaps
Where possible you need to eat the “ normal” foods and not the gluten free, gf foods taste very different to normal foods
Well that would be pretty difficult for someone who’s allergic to gluten, wouldn’t it? GF versions of things aren’t always radically different either. Biscuits and other ‘crunchy’ foods tend to be much the same without gluten. Cake, dough or bread type things are very different though, as the gluten is primarily for texture and ‘sponginess’ rather than flavour.
tjfSIM as a celiac I fully understand that, BUT the man is able to eat all foods and as such could do a review of normal foods!
Grace, I get you, my digestives always get pushed away. :(
Also, 100th Like. 😂😎
My motto: Never microwave Tea.
I'm glad someone understands my struggle 😂😂
Shortbread is very popular, especially at Christmas, but tends to be more popular with the older generations. I'll have a bash at it if it's there but my parents buy it routinely.
Chocolate digestives keep better than Jaffa cakes, if you're stuck in quarantine. But that's mostly because Jaffa cakes are too moreish and they disappear within half an hour of opening the packet.
Eating a Jaffa cake chocolate side down would not make you look like a connoisseur, it would be met with many strange looks!
McVities make the best chocolate digestives.
They are delicious!!
@@WanderingRavens they really are 😋
Your kitchen is incredible
only recently found your tubes and been really enjoying them for last few weeks. cant say i agree with everything discussed with the biscuits , especially the low ranking for the jaffa cakes (outrageous i must say grrr!) but as its a question of personal taste all,s fair.
keep up the good work . amusing watching the tubes on the all english and sunday roast, good job both times...enjoy the UK whlist your hear, nice to see a fresh taste on your subject choices
Bizarrely, if a UK biscuit has chocolate chips in it, it is a "cookie".
Nah, chocolate chip digestives aren’t cookies...
What no ginger snaps or ginger biscuits
You can also get dark chocolate digestives! I’m not really a biscuit eater myself but these are my siblings’ favourites ☺️
A good game for the brave is the "Rich Tea time dunk challenge". Rich Tea biscuits are notoriously unstable when dunked. You have a mug of tea or coffee each. The one who dunks the biscuit the longest and successfully gets it into the mouth is the winner. The experience is enhanced if Spaghetti Western standoff music is played in the background.
Jaffa CAKE clue is in the name
You need to dunk in tea not coffee
I remember many years ago (late 1990's) I visited a friend in New England. I was amazed to find Cadbury's Dark Chocolate fingers on sale there. Being a dark chocolate fan I bought a pack I noted they were manufactured in the UK. At that time there was no such thing here in the UK. They did eventually arrive some years later.
No fig rolls? An underrated classic.