On 24/10/14 18:08, Percy Picacity wrote:
On 2014-10-24 16:49:37 +0000, Brian Reay said:

On 24/10/14 17:28, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

Can't argue with that. Evenm the cheap shop's own brand ginger
biscuits rock.
There are some flaws though, those weird tinned ones that look (and
taste)
like soem papery composite, and the ones with a blob of jam as tough as
Torrseal, those take careful suspension of disbelief (and a friendly
dentist
within easy reach too).


I think you mean 'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things. Not to keen on
'Jaffa Cakes' either- too soft and glue like.

Fig Rolls are good. Someone I knew (not sure who it was) called them
'dead fly rolls' and I always chuckle when I have one.

Surely Garibaldi biscuits are the classical dead fly biscuits? Fig
rolls would be more macerated fly rolls.



Could be but the memory is from my childhood and I doubt we had
Garibaldi biscuits in the working class north of England. Fine food such
as 'stotty cake' (one of the best breads you can imagine) yes, Garibaldi
no. Even Yogurt was considered 'exotic'. As for Curry.... Now, my former
home town has an excellent selection of Indian/Asian restaurants which
could rival anywhere. Funny how times change.