On 24/10/14 15:55, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

The Italians also
liked Shortbread

Indeed they do! The local delicatessen makes a point of selling it alongside
a range of very Italian biscuits.


No something I especially care for. I prefer digestives biscuits or Hob
Nobs. I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

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).

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.

Hovis do a digestive which go very well with cheese, I had a couple last
night at my club (a Trafalgar Night Dinner). Excellent with glass of
good port. Not always easy to find in the shops but the large stores
tend to stock them.

Brian Reay wrote in :

'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things.

Those be them, I wasn't around at thew time, but I imagined them beign served
during the war, at times when people needed to bite the bullet. Those things
would have been a good stand-in.

On 24/10/14 17:55, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things.

Those be them, I wasn't around at thew time, but I imagined them beign served
during the war, at times when people needed to bite the bullet. Those things
would have been a good stand-in.


No idea if that is true but it makes a good story ;-)

I picked up an interesting but useless fact the other week, during WW2
one of the foods which was never rationed was Fish and Chips. It was
thought that is would damage moral too much. Fish and Chip wagons would
tour the areas 'bombed out' to serve fish and chips to those in the
area. I'd have thought that the fish would have been in short supply due
to problems with fuel for the trawlers, trawlers being pressed into
service, sunk etc. but clearly not. These days it would be take away
Chinese and Curry or Kebabs (not that I've ever had a Kebab- they always
look like reconstituted fat).

Brian Reay wrote in :

These days it would be take away
Chinese and Curry or Kebabs

I like Chinese food, but fish and chips at its best is hard to beat.
Specially in Cornwall. I was lucky being a child in Cornwall. You mentioned
fig rolls, also good, not to be confused with 'squashed fly' biscuits.
Garibaldi. So Italian I guess. Nice though. I found Furniss busicuits on
eBay... Lemon fairings do still exist.

Chinese and Curry or Kebabs (not that I've ever had a Kebab- they always
look like reconstituted fat).

I always doner past them myself thse days ......having to avoid infections
........these places are mingin' ......

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.


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Percy Picacity

Percy Picacity wrote in
:

Surely Garibaldi biscuits are the classical dead fly biscuits?

Yes. beware the grittier currants, the resemblance is unfortunate.

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.