Blimey, it's National Biscuit Day!

Albus_Scope

From ancient Rome, to modern Redhill, biscuits have been a staple part of mankind's diet. Though maybe diet is the wrong word for the biscuits of today. 😁

Did you know the popularity of biscuits came around due to the belief that eating them regularly could help avoid illnesses. This was because hard biscuits are able to slow down the digestion process, which helps in strengthening the immune system. So remember that next time you get told off for having a Hob Nob with your cuppa. 😉

Are you an avid biscuit binger? What's your favourite type?

Let us know!

THE_DUDE

Fox's fabulous half coated milk chocolate cookies. My favourite atm

66Mustang

I vary rarely eat sweet biscuits, but I love savoury biscuits with cheese on them 🙂

My favourite are water biscuits and Cornish wafers

Cantilip

Not only that! It is World Otter Day! Honestly.

66Mustang

@woodbine

Very very well done on being 15 stone, I'm roughly the same as you now

I've lost more than you as I was 21 stone to start with, I'm not saying I've been more successful than you, quite the opposite, I failed worse to get to the point where I was 21 stone!!!!!!

Rosie_Scope

My faves used to be Fox's crunch creams, but I'd also go for a Viennese whirl or a chocolate hobnob. Malted milk and nice biscuits too. To be honest, just hand me the whole barrel, I'll take 'em all. Even the stale garibaldis that no one else likes 😁

Well that's me off to day dream about gluten-filled treats that don't turn to powder as soon as you bite into them 😂

WhatThe

My mum used to buy digestive biscuits as they lasted longer ie didn't get eaten 😄

jsjswood

At the moment, I'm eating chocolate digestives

MBBell

I love malted milk biscuits and shortbread too, but like many others need to cut down on them.

J2R2J

I like various biscuits, but normally when I get going I get through a pack. Normally Fig Rolls are the most popular as there aren’t too many in a pack and one pack is gone in a day.

Other biscuits I like include Rich Tea, plain Digestive, Jammy Dodgers, and normally whatever I come across although I prefer biscuits without chocolate.

junie58

I used to love all biscuits until I was diagnosed with IBS and a problem with wheat / gluten. Gluten free biscuits are just not the same so rarely eat a biscuit now

cooperama

ginger nuts lurvly

sprinkly

I love the round garlic crackers with peanut butter and strawberries on top , plenty of protein, important fot weight gain, yes some of us folks work hard to put on weight which is just as hard as trying to lose weight especially with 1,/3 of stomach left lol

Rosie_Scope

Gingernuts! How could I forget the gingernuts?! And Jammy Dodgers!

Is anyone a fan of Party Rings? They were the one biscuit I wasn't so keen on.

@junie58 I feel you there! They're not the same. Some of the gluten free supermarket cookies are okay but it seems like the gluten is pretty integral to getting the right texture. Maybe one day we'll get something decent, I live in hope!

Sounds like an interesting combination @sprinkly! I like peanut butter and blueberries together on toast or crackers.

Wibbles

Custard Creams - or nothing !!

I have been known to eat a whole pack in one sitting

mind you - I do also like CoOp cookies - do they count as biscuits or cakes ?

now that's bringing up the old question of JAFFA CAKES - are they Biscuits or cakes ?

Albus_Scope

I do love a party ring! Or I used to anyway, it's been several years since I've bought any. Gingernuts are always an excellent choice. 😊

So what would you say the WORST biscuits are?

Wibbles

The worst biscuits are what the Americans class as "biscuits"

Especially when they use them to soak up gravy for BREAKFAST !!

They are simply SCONES !

OverlyAnxious

I was never sure Party Rings were edible. Weren't they just cardboard with a PVA topping? 😄

Albus_Scope

@Wibbles I'm fully with you there, they are an abomination. 😆

WhatThe

Albus, was your source of information for the email, St Neots Museum? This from Wikipedia:

The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven. In modern Italian usage, the term biscotto is used to refer to any type of hard twice-baked biscuit.

🍪 cuit not 'qui' means cooked in French (cuire - to cook)

Jimm_Scope

Personally love hobnobs.

@WhatThe I think Albus is typing out the way the French say biscuit. Rather than suggesting that is part of the history!

(In French 'biscuit' is spelt the same but is pronounced: bis-kwee, or bis-qui)