What's your favourite dunk?
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Back to dunking... I have been dunking shortbread fingers today. They are a sturdy dunker! You can stick it in your brew for a good 3-5 seconds!0
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A couple of my housemates are Dutch and they often bring 'stroopwafels', which are really good - a kind of doughy biscuit with caramel syrup in the middle. No doubt full of all of the sugar though!1
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Mmmmmmm yes!0
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I like most biscuits (my favourites are Hobnobs, especially chocolate ones). The only biscuits I don't like are pink wafers. I also like doughnuts, especially ones with a filling, and flapjacks.0
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It's got to be a Hob Nob! No packet is safe once it's opened0
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I LOVE a hobnob @Nicholas56 but it has to be plain, not chocolate!
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Plain hobnobs got me through many a late night essay at university!1
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Hobnobs like Pringles are laced with Crack.0
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Personally, I think dunking biscuits is the worst!! It genuinely makes me nauseous to see anyone do it! Which is why my husband and work colleagues take great delight in dunking biscuits in front of me!! I love a good cup of tea, but tend not to pair it with anything - I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease last year and gluten free biscuits just don't match up!!1
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OK I'm not sure how on earth I'm so late to the dunking party, but I can't believe the good old caramel chocolate digestive has been overlooked.
It's got the slow-melting stickyness of the stroopwaffel @Chris_Scope, which adds to the staying power @Sam_Scope and @quinrah, plus all the chocolateyness you could crave...
Also there's a very enlightening article on the pie barm (or wigan kebab) here
@bendigedig https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/pie-barm-twitter-wigan-kebab
Now I've seen it, I'm mildly intrigued (though not enough to go to Wigan sadly)4 -
On the subject of pies @jikkie, I visited Hampton Court yesterday and learned that in the time of Henry VIII the pie crust was considered inedible and was just something to cook the meat in - they would take the top off, scoop out the insides and throw the rest away!0
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That's such a silly thing to do - the crust is arguably the best bit of pies (I'm probably going to have a cheese & onion pasty for lunch today). Pie-eating has definitely moved on since Tudor times.2
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rachelcl said:That's such a silly thing to do - the crust is arguably the best bit of pies (I'm probably going to have a cheese & onion pasty for lunch today). Pie-eating has definitely moved on since Tudor times.
a quick google reveals this: http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.uk/about-the-pasty/history-draft/
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Wiggan has laid claim to the "Pie butty" then. Ha ha ha.
My old fella was from Warrington. He had a bit of the old Pie butty mentality about him, then again he was off the Irish too so I think that heavy starchy repasts were a big thing in his life A stint in the Catering Corps did nothing to knock that out of him on his National Service!
Bread and butter accompanied every meal in our house in the 70s and eighties. Doesnt matter what was served. It could have been bread and butter, we still would have had bread and butter with it
I too have the "piegene" this one word somes it up. I think its not just a Northern thing, its a British thing. I remember a Swedish friend of mine being somwhat amazed and disgusted at our custom of putting meat in a pie. Duh!
Then there was the German friend who explained that our barbarism didnt end there. In fact, even though its made by the Dutch (Netherlanders) now, apparently our heathen love of a thing called brown sauce is, or at least was at one time, a hot topic in culinary circles on the continent.
Similarly the French think we are "deffective" because we have this brown watery liquid called gravy! No French saucier in there right mind would dream of producing a British gravy! Ha ha ha.
Getting back to dunking, 'cos they were babbling on about it on Radio 4 this afternoon and class was brought into the equation, I have to say that for a time, I would once happily dip my bread and butter and often toast too into my tea I was particularly intrigued by the beads of fat that would float to the surface in a shiny hydrophobic cellebration of its difference to the surrounding liquid
Ha ha ha. Im off to cook the dinner now..... I think we' have somthing classy like pasta!
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Fig rolls for me.2
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I would have to say bite the end off a rocky bar, bite the other end. Insert into coffee and use like a straw. when it starts to go soft in the mouth and it melts soooooooooooo gooooooood0
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I'm definitely in the bourbon camp, as much chocolate on a biscuit as possible I say!0
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