Millionaire shortbread.
I never used to like this. I found the shortbread bit too dry and the caramel too sweet. So I didn't even look in its direction for years. But recently I discovered M&S do a version and it's one of the best things I've ever had. I'm a fan.
I'm not a massive biscuit person, though if they're knocking around at work, which they inevitably are, then I might dip in. But at home we never eat them.
So let's turn our attentions today to biscuits.
I used to like Gypsy Creams a lot as a child, even though I can't actually rememember what they tasted like. Didn't they become Romany Creams, and then die of PCness? I only really liked them and Bourbons as a child. Take off one of the biscuits then scrape your teeth on the chocolate cream. Then eat the biscuits. Did we all do that.
There were horrors in the cookie jar, however. Mum always used to buy things like Malted Milk or Sport biscuits as well, and they never got eaten (by me), they just went stale. My gran always used to bring over packets of those pink wafers that cost about 1p for 100, or chocolate-topped coconut biscuits, which I wasn't much keen on either. I only liked the jam bit of Jammie Dodgers and the honey bit of honey creams (though these were rare outside of a large variety tin of Rover or Victoria). I did like the half-dipped Dutch shortcake, however, but these were not for consumption by children, hence I feel a sense of victory if I buy them now.
But my real pet hate was Lincoln. That horrible, dusty, nobbly surface. A dry, tasteless bit of hatefulness that gives plain biscuits a bad name. And that goes for you too, Marie. I don't mind Thin Arrowroot and Abbey Crunch, and Boudoir are welcome in mine anytime. But you can keep your custard creams, coconut creams, lemon puffs, Penguins, Taxis, Viscounts (with their fake fatty mint filling) and Blue Ribands and anything made by Fox's, Britain's dullest biscuit manufacturer.
And Rich Tea. So boring. Who actually buys these? I know they're famed as the dunking biscuit, but they just fall apart. I like a nice Digestive though.
Phew! What about you?
