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Will pay the heating bill thread

Danny said:
I know things have been bad recently but the day I have to worry about where to buy broken biscuits I'll just return to shoplifting. I doubt it would be as much thrill as it used to be as I think these days you have to get caught about 147 times before you face a sentence.
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You can't beat a good chocolate digestive or a bourbon.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Talk of broken biscuits - "brokies" as we called them - has the memories flooding back.

For a while when I was very young my father jemmied open his loose change bag and gave us graduating amounts of pocket money, the older you were the more you were granted. I got 2/- (for the younger ones, that's 'two shillings' which became 10p when we decimalised) and that was to last us the week.

The best slot for the local baths was the 4-5pm one cos it was quieter and the water was warmer, probably thanks to the body heat of a thousand other weans, not to mention their urine, from earlier in the day.

Every Christmas, one of our stocking fillers was a season ticket to the baths. If memory serves, it cost 10/- and it allowed access to the baths for 12 months. (You just don't get bargains like that nowadays.)

Entry to the baths was normally 6d (sixpence, half a shilling) so that was an expense saved.

If it wasn't raining we'd walk the mile-and-a-bit to the baths, thereby saving the 6d return fare.

The hot drinks machine at the exit from the baths took sixpenny pieces but I preferred to hold on to that money and make my way along the road to Woolworths. Back then, "Woolies" was a large gathering of counters for lots of different kinds of goods, all the counters staffed by at least two people, usually local housewives. There was a huge biscuit counter (ie, the counter was huge, not necessarily the biscuits) with every imaginable type of biscuit, loads more than you would ever see in a modern supermarket. And for years they sold the brokies in bags for however much you wanted to pay, in increments of 3d. "Sixpence worth of brokies, please?" got you a substantial bag, about the same size as a bag of sugar. Very occasionally I would treat myself to ninepence-worth.

The other thing was that if the woman behind the counter appreciated your good manners and cherubic countenance you'd get more than you were really entitled to. If she was a bitter wee bitch you might end up with a seemingly unfair portion of crumbs. However, over time you got to know who was who and who you could charm into giving you that wee bit extra.

Then it was outside again to stop at the Radio Rentals window and watch the football results coming through on the TV screens, then either a walk back up the road (uphill all the way) or the bus.

And because Saturday was traditionally bath night for us, that was a chore my mother was spared, not having to run the baths for us and sort out towels. Every now and again the nit comb appeared, greeted by a chorus of whinges but she was merely looking after her fledglings.

Happy days.
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How do you get an essay out of biscuits?

169P++
 
Christmas Chocolate Biscuits, from Waitrose or M&S. The chocolate - milk and dark - is about an inch thick.

Cost more than a day’s punting at Cheltenham; but, like Cheltenham, it’s that “once a year feeling”.
 
Slim said:
Can't wait for him to tell us the story about a 1982 winner celebrated with a large London Dry Gin and Schwepps tonic.
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I don't drink!

1982 was a good year, though - so many double-digit odds winners stories you don't want to hear.

Count yourself lucky you hadn't yet been born!
 
Len Madeiros said:
Christmas Chocolate Biscuits, from Waitrose or M&S. The chocolate - milk and dark - is about an inch thick.

Cost more than a day’s punting at Cheltenham; but, like Cheltenham, it’s that “once a year feeling”.
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Same here when i get my annual box of Victoria biscuits

Food of the gods😎
 
Len Madeiros said:
Christmas Chocolate Biscuits, from Waitrose or M&S. The chocolate - milk and dark - is about an inch thick.

Cost more than a day’s punting at Cheltenham; but, like Cheltenham, it’s that “once a year feeling”.
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Those are not even biscuits!
This has gone on long enough.
Milk chocolate digestives - end of.
 
I will eat biscuits - preferably chocolate biscuits - if they're put down in front of me but I never buy them because in Orchid Manor they would disappear before I got the chance to indulge.

'Luxury' biscuits would be a rarity and maybe something I would only buy as a gift for another household, eg at Christmas so I wouldn't include them as favourites but I'm very partial to:

Caramel logs
Caramel wafers
Fruit Club
Mint Viscount
Fig rolls

I'm not so keen on

Custard Creams
Jammie Dodgers
Tea biscuits
 
Danny said:
Those are kids biscuits. Dark chocolate digestives or Ginger nuts are the biscuits of a stud.

Any one caught eating pink wafer biscuits should be castrated for fear that they reproduce.

Those are my only really strong opinions on biscuits if I'm honest.
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I used to like ginger nuts.and. pink wafer biscuits. 😂
 
Desert Orchid said:
I will eat biscuits - preferably chocolate biscuits - if they're put down in front of me but I never buy them because in Orchid Manor they would disappear before I got the chance to indulge.

'Luxury' biscuits would be a rarity and maybe something I would only buy as a gift for another household, eg at Christmas so I wouldn't include them as favourites but I'm very partial to:

Caramel logs
Caramel wafers
Fruit Club
Mint Viscount
Fig rolls

I'm not so keen on

Custard Creams
Jammie Dodgers
Tea biscuits
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They don't do these anymore

Discontinued in 2020
 
I was sure I got one in the men's shed not too long ago.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was five years past its sell by.

Still, I'm here to tell the tale.

I'm like Terry Wogan. If it looks ok and smells ok it's probably ok.

I tend to ignore sell/use by dates and stick to the above.

Maybe my epitaph should be, "Past My Sell-By"
 
The thing about a biscuit is that, at the end of a day, it's a biscuit - it's not sushi, it's not a Tournedos Rossini, it's a dunkable snack.

Some are better than others, we all have our preferences, but it is a food with distinct limitations.

That said, they have their perhaps unforeseen additional uses - like the time I cheerfully invited my energy supplier to cut me off if they wouldn't reduce my standing charge, so little of their actual energy did I consume, a robust negotiation which may have included the suggestion along the way that said standing charge might be paid in....broken biscuits.
 

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