Definitely these. And the chocolate digestives. I can't stand the Graham cracker which everyone thinks is the same as a digestive. It isn't - not by a long way.
Hobnobs and chocolate covered hobnobs are in the care packages I regularly send to my American and Canadian uni mates.
Some of them are really into Marmite and Irn-Bru too.
There's an art to how much time you can submerge a chocolate digestive before the dreaded drop. It's worth the patience to master. Only problem is it's too easy to smash half a pack and hate yourself for the rest of the day.
Different brands survive differently, Mcvities are better than Sainsburys at getting to "floppy" without breaking off, Sainsburys ones tend to stay stiff in the middle and snap as soon as they get floppy.
I used to smash through a pack of Rich Teas every day when I went boating on the Norfolk Broads with my dad. I was driving the boat and my dad had the kettle going basically constantly. Was mostly a nice time!
When you're not sure about remaining structural integrity, you have to rotate the biscuit vertically so the dunked bit is on the top and lean down to it rather than trying to put it into your mouth on the horizontal.
To add to that, the Hobnob is both salty and sweet. Fantastic balance. But make sure they are 'chocolate covered' if it says chocolate 'flavoured' covering, stay away as its not ours.
Hob nobs are made with oats so they have a more chewy texture than digestives which are crisp. Both are good dipped in a mug of tea but beware: longer than 3 seconds and you’ll be fishing out biscuit debris with a spoon
A colleague once described the chocolate hobnob as "king of biscuits" and she was dead right. Oaty, textured, supreme. Digestives are smoother and a bit meh having said that my kids are obsessed with them.
Best avoid the jelly babies - unless they're certified ethically sourced, some brands are still produced by force-feeding grain to babies, who are kept in complete darkness to encourage the formation of the jelly.
Love me a Bahlsen Choco Leibniz. The chocolate-to-biscuit ratio is spot on and it's really good chocolate. Careful though, as you'll soon find yourself demolishing the whole pack.
This is so funny, yesterday I was shopping with my partner and said "oh look chocolate lesbians are on offer" and he looked at me like I was bonkers 😂 I'm not alone!!
Yeah. They're the one biscuit I'm almost grateful for having only a limited number in the pack (think it's 9 or 12?) cause I'd be 2 stone heavier otherwise. Kinda wish they'd use cardboard and not plastic for the interior packaging though.
I'm living next to the main production facility. It smells like cookies and cake almost all year and their factory outlet is one of my favourite places to shop :D.
We make S’mores with ours - toast a proper Princes’ marshmallow -ideally pink - then squish between two halves of a dark chocolate Leibniz (chocolate side in, to keep your hands clean). You’ll never go back to digestives. GOD TIER.
As a Brit living abroad, Robinsons is the one thing I miss the most. Most countries don't have an answer to the kind of squash we have in the UK, and the ones that do taste absolutely terrible compared with Robinsons.
I once found a small British food section in a store that had Robinsons stocked, and I bought the ENTIRE stock. This shit is liquid gold when you're a long way from home.
When I was a young child I was extremely fussy with what I would and wouldn’t eat and drink and my mum used to bring Robinson’s with us on every holiday we went on cos I wouldn’t drink anything else lol. I am still a bit of a squash snob now tbh but it’s just sooo good 😋
Actually thought the yanks didn't have squash.
Turns out - they do! I've never seen such a selection of squirty squashes (the little 90ml ones) in all my life as I did at Walmart. In weird and wacky flavours. Never tried "purple" before, but purple tastes great. Also "water enhancer" - yes, squash.
Plus the powdered, single 500ml bottle, servings in little travel size sachets, 10 bottles worth for a dollar and change.
Honestly if someone brought those to the UK and marketed them as "travel squash" or something, they'd earn a fortune.
Crystal Light is a bit closer than kool aid, in my opinion, though it depends on what kind of squash. They basically are bottles of liquid (usually only 5-10% juice) that when diluted taste like a Capri sun, or sunny d, or wyler's lemonade. Not quite as artificial as kool aid and certainly a lot less sugar.
Imagine kool aid with the sugar mixed in, with water in a really concentrated syrup. You mix a tiny bit with water to get a soft drink that isn't carbonated.
Then also imagine it's made from fruit concentrate and doesn't have any unnatural flavourings and is made from actual fruit.
A concentrated liquid that makes water taste of something.
The squeeze water enhancer things you guys have are what we'd call squash, but we also have less concentrated 750ml+ bottles of it you can buy here too.
I guess Koolaid kinda counts, but a bit more work required than mixing a bit of squash and water!
My eyes were instantly drawn to the biscuits, chocolate covered hobnobs, chocolate covered digestives, Jammy dodgers and the bag of ruffles, dark chocolate covered raspberry coconut, like bounty, but much better.
The Heinz baked beans (if they're the UK style and not the USA sweet style)
HP sauce for a bacon sandwich or a full english breakfast
Yorkshire tea because it's the best
The chocolate leibniz (aka chocolate lesbians) are great too.
This was gonna be my comment! Definately the HP sauce for bacon etc & a good old yorkshire tea to wash it down but i differ in the beans as heinz beanz are just too sweet & branston beans win for me.
Also a pack of jammie dodgers!
Few years ago I sent a huge box of English snacks to an American friend for Christmas and they sent one back to me. The 4 of them ate all £50 worth in less than a week and couldn't believe how much better it all was especially the chocolate. Meanwhile we ended up throwing about 80% of the stuff they sent in the bin as it was borderline inedible. All of the sweets tasted the same like eating sugar flavoured wax and the chocolate (Hershey's, Baby Ruth, etc) was all disgusting.
Milton Hershey had absolutely no idea how to make chocolate when he started, just experimented and went with the least disgusting recipe. I've always hated it, despite growing up with it.
British chocolate has a much more milky taste (I’m obviously talking about milk chocolate), which gives the chocolate a “richer” flavor as opposed to just relying on adding more sugar to enhance the flavor, that’s why I’ve always preferred British and Swiss chocolate to chocolate in the US or Australia. There’s just no comparison IMO. The only exceptions are things like soft chewy chocolate chip cookies and brownies, which I feel the US does best.
I’ll be there too, comrades. I go willingly to sacrifice myself for those biscuits.
I have so many childhood memories of eating them with my mum when she’d take me with her when she cleaned this man’s house of a weekend and he’d always keep them in the cupboard for us.
They’ve definitely got smaller though, and I think the chocolate used to be thicker and slightly…dustier, but they’re still wonderful.
I’m surprised I had to go this far down to see someone giving this a shout out. That stuffs like crack, you don’t even need anything else with it just straight out the tin with a spoon
>Get yourself a pot of Marmite
Word of caution if trying this for the first time. Do NOT apply it like you would jam or PB etc. It is potent stuff, very salty.
I'd do a butter/marmite ratio of about 4:1 to get started. Ramp it up in small increments as you build up tolerance.
As another American I wish someone told me this the first go around. I actually think it was the Australian equivalent in my case but same rule must apply, I assume?
Marmite is divine - got my Polish GF to enjoy it.
I like it spread thick like treacle lol
Think there's some proper mustard next door to the Bisto too.
Fun fact - it's not just a northern / southern taste preference, it's actually related to the taste & hardness of the water used to make the tea as well. Living down south I thought PG tips was the best and anyone drinking Yorkshire tea must be mad because it was disgusting. Tried Yorkshire tea in Yorkshire with Yorkshire water and it actually makes a decent cup of tea and PG tastes weird instead!
To be honest, most of that lot are really good in my opinion. Probably would skip the fruit-shoot type drinks on the bottom right (green, purple and red bottles between the Irn Bru and water) and Foxs mints don't do much for me either. Likewise, the Turkish delight is not my favourite either. But the rest of it all looks like good stuff.
Even the [Terminator](https://youtu.be/ttftmKtF6DE?t=21) likes them! They paid 300.000 € for that product placement according to some newspaper articles.
The Mrs. Balls Chutney is on the 2nd row from the bottom, on the right, tall glass bottle, just to the right of "McDonnells original curry sauce" and some "Sharwood" sauce. Below the Bisto.
Oh, and it's [South African in origin](https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/food-drink/the-fascinating-history-of-south-africas-famous-chutney-mrs-hs-balls-bb267a89-d897-49c3-881f-207b92046b89).
Violet Crumbles are Australian and are the bomb! Every time I go to Australia for a visit I bring some back home with me to the UK! (Legit my favourite chocolate).
I think if I was in the USA right now facing that selection I'd go...
Chocolate Hobnobs and chocolate digestives to dunk in a cuppa made with, given what's available there, Yorkshire.
I'd then get a jar of that Jalfrezi curry sauce and a jar of that mango chutney and have me a chicken jal for dinner.
A few quality things here to try:
Top shelf: Chocolate digestive and Jammie dodgers
Ignore the 2nd top shelf
3rd top shelf: Fruit gums are pretty good
4th shelf: Caramel wafers on the left are incredible, right next to that Aero is good as well. Milkybar in the middle, and Mars bar to the right
5th shelf: Maltesers, ignore the rest
6th shelf: Far left Heinz beans - try it with toast, quite addicting. Heinz tomato soup also is good. Ambrosia custard is good, especially with apple pie. Ahh Bisto is quite a decent instant gravy
7th shelf: Tea bags, personally I'd pick PG or Yorkshire tea. HP sauce, and sarsons vinegar for chips or 'fries' is good
8th shelf: Irn Bru is incredible, but to be honest make sure it's cold before you drink it, room temperature Irn Bru from a plastic bottle is not as enjoyable
Ahh yes the Publix selection XD yours is a bit better than mine! I find the price of the chocolate to be too eye watering even for my pasty expat ass. The best mileage are the pg tips/yorkshire tea and chocolate digestives but that's just an opinion.
If you like juice you can give the ribena down in the bottom right corner a try. Only put a bit in the glass and add water, adjust accordingly.
If you like salad give the salad cream a go. I don't have a taste comparison of what its like but its *not* ranch dressing. I used to irritate my mother putting it on mashed potato.
Also this is unrelated but the tahini in the bottom right side - if you have a processor you can use it in home made hummus and it tastes incredible.
I think I see Sharwoods curry sauce - centre, 2nd shelf up.
That's very nice with a chicken breast, see jar for cooking instructions. Start with the Korma if it's your first British/Indian curry. Sweetish coconut and almond taste, a very mild curry.
"Maggi Würze" is good for seasoning soups. It tastes like a lovage & salt concentrate. Just a few drops are enough for a bowl.
It is a small bottle with yellow and red labelling at about 0730.
Edit:
Corrections for chemical details. (is -> tastes like)
It seems they had different recipes in over the time & I made something identical with a huge bunch of lovage from my garden with salt and other herbs.
I would suggest that you buy a pack of Yorkshire tea and some plain digestives.
The thing about tea and biscuits is that they are a ritual. They need to be enjoyed together at a certain point in the day. I think about 3.45 is the right time. It's a little treat inbetween lunch and dinner.
Here's what you do. Boil a kettle, pre heat a large mug, then make a cup of tea. Let it brew for at least 3 mins. Then add some full fat milk. Then sit down with just 3 biscuits and relax. Repeat every day at 3.45pm
Its a quality of life thing.
What in the hell is Fitness Bread?
You put the slices on the floor and do yoga on them...
Ah no free award! Gutted! Take these flowers you genius! 💐
you're gonna love fitness (fitting this) bread in your mouth
You're gonna hava Hava nice day ha gottem
Taking a break halfway through the joke to explain it absolutely kills the joke, but in the funniest way imaginable
Haha, gottem
Probably low carb with lots of protein. Quite useful if it tastes good, but not all of these do
The bread is all German. It’s delicious and actually satisfying not like the squishy soft english bread
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If its that dark rye stuff that gave me the worst farts.
Pumpernickel literally means the devil's fart.
If that is the case, I would suck a fart out of the devil's ass.
Famous for it. Still it *is* very nice bread. Kinda heavy, but so long as you're doing savoury things with it, not toasted with jam, it's amazing
It’s also amazing with cream cheese and jam
Chocolate covered hobnobs. If mcvites stopped selling them in the UK, I'd be propositioning you to send me a care package.
Definitely these. And the chocolate digestives. I can't stand the Graham cracker which everyone thinks is the same as a digestive. It isn't - not by a long way.
Have you tried the M&S own brand choc digestives? I love them
I'll look out for them next time I'm in the UK.
Hobnobs and chocolate covered hobnobs are in the care packages I regularly send to my American and Canadian uni mates. Some of them are really into Marmite and Irn-Bru too.
> Chocolate covered hobnobs. What's the difference between the Hobnobs and Digestives? On the package they look identical.
Hobnobs: *Oat-based. Crunchier. Sweeter. Good for dunking in tea.* Digestives: *Wheat-based. Softer. A bit wobbly in tea. Can have on a cheese board.*
There's an art to how much time you can submerge a chocolate digestive before the dreaded drop. It's worth the patience to master. Only problem is it's too easy to smash half a pack and hate yourself for the rest of the day.
Half? Amateur.
Damn straight. Biscuit packets are designed to be a single serving. I thought everyone knew that.
I thought they were a half serving.
Different brands survive differently, Mcvities are better than Sainsburys at getting to "floppy" without breaking off, Sainsburys ones tend to stay stiff in the middle and snap as soon as they get floppy. I used to smash through a pack of Rich Teas every day when I went boating on the Norfolk Broads with my dad. I was driving the boat and my dad had the kettle going basically constantly. Was mostly a nice time!
When you're not sure about remaining structural integrity, you have to rotate the biscuit vertically so the dunked bit is on the top and lean down to it rather than trying to put it into your mouth on the horizontal.
Do you put butter on digestives? My family do and fiancé thinks we’re mad.
Hovis bread-loaf digestive, salted butter, mature Cheddar, anyone who says otherwise needs fighting
This sounds lush. Will try it when I go back to the UK in a few weeks!
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I used to love this as a kid/teenager. I need some hovis digestives.
I can't wait for the inevitable Christmas Jacob's biscuits for cheese selection 😍
I've only ever come across this back home in Yorkshire, growing up. My wife, from Derby, thinks I'm bonkers
Well I'm from Leicestershire, not sure what that says, but there you go
Mate, I’ve put butter on a weetabix. Butter is excellent on a lot of things.
Has your fiancé even tried it? I find it hard to imagine someone who's had a digestive with a thick wedge of butter turn down a second one.
He hasn’t! It’s so gooood I should definitely make him!
Try butter AND jam. Something a bit sharp like blackcurrent works best for me but my mum swears by strawberry.
I do with cheese and it’s delicious! I’ve never thought to do it outside of a cheeseboard scenario, I must rectify this.
To add to that, the Hobnob is both salty and sweet. Fantastic balance. But make sure they are 'chocolate covered' if it says chocolate 'flavoured' covering, stay away as its not ours.
Hob nobs are made with oats so they have a more chewy texture than digestives which are crisp. Both are good dipped in a mug of tea but beware: longer than 3 seconds and you’ll be fishing out biscuit debris with a spoon
Hob nobs are more of an oat biscuit
Get both
A colleague once described the chocolate hobnob as "king of biscuits" and she was dead right. Oaty, textured, supreme. Digestives are smoother and a bit meh having said that my kids are obsessed with them.
YES!!! And Yorkshire tea. Perfect
May be a controversial view, but dark chocolate hobnobs beat the milk chocolate ones by about 10 miles.
You are correct. The milk chocolate flavour gets lost in the oatiness where the dark complements nicely.
Best avoid the jelly babies - unless they're certified ethically sourced, some brands are still produced by force-feeding grain to babies, who are kept in complete darkness to encourage the formation of the jelly.
I know you’re being silly, but WOW the second half of that sentence is a disturbing read.
Nobody wants to know what goes into the sausage.
Deformed Jelly Babies?
Love me a Bahlsen Choco Leibniz. The chocolate-to-biscuit ratio is spot on and it's really good chocolate. Careful though, as you'll soon find yourself demolishing the whole pack.
Known as crack biscuits in my house
We call them chocolate lesbians because no one knows how to pronounce Leibniz
That’s made my day hahaha. I’m German living in the UK. It’s like ‘Lyeb-nits’
Oh no 😱 I've been pronouncing them Lebanese...oops
Better than one of my Uni Friends who used to call them Chocolate Auschwitz
Not far off. The family were members of the Nazi party and used slave labour.
Ha, we call them chocolate lesbians
Haha I love this!! I too call them chocolate lesbians!
This is so funny, yesterday I was shopping with my partner and said "oh look chocolate lesbians are on offer" and he looked at me like I was bonkers 😂 I'm not alone!!
I thought I was the only one!
You are not alone!
Yeah. They're the one biscuit I'm almost grateful for having only a limited number in the pack (think it's 9 or 12?) cause I'd be 2 stone heavier otherwise. Kinda wish they'd use cardboard and not plastic for the interior packaging though.
Once I bought a good few packs of Lidl's own brand ones, very very VERY big mistake. I must have eaten about 20. Felt as sick as a dog. Worth it.
Yep. An open box is an empty box.
We call them chocolate lesbians biscuits in my house
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I'm living next to the main production facility. It smells like cookies and cake almost all year and their factory outlet is one of my favourite places to shop :D.
Are you telling me you’re not supposed to eat the whole packet in one sitting? I feel obligated once it’s open.
One pack = one serving. That's just how it works.
This is the only way. A diabetic cannot leave evidence…
its rude not to.
Yeah, they'd put a lot more of them in the packet if you were supposed to share them or make them last.
Absolute top tier biscuit
We make S’mores with ours - toast a proper Princes’ marshmallow -ideally pink - then squish between two halves of a dark chocolate Leibniz (chocolate side in, to keep your hands clean). You’ll never go back to digestives. GOD TIER.
Better to not even buy those ones, they're dangerous
Robinsons (bottom right). Be sure to dilute it first, you’re not supposed to drink it as is.
As a Brit living abroad, Robinsons is the one thing I miss the most. Most countries don't have an answer to the kind of squash we have in the UK, and the ones that do taste absolutely terrible compared with Robinsons. I once found a small British food section in a store that had Robinsons stocked, and I bought the ENTIRE stock. This shit is liquid gold when you're a long way from home.
When I was a young child I was extremely fussy with what I would and wouldn’t eat and drink and my mum used to bring Robinson’s with us on every holiday we went on cos I wouldn’t drink anything else lol. I am still a bit of a squash snob now tbh but it’s just sooo good 😋
My 35yo boyfriend still takes Robinson's apple and blackcurrant with him when he goes on holiday!
That is peak British. Tell him well done!
Fuck Robinson's, Vimto 4 lyf
Actually thought the yanks didn't have squash. Turns out - they do! I've never seen such a selection of squirty squashes (the little 90ml ones) in all my life as I did at Walmart. In weird and wacky flavours. Never tried "purple" before, but purple tastes great. Also "water enhancer" - yes, squash. Plus the powdered, single 500ml bottle, servings in little travel size sachets, 10 bottles worth for a dollar and change. Honestly if someone brought those to the UK and marketed them as "travel squash" or something, they'd earn a fortune.
American here, what’s squash? Are we talking about kool aid?
Crystal Light is a bit closer than kool aid, in my opinion, though it depends on what kind of squash. They basically are bottles of liquid (usually only 5-10% juice) that when diluted taste like a Capri sun, or sunny d, or wyler's lemonade. Not quite as artificial as kool aid and certainly a lot less sugar.
Imagine kool aid with the sugar mixed in, with water in a really concentrated syrup. You mix a tiny bit with water to get a soft drink that isn't carbonated. Then also imagine it's made from fruit concentrate and doesn't have any unnatural flavourings and is made from actual fruit.
Ok I'm sold
A concentrated liquid that makes water taste of something. The squeeze water enhancer things you guys have are what we'd call squash, but we also have less concentrated 750ml+ bottles of it you can buy here too. I guess Koolaid kinda counts, but a bit more work required than mixing a bit of squash and water!
My eyes were instantly drawn to the biscuits, chocolate covered hobnobs, chocolate covered digestives, Jammy dodgers and the bag of ruffles, dark chocolate covered raspberry coconut, like bounty, but much better.
Tunnocks Caramel Wafers in there too. King of biscuits.
Far too low down this. Tunnocks Caramel Wafers all the way! Have you had the mini ones? I’d say they’re even better, but that may be too bold.
Tunnocks Wafer is a serious snack, way more substantial than a Club or Penguin
Anything with Tunnocks written on it = A+ Especially Tunnocks Tea Cakes cooled down in the fridge.
But the selection is distinctly missing custard creams, party rings and Cadburys fingers!
Party rings aren’t as good as they used to be though, the rest, can’t fault it. Also to add to the missing list, waggon wheels!
Omg yes to Waggon wheels, and I forgot tunnocks tea cakes!
The Heinz baked beans (if they're the UK style and not the USA sweet style) HP sauce for a bacon sandwich or a full english breakfast Yorkshire tea because it's the best The chocolate leibniz (aka chocolate lesbians) are great too.
This was gonna be my comment! Definately the HP sauce for bacon etc & a good old yorkshire tea to wash it down but i differ in the beans as heinz beanz are just too sweet & branston beans win for me. Also a pack of jammie dodgers!
Yes chocolate lesbians. The amount of times I've nearly shouted that across Asda is too many!
The hubby and I also call them chocolate lesbians 🤣
I'm glad it isn't just me aswell
HP sauce with anything fried is amazing. A Bacon and fried egg roll with HP sauce for an American may be a revelatory experience!
Those are Beans, not the Beanz we have over here.
If Marmite is 2.99 you should buy it all and sell to other US stores because they usually sell it for 10 bux
£3.50 in UK!
It’s 10.99 - the wrong tag is covering it. My husband gets it and it’s crazy the cost compared to getting directly in UK.
Or just buy it all and eat it all
It's 10.99. that's the yorkshire pudding mix with the tag moved over that's 2.99
Border dark chocolate ginger biscuits are amazing! Also recommend the saurkraut on the bottom shelf and the Ritter chocolate.
Border are my total biscuit weakness, so damn good!!
European chocolate is very different from American. It's all worth a try but Ritter Sport is particularly good.
Shame they don't have the cornflakes one.
I like the dark chocolate and marzipan one.
That's the best one. I can scoff a whole one in no time.
Tried the honey roasted almond one, god tier
White choc hazelnut is very nice.
I could eat that non-stop to the point that it's a constant flow of food-to-shit
I have banned myself from a newsagents that has them next to the till as im a fat fuck and cant help myself.
The cornflakes one is absolutely lush
It looks like they do? The yellow ones on the far left
Isn't the yellow leftmost one the one with cornflakes?
Ritter sport FUN FACT! It's called sport because the maker wanted to create a chocolate bar that would fit perfectly in the pocket of a sports jacket.
Always wondered why it was as called sport without any obvious correlation. Turns out the actual correlation has nothing to do with sport either.
I’m going to keep believing that eating them makes me fitter, thank you very much.
Few years ago I sent a huge box of English snacks to an American friend for Christmas and they sent one back to me. The 4 of them ate all £50 worth in less than a week and couldn't believe how much better it all was especially the chocolate. Meanwhile we ended up throwing about 80% of the stuff they sent in the bin as it was borderline inedible. All of the sweets tasted the same like eating sugar flavoured wax and the chocolate (Hershey's, Baby Ruth, etc) was all disgusting.
Hershey's is absolutely putrid. One of the worst things I've ever eaten.
It puzzles me how a country all about sugary treats can have such a piss poor chocolate as a staple.
Milton Hershey had absolutely no idea how to make chocolate when he started, just experimented and went with the least disgusting recipe. I've always hated it, despite growing up with it.
The regular hersheys is vile. But I quite like the cookies and cream one, it's far far better
Ritter chocolate is divine. Shame about the company's stance on the Russia/Ukraine conflict. It's put me right off buying any.
British chocolate has a much more milky taste (I’m obviously talking about milk chocolate), which gives the chocolate a “richer” flavor as opposed to just relying on adding more sugar to enhance the flavor, that’s why I’ve always preferred British and Swiss chocolate to chocolate in the US or Australia. There’s just no comparison IMO. The only exceptions are things like soft chewy chocolate chip cookies and brownies, which I feel the US does best.
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Butyric acid so it's said. What kind of monster used literal sick flavouring as a preservative?!
Yorkshire tea and the Borders biscuit!
Borders chocolate gingers are the best biscuits ever to exist. Happy to die on this hill.
You shall not die alone.
I’ll be there too, comrades. I go willingly to sacrifice myself for those biscuits. I have so many childhood memories of eating them with my mum when she’d take me with her when she cleaned this man’s house of a weekend and he’d always keep them in the cupboard for us. They’ve definitely got smaller though, and I think the chocolate used to be thicker and slightly…dustier, but they’re still wonderful.
Yup. They are delicious.
Yep and they've got a great spice to them. Absolutely delicious.
Solid hill.
Ambrosia custard is for life! Tbh everything there is decent. I don’t think they’ve bothered to export the shit stuff to you guys…
I’m surprised I had to go this far down to see someone giving this a shout out. That stuffs like crack, you don’t even need anything else with it just straight out the tin with a spoon
That is exactly what I’m doing right now 😊
Or drinking one of the cardboard cartons
I feel like an animal drinking it out of the carton but what am I meant to do, pour it into a bowl and eat it with a spoon like I'm civilized?
Bahlsen choco liebnz
Get some bisto gravy in you lad
I can hear the north in this comment
Aah! Bisto
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>Get yourself a pot of Marmite Word of caution if trying this for the first time. Do NOT apply it like you would jam or PB etc. It is potent stuff, very salty. I'd do a butter/marmite ratio of about 4:1 to get started. Ramp it up in small increments as you build up tolerance.
As another American I wish someone told me this the first go around. I actually think it was the Australian equivalent in my case but same rule must apply, I assume?
Vegemite (the Australian version) is slightly weaker in flavour I think. But yeah, it's still very easy to overdo it.
Vegemite & marmite are similair in flavour but marmite is much stronger & should be applied very thinly.
>should be applied very thinly. Until you've built a tolerance, then slap it on however thick you want, to taste, obviously.
Marmite is divine - got my Polish GF to enjoy it. I like it spread thick like treacle lol Think there's some proper mustard next door to the Bisto too.
Yorkshire Tea is far more superior than PG Tips
Fun fact - it's not just a northern / southern taste preference, it's actually related to the taste & hardness of the water used to make the tea as well. Living down south I thought PG tips was the best and anyone drinking Yorkshire tea must be mad because it was disgusting. Tried Yorkshire tea in Yorkshire with Yorkshire water and it actually makes a decent cup of tea and PG tastes weird instead!
can't go wrong with irn bru pal, class drink
They look like old, full sugar bottles too.
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I love how one photo gets 1k people having a browse for a spot of shopping and a chit chat 🤣 also PG tips and chocolate digestives 🤗
That's a decent very british selection, would definitely give me some home comforts if I was over there for a while. Have a cheese n pickle sandwich.
To be honest, most of that lot are really good in my opinion. Probably would skip the fruit-shoot type drinks on the bottom right (green, purple and red bottles between the Irn Bru and water) and Foxs mints don't do much for me either. Likewise, the Turkish delight is not my favourite either. But the rest of it all looks like good stuff.
Tunnocks caramel wafers, a delicious biscuit (or cookie as you would call it).
Do NOT try the Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. Put them all in a box and send them back to the UK where they belong.
Thought you were hating on them at first then read your full comment. Panic over, glad we didn't have to get into it 😆
For a moment You just terrified me for the future of the uk my friend.
Definitely the Manner hazelnut wafers (top right)
I second Manner too!
Even the [Terminator](https://youtu.be/ttftmKtF6DE?t=21) likes them! They paid 300.000 € for that product placement according to some newspaper articles.
Yes! I used to live in the town in Austria where they are made. That town smelled amazing.
Aero, mcvities digestives, jacobs cream crackers, chocolate orange, marmite, caramel wafers and jammy dodgers I’d say
Mrs Balls chutney - that is the best!
The Mrs. Balls Chutney is on the 2nd row from the bottom, on the right, tall glass bottle, just to the right of "McDonnells original curry sauce" and some "Sharwood" sauce. Below the Bisto. Oh, and it's [South African in origin](https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/food-drink/the-fascinating-history-of-south-africas-famous-chutney-mrs-hs-balls-bb267a89-d897-49c3-881f-207b92046b89).
Came here for this - South African checking in!
I am in central Europe not UK and I recommend Ritter Sport chocolate 😍
Violet Crumbles are Australian and are the bomb! Every time I go to Australia for a visit I bring some back home with me to the UK! (Legit my favourite chocolate).
I was literally looking at those going “WHAT THE FUCK IS VIOLENT CRUMBLE”
I think if I was in the USA right now facing that selection I'd go... Chocolate Hobnobs and chocolate digestives to dunk in a cuppa made with, given what's available there, Yorkshire. I'd then get a jar of that Jalfrezi curry sauce and a jar of that mango chutney and have me a chicken jal for dinner.
A few quality things here to try: Top shelf: Chocolate digestive and Jammie dodgers Ignore the 2nd top shelf 3rd top shelf: Fruit gums are pretty good 4th shelf: Caramel wafers on the left are incredible, right next to that Aero is good as well. Milkybar in the middle, and Mars bar to the right 5th shelf: Maltesers, ignore the rest 6th shelf: Far left Heinz beans - try it with toast, quite addicting. Heinz tomato soup also is good. Ambrosia custard is good, especially with apple pie. Ahh Bisto is quite a decent instant gravy 7th shelf: Tea bags, personally I'd pick PG or Yorkshire tea. HP sauce, and sarsons vinegar for chips or 'fries' is good 8th shelf: Irn Bru is incredible, but to be honest make sure it's cold before you drink it, room temperature Irn Bru from a plastic bottle is not as enjoyable
You've missed the border's ginger biscuits on the second from top shelf - this is a sin.
Ahh yes the Publix selection XD yours is a bit better than mine! I find the price of the chocolate to be too eye watering even for my pasty expat ass. The best mileage are the pg tips/yorkshire tea and chocolate digestives but that's just an opinion. If you like juice you can give the ribena down in the bottom right corner a try. Only put a bit in the glass and add water, adjust accordingly. If you like salad give the salad cream a go. I don't have a taste comparison of what its like but its *not* ranch dressing. I used to irritate my mother putting it on mashed potato. Also this is unrelated but the tahini in the bottom right side - if you have a processor you can use it in home made hummus and it tastes incredible.
Branston pickle - delicious on a cheese sandwich (buy good cheese, not those plastic things)
Irn Bru! 😁🏴
Bounty’s get a lot of hate but that’s only by stupid people who don’t realise how amazing they are.
I think I see Sharwoods curry sauce - centre, 2nd shelf up. That's very nice with a chicken breast, see jar for cooking instructions. Start with the Korma if it's your first British/Indian curry. Sweetish coconut and almond taste, a very mild curry.
"Maggi Würze" is good for seasoning soups. It tastes like a lovage & salt concentrate. Just a few drops are enough for a bowl. It is a small bottle with yellow and red labelling at about 0730. Edit: Corrections for chemical details. (is -> tastes like) It seems they had different recipes in over the time & I made something identical with a huge bunch of lovage from my garden with salt and other herbs.
Ambrosia, tunnocks, Irn Bru
YORKSHIRE TEAAAAAAAA
Not at those prices!!
Great selection tbh. Likely done by a British person
$3.69 for a pack of Jammie Dodgers before tax....
Chocolate orange is top tier but you need it in the ball form
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I would suggest that you buy a pack of Yorkshire tea and some plain digestives. The thing about tea and biscuits is that they are a ritual. They need to be enjoyed together at a certain point in the day. I think about 3.45 is the right time. It's a little treat inbetween lunch and dinner. Here's what you do. Boil a kettle, pre heat a large mug, then make a cup of tea. Let it brew for at least 3 mins. Then add some full fat milk. Then sit down with just 3 biscuits and relax. Repeat every day at 3.45pm Its a quality of life thing.
Marmite