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Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:44 am
by The Jonster
That is also true. And with milk, it's awesome! :D

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:46 am
by Steo
I have dipped them in tea on occasions too.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:51 am
by The Jonster
That is also delicious, I wonder which kinds of cookies work best in milk and which work best in tea.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:56 am
by Steo
The main ones I think of when I say cookies are chocolate chip, we tend to call the other ones biscuits over here.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:42 am
by The Jonster
That I'm aware of as well. No matter what they're called I still find them delicious. Again I wish they had more flavours of Tim Tam here than just regular and caramel...

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:46 am
by Steo
I had a habit of just getting chocolate digestives and dipping them in tea.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:08 pm
by The Jonster
Never had digestive biscuits even though I've seen them. They must be delicious despite the "digestive" name.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:20 pm
by Hunchman801
Funny how in French the term is used to refer to spirits, not biscuits. :lol:

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:22 pm
by The Jonster
What a curious way to call cookies. Spirits make me think of either ghosts or some alcholic drink. :lol:

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:24 pm
by Cairnie
I suppose the closest American thing to digestives is graham crackers. I tried a graham cracker base just once when a Sainsburys that sold more kosher food than usual had them in for around Halloween time and I made pumpkin pie with it.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:32 pm
by Steo
I haven't had those crackers in years actually, I usually just have digestives or chocolate digestives, and sometimes them oat ones like oaties or whatever they're called.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:35 pm
by The Jonster
Are those oat biscuits that you describe?

Graham crackers! I just had those recently. They make great crusts. I think iirc I’ve seen digestives in the international aisles in stores.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:42 pm
by Steo
All the biscuit talk is reminding me of those biscuit tins I only usually ever see at Christmas. :P

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:10 pm
by The Jonster
I'm suddenly thinking of Danish cookie tins myself lol

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:14 pm
by Aaron
All this speak of digestives reminded me of McVitie's digestive cookies, man these are so good!
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Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:17 pm
by The Jonster
OH yeah i have definitely seen those in the supermarket near my house, in the international aisle.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:20 pm
by Cairnie
Biscuits really don't last long in this house no matter what kind they are. Cookies, oreos, custard creams, biscoffs you name it, we eat them, fast.

I love soft cookies best though like the ones from Subway.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:24 pm
by The Jonster
Yeah my preferred cookies are soft and chewy.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:38 pm
by Steo
Oh yeah custard creams are nice.

Re: Cookies

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:44 pm
by Ambidextroid
Do you guys call any biscuit a cookie? In my experience cookies are a specific type of biscuit with chocolate chips in.
There used to be this amazing shop in my town called Ben's cookies where they would store bake the most amazing, gooey, chewy, massive cookies. They always had massive chocolate chips and a big chamber of molten chocolate inside. They would bake them and serve you them warm! But alas, some other more profitable business swallowed up the property and turned it into an Italian restaurant.
I think they still operate in London though. They have big glass windows with Quentin Blake illustrations, which is the same chap who illustrated all the Road Dahl books.