What's happened to fruit shortcake biscuits?
Dave Higton (1515) 3497 posts |
I haven’t been able to find any in our local shops for a few weeks now. Waitrose don’t even list them for online shopping. Does anyone else see the same shortage? If so, does anyone know why? |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Can’t you just bake some? |
Dave Higton (1515) 3497 posts |
Erm, yes, I could, but I don’t feel confident that they would be as good as those I used to be able to buy. |
Dave Higton (1515) 3497 posts |
Funnily enough, there’s a big McVities factory only a few miles away from where I live. |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Practice makes perfect! (I’m sorry, I don’t have a recipe I can recommend.) |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Can you ask them why they make their digestives non-vegan for 0.2% milk solids? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Probably not, even a Pi4 at full chat isn’t going to hot enough to bake biscuits. @DH Own brand stuff seems to be either no longer stocked or “out of stock” McV’s still appear on some of the big super’s websites. |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Over here (Germany), shelves are empty because the shops are fighting back against unreasonable wholesale price rises. Own brand is doing quite well. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
Over here (France) there are few eggs (avian flu) and only cheap cheapy chicken nuggets.
Seems our supermarkets just pass on the price gouging and let the customer decide. But, then, France tends to make laws that are not necessarily in the favour of customers…. people riot over cut price Nutella? Okay, the maximum reduction that anybody can make is now 33%. Immediately ending all the buy-one-get-one-free offers. It’s now buy two, get one free.
I long for the odd British biscuit. The things available here tend to be either burnt offerings or something incredibly dry covered in poor quality “chocolate”.
Easier said than done, especially if one’s baking talent is….lacking. There’s an art to patisserie, an art that I appear to lack. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
No problem, as any cat would inform you – dogs are useless, and humans are merely required as staff. You get advancement in the staff hierarchy for providing Dreamies (what is in those things?)
There are firms that deliver. Amazon on the list of course, and the specialist “It’s British, and we ship it to expats anywhere” firms like britishcornershop# |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
ROFL In 1983-4, when I was first in India, there was an Australian missionary doctor in one of the hospitals on my patch. She was a regular – monthly, approximately – visitor to a shop in the nearest town (50 miles distant) who imported Scott’s Porage Oats (amongst other things) for her. She left India in 1986. Last I heard you could still buy Scott’s Porage Oats in Jabalpur. Quite cheap…and years past its sell-by date…probably a few other strange items… |
Colin Ferris (399) 1809 posts |
A lot of our food is part wheat – reminds me of one of Marion Morison |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
In a quiet corner, look and you may find fourth generation haggis, massively inbred. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
That’s about it.
I think a mixture of catnip and taurine. Both things cats get high on.
Well, yeah… Google “Fray Bentos Just Chicken” 1. Up comes an advert for British Online Shop. One pie, 425g. €4,16 plus €13,30 postage. Plus, import duty? 1 Guilty pleasure plus a fun game of hunt the meat. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
You’re just lucky it could be imported because they can’t quite figure out how to classify it under the schedule :) |