Chocolate Hob Nob or Chocolate Digestive?

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Those are the options. It could not be more simple. Also: discuss....

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Chocolate Hob Nob	17
Chocolate Digestive	14

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

But I like the ones with the caramel under the chocolate. Where are those in the poll?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Digestive. The good Lord didn't intend Hob Nobs to have chocolate on them, whereas I don't understand why anyone would buy choccy-free digestives.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

No no no no no

No caramel digestives in this poll. it's one or the other. dems da rulez.

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

And is a jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit?

and how does that affect it's tax?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

and how does that affect its tax?

better.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

a jaffa cake is a cake cos it goes ahrd when satle. a biscuit the opposite. see nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

spazzy spelling there

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

i like to hob nob hob nob

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

a jaffa cake is a pie

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

i'm having pink strawberry chocolates (from japan). YUM!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

was a time when hobnobs weren't vegetarian but chocolate hobnobs were. which was a bit strange. (these days both are).

are the chocolate hobnobs plain or milk chocolate?

― koogs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

animal fats i take it

they are milk choc koogs, but there may be a dark variant. also an orange variant (always key).

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

i always liked (faux) white chocolate the best.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I'm glad you asked actually. cos it allows me to link to this

which should answer your question.

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

The oatiness of a chocoate Hobnob deludes me into thinking I am eating something healthy.

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

that'sa very good point. i feel like i'm getting whole grain. which apparently is good for me.

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

PURPLE DIGESTIVES???? The Japanese are mental.

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Chocolate digestives all the way. Especially dark chocolate. Hob Nobs are all claggy.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

The other day in the supermarket, I overheard one backpacker explain to another that British people ate digestives to aid digestion and generally free-up their bottoms. Is this a commonly held misconception?

― NickB, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

when it comes to the crunch (pun intended, naturally), dark chocolate digestives are the only biscuits that really matter. mrs fiendish and i spent about 10 minutes in a biscuit aisle the other week wondering about alternatives. it's just not worth it.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

fox's golden chocolate crunch beat both

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

these are the ones i mean:
http://www.geofftech.co.uk/obsessions/foxs/gifs/classiccrunch2.gif
(http://www.geofftech.co.uk/obsessions/foxs/gifs/classiccrunch2.gif)

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Chocolate digestives win if they are sweetmeal rather than wheatmeal AND dark chocolate rather than milk chocolate.

I don't care what chocolate they put on hob-nobs, I like both equally. I'm not a hob-nob purist (or a hob-nob-snob, if you will), but I'm terribly pernickety about my chocolate digestives and a PROPER chocolate digestive wins easily.

Chocolate chip gingers kick them both squarely up the jacksie, btw. So I'm not actually voting.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Fox's biscuits taste like sick.

I'm with Gene Hunt - I like me a Garibaldi biccie.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Chocolate Garibaldi's were the bees-knees, sadly it's numerous years since I saw one.

Uptoeleven have you seen this site http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/week.php3?

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

whoa whoa whoa hang on - there are chocolate chip ginger cookies??!!

england has the best packaged cookies i mean biscuits, i think
i vote choc hob-nobs but mostly b/c you can't get them here and i ate a whole package last time i was in london

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

<i>whoa whoa whoa hang on - there are chocolate chip ginger cookies??!! </i>

Not any more, there aren't *sob*

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

Shite.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

plain ol' hob nobs are grate, why you go fucking w/ perfection oh limey biscuit company??

digestives are classic for name only

i think i feel the same way about most choco biscuit/cookies as i feel about chocolate donuts - gilding the lily. only choc cookie i like is the LU little schoolboy (and anybody over the age of 13 should not be eating milk chocolate - YUCK!!)

― gershy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

you can get hob nobs pretty easily in SF, i can walk two blocks to get mine! (and there's my vote)

― BATTAGS, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

PURPLE DIGESTIVES???? The Japanese are mental.

they have wasabi ice cream, do you need any more proof?

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

I agree with Ailsa about PROPER chocolate digestives, although I am guilty of buying Tesco's own brand ones for cooking with - they're perfectly okay to smash up for use in cheesecake bases or tiffin bars.

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:50 (eighteen years ago)

> The other day in the supermarket, I overheard one backpacker explain to another that British people ate digestives to aid digestion and generally free-up their bottoms. Is this a commonly held misconception?

i think it is a popular misconception with americans (having seen the same thing trotted out in House Swap on the telly where she thought they actually had laxative qualities.)

wikipedia:
"A digestive biscuit, sometimes referred to as a sweetmeal biscuit, is a British semi-sweet biscuit. The name 'digestive' comes from a belief that the biscuits had antacid properties due to the use of bicarbonate of soda when they were first conceived."

i can't eat more than 3 plain choco hob nobs without feeling like i've overindulged. for this they get my vote.

― koogs, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

"If dunked in tea with the chocolate side uppermost, the increased tensile strength of the chocolate makes the biscuit less likely to disintegrate before it can be eaten (until the chocolate also melts)[citation needed]."

citation needed!

― koogs, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

I thought they'd done away with plain chocolate hob nobs? I haven't seen them in ages. Like Kate, I prefer the ones with caramel, but for this poll I will choose chocolate digestives because I just find Hob Nobs overly sugary nowadays.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

This page, also posted further up, if you scroll down, should answer your "where are plain choc digestives" question.

Crap grammar. Sod that though.

As for the japanese digestives.... these people are fantastic. Not that I would ever be inclined to partake but other people, those less resistant to change, must surely be enthused.

― Uptoeleven, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

Between these two there's no contest: hob nob for me please. Those Fox's ones are better, though, Blueski's right.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

See, everyone has an opinion

For the record i am a choccy hobnobs man all the way. Some of the people that pick digestives have been a real surprise for me. The girl I've been seeing has been umming and ahing for a while and yesterday came down on the digestives side. I'm not sure it's gonna work out.

― Uptoeleven, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

Matt DC OTM

― braveclub, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

You have already voted on this poll and can't vote again

Well. I'm doubly for chocolate digestives. They are getting easier to find in the states, but spendy enough to be a luxury item in the biscuit world. Keebler chocolate covered graham crackers do not compare.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

rich tea plus nutella is, while by no means a substitute, a fine way of giving the bland biscuit some meaning

― Uptoeleven, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

The addition of caramel to chocolate hobnobs has passed me by totally. Are they like a posh ToffyPop?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

It was close. But the right result I think.

― Uptoeleven, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

Chocolate biscuits were the winner.

― blueski, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

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