A question for ILX Britishes re: Ginger Nuts

How do you not eat the whole packet in one sitting?

Who says we don't?

nom nom nom

"Hey you ... ginger balls!"

I just don't get it--I don't plow through a packet of like Oreos or Chips Ahoy. WAHT ARE YOU BRITISHERS PUTTING IN UR COOKIES?

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Oh jesus.

yeah, sorry. We don't get this apparently delicious snack in Canada so I wanted to ruin it for everyone else.

They are delicious but they are very HARD. I would think the degree of hardness would be a deterrent for overeating but NO.

first page of GIS surprisingly not vulgar

goddamnit someone else posted a carrot top pic

these are good when you're nauseous

They come a long way down my list of favoured biscuits. They're too hard and, well, gingery.

When did Carrot Top become a drug-addled drag queen?

They are delicious but they are very HARD. I would think the degree of hardness would be a deterrent for overeating but NO

They are not hard after you have dipped them in a mug of hot miky tea, which as far as I am aware is the proper Britishes way of eating them. The problem then becomes them being too crumbly and disintegrating into your mug.

I have never eaten these but they will forever remind me of Bartleby the Scrivener.

Big Bartleby aka the Scridriver

They are great dunked in milk.

They are not hard after you have dipped them in a mug of hot miky tea, which as far as I am aware is the proper Britishes way of eating them. The problem then becomes them being too crumbly and disintegrating into your mug.

It is all about developing a technique and an feeling for an optimal dunking time.

They should be dipped in coffee, not tea. Tea is for digestives.

Purist

I like my biscuits like I like my men. Hard, ginger, nuts.

Is that any way to talk about Ed?

Ed is blonde, not ginger!

so he is hard? and nuts?

Fucking love these. Maybe my fave biscuit. They need a cup of tea though.

Avoid the Marks and Spencer ones--they are useless as they try to taste of real ginger.

Stop it, you are making me crave ginger nuts and I have none with me. The hardness is crucial for the dipping in tea process, at which point, they turn super-luscious.

But I am a sucker for anything that tastes of ginger. It's one of my favourite flavours in the world. Ginger biscuits, ginger beer, ginger sauce, ginger chocolate... you know, actually, I think I might be so attracted to red-headed men because I secretly suspect that they will taste like ginger if I lick their freckles.

My goodness, that was more a TMI post than an ILE one, wasn't it? Whoops!

Reminds me, have got lovely choco+ginger biscuits from Waitrose sitting at home, waiting for my return from work

I used to east these as a child with dunked in orange squash. You had to leave them in for a while to get them to soak up the squash but it was worth it.

'eat' these, obv.

Waitrose choco-ginger biscuits... ::salivates on keyboard::

There's a Waitrose in Marylebone, right? I could walk there at lunch... if I didn't have to get these bloody posters printed, bah!

Also, not a biscuit but Wagamama's white chocolate ginger cheesecake - heaven on a plate.

Get them printed (and send me one) and then can eat your choccogingers in the knowledge of a job well done, they will taste even better, if that is possible (and did I mention sending me one?).

Well, if you are anywhere near Northampton tonight or tomorrow you can pick one up! If you are not, then resend me yr snail mail address (I know I have it but it is burried somewhere in a receipt book under the seething morass of my kitchen table) again and I'll pop one in the post.

I walked to Marylebone and bought the Waitrose chocolate ginger biscuits.

OHMYGOD. I have had to hide them at the bottom of my desk to stop me from scoffing the entire lot all at once and dying, twitching, in a glorious haze of ginger-induced coma. My mouth feels like it's on fire. With desire. Getting higher. Oh god yes.

These are pretty good as well:
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The wording on the packet says "Candied Australian ginger gives a delicious spicy kick to these rich, slow-baked cookies, thickly coated in dark chocolate to finish." - isn't there also a version that uses Belgian chocolate?

always tastes better if you can put the name of a country before it

unless the country is America. no offences but "American" is not indicative of a gourmet foodstuff.

Unless you are talking about American Hot Dogs or American Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I have to stop eating these things because they are delicious, but I will be sick I have any more. (I have only eaten 3, to give idea of general richness.)

American Hard Gums?

mmmm 64 Slices Of American Cheese

American Chocolate Brownies!!!!!!

okay, so American brownies is the exception. it was American Cheese - which is closer in taste and consistency to wetsuit material - I was thinking of.

american peanut butter

american boys

^^^ ginger nut

^^^ homophobe

The Lex isn't ginger, he's a brune(tte).

(Whatever the correct term for dark-haired man is.)

is peanut butter actually sold anywhere as American Peanut Butter? "Oh dammit I bought the Lithuanian shit again!"

I just meant that lex is a fan of carrot top calm down britishers.

I mean, you have to admit that the Top is ripped.

Don't tell me everyone hear is unaware that "ginger" is rhyming slang

Also, don't you think there's a reason he's Carrot Top and not Carrot Bottom?

"here" even

Think I've seen "American-Style Peanut Butter" somewhere

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I thought putting 'American' before any foodstuff was indicative of 'synthetic shite'?

Americano. Regular O just tastes like piss.

Sure, whatever, you with yr spotted dick and blood pudding are going to complain about American food, eh?

Tha's nowt wrong wi' blood pudding

Slow-fried Cape Verde Islands Grits, now that is the real deal

LESS STUPID TRANSATLANTIC IN-FIGHTING!!!

MORE GINGER BISCUITS!!!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

A friend of mine considers the word "American", when used in reference to the United States, to be a slur against all other inhabitants of the North and South continents. Presumably the adjective should strictly speaking be United Statesian.

Can't even use Yankee, 'cos of the Southern states

I think the most important thing, here, is where can I get all of these chocolate ginger biscuits in Canada?

no it has to be a term we can stick a pointless 'er' on to the end of (xposts)

i'm not even brunette! i have black hair.

american peanut butter = skippy. my ex-housemate and i used to eat it by the spoonful straight out of the tub

I'm feeling quite the ugly American now because I just ate two Ginger Nuts with cup of Irish Breakfast tea (sugar but no milk) and it never occurred to me to dunk said biscuits into said tea to alleviate hardness DUH.

ah Irish Breakfast Tea. you can really taste the Guiness.

I'm feeling quite the ugly American now because I just ate two Ginger Nuts with cup of Irish Breakfast tea (sugar but no milk)

i am a firm opponent to dunking, no matter how hard the biscuit or whatever. i believe some food is made crunchy for a reason and that reason is not so that you can sog it up before it goes in your mouth.

^ cutting nose off to spite face

The biscuits in my hotel room are goddamn hard.

They are supposed to be, they aren't stale or anything.

A four second dunk in coffee makes them right.

my mentor
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Wat, no buttermilk w/the biscuits?

You should only dunk half of the biscuit, then put the whole thing in your mouth. You get the soggy ginger/coffee flavour and the crunchy ginger flavour all at the same time. I could probably eat 15-20 ginger nuts in one sitting using this method, easy.

Think I've seen "American-Style Peanut Butter" somewhere

It's a rule that stuff sold in the EU has to be labelled like this. Example: Cornish Pasties can only be labelled "Cornish Pasties" if they were manufactured in Cornwall. So you get "American Style Jam Doughnuts" (which BTW are very nice)

duh, (insert) otherwise they have to be labelled "Cornish Style Pasties"

I thought that was only if they were in a designated protected area of origin or whatever the term is!

brunet

usonian

Would be vv disappointed to buy cornish style pasties and receive a box of american style donuts.