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cj wrote:

graham wrote: a fig roll

:biggun:

This abomination has no business being in a discussion about biscuits. The CH biscuit situation and living in the US has obviously affected you. Seek some help now!

In the US they are called Fig Newtons for some reason.

Fig rolls are great, I love dunking them in my tea.

englishangel wrote:In the US they are called Fig Newtons for some reason.

Indeed they do, and they don't taste as good either. But then, most snacks don't. They also call biscuits cookies and biscuits are scones that you pour gravy over. Nutters, the lot of them.

graham wrote:

englishangel wrote:In the US they are called Fig Newtons for some reason.

Indeed they do, and they don't taste as good either. But then, most snacks don't. They also call biscuits cookies and biscuits are scones that you pour gravy over. Nutters, the lot of them.

and Hershey's chocolate is noty a patch on Cadbury's

In fact, it's disgusting! I have my family send me dairy milk to make up for it, or else there's a British store in Santa Monica where I can get cadbury chocolate and other essentials. Marmite and tetley are really expensive though so I have to maintain a healthy imported supply.

The only thing that could push me that close to the aforementioned "comestible" would be famine in a nuclear war. (I can't even bring myself to name it.) And they'd only be around then as no-one else (apart from you and graham ,you being Hendrik - I got all flustered and forgot to quote. Yikes!) would touch the things with a barge pole. Yes, we might have radioactive materials in Devon (we're rock hard, ha ha) but just imagine a sunny summer afternoon, tea on the lawn, freshly baked scones with homemade strawberry jam and lashings of clotted cream, oozing and luscious ......

cj wrote:The only thing that could push me that close to the aforementioned "comestible" would be famine in a nuclear war. (I can't even bring myself to name it.) And they'd only be around then as no-one else (apart from you and graham) would touch the things with a barge pole. Yes, we might have radioactive materials in Devon (we're rock hard, ha ha) but just imagine a sunny summer afternoon, tea on the lawn, freshly baked scones with homemade strawberry jam and lashings of clotted cream, oozing and luscious ......

It brings me out in middle-aged spread just thinking about it.

palgsm93 wrote:Hate figs. Love fig rolls.

Well, all I shall say to fig-rollophiles is

CACOF

(Coalition Against Consumption Of Figrolls, obviously).

Beware them and their mighty chocolate hobnob of destruction.