How often do you eat British style biscuits?

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1. If you specifically British *brands*, then it’s probably pretty rare. If you just mean cookies in general, then they’re incredibly common and popular across all segments of society.

2. I almost never do.

   And if I do, it’s because someone brought them into the office or something like that. I’ve never sought them out or bought them.

3. Basically, never

4. It depends on what you mean by British style biscuit. Do you mean the general style of a crunchy cookie vs a softer, fluffier cookie? If so, then those are pretty common. I’d include butter cookies, vanilla wafers, etc in that category.

   If you’re referring to the ones in the picture, those are less common. You can certainly find them, especially shortbread cookies. They aren’t that rare.

   I don’t eat any cookies on a daily basis and typically if I do, then I bake them myself.

5. Only as an oddity. You can find them in the supermarket, under the “International Foods” section. Italian biscotti would be much more common, actually.

6. Almost never!

7. I buy a pack of knock off Digestive Biscuits weekly from Lidl. My family likes them because they’re not overly sweet like most cookies.

8. I love shortbread. That’s probably the most common of the ones in the picture. But I might have that a few times a year.

   As someone who watches the Great British Bake Off, the UK distinction between biscuits and cookies is rather confusing. In America we wouldn’t use the term biscuit, all the items in the linked picture would be called cookies.

   We have similar cookies to the ones shown here but they are not super popular. American style cookies are more common to buy and make at home.

9. I don’t eat them very often, but I like HobNobs.

10. I have the digestive about once per year – McVitie’s

11. Not often but I’ve had Jaffa cakes that I bought at Aldi they were alright.

    Can I just say that “Jammie Dodger” is an epic cookie name? It looks good too, would try.

12. I mean, we have shortbread and butter cookies and vanilla or chocolate wafers, although I think caramel is less common. And Pepperidge Farm makes something similar to jammy dodger I think – although now that I look at it it’s not a sandwich cookie. But certainly some styles at least are pretty common.

    https://www.pepperidgefarm.com/product-finder?category=2382

13. I used to eat hobnobs and digestives pretty regularly, but then I got diagnosed with celiac and can’t have them anymore.
    But that’s because I’ve been to England and had them there and then sought them out when I got back. They’re not common here at all.

14. Don’t know about caramel wafers. But I like chocolate ones. Had them as a snack growing up.

15. I indulge in the Walkers shortbreads around Christmas, but no one else in my family likes them so I have to eat them all.

16. Do you mean *cookies*? Every damn day. Those *specific* cookies? Not really.

17. Almost never

18. Never, they look bland.

19. Thanks for reminding me to go to the Indian grocery store

20. I grew up eating shortbread fingers. I eat Digestives a couple times a week. Started after my first trip to the UK and has continued ever since.

21. I like all the ones pictured to various degrees and I have a British grocery very close to my house so…all the time. But I know I am a rarity. It’s not common at all. Now an argument could be made that an Oreo is just an American version of a Custard Cream which if so…we do Oreos like the Japanese do Kit Kats. So many varieties and flavors!

22. The shortbread fingers are what I see most readily available around me. We buy them occasionally.

23. I love Hobnobs, but they’re so bad for you that I rarely buy them, LOL

24. I moved to the UK so my answer doesn’t count. Probably once a week or less. Whenever someone usually brings them into work.

25. Those look like Walker’s short bread; I’ve had them quite regularly (at least once every month or two)!

    McVities go really well with chai/coffee, and the bourbons are delicious on their own.

    Never had the caramel ones though!

26. Pretty much never. That jammie dodger looks delicious though

27. Probably just a Jaffa Cake (not that brand though) on a rare occasion. That’s probably it. We have enough of our own “biscuits” here to keep me happy.

28. Walker’s shortbread fingers are in every single US grocery store, and people eat them all the time. We also have stores when your can get Hobnobs and McVittie’s. So while we don’t have all of these brands readily available, there are a few that are really common.

29. Those are cookies and I eat them all the time.

30. Not enough. I really like digestives

31. Digestives from time to time, especially with Nutella or pålegschocolade. Shortbread from time to time too

    But daily cookies are more likely to be chocolate chip

32. A Jammie dodger, digestive, nice, a d jaffa cakes are pretty common. Maybe not those specific brands, but that style of cookie for sure.

33. I guess it depends on whether you consider Oreos to be biscuits. They’re very popular.

    Pepperidge Farm’s also makes a wide variety of what Id consider to be British-style biscuits. Their Chessmen biscuits taste very similar to McVitties Original.

    If you mean actual British brands, then it’s rare. I was on a tea-and-biscuit kick a few years ago and I had to work a bit to find them. Wegmans carries McVitties.

34. Not much. this is just my opinion

    I would think of all those as “grandma cookies”. I wouldn’t go out of my way. If I’m going to have a cookie then I want a really good soft chewy one. I want an oreo, or chips ahoy. or from a good bakery

    but i’d give it a try

35. I can’t believe how much crap American food gets when Walkers had so much butter in them that they made my fingers greasy. I like the round tea biscuits.

36. Pretty often but only cause my Nana is from England

37. We have a vast variety of cookies, but the import ones are much more expensive. My favorite are Marias which are not overly sweet. You can buy Walkers in any supermarket.

38. No, we don’t all eat them all the time.

39. Never had any of those.

40. I eat Scottish Cookies all the time.

41. Never

42. We have 4 packs of McVities and some HobNobs in the cabinet right now. My husband loves 1 or 2 with his tea!

43. We call those cookies, and those particular styles are uncommon.

44. I’d say close to never.
    Every once in a blue moon we’ll make some English type scones, but never buy those ‘biscuits’ even if we visit the British food shop near us. They often carry them in our supermarkets though in the international section.

45. We eat the shortbread from time to time, mostly around holidays for some reason. I’ve ‘seen’ a lot of these brands in International stores, but haven’t tried any.

46. I could destroy some shortbread. It’s one of the best indulgences in the world to me—especially the homemade variety. That’s precisely why I stay away from it.

47. Americans eat cookies plenty. I don’t know if they eat specifically British style cookies though.