Gave blood today in Ayr - and there were plates of chocolate biscuits to help recover afterwards - tunnocks caramel wafers and tunnocks tea cakes - wonder if tunnocks donate to the blood transfusion service?bonzo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:33 pmYou're no looking hard enough we bought carmel taxis last week !!! A poor mans tunnocks Carmel wafer.creamolafoam wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:18 pm Haven’t seen a taxi biscuit for yrs. You can still get blue ribands. Personal favourite was a bandit, which is long gone as well
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Well, he's got to get a knighthood some how. Oh that and a Roller to Glasgow council
Oh so cynical in one so young
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Do you remember Garibaldi biscuits? They were also available half-coated in chocolate (yum).
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Two more of my favourite - but no longer available - biscuits (both from McVities):
Gypsy Creams
Royal Scot
Gypsy Creams
Royal Scot
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Hi George,
I've been trying to find Gypsy Creams for a couple of years now on my visits home.
I thought that I was always looking in a supermarket that somehow didn't carry them.
Are McVities insane that they have stopped producing them???
They were always the best biscuits around in my opinion. I loved them and we always took a big stock back home at the end of the holiday.
A seriously P****d off JD.
I've been trying to find Gypsy Creams for a couple of years now on my visits home.
I thought that I was always looking in a supermarket that somehow didn't carry them.
Are McVities insane that they have stopped producing them???
They were always the best biscuits around in my opinion. I loved them and we always took a big stock back home at the end of the holiday.
A seriously P****d off JD.
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I think JD in this time of PCness it would be frowned upon to call something a gypsy cream
Those wimin were in the nip.
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Bonzo has a point. Indeed, there appears to be a politically corrected 'replacement' - not from McVities - called Romany Creams. Apparently, these are from South Africa.
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Hi all, are you seriously trying to tell me that the product has been removed for politically correct reasons.georgersweir wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:02 pm Bonzo has a point. Indeed, there appears to be a politically corrected 'replacement' - not from McVities - called Romany Creams. Apparently, these are from South Africa.
If so, the world is standing on its head. Now why does that surprise me ???
JD.
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There is a character in Taggart called McVitie (superintendent of Strathclyde Police) and Taggart often refers to him as 'the biscuit'
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The Mother of all politically correct reasons regarding foodstuffs would be the 'golliwog' on Robertsons jam products with the golliwog removed on 2001.John Donnelly wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:54 pmHi all, are you seriously trying to tell me that the product has been removed for politically correct reasons.georgersweir wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:02 pm Bonzo has a point. Indeed, there appears to be a politically corrected 'replacement' - not from McVities - called Romany Creams. Apparently, these are from South Africa.
If so, the world is standing on its head. Now why does that surprise me ???
JD.
Loved, Lees snowballs so much i could gobble 3 or4 in one go
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