What is the world coming to?

[Nortonboy]

I don't ask for sophisticated things in my life. just straightforward stuff like sitting in a quite room, reading a good book, drinking tea and chomping biscuits. So why oh why, when my wife goes shopping at T*s*o is she not able to return with any chocolate rich tea biscuits?

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Their choccy digestives are most toothsome. Try them.....

[Postman Prat]

I would sell BB for a packet of Milk Chocolate Hob-nobs or any decent Shortcake Biscuits!!

[Autocar Publicity]

I would sell BB for a packet of Milk Chocolate Hob-nobs or any decent Shortcake Biscuits!!

I don't know which is worse, that every man has his price, or that the price is so low...

I don't ask for sophisticated things in my life. just straightforward stuff like sitting in a quiet room, reading a good book, drinking tea and chomping biscuits. So why oh why, when my wife goes shopping at T*s*o is she not able to return with any chocolate rich tea biscuits?

Is this a problem with the wife or the store? If the former, I will defer to someone with more experience (and tact?) than I, if the latter, might I suggest she buys a pack of 'cooking' chocolate and a pack of rich tea biscuits and you do your own? When in college, our 'mornings' ran from 8.00 until 13.45, so I used to make myself some chocolate hobnob sultana crunchies and take a couple of sections in for break. (Really hi-tech cuisine, melt the chocolate in a pan, bash some biscuits into fragments, add sultanas and mix together, turn out and let it cool. When solid, attack with rolling pin to break it up. I suppose you could use cookie cutters to get round and regular shapes, but I could never be bothered).

[Postman Prat]

The price is so low because he's not worth much more. A man who is an LMS fan, and even intends tarting up a 'Castle' is of limited value

[earlswood nob]

Good morning all
I find that chocolate digestives and chocolate hob-nobs evaporate as soon as you open the packet.
There is never a partially finshed packet of either in my home.

I have also found that my Malt Whisky tends to evaporate quickly when my G/F's son pays me a visit.

Earlswood nob

[D2100]

I find that chocolate digestives and chocolate hob-nobs evaporate as soon as you open the packet.
There is never a partially finshed packet of either in my home.

Biscuit barrels are a particularly bad idea, we gave up on them when the kids were young - the faster we filled it, the faster they emptied it ...

Re- the OP's chocolate rich tea, it's my impression these are a relatively recent development? (OK, maybe 20 years or so, but I seem to recall thinking they were a quite revolutionary alternative to the traditional chocolate digestive).

[Boris]

I understand there are FOUR teaspoons of sugar in each chocolate digestive.

[Blink Bonny]

The price is so low because he's not worth much more. A man who is an LMS fan, and even intends tarting up a 'Castle' is of limited value

Could be worse - I could BE a GWR fan! Anyway, a £15 loco is a bargain in whoever's language we look at it. Plus that keeps the Wallet happy. Well. Happier. It still attacked me when I extracted the £10 for the loco! And the £5 for the TD chassis.

[strang steel]

Good morning all
I find that chocolate digestives and chocolate hob-nobs evaporate as soon as you open the packet.
There is never a partially finshed packet of either in my home.

I have also found that my Malt Whisky tends to evaporate quickly when my G/F's son pays me a visit.

Earlswood nob

I have an instant solution to that problem. Fill a spare Malt bottle with cold tea, and keep the real stuff hidden away where only you know its location.

Some things are not meant for unauthorised consumption.

[giner]

I don't ask for sophisticated things in my life. just straightforward stuff like sitting in a quite room, reading a good book, drinking tea and chomping biscuits. So why oh why, when my wife goes shopping at T*s*o is she not able to return with any chocolate rich tea biscuits?

You're a braver man than I, Norton. If I voiced thoughts like that to my missus, I might be the recipient of some reet Yorkshire colloquialisms, or at least some suggestions I wouldn't want to repeat here.

[strang steel]

The answer may be in the type of biscuit.

Chocolate Rich Tea? Never heard of them, don't want to try them and our Waitrose do not stock them because they were such poor sellers.

Maybe the wife of Nortonboy does not buy them because there are none in the shop; and they are all in a landfill somewhere?

Stick with digestives.

[52D]

The answer may be in the type of biscuit.

Chocolate Rich Tea? Never heard of them, don't want to try them and our Waitrose do not stock them because they were such poor sellers.

Maybe the wife of Nortonboy does not buy them because there are none in the shop; and they are all in a landfill somewhere?

Stick with digestives.

Im totally in agreement with this nice B1 chap about chocolate rich tea.

[Blink Bonny]

Bourbon creams are nice dunked in coffee........

[giner]

BB, you are a man of great taste!