If not the whole world?
I haven't been everywhere so I can only personally comment on the dearth of decent Continental Biscuits. What do you reckon?
2006-10-14 07:50:57 · 21 answers · asked by Kango Man 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
You have not been to Switzerland.
2006-10-15 22:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britain has, without any doubt, the best hard cheeses on the planet; it also has the best beers (though the competition are closing in!). But to suggest that it has the best "biscuits" (or 'cookies', as the rest of the world's six billion people typically call them) is to reveal an ignorance of the facts. You might need to look beyond ASDA and Tesco's and Sainsbury's, you may need to travel to India and Australia and Myanmar, or to the Virgin Islands and Sri Lanka and Tasmania, Laos, California, Bynbydar, Lagos, Peru, Canada, even!
You must open your biscuity eyes to all the biscuitosity the planet has to offer, my not-so-humble friend! The only palette your biscuit bigotry is hurting is yours!
2006-10-14 15:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't really know as i haven't travelled the whole of Europe tasting biscuits however I do believe that M&S have the best selection of biscuits in Britain
2006-10-14 15:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those that know reckon its down to the difference in flour. On the continent the dry summers produced wheat with low moisture content. This make superior bread, but biscuits that are too dry. It is the other way around with Britain's maritime climate producing moist flour, moist biscuits and inferior bread.
I don't know if its true, but it make a kind of sense.
2006-10-14 14:57:59 · answer #4 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
agree to an extent. UK has the best selection of COMFORTING biscuits... those you can dip in tea, eat infront of your telly ones!! love rich tea!!
Oreo not too popular in the UK.
Italian coffee biscuits are nice too! but not a big thing in the UK.
2006-10-16 06:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by CM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely right. These continental things always look soooo tempting on the packets, but when you get inside them, they are such a disappointment (bit like me, really...!).
The fact we make the best cuppa in the world to dunk them in also helps, of course!
2006-10-14 16:36:18 · answer #6 · answered by Lily & Stu Too 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely - you can never get a decent cup of tea or biscuit abroad! We have so many fab biscuits - digestives, ginger nuts, kit kats, Viscount, the list is endless.
2006-10-14 15:09:22 · answer #7 · answered by Ally 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I haven't sampled every biscuit in Europe but I do love my rich tea with a cuppa (white &two sugars and be quick about) and jacobs' cream crackers. You can put anything on them for a quick snack.
2006-10-14 14:59:53 · answer #8 · answered by DeeDee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Swiss, French, German or Italian biscuits are delicate, not as rock hard as the ones in England. I guess that's due to the flour and baking techniques. Lebkuchen's my favourite.
2006-10-14 15:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by mmmporg 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We certainly do (not that they're all indigenous)
e.g.:Bourbon,Garibaldi
If you get a chance try the French "Butter biscuit" Buerre de (trade name)
Keep on dunking
M
2006-10-14 14:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by mesmerized 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I sidestepped a double Decker bus the other day. Does that make me a jammy dodger?
2006-10-14 15:14:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋