Just for a laff, I weighed a Penguin (biscuit) it now weighs in at 21 grammes! while a TWO finger KitKat bar weighs 22 grammes. They can't get any smaller, can they?
21 grammes isn't even ONE ounce!
Biscuits
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Hi Jimbo,
I know they're getting smaller all the time mate but the blinking prices never seem to go down ha ha
Regards.
Danny
I know they're getting smaller all the time mate but the blinking prices never seem to go down ha ha
Regards.
Danny
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Sheila, I know what you mean about not being able to get the stuff you want (I think you're in Canada?)
anyway when I visit my brother in Toronto I don't take the heavy stuff like cans of Batchelor's Processed Peas, but I found a weekend market in, I think, Pickering, where there is a Scottish stall where you can get almost anything but at ludicrous prices for example a can of the above mentioned peas (the ones with the BRIGHT green colouring [which I think is illegal in Canada!]) will set you back about Can$2.50 UK supermarket price around 30pence!
If it's not in Pickering it is in one of the towns near to Scarborough.
Edit: Update, I checked and the Weekend Market with the Scottish Stall is now at Bayly and Brock in Pickering if you happen to be near there!
anyway when I visit my brother in Toronto I don't take the heavy stuff like cans of Batchelor's Processed Peas, but I found a weekend market in, I think, Pickering, where there is a Scottish stall where you can get almost anything but at ludicrous prices for example a can of the above mentioned peas (the ones with the BRIGHT green colouring [which I think is illegal in Canada!]) will set you back about Can$2.50 UK supermarket price around 30pence!
If it's not in Pickering it is in one of the towns near to Scarborough.
Edit: Update, I checked and the Weekend Market with the Scottish Stall is now at Bayly and Brock in Pickering if you happen to be near there!
Re: Gypsy Creams
Danny, Gypsy Creams seem to have fallen foul of the PC Brigade and are now Romany Creams!
Also I found this on the web for what it's worth!!
"I used to work at the United Biscuits factory in Tollcross Glasgow in the late sixties. Before working there Gypsy Creams used to be a favourite of mine!!. But after finding out what went into them, I would never eat them again!!. The ovens were on a conveyor and biscuit dough dropped down from a HOPPER onto a roller where it would be shaped before slowly going into oven conveyor. They came out the other end cooked. There were several huge hopper/oven machines and made all different biscuits. Unfortunately some dough would inevitably land on floor around the ovens and be trodden underfoot. This was scraped up by a worker using a contraption that resembled a sweeping brush but with a scraper on end. He would go round all the different machine scraping dough off floor and scooping it up and putting it into the gypsy cream hopper as this was the only one with DARK dough so would not show up!!! I never ate a gypsy cream again. Maybe that's why they were discontinued. Health and Safety perhaps.
17:49 Tue 15th Nov 2011
Edit: feeling adventurous, Danny? > http://www.biscuit-recipes.co.uk/Gypsy%20Creams.html
Also I found this on the web for what it's worth!!
"I used to work at the United Biscuits factory in Tollcross Glasgow in the late sixties. Before working there Gypsy Creams used to be a favourite of mine!!. But after finding out what went into them, I would never eat them again!!. The ovens were on a conveyor and biscuit dough dropped down from a HOPPER onto a roller where it would be shaped before slowly going into oven conveyor. They came out the other end cooked. There were several huge hopper/oven machines and made all different biscuits. Unfortunately some dough would inevitably land on floor around the ovens and be trodden underfoot. This was scraped up by a worker using a contraption that resembled a sweeping brush but with a scraper on end. He would go round all the different machine scraping dough off floor and scooping it up and putting it into the gypsy cream hopper as this was the only one with DARK dough so would not show up!!! I never ate a gypsy cream again. Maybe that's why they were discontinued. Health and Safety perhaps.
17:49 Tue 15th Nov 2011
Edit: feeling adventurous, Danny? > http://www.biscuit-recipes.co.uk/Gypsy%20Creams.html
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Hi Danny,
It's like "De Ja Vu" we seem to be in a parallel universe, I was at David Dale Engineering college and you were at Stow Building college in the same year. We both left Glasgow at a fairly young age .
for one reason or another.it was meant to be as I think we are on a continuous journey and if I stop
and think about it i could not tell you why I moved to France 5 years ago.i forgot to mention that at
Secondary school I used to climb over the railings at tea break and buy penny abernethy biscuits and
they were quite big.
Best regards Reg
It's like "De Ja Vu" we seem to be in a parallel universe, I was at David Dale Engineering college and you were at Stow Building college in the same year. We both left Glasgow at a fairly young age .
for one reason or another.it was meant to be as I think we are on a continuous journey and if I stop
and think about it i could not tell you why I moved to France 5 years ago.i forgot to mention that at
Secondary school I used to climb over the railings at tea break and buy penny abernethy biscuits and
they were quite big.
Best regards Reg
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Hi Thanks Jimbo.
For that but I certainly liked so Eiffel towers and used to lick the coconut from them and then
I would devour them. When I was delivering Johnsons Rolls<Partick> I would buy them fresh at there bakery when I took my takings in on Saturday morning.
Best regards Reg
For that but I certainly liked so Eiffel towers and used to lick the coconut from them and then
I would devour them. When I was delivering Johnsons Rolls<Partick> I would buy them fresh at there bakery when I took my takings in on Saturday morning.
Best regards Reg
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Hi everybody that was great reading all about the different biscuits sorry if it made your mouth water Sheila but I have got to mention this, it's not a biscuit it's the tipsy cake that the shand shop in Ballater St made noo that cake was something to die for. I bought one out of one of the "dear bakers" and enjoyed it not the same as the shand shop but nothing will ever be the same. Now Danny about your false teeth do what I do take them out and eat without them my gums are as hard as pig iron with years of eating, heard stories of people going into restuarants and having to take them out and wrap them up in a napkin and when the waitress came to clear the table off she went with the teeth (don't know if it is a joke or not). 
I worked in Gray Dunns in Kinning park for one day on the conveyor belt that had the blue ribands on them, you were to lift them up using your two hands and stack them into this bin I couldn't do it right so I left it and went back to my old job in Twomax.
Rosie I remember Lewiss sold the Vienna biscuits loose you could see them in a biscuit tin when you were buying them they also were great that's why I'm all out of shape now
Amelia x
I worked in Gray Dunns in Kinning park for one day on the conveyor belt that had the blue ribands on them, you were to lift them up using your two hands and stack them into this bin I couldn't do it right so I left it and went back to my old job in Twomax.
Rosie I remember Lewiss sold the Vienna biscuits loose you could see them in a biscuit tin when you were buying them they also were great that's why I'm all out of shape now
Amelia x
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Hi all,
Well my mouth hasn't stopped watering since this topic was first started!
Thanks Jimbo regarding the info on the place in Pickering, Ontario unfortunately I live approximately 2100 miles from there. I'm on the west coast of Canada and live about 18 miles from Vancouver, BC. There are places around out here that sell British foods and goods but to me I can't be bothered travelling to them, between our bumper to bumper traffic then their prices and not always the best of quality either, so sometimes a real let down. At my local supermarket I can buy Wiltshire bacon, not cheap nor as good as Ayrshire, but it's better than nothing. I pay £3.75 for 250 grams (so just over a half pound) a packet of Penguins (9) are £1.80. If I bought these at the British stores the price is higher and I figure these prices are dear enough. A large bottle of Irn Bru (either 1.5L or 2L, can't recall exactly) at the British store is £5.15. Their sweeties are outrageous in price as are the other biscuits. I've taught myself over the years to make things like Lorne sausage and tottie scones, so all is not lost! I used to never miss all this stuff but once my hubby and two kids (now adults) got a taste of it, they would eat non stop Scottish style if they could.
Hope my "Gypsy" cream comment didn't offend anyone, after writing it I figured I wasn't being politically correct with the word Gypsy. Also thanks Jimbo for that link to the biscuit recipes, will be trying some of those out for sure.
If there are any people on here with an abundance of biscuits and their families are sick of eating them, please send them to me!
Cheers, Sheila
Well my mouth hasn't stopped watering since this topic was first started!
Thanks Jimbo regarding the info on the place in Pickering, Ontario unfortunately I live approximately 2100 miles from there. I'm on the west coast of Canada and live about 18 miles from Vancouver, BC. There are places around out here that sell British foods and goods but to me I can't be bothered travelling to them, between our bumper to bumper traffic then their prices and not always the best of quality either, so sometimes a real let down. At my local supermarket I can buy Wiltshire bacon, not cheap nor as good as Ayrshire, but it's better than nothing. I pay £3.75 for 250 grams (so just over a half pound) a packet of Penguins (9) are £1.80. If I bought these at the British stores the price is higher and I figure these prices are dear enough. A large bottle of Irn Bru (either 1.5L or 2L, can't recall exactly) at the British store is £5.15. Their sweeties are outrageous in price as are the other biscuits. I've taught myself over the years to make things like Lorne sausage and tottie scones, so all is not lost! I used to never miss all this stuff but once my hubby and two kids (now adults) got a taste of it, they would eat non stop Scottish style if they could.
Hope my "Gypsy" cream comment didn't offend anyone, after writing it I figured I wasn't being politically correct with the word Gypsy. Also thanks Jimbo for that link to the biscuit recipes, will be trying some of those out for sure.
If there are any people on here with an abundance of biscuits and their families are sick of eating them, please send them to me!
Cheers, Sheila
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Hi Amelia
Tipsy cake was brilliant, loved it! The Shand shop used to have great stuff.
Now that we are onto the subject of cake, another one I loved was Kirriemuir gingerbread. I went back for a visit one time and discovered it now came with icing, well I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Loved a ton of the cakes, fly cemetery, apple squares, iced gingerbread squares. I can also recall a fruit square iced with pink icing, loved them too! My wee pal's Mother used to work in a bakery in the Gorbals, can't remember exactly where I think it was on Ballater St, and the stuff she used to bring home was amazing.
I have to go now as I think I'm having severe biscuit and cake withdrawal symptoms. All the best, Sheila
Tipsy cake was brilliant, loved it! The Shand shop used to have great stuff.
Now that we are onto the subject of cake, another one I loved was Kirriemuir gingerbread. I went back for a visit one time and discovered it now came with icing, well I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
Loved a ton of the cakes, fly cemetery, apple squares, iced gingerbread squares. I can also recall a fruit square iced with pink icing, loved them too! My wee pal's Mother used to work in a bakery in the Gorbals, can't remember exactly where I think it was on Ballater St, and the stuff she used to bring home was amazing.I have to go now as I think I'm having severe biscuit and cake withdrawal symptoms.
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Hi Gang,
Amelia talking about false teeth, well when I was just 15 years old I suffered from Pyareah [spelling] of my bottom gums and had to have all my teeth pulled out. You can imagine I looked like Popeye but within 6 months I could eat an apple no problem but then got my bottom dentures. That was all well and good until I started drinking when I was 16 and one of those occasions got drunk and went to the toilet to be sick and yes my bottom dentures went down the pan too, so was back to bottom gums again ah well you live and learn and some times even to today if I eat a biscuit and the crumbs get under the plate I whip the false teeth out and enjoy it just as good with my gums, by this time I now have false teeth top and bottom . My hair is fast disappearing so I might have to get a wig ,now that would take the BISCUIT ha ha.
Regards.
Danny
Amelia talking about false teeth, well when I was just 15 years old I suffered from Pyareah [spelling] of my bottom gums and had to have all my teeth pulled out. You can imagine I looked like Popeye but within 6 months I could eat an apple no problem but then got my bottom dentures. That was all well and good until I started drinking when I was 16 and one of those occasions got drunk and went to the toilet to be sick and yes my bottom dentures went down the pan too, so was back to bottom gums again ah well you live and learn and some times even to today if I eat a biscuit and the crumbs get under the plate I whip the false teeth out and enjoy it just as good with my gums, by this time I now have false teeth top and bottom . My hair is fast disappearing so I might have to get a wig ,now that would take the BISCUIT ha ha.
Regards.
Danny