Biscuits on Board

Fantasie 19 said:
I've long thought Tesco's own brand suggestives are better than the McVities one's... worth extensive research I think.... :D
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I very strongly recommend Tesco's own 'Rocky' biscuits, in a red pack. I tried the chocolate ones (individually wrapped 'fingers'). They're reduced, 79p for nine, this week. Really, properly tasty and good texture. They do caramel ones too, I must try those...

The separate wrappers must improve their boat-life, even if their toothsomeness has the opposite effect... :)
 
dancrane said:
I very strongly recommend Tesco's own 'Rocky' biscuits, in a red pack. I tried the chocolate ones (individually wrapped 'fingers'). They're reduced, 79p for nine, this week. Really, properly tasty and good texture. They do caramel ones too, I must try those...

The separate wrappers must improve their boat-life, even if their toothsomeness has the opposite effect... :)
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Gods, they are yummy, two whole packets didn't last a maintaince weekend beyond Sat pm tea n bikkies:D
Just me, too!
Now to sort out these tight trizers:o
 
Square ones

I learnt very early on that square biscuits don't roll onto the floor and smash like the round ones. Except they slide instead and do a neat somersult off the end of the table/chart table/cockpit seat, always just beyond fingertip reach.

As helmsman I have decided that they are best stored in the spinnaker sheet pouches that just happen to be at the helming position.

Only solution is to eat them as soon as possible. Teenagers in the crew can help with this.
 
Its got to be Anzac Biscuits. Strict rationing and sleep with one eye open when off watch to make sure they don't disappear in the night.
 
I'd forgotten Anzac bix. The recipe I use is very simple, and they do last for a long time, unless the human mice get to them.
 
Does anybody remember the TV ad, thirty years back, for canned baked beans & sausages? I remember the salty voice-over:

"...much better than a ship's biscuit..."

But in those days I imagined ship's biscuits were something tasty, like so-called "Viennese whirls". Ah, my sheltered youth.

What exactly is or was, hard tack? Is it something like biltong?
 
RN ships used to carry them when I was a matelot but they were only issued if bread was not available for some reason. I think they came in sealed tins.

They were also included in lifeboat rations when I was in the MN.

I doubt they had a 'use by date' and would last forever. There are probably tons of them lying at the bottom of Scapa Flow.

I quite liked them, especially with jam on them, but they were hard on the teeth.

Today's mollycoddled sailors probably have Jammy Dodgers or or custard creams instead :D
 
Can we rename this thread, "Readers' Digestives"?

stevebrassett said:
McVities Chocolate Digestives can be bought in a tube, with a lid.
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If your SWMBO is as barmy as mine, you may have to instruct and re-instruct her (daily) in the principle of using the lid.

Otherwise, your bilge-pump may need a macerator. Or...a McVitirator? That could have been a Roger Daltrey nick-name... :) Sorry, I'm thinking of McVicar. ;)
 
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I strive for the perfect shortbread. Shortbread is always gone when you want it. No storage problems there. :D:D:D:D:D
 
This year I left a de-humidifier on board for the winter - timed to operate 4 hours a day.
Last week I launched and ate some of the biscuits, quavers and crisps that had been on board all winter. They all seemed drier and crisper than they did last autumn - especially the Quavers!
So I expect part of the answer to your question is it depends on the boat's ventilation !
 
Couldn't biscuits be a budget answer to the problem of humidity on board?

Leave eight opened packs of Rich Tea biscuits in a bucket in the cabin, when you leave the boat in October...

...come back in spring and find eight tubes of vile sponge in the bucket. They absorb every atom of moisture in the vicinity. :D
 
+1 for ginger nuts. Jaffa cakes too. Anything with chocolate needs to be kept cool otherwsie they stick together unless individually wrapped. But........... if they stick togteher then one at a time is impossible. mmmmmmmm

No idea about packaging, they never last long enough.

Last in this case = not eaten.
 
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