getbracknell - Reading Evening Post

It’s been a good week for biscuits in the office.

I thought things were looking bright when a packet of chocolate Hob Nobs appeared on Wednesday but little did I know things were set to get even better…

“I’m still a cookie-holic, you can hide ‘em, I’m-a find ‘em, on the counter, in the closet, and I’ll say I ain’t do it with my face covered in chocolate.”

These words, from a soon-to-be-hit pop song, highlight the plight of a biscuit obsessed madman (no, not me). 

Biscuits – a sweet treat that gives you a little sugar boost to help you through the day. Right?

Not necessarily. Biscuits can be savoury too and last week I found that there is a huge and unexplored world of salty, cheesy and herby biscuits waiting to be discovered.

We all like biscuits - even the rich and the famous.

So while glossy magazines cover all other aspects of celebrity life, from their holidays with their ridiculously named spawn to their fluctuating waistlines, I want to concentrate on the only thing that really matters.

What are the stars’ favourite biscuits?

A cup of tea and a biscuit. Few things are more quintessentially English – or are they?

It seems in our modern, multi-cultural society even the biscuit is being brought into the 21st century by influences from abroad.

New biscuits are almost always rubbish.

There is a very good reason why almost all the best selling biscuits (Digestives, Hob Nobs, Jaffa Cakes (don’t start), Garibaldis, Bourbons etc) have been around for ages – it’s because all the best ideas have been taken.

That’s what I though until the other day when I was taken by surprise in the supermarket.