And another thing…

Dont things like this just get you down. Its an Empire biscuit. always has been always will be. Plaese dont call them anything different Tom.
Its still called Empire Day round here as well.

Reminds me of the old undergrad PPE texbook…

Losing an Empire, finding a Roll.

Sorry.

So you were not thinking about Sir David Starkey while you dunked and munched?

i found a bakery in dundee that still sells ‘jap cakes’.

and they are GREAT, tho half the size they were when my granny used to get me them.

Sigh! What’s wrong with calling them German Biscuits as the were known as before the PC Brigade changed their name in WWI.

Ouch! On your own head be it…

They used to be called German biscuits, I believe.

I expect they’ll be EU biscuits next, followed by globalist one world government prison planet biscuits.

The way the Labour Party has sold us out, I’m surprised they’re not called European Biscuits!

Political correctness is simply correctness for political reasons.

I’d rather have correctness for real reasons.

The problem with the shouty,deranged PC classes, along with their far left tribal support for the flourishing democracy of Cuba, the simple goodness of Kim Il Sung and the gentle saintliness of President Chavez,is their poisoning of the well of genuine concern.

Interestingly, before World War 1 they were actually German biscuits and they got rebranded to support the war effort.

How petulant of you…

Can you buy them anywhere but in cafes, Tom?

I wonder why the company changed the name?

Someone in marketting just out of Napier being PCtrendy, a visit from some officious government department or just a fool wanting to justify their job?

Oh well, as long as the biscuit is a good; a rose by any other name.

It’s interesting how words change. Take your favourite sport, Tom: soccerball. How did a shy become a ‘throw in’ and a bye-kick turn into a ‘goal kick’ and linesmen become ‘assistant referees’ and the dug out, the ‘technical area’?

I mean, you spend 12 or 13 years at school, ostensibly learning about the world, and then someone goes and changes everything.

I’m reasonably au fait with biccies, but I’ve never heard of these.
And anyway, as a Scot, I’m sure Tom would patronise the coffee shops that automatically place a free little biscuit in the saucer?
Rapunzel – what do you reckon – another Tom wind-up?

What on earth is an ‘Empire’ biscuit ?

I’ve never heard of them ‘down south’.

ANZAC biscuits yes, but ‘Empire’ biccies are a mystery..

@Chris’ Wills,

Happily, the empire biscuit (crustum germanicus) is not, unlike the jaffa cake or the chocolate hob-nob, a proprietary brand. Small cells of shady bakers confect their lives away on the edge of the law, supplying bespoke biscuits to corner shops and cafes by dead of night, unknown to each other and to the public at large, distingishable only by their M.O. with regard to ornamentation, jam styling, and icing signatures. Collectively known as The British Empricists, their product differs from the true German biscuit in its rigorous adherence to the observable ingerdient.

The true German biscuit, by contrast, is liable to introspection and other flights of fancy such as Gestaltism and attempts to induce in the eater a petit-monad, such that the eater comes to believe that the experienced flavour and a texture is greater than the some of its parts. The German biscuit has also been known to contain traces of edelweiss which may or may not have hallucinogenic properties. Professor Huxley has argued that Proust had not sample a petit-madeleine at all but rather a psychedelically charged German biscuit and the whole of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was, in consequence, the work of a psychopharmacolgically deranged imagination, i.e., really not worth reading.

What cafe? Name names. I have never heard an empire biscuit called a commonwealth biscuit in Glasgow or anywhere else in Scotland.

Empire biscuits are still very popular, Humpty Dumpty. You can buy them in Greggs or any bakers shop and in most cafes that do proper cakes and biscuits.

Indeed if you asked the typical Scottish schoolkid what the word empire meant they would be most likely to say it’s a type of biscuit – either that or it would be what struck back in Star Wars.

Labour or New Labour, what ever; they both take the biscuit

Funnily enough, I went into a cafe today and asked for un cafe americano y un cafe con leche and got a black coffee and a white coffee without any further ado.

On March 21, 1854, Garibaldi sailed into to the mouth of the River Tyne in north eastern England, as Master of the sailing vessel Commonwealth.

I like my Bourbon on the rocks.

This biscuit thing is destroying my head. Which is Nice.

“END OF EMPIRE”

When I saw this title I thought you were going to talk about your party, but sadly not.

I’ve got the munchies now.

I’ve heard of Garribaldi biscuits – the ones with the squashed flies in them – and Bourbons and have never understood Bath Olivers.

Personally, I like NICE biscuits.

@Jim Baxter
Well that does explain A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. )

@Chris’ Wills,

It does indeed. Heaven knows what Joyce must have been on.

A fuller account is given in Priest’s book (he is a spolied Proust).

http://www.routledge-philosophy.com/books/The-British-Empiricists-isbn9780415357241

Fuller himself produced a similar account while trapped for several months in an oddly constructed and ill-stocked wine tent with only Blue Nun and custard creams to sustain him, an expeience which in turn led to his conception of the geodesic dome.

And, as, I promise, a final note (which I have sent to the German Biscuit Government) one type of producer of the Empire Biscuit who tends to belong to the Lib Dems and/or Greepeace, is currently abusing their art to communicate a politically motivated message: many patrons of the Empire Biscuit in Guardian-reading enclaves have noticed a marked recession in the icing cover on their morning treat in recent times.

I’ve forgotten what an empire biscuit is and I haven’t come across synthetic cream cakes in England, either, where BTW people think you’re taking the mickey if you ask for square sausage. I have, however, found gingerbreadpersons being advertised in a local baker. Sigh…

So, in essence, the point of this post was to boast about the fact that you were rude to a waitress. I’m sure the whole family is awfully proud.

Meanwhile, the right sycophants are delighted by this development: FINALLY, a Labour MP who’s willing to be spiteful towards the proles. If only the rest your party was more like you (read: if only the rest of our party was more like them).

Is that really true?

What *is* true is that the F.C.O. no longer uses the c-word to describe Bermuda and wattknot.

@TedFoan

Have you tried Fredbaldi? made by Garri’s brother

Ani, they’re traditional Scottish! Basically an iced, biscuit/jam sandwich.

A wind up? Well, any mention of “end of empire” is certain to raise the blood pressure in certain quarters.

So, I think he’s stirring, not winding.

“So, I think he’s stirring, not winding.”

You sure he’s not dunking?

I like Fern Cakes better .
Haven’t seen them since Lightbody’s shop shut in Hamilton .
Anyone else seen them recently ?

“Haven’t seen them since Lightbody’s shop shut in Hamilton .
Anyone else seen them recently ?”

If the PC mob have taken out Empire biccies, then it’s a foregone conclusion that Lightbody’s should be removed in favour of, presumably, or Averagely-Proportioned-Which-Is-a-Size-16-But-Non-Obese-Body’s…

Costa Coffee sell them as Linzer Biscuits.

There is nothing wrong with calling them Empire biscuits!