Best Chocolate Bars

[TheGayTent]

5 hours ago, CHRLY said:

What Christmas biscuits are we all going for this year?

Christmas biscuits? That's a thing??

[feral chile]

1 hour ago, TheGayTent said:

Christmas biscuits? That's a thing??

Tins of biscuits, I presume - doesn't everyone do that?

[LJS]

3 hours ago, feral chile said:

Tins of biscuits, I presume - doesn't everyone do that?

deep fried twiglets.

[CHRLY]

7 hours ago, feral chile said:

Tins of biscuits, I presume - doesn't everyone do that?

Right on. Gotta get some posh biccies for crimbo.

[feral chile]

10 minutes ago, CHRLY said:

Right on. Gotta get some posh biccies for crimbo.

I've been spoilt by the posh gits in work. So for us it'll be 'not just biscuits' but biscuits from a specific shop.

they are yummy

[zero000]

On 03/12/2016 at 1:04 AM, CHRLY said:

What Christmas biscuits are we all going for this year?

Usually go straight for Family Circle but pushed the boat out for Victoria because they were on offer in Tesco. 

Fox's obviously.

[TheGayTent]

On 03/12/2016 at 7:49 AM, feral chile said:

Tins of biscuits, I presume - doesn't everyone do that?

No - Looks like I'm in the minority 

[feral chile]

12 hours ago, TheGayTent said:

No - Looks like I'm in the minority 

Would you mind sharing what your Christmas treat traditions are then?

Ours were - biscuits, tins of chocolates (purple one was my favourite), chocolate coins, chocolate orange (used to be a real tangerine, back in the day) - can't remember what else.

[LJS]

4 minutes ago, feral chile said:

Would you mind sharing what your Christmas treat traditions are then?

Ours were - biscuits, tins of chocolates (purple one was my favourite), chocolate coins, chocolate orange (used to be a real tangerine, back in the day) - can't remember what else.

I can honestly say that biscuits have never played a significant part in Xmas in my experience. 

"Oh Xmas is coming, must replenish the biscuit barrel" is a phrase entirely absent from my life.

Cakes, turkey, twiglets, crackers, stockings, ...Yup. 

Biscuits... no, sorry!

 

[feral chile]

7 minutes ago, LJS said:

I can honestly say that biscuits have never played a significant part in Xmas in my experience. 

"Oh Xmas is coming, must replenish the biscuit barrel" is a phrase entirely absent from my life.

Cakes, turkey, twiglets, crackers, stockings, ...Yup. 

Biscuits... no, sorry!

 

replenish? What's this replenish thing? I'm talking bread and butter for tea, or a plate of green beans from the allotment. I STILL get a kick out of a box of broken biscuits.

[feral chile]

Not a chocolate bar but I do know someone who admits to stealing these from his baby:

[TheGayTent]

1 hour ago, feral chile said:

Would you mind sharing what your Christmas treat traditions are then?

Ours were - biscuits, tins of chocolates (purple one was my favourite), chocolate coins, chocolate orange (used to be a real tangerine, back in the day) - can't remember what else.

Walnuts, Brazil nuts, dates, chocolates. No biscuits. 

[TheGayTent]

1 hour ago, feral chile said:

Not a chocolate bar but I do know someone who admits to stealing these from his baby:

Common but not just at Xmas !

[feral chile]

23 minutes ago, TheGayTent said:

Walnuts, Brazil nuts, dates, chocolates. No biscuits. 

oh yeah, we had the old nuts and nutcracker, monkey nuts, dates, toffee with a little hammer, Turkish delight, marzipan fruits, etc.

So far, I decided not to buy unhealthy food for Christmas.

I decided there was no need for it, we don't need to build up fat to see us through the winter famine. That all the rich food was an anachronism, a relic from the days when we had to rely on home grown food and last it out from harvest to spring.

I've already cracked and made a cake and a pud.

Edited December 6, 2016 by feral chile

[Comfy Bean]

Was over in Belfast for a wedding at the weekend and we got after eights after the meal.

Used to always have them at Christmas but hadn't had one in years. 

Knew nothing of the game where you stick it on your forehead and try and manoeuvre it, no hands, into your mouth. The Irish easily beat the jocks at this and also won the sweep on how long the speeches would last :-(

[kaosmark2]

I have no association of biscuits with christmas. Only vague thing is people bringing tins of christmas gift biscuits/chocolates into the office in January.

[Comfy Bean]

9 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

I have no association of biscuits with christmas. Only vague thing is people bringing tins of christmas gift biscuits/chocolates into the office in January.

Yeah I'm the same really.

Shortbread at New Year though, now that's a thing :-)

[feral chile]

Wonder if this is a regional, class or simply family tradition difference?

[feral chile]

My lot have sussed me by now and challenge me for buying things for the packaging - tins of goodies bought for the pretty tin etc.

[mjsell]

We have a Christmas morning breakfast made entirely of biscuits - my mum always used to say we couldnt have a proper breakfast as we wouldn't appreciate the Christmas dinner. 

But my family might just have the strangest Christmas tradition going. On Christmas Eve we always go to the cinema in the afternoon and pick up a KFC on the way home. Absolutely no clue why, and how that doesn't ruin the Christmas dinner the next day I don't know - but if someone tried to take away my Christmas Eve KFC now I'd rip their bloody face off.

P.S. We don't eat KFC at any other time of the year

Edited December 7, 2016 by mjsell

[TheGayTent]

7 hours ago, mjsell said:

We have a Christmas morning breakfast made entirely of biscuits - my mum always used to say we couldnt have a proper breakfast as we wouldn't appreciate the Christmas dinner. 

But my family might just have the strangest Christmas tradition going. On Christmas Eve we always go to the cinema in the afternoon and pick up a KFC on the way home. Absolutely no clue why, and how that doesn't ruin the Christmas dinner the next day I don't know - but if someone tried to take away my Christmas Eve KFC now I'd rip their bloody face off.

P.S. We don't eat KFC at any other time of the year

Wow. You have the worst Christmas family tradition I have ever heard! Congratulations ! 

[TheGayTent]

For Feral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38223242

 

[mjsell]

5 hours ago, TheGayTent said:

Wow. You have the worst Christmas family tradition I have ever heard! Congratulations ! 

Much appreciated. I'm very proud.

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On 07/12/2016 at 0:15 AM, mjsell said:

But my family might just have the strangest Christmas tradition going. On Christmas Eve we always go to the cinema in the afternoon and pick up a KFC on the way home. Absolutely no clue why, and how that doesn't ruin the Christmas dinner the next day I don't know - but if someone tried to take away my Christmas Eve KFC now I'd rip their bloody face off.

P.S. We don't eat KFC at any other time of the year

This is an ancient Japanese Tradition.

 

[bunique]

My family have always got a tin of biscuits in at Christmas "for visitors"

In terms of chocolate based Christmas traditions - chocolate Santa and chocolate coins in stockings, I always get a chocolate orange or two, there are After Eights with coffee at the end of dinner and by 8pm Christmas Day, the Roses come out.