Biscuits

[slemslempike]

Does anyone actually like Viennese Whirls? I can see, I suppose, some people not minding them, but the idea of anyone, for example, citing the brittle dust clumps as their favourite biscuit is beyond me. My colleague stays in a hotel during the week, and as she cannot eat gluten she brings in the biscuits they leave for her to put on our collective food area. Occasionally they leave her lovely shortbread with bits of butterscotch in, but yesterday I wasn't quick enough and someone else took them. Today there are just packets of Viennese Whirls, which is frankly not good enough.

The provision of cake and sweets is not as good as in my old division. Technically I think that there is more of it, but it is spread out and I don't know people well enough to go and nick their food. Also we are the very first bank of desks so people walk past us and take our food because that's fine, but I have no reason to go up the room, so I can't casually take food from others. It's a very sad state of affairs.

Comments

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I approve of Viennese whirls when they come with jam and cream, or are chocolate dipped, but definitely not the plain ones.

I don't get hobnobs. Just don't understand the delight they cause. I think I'd rather have a rich tea.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think you may be the first person I've ever met who prefers rich tea to hobnob! I prefer a digestive to a hobnob, that said.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I like a rich tea biscuit when I'm feeling ill or fed up - there is something nice and soothing about them. I wouldn't choose one from a plate (unless hobnobs or things with chocolate and raisins together were the only other options). I prefer my biscuits to have cream in the middle - I love the rich tea fingers with cream.

I don't know what it is about hobnobs - the oats perhaps? I don't like flapjacks very much either, both give me indigestion.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

There are two of us in the rich tea in preference to the hobnob camp. I do not and have never ever liked the hobnob, which I now also can't eat, but I love a rich tea.

I don't mind a Viennese whirl but I find it's quite a lot of biscuit in a single biscuit. And sometimes I want to eat two biscuits and I can't eat more than one Viennese whirls. They seem to be less melty than they used to be but I haven't had a sandwichy one in ages.

It is a very sad state of affairs when there is no reciprocity in the food sharing. There isn't some kind of filing cabinet or communal area (e.g. table near printers) where communal food could be left, is there?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

OH I am just trying to ring you but have no credit - could you give me a call asap please? About lunch tomorrow.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

We all have food on the filing cabinets on the end of our desks, but it just doesn't seem to get shared around, and I don't think that I know people well enough to nick their food. Maybe it's for the best.