Further biscuit supplies

[davidn]

Having been in sore need of some familiar comforts recently, I was amazed when this parcel arrived from my parents in addition to the Christmas presents that we knew they were sending over. It felt a lot heavier than it looked, because it was crammed to the brim with these:


These were added to the Fox range (terrible news channel - great biscuits, though) at some point in the last couple of years, and they're made of some sort of honeycomb-like substance with chocolate spread on one side. They, like most of their biscuits, are absolutely wonderful - and unlike the Creams, these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name.

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

" these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name."

Give us a few minutes. :b Personally I find my mind going more along the "creepy" than "dirty" route...that's probably due an ex of mine named Amber.

Do yourself a favor...don't ask.

[kjorteo]

Oh God, I remember her.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I rather wish I didn't. :[

[kjorteo]

Yeah, I got off rather light during that whole phase compared to you, didn't I? Sorry. :(

[xaq.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Not your fault she's a psychotic raving lunatic.

...actually, that wasn't nice of me. That was uncalled for.


My apologies to the psychotic raving lunatics out there.

[davidn]

Now I want to ask even more! It's unfortunate that we never seem to notice these things in potential relationships until we wake up in the middle of the night and they're standing over us with an ice pick.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

"Oi, someone get that fox a longer towel, he was coming out of the shower and I totally saw his ambers.."

It sounds kinda like Crunchie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchie)! (Not that you can get THOSE in america EITHER, for some inconceivable reason..!)

[kjorteo]

Because candy bars with horrifically creepy shapes are a European specialty! I'm safe in America wait we have a World Market here, crap

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

What's creepy about a rectangle XD

[kjorteo]

"Crunchie is a brand of chocolate bar with a "honeycombed" sugar centre."

http://trypophobia.com/

[davidn]

http://tubedubber.com/#ZuwlXxff8SU:bcmkrMtnkt0:0:100:0:0:1 !

(Not for the faint of heart)

[kjorteo]

http://tubedubber.com/#FhVi4Z6CjZk:bbS76N86lqc:0:100:0:0:1

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. So you wouldn't like Aero, either, I suppose?

Does that extend to things like honey farms in Conway's Life?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I'm never sure when you're kidding any more.

[kjorteo]

I'm a bit quiet about it because the "community" is obsessive and also apparently has it way worse than I do anyway (I don't have instant panic attacks/skin-on-fire sensation/nausea/whatever it is these people claim) but offending images and such are a bit unnerving.

[davidn]

I'm also baffled by 'creepy' - it's not as if it's moulded in the shape of a phallic tentacled monstrosity or Michael Howard or anything (now I'm ruining my own journal - thanks a lot!) Surely there must be something vaguely comparable here, if (as my five years of experience leads me to assume) slightly inferior.

[pami-zee.livejournal.com]

Have you got the present from me and Ally? It should be there now I hope!

[davidn]

We did! I just sent you an email when I got up this morning - thanks so much for that, it was an unexpected surprise.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Never heard of those, although I am mainly shopping at Lidls or Aldis.

[davidn]

I'm sure that whatever foreign varieties of Schokoladenkekse you can find in Lidl are at least as nice :)

[kjorteo]

Are you just making words up, now? You are, aren't you, you can't fool me. This is like that time you did an impression of the last person in Scotland who speaks Gaelic.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a sorta-cognate of “chocolate cakes”, no? (Though it's not quite “cakes” in the US English sense but more like biscuits. Er, which is to say, cookies, in the US English sense. Er. Goddammit.)

[davidn]

No mention of Gaelic can pass without Sluich!



Lidl is a German import supermarket, and so almost exclusively has things that you would think I just made up - I can't really explain the reason for its UK existence or success, other than that it's rather cheap.

[kjorteo]

... What did I just see?

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Nothing to concern yourself with, just some swamp gas distorting some moonlight and refracting it in an odd way.