Brits? Anybody?

[resonant]

I'm looking for the name of a cookie. No, wait, it's British, so it's a biscuit. It's round, and has an oatmealy texture and a fair amount of cinnamon in it. And I keep getting it mixed up with Hob Nobs, but it's not Hob Nobs, just something else that has a similar name.

Is this familiar to anyone?

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

A McVities Plain Digestive?

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

Tim-Tams?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Really stupid interference, but living on a pastry-continent I have to say that it's rare to find a cookie or biscuit without cinnamon in it, and then I thought that of all the HOME-MADE stuff I could only think of the Aussie Anzac-biscuits when you mentioned oatmeal but basically I wondered if you are talking about traditional cookies or something store-bought?

No, I just can't believe you'll probably find the one you are looking for because there should be hundreds of options for both!

I am hungry! Stop talking about food y'all. It makes me channel McKay, I think.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's not unlike a McVities, if I'm remembering McVities correctly, but it's really noticeably cinnamony. Like an American oatmeal cookie in flavor, if not in texture.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Tim-Tams are square, rather salty Australian cookies, cream-filled and chocolate covered.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

No, definitely a store-bought cookie biscuit.

We have to talk about food. It's Thankgiving here. It's the National Eat Yourself Into A Coma Day.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I love Tim-Tams.

The most similar American equivalent, strangely enough, is Keebler Fudge Stripes. They don't look alike, and there's no reason they should taste alike, but they sort of do.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

It's great if you find local equivalents! There's nothing like them here (and sadly, I was too chicken to scrounge them off our Aussie pals). I guess there are too many E-numbers in them *lol*

Fudge. I love fudge. So mudge. Another thing we don't get here. Chocolate Fudge Slices. With Iced Chocolate.

*drool*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Oh that should be easy then. Did you try checking the supermarkets like Sainsbury's - I bet they deliver and therefore have online lists of their goods.

I KNOW I KNOW IT'S ALL OVER FLISTS AND ITs 4am here and I can't sleep coz I'm so hungry now *lol* I have no clue where to get some grilled bird, and cranberry jam does not taste so nice without anything to go with it.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

The only notably spicy biscuit coming to me off the top of my head is Speculaas - but that's usually allspice rather than cinnamon.

Mmm - speculaas.

[fenris_wolf0]

Ginger snaps? No cinnamon, though...

[isilya]

Mmmnnn, speculas, but they are a Dutch pressed cookie, and I've never seen them round.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I've never seen them shaped round either, but I was thinking about cinnamon biscuits and the sense-memory of the smell of speculaas rolled over me and I had to share.

I really can't think of anything cinnamon flavoured with oats. Anzac biscuits are closest, but there's no cinnamon there.

[isilya]

Cinnamon makes me think of cinnamon and chilli chocolate and cinnamon toast, and then I feel very, very hungry.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

*is hungry*

I just had a chilli-hot-chocolate with my sushi.

These things are not necessarily meant to be together.

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

Oatmealy *and* cinnamon? Lots of cinnamon? I'm stumped.

I can only point you at the Biscuit of the Week archive (http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/week.php3?order=alpha#archive) of Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down.Com (http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/), the foremost biscuit review site. What this couple don't know (and care) about biscuits, isn't worth knowing (or caring about). ;)

[atropos-lee.livejournal.com]

cinamon is not as overwhelming a flavouring in the Uk as it seems to be in the US, and I am not aware of a commercially available cinnamon biscuit.

I wonder if you are thinking of Ginger Nuts?

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/previous.php3?item=48

Crunchy, crumbly, spicy, familiar, widely available - just a different spice...

[temaris.livejournal.com]

As others have said we don't really flavour stuff with cinnamon. The only biscuit that comes to mind is Abbey Crunch, which has a slight oatmeal texture, though not strongly so-- it's more crunchy than flaky, and *might* have cinnamon in it though again, though I couldn't swear to it, and if it does it's not strong.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, the only one I can think of is Oaties, and you don't really find them much outside Scotland.

[aunty_marion]

I will try and remember to inspect the shelves at Tesco's tonight to see if I can spot anything that's right. The suggestion of Abbey Crunch sounds plausible, if it isn't HobNobs. But I try not to buy too many biscuits, because then I eat them.... *sigh* Though I can't say I've noticed much cinnamon flavour in any biscuits, except my own home-made ones.

[endaemion.livejournal.com]

Nobs Hobs?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

hmm. if it's not a hobnob, and it's not a digestive biscuit (and other people make digestives besides McVitie's, though not as well -- ditto jaffacakes, by the way), then, hmm.

someone else suggested ginger nuts, which is a possibility. but is there a chance you're thinking of rich tea biscuits? these are not especially coarse, which i think of as a necessary feature of oatmeal cookies, but they can be relatively cinnamon-y (in a mild sort of way).

[dustylyric.livejournal.com]

ACK! inbetween! Love the icon! *thinks about Jason Isaacs and passes out*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I've seen Anzac biscuits but never tried them.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was a lot of fun.

And, weirdly, Hobnobs look just like what I remember this cookie looking like. But I had Hobnobs the last time I was at the parents' (because they've got a better selection of international foods than we do), and they were nothing like what I'm remembering. [flails]

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

They sound good and look good, but they're not the same thing I was thinking of.

Great. After this process, I'm going to end up with a craving for multiple foreign desserts that I can't get here.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hm. they don't look like the same thing, but I might have to try some just to be absolutely sure, you know.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of them, but I'll bet they're good.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's just going to frustrate me. They weren't even so amazingly good, but you know how sometimes you get a craving for some particular thing?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I've had rich tea biscuits; they're like Choco Leibniz only without the chocolate. Good, but not what I'm looking for.

[sighs and gives up]

but btw, I reposted those Christmas songs; the links are here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/106089.html

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Sadly, I currently only have three ... *feels disloyal both ways to either J*

[dustylyric.livejournal.com]

Oh my hoopy! I love the current one from DH! Did you make these!?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Erm, which current one, I was giving you Jason? And yes, always.

[dustylyric.livejournal.com]

The one of Jason from Dragonheart, dropping his pants.

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

Maybe you were visited in a dream!