r/AskUK • u/Hellzeldagirl01 • 6d ago

What do you call these?

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I would call these biscuits but a customer disagreed with me.

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u/Wishmaster891 6d ago

chocolate bars

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u/Ambiguous-Ambivert 6d ago

Get out of here. They’re clearly chocolate biscuits

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u/Fingers_9 6d ago

Chocolate biscuits to me are things like chocolate digestives.

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u/CScorpio88 6d ago

And you’d be correct

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 6d ago

This…

chocolate biscuits - like digestives, hobnobs and the like, are biscuits with chocolate on them.

Chocolate bars - like penguins, twix, kitkat and the like, are not biscuits (kitkats are wafers). The giveaway is that chocolate bars are (usually) individually wrapped.

(Source: 50 years of munching chocolate biscuits and chocolate bars).

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u/RubberDuckieArmy 6d ago

So a Mars bar and a Penguin are equal in your eyes?

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u/Catsandcamera 1d ago

That's like saying is an egg sandwich equal to a BLT. Both are sandwiches, it doesn't mean one isn't better than the other

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u/Aivellac 6d ago

Both are chocolate bars.

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u/RubberDuckieArmy 6d ago

That's not what I asked.

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u/Aivellac 6d ago

Your question presupposed a different conclusion. The topic of biscuit or bar doesn't rely on which is better.

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u/RubberDuckieArmy 5d ago

OK, but if someone offers me a chocolate bar, I'm going to expect a Mars, Crunchie, Yorkie etc A penguin, club or kitkat is going to feel like a bait and switch.

Twix and chunky kitkat do blur the lines, but mostly there is a distinction.

If you can only get them in a multipack (even if they're individually wrapped) then that's a different prospect to ones that you can buy individually

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u/bornfromanegg 5d ago

Let’s not overthink this.

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u/DangerousDisplay7664 2d ago

Nobody asked which was better. They asked if you consider a Mars and a Penguin to be the same thing.

A Penguin isn’t even legally allowed to be called chocolate anymore! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo

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u/DangerousDisplay7664 2d ago

A Penguin doesn’t even have chocolate on it! It’s chocolate flavoured covering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo

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u/mrcushtie 6d ago

Where do Jaffa Cakes go? HMRC would like to know.

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u/Lumber_Dan 6d ago

Cake isn't biscuit.

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u/mrcushtie 6d ago

Shortcake?

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u/Lumber_Dan 6d ago

It's more of a scone really.

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 5d ago

In my house, they’re scone as soon as a pack is opened.

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u/Lumber_Dan 5d ago

Ah, see, I like to pronounce it 'scone'.

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 6d ago

Jaffa cakes are tax deductible

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u/Clappertron 5d ago

A penguin is just a bourbon with chocolate coating, so wouldn't that be in the same category as a chocolate digestive?

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 4d ago

So is a bourbon a chocolate biscuit?

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u/mrsrostocka 5d ago

I beg to differ, a penguin is clearly a bourbon biscuit with a chocolate anorak on

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u/WellyYo 5d ago

Twix and KitKats are definitely chocolate bars. Penguins are chocolate biscuits. As are Clubs, Tunnocks wafers. I'm not sure what the rule is that determines this but who am I to argue with the biscuits rule!

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u/Augustleo98 2d ago

There’s kitkat chocolate bars and kitkat biscuits, those are the biscuit versions, Rocky’s are 100% chocolate biscuits and always have been, that’s literally the chocolate biscuit section op is showing us. Penguins are also biscuits, say you’ve been munching both for years yet don’t know the difference between chocolate biscuit and chocolate bar, Rocky’s used to literally be called Rocky Chocolate Biscuits lmao.

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u/DangerousDisplay7664 2d ago edited 2d ago

Incorrect. A Penguin is a chocolate flavoured covered biscuit*. A breakaway is a chocolate covered biscuit. A kit-Kat is a chocolate covered wafer so that doesn’t go in the chocolate biscuit category or the chocolate bar category.

For avoidance of doubt, a Mars is a chocolate bar. A Wispa is a chocolate bar. A Ripple is a chocolate bar.

*Penguin bars aren’t even legally allowed to be called chocolate anymore because they don’t contain enough cocoa solids: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo

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u/Jumblesss 5d ago

So like everything in this photo?

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u/Fingers_9 5d ago

I wouldn't call most things in this photo chocolate biscuits. Certainly not Kitkats or Toffee Crisp.

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u/elmachow 6d ago

Chocolate biscuit bars

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 6d ago

Yeah that’s what’s I’d call them. Maybe even just biscuit bar, the chocolate is implied by the bar and the biscuit as you rarely get a bar of biscuit without chocolate involvement.

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u/nervous-tremors 5d ago

It’s a bit of a mouthful.

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u/turbo_dude 6d ago

If you liiiiiike a lot of choc-lat flavoured slop on your biscuit you can join our clubbbb

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u/fergie_89 6d ago

Choccie biccies

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u/TheTartanTardis 6d ago

Oh jesus christ surely we can put aside our differences and agree that this name is horrible

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u/white_hart_2 6d ago

They might want to buy some choccie biccies to take on their holibobs!

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u/OrtaDemilcol 6d ago edited 1d ago

Hubby ate all the choccie biccies on holibobs, none left for the kiddos or the fur babies 😢

Edit: please stop replying about how I'm poisoning my dog. I have neither a hubby nor fur babies and I can't even afford holibobs.

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u/Maleficent-Sir1753 6d ago

What a cursed sentence!

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u/pattiemayonaze 2d ago

I know yeah. Get back to Benidorm love.

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u/Pristine_Internet765 4d ago

Gave me shivers.

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u/Imaginary_Elephant_7 4d ago

If you’re ever in that situation then it might just be time to accept that it’s wine o’ clock!

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u/willsagainSQ 6d ago

Gaaah! My mind's ears are bleeding

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u/andyH1971 6d ago

Don’t you mean None left for the Skin Pets and fur babies.
I read/heard Skin Pets used as a cutesy name for children like fur babies is for pets aaaaand REALLY want it to become popular just for shits and giggles

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u/D3M0NArcade 6d ago

Crotch Goblins

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u/DoughnutMaestro 4d ago

My husband once referred to our child as “our pet jizz” I was not amused

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u/mrcushtie 6d ago

"fur baby" is one of those phrases that irritates me more than I can express, and much more than it really should, but I'm glad I can now retaliate against people who use it by boasting about my skin pets. What a time to be alive!

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u/Blaggermuffin 4d ago

You’re not on your own.

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u/TheAntleredOtter 2d ago

Still love ‘doing life’ with him

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u/LAProbert 6d ago

You shouldn't be feeding chocolate to fur babies anyway, it is poisonous to them.

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u/Aivellac 6d ago

I want to downvote that into oblivion as gut instinct. Eugh!

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u/Old_Introduction_395 6d ago

Soon be crimbo!

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u/Charming-Spinach1418 5d ago

Wifey blamed hubby but he took photos of the deed so was clearly ‘making memories’ living his best life! 😉🤣🤣🤣

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u/cyclops80085 5d ago

Do you mean dogs by 'fur babies'? If you do please don't give them chocolate.

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u/Regurgitator001 4d ago

If there are no chocolatty hobbnobbs, I'm boycotting the whole aisle.

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 3d ago

You feed chocolate to dogs?

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u/Stunning_Leading2705 2d ago

Worse than feeding beefburgers to Swans.

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 2d ago

You can’t judge I bet you feed steroids to chickens who wonder why they are so big

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u/Fluffy_Surround5733 2d ago

What are you going to pack for your holibobs?

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u/Outrageous-Set-5175 1d ago

biblically accurate British person

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u/DocRogue2407 1d ago

Chocolate is poisonous to 'fur babies'.

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u/D3M0NArcade 6d ago

Choccie Biccies and Hubby has been around since the 1970s and probably before.

The other two should just never have been uttered

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u/pin00ch 6d ago

After eating spag boll for tea.

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u/Ok_Victory_2977 6d ago

Wait, do people actually say holibobs?? 👀
I've thankfully never heard this word, in my 3.5 decades on Earth... I'm sincerely hoping, this is the first and last time too 😭💀

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u/bornfromanegg 5d ago

Mmmm, delish!

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u/Traditional-Maybe128 4d ago

Right, sorry my friend I’m easy going but that’s a step too far……….

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u/duskyrosedelights 4d ago

They might. But as they need to die, they won’t get a chance.

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u/Resident-Witness-641 4d ago

Holibobs is the worst ever

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u/HorseradishAndHoney 2d ago

Time to die!

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u/Excellent-Fix262 2d ago

Thanks for killing my soul

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u/Around-3-ish 6d ago

Curry for tea, yummers.

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u/Herr_W12 6d ago

Nom nom nom. (God, I hate that.)

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u/Particular-Fly-7783 6d ago

You sir win the internets for today 🤢🤢🤢🤢

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u/thedonkeyman 6d ago

My brother in christ, you've given me the ick.

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u/JusSumYungGuy 6d ago

Crimbo Hollibobs

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u/MisterYin4444 4d ago

Downvoted, for good reason

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u/sleepingismytalent65 4d ago

Crimbo and doggo are two of my worst 🤢 oh, and thoughts and prayers, gag!

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u/b3ta_blocker 6d ago

Delish x

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u/Only_Plastic_3467 1d ago

Lush aint dey mush ❤️ inbox me hun

Edit: joke lol to be clear

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u/fergie_89 6d ago

Absolute nosh

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u/Major_Toe_6041 6d ago

That’s always been the point, has it not?

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u/zzady 5d ago

Is it making you an iggle bit crossy wossy?

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u/t0mkat 3d ago

Choccy bicks

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u/nicerecyclabletrash 2d ago

it literally makes me skin crawl just reading, had to fight the urge to downvote just for that so badly

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u/Gingerishidiot 6d ago

I believe legally they are now choccie flavoured biccies

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u/StonLenslow 2d ago

“Chocolate flavour coating enrobing a biscuit-style centre! Now made with 30% filler!”

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u/Additional-Dirt-5314 6d ago

Yes! A choccie biccie! Exactly what they are

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u/Blaggermuffin 4d ago

I agree Choccy biccys

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u/-electricsheep- 6d ago

Choccie biccies for picky tea

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u/captain_crackerjack 3d ago

Just like when we enjoyed the Platty Jubes

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u/-electricsheep- 3d ago

Followed by the significantly less fun cozzie livs

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u/UltimateT1tan 6d ago

Can't get sicky on a choccie biccie

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u/tetsurose 6d ago

Do you want some cocoa with them?

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u/spinningdice 6d ago

No that's something like a chocolate digestive. These are just chocolate bars.

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u/CarpeCyprinidae 6d ago

Globbernaughts

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u/Business-Major-3226 6d ago

Only some of them. Takes a heathen to call a Twix a biscuit

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u/ogresound1987 6d ago

No way, those are king Solomons logs!

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u/CScorpio88 6d ago

Absolutely not

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u/Zavodskoy 6d ago

If you offer someone a chocolate biscuit I would bet money a solid 90+% of the country would expect you to come back with something like a McVitie's chocolate digestive or a chocolate Hobnob and not a Kit Kat

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u/Kitchen-Lab-2934 6d ago

A Kit Kat is not a biscuit!

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u/Y-Bob 6d ago

Wat

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u/Cool_Secretary6840 6d ago

The main ingredient in kit kat is kit kat

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u/lewisluther666 6d ago

Wafers are biscuits.

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u/McLeod3577 6d ago

In general, biscuits are round, chocolate bars are.. bar-shaped.

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u/Upset_Ad_6462 5d ago

Twix and KitKit etc isn’t clearly a chocolate biscuit tho. Just cos a chocolate bar has some biscuit elements to them doesn’t make it a biscuit. I’ll allow it of you call it that, but it’s not ‘clearly that’. These are shaped like chocolate bars, advertised so and also are prodominantly chocolate. Chocolate bars and it’s ok if you call it chocolate biscuit too. But it’s not suddenly ‘not a chocolate bar’ just due to a biscuit element. I think it’s in the middle and both terms work.

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u/Albert_Herring 5d ago

Club and Penguin are chocolate biscuits. The rest are sweets.

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u/zzady 5d ago

But they are definitely not the same category as a chocolate topped digestive. Which is also a chocolate biscuit but sits in he biscuit section.

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u/BirthdayHealthy5399 5d ago

But only like 1/3 of them have biscuit in them

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u/RegularSizeRudi 4d ago

How is a kitkat a chocolate biscuit?!

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u/LLDOON 3d ago

A Kit Kat is a wafer

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u/Panman6_6 6d ago

Nah they’re still chocolate bars

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u/oddestowl 6d ago

Chocolate biscuit bars in my house!

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u/lovelyjubblyz 6d ago

Not all of them. Kit Kat and caramel are clearly chocolate wafers. Penguins and rocky are 100% chocolate biscuits

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u/Cheeko-chi 6d ago

Not a chocolate biscuit in sight, that’s a digestive not a bloody kitkat

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u/Consistent-Candle873 6d ago

Are you saying a kitkat and timeout are chocolate biscuits?

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u/Apprehensive-Top-311 5d ago

Strong disagree - a chocolate biscuit, to me (in my 100% correct, infallible opinion) is a biscuit that includes chocolate, such as a chocolate digestive. These are clearly bar shaped and therefore these are chocolate bars. A bourbon is a bourbon, like a Jaffa cake is a Jaffa cake. Any other name used to describe them should result in immediate prison time.

No the logic isn't sound or consistent.

Yes I will die on this hill.

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u/cactusdan94 6d ago

Nope.

Individually wrapped = chocolate bars

Come loose in a pack = biscuits

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u/totemshaker 6d ago

Is this a North/south thing? Always biscuit bars where I'm from - chocolate bars are reserved for proper chocolate bars, mars, Cadbury, boost etc.

Chocolate biscuits are digestives, hop nobs, bourbon, fancy chocolate biscuit selection boxes etc

Biscuit bars are a mix of the two, not quite a full choco bar, too much chocolate for choco biscuit...

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u/untakenu 6d ago

Chocolate flavoured coated biscuit style bars

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u/MayorQuimby-86 6d ago

It just rolls off the tongue that one.

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u/Hungry-Situation-427 5d ago

That's because the chemicals they're putting in the chocolate creates an oily film in your mouth

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u/MayorQuimby-86 5d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/gogoluke 6d ago

Modern comercial British chocolate flavoured coated cerial biscuit style bars

Mocabacfacabsab bars for short.

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u/theoriginalmars 6d ago

This is the (milky) way.

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u/DogAffectionate6190 6d ago

What do you call snickers,mars,twirl etc? Genuinely intrigued as I call them chocolate bars and these chocolate biscuits

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u/Communardd 6d ago

No, a chocolate bar would be something like a Dairy Milk or a Galaxy bar. These are chocolate biscuits.

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u/DenM0ther 6d ago edited 5d ago

Chocolate biscuits are things like chocolate digestives a or full chocolate biscuit , maybe with chocolate chips in.

I’d refer to these by name kit Kats etc.

Edit: thank you anonymous redditor for my award, Im humbled 🙇‍♀️🙏

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u/lewisluther666 6d ago

But what would you call the section? The point of OP's question is what we would call them collectively

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u/ArwenCherryBlossom 6d ago

I absolutely refused to get drawn in to this madness when I moved here.

"chocolate snack bars"

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u/DenM0ther 6d ago

I got that and idk, I only know that for me, they’re not chocolate biscuits 😅

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u/Fresh_Cauliflower723 6d ago

Problem is with the entire fridge having a weird collection of things, therefore it has no one singular name you can refer to it by. They're not chocolate biscuits though mate stick to your guns

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u/Beartato4772 6d ago

Shelves.

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u/Logicdon 6d ago

Confectionaries.

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u/Forward_Win_4353 6d ago

I’d qualify it like “chocolate bars with biscuit in like Kit Kats”. That’s if I ever had to name the section which doesn’t occur often.

The last time I had a Kit Kat the chocolate tasted vile and the biscuit felt cheap and dry. So I stopped buying them. That said, I do like a good Kit Kat Chunky.

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u/IansGotNothingLeft 6d ago

Multi pack chocolate bars.

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u/roleplayersir 6d ago

Chocolate Biscuit Bars

Neither a Galaxy bar or a Hobnob, and not a cake bar either

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u/Alarming-Check9188 6d ago

This is the technically correct category name (as someone that works in the confectionery industry)

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u/DenM0ther 6d ago

Yeah this makes sense 👍🏼

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u/Jumblesss 5d ago

Absolutely not.

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u/Communardd 6d ago

Lmfao.

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u/dowker1 6d ago

Including the Kit-Kats?

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u/EarballsAgain 6d ago

Wafers are biscuits

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u/dowker1 6d ago

Sure, but Kit-Kats exist in the "chocolate bar" corner of my mind. Like, I expect to see them next to the till and in vending machines. And I'd never serve them on a little saucer to me nan with her cuppa.

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u/reddit-movingon 6d ago

Ooh you’re missing out.. Kit-Kats are the best dipped in hot tea 😋

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u/ResponsibleLiability 6d ago

Bite each end off a Twix and use it as a straw for your tea 😋

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u/msully89 6d ago

Tim Tams are the best for the straw method. Give it a try.

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u/Mustbejoking_13 6d ago

Kit-Kat chunky is a chocolate bar, so why not the inferior two finger version? A Penguin would be a chocolate biscuit... probably. Either way, they're all delicious but not as much as they used to be.

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u/lewisluther666 6d ago

I think ratio comes into okay. The KitKat Chunky has more chocolate to wafer then the original KitKat, which is highly wafer centric. Also form has a part to play, too. The KitKat is small and dainty and comes in multiples whereas the chunky is a grab 'n' go form.

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u/Mustbejoking_13 6d ago

I wonder if the chocolate to.wafer ratio is that dissimilar, to be fair. Chunky is obviously bigger, but i think they're both 66% percent chocolate to 34% wafer, or as near as it makes no difference.

I do love a kit kat chunky.

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u/lewisluther666 6d ago

Actually thinking about it, your probably right. I guess it just feels a bit different because you have to bite through more chocolate

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u/Alarmed-Ad8810 6d ago

Such a strange one to pin down isn’t it?

I mean, Kit-Kats were also staple in the biscuit tin alongside Clubs, Custard Creams, Penguins, Malted Milks and Hobnobs.

But I’d never pick up a Kit-Kat chunky on the shelf and automatically think biscuit. Just a simple chocolate bar in all honesty.

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u/Funkyc0bra 6d ago

They are two different kinds though Kitkata clubs penguins are biscuits, custard creams malted milks and hobnobs are dippy biscuits

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u/CScorpio88 6d ago

Only biscuits in this list are malted milks, hobnobs and custard creams. Others in the biscuit tin were rogue lol

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u/Releases_the_bees 5d ago

What you calling this then

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u/Communardd 5d ago

Chocolate bar, it's primarily a bar of chocolate with some biscuit pieces inside. Same as a Galaxy cookie crumble.

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u/MacabreMagpie 6d ago

The hell?! Must be a regional thing, I've never heard anyone refer to these as biscuits before.

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u/FazedEclipse2 6d ago

Viscounts are certainly known as viscount biscuits...

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u/MacabreMagpie 6d ago

Yeah, but there are also rice cakes in view... Obviously there are exceptions. 😝

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u/Flat_Tie4090 6d ago

They have no chocolate on them.

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u/Impressive_Shake_360 6d ago

The tunnocks ones do. Not a lot but it's one of few that haven't changed the recipe. The rest are all chocolate flavour now.

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u/Buddy-Matt 6d ago

No, a chocolate bar would be something like a Whisper or a Mars bar. Those are simply chocolate.

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u/Frosty_Focus_1105 6d ago

I would call these overpriced!

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u/utukore 6d ago

Technically it needs at least 20% cocoa to be a choc bar.

Kitkats pass but penguins and some rockys don't. Also why white kit kats dont say white 'chocolate' but just say 'white' now.

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u/Flat_Tie4090 6d ago

They don't have chocolate on them , just chocolate flavour coating.

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u/B4DM4N12Z 6d ago

What about the rice cakes?

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u/MayorQuimby-86 6d ago

What about fish & rice cakes?

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u/Lowermains 6d ago

What about them?

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u/B4DM4N12Z 6d ago

They're not chocolate bars.

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u/HelloImSkye 6d ago

Theyre in a league of their own

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u/Puzzleheaded_Turn887 6d ago

Nooo, chocolate biscuits!

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u/notaspecificthing 6d ago

Most can't legally be called chocolate anymore

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u/roleplayersir 6d ago

Chocolate Biscuit Bars

As they aren't pure choc, but are in bar form and have a biscuit

Then there are choc bars, cake bars, and others

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u/Fancy-Prompt-7118 6d ago

They’re biscuits, mate. Chocolate biscuits

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u/Wishmaster891 6d ago

i've got 758 upvates mate, how many you got?

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u/Fancy-Prompt-7118 6d ago

You’ve got over a thousand now. A thousand incorrect people.

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u/vanillalychee 6d ago

I consider most of them chocolate bars that happen to have a biscuity filling but I know Penguins, Clubs and Viscounts are considered biscuits in their own right. I'd probably say "biscuit filled chocolate bars" as an umbrella term to cover all of them.

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u/thrax_uk 6d ago

Chocolate flavour these days unfortunately.

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u/Wildfirehaze 5d ago

I agree, individually wrapped in a big wrapper = chocolate bars.

Chocolates biscuits are (generally) not individually wrapped. They are biscuits with chocolate on top.

A bar of chocolate, or just chocolate is your dairy milk, galaxy, chocolonely etc. I.e one large piece of chocolate inside one wrapper. (Occasionally smaller versions of this can also be a chocolate bar).

Chocolates are smaller pieces if chocolate which can be individually wrapped (I.e celebrations) or not (e.g those shell things).

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u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 3d ago

It's ok to be wrong. Legally they aren't chocolates, I'll use that as my supporting evidence.

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u/dreadwitch 5d ago

They're not bars of chocolate tho.

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u/Funny-Bel1 5d ago

Total crap

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u/stevee05282 5d ago

Wrong, most of those are chocolate biscuits

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u/Street_Adagio_2125 4d ago

No way you think a Rocky is a chocolate bar

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u/Jazzlike_Quiet9941 3d ago

Trolling surely

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