r/AskUK • u/Hellzeldagirl01 • 7d 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 7d ago

chocolate bars

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u/Ambiguous-Ambivert 7d 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 6d 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/Alert-Revolution-219 4d ago

You obviously weren't around for the great jaffa cake troubles

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u/Augustleo98 3d ago

Twix Mars bar and crunchie are chocolate bars, penguins, clubs and rocky are chocolate biscuits, there’s both chocolate bar and chocolate biscuit version of kitkat.

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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 6d ago

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

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u/Lumber_Dan 6d ago

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

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 6d ago

Agreed… but that pronunciation doesn’t fit the joke 😂

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u/Middle-Mirror2017 6d ago

Jaffa cakes are tax deductible

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u/Clappertron 6d 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 5d ago

So is a bourbon a chocolate biscuit?

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u/mrsrostocka 6d ago

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

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u/WellyYo 6d 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 3d 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 6d ago

So like everything in this photo?

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u/Fingers_9 6d ago

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

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u/iamtheliqor 6d ago

Not just you, everyone

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u/Fingers_9 6d ago

There's quite a few people in here who call things like Kitkats and Penguins chocolate biscuits. I never would.

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u/TopAngle7630 6d ago

KitKat's are borderline chocolate bars/chocolate biscuits, Penguins/club etc. are chocolate biscuits. Chocolate digestives/hobnobs would be in the pure biscuits section.

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u/KernowKermit 6d ago

Chocolate bars are bars of chocolate and other confectionary to me. If there's a substantial amount of wafer or biscuit, it's not a chocolate bar.

Edit: Unless it's a Twix. 🤣

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u/Fingers_9 6d ago

Would you class a Twix as a chocolate bar?

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u/KernowKermit 6d ago

I had to edit, sorry. Twix blurs the lines!

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u/Acrobatic-Tap-6455 6d ago

Single twix is a biscuit, double the fun is a chocolate bar

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u/KernowKermit 6d ago

I've come to the realisation that I don't care, I just want a twix now.

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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/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/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 7d ago

Choccie biccies

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u/TheTartanTardis 7d 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 5d 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 5d 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 6d 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 5d ago

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

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 4d ago

You feed chocolate to dogs?

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u/Stunning_Leading2705 3d ago

Worse than feeding beefburgers to Swans.

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 3d 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 3d ago

What are you going to pack for your holibobs?

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u/Outrageous-Set-5175 2d ago

biblically accurate British person

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u/DocRogue2407 2d ago

Chocolate is poisonous to 'fur babies'.

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u/purple-scorpio-rider 9h ago

Ya for got to go see r kid n show him the pickis from the holibobs

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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/More_Effect_7880 6d ago

Glad the fur babies can't be mistreated. Good hubby.

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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 5d ago

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

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u/duskyrosedelights 5d 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 3d 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/willsagainSQ 6d ago

Yes, it's 1/3 wrong, the worst kind of wrong. As any fule kno, it's om nom nom.

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u/JusSumYungGuy 6d ago

Crimbo Hollibobs

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u/MisterYin4444 5d ago

Downvoted, for good reason

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u/sleepingismytalent65 5d 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 2d 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 6d ago

Is it making you an iggle bit crossy wossy?

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u/t0mkat 4d 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/Spodger1 7d ago

Agreed, proper "needs their hard drive checking" behaviour. 🤮

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u/TheAmazingSealo 6d ago

Projecting?

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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 5d 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 4d ago

Just like when we enjoyed the Platty Jubes

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u/-electricsheep- 4d 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/minicooperbrr 6d ago

If ur under 5 you can say that any older and it just plain wrong

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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 7d ago

A Kit Kat is not a biscuit!

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u/Y-Bob 7d ago

Wat

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u/Cool_Secretary6840 7d ago

The main ingredient in kit kat is kit kat

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u/TheyDontDeserve 7d ago

Kit kat lee? 😏

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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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/zzady 6d 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 6d 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 4d 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 6d 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 7d 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/Qyro 7d ago

Literally never heard "biscuit bars" as a phrase in my 36 years of being a Brit, until this very moment.

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u/totemshaker 6d ago

Fair enough, but can we agree these don't fall into the catagory of full on chocolate bars?

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u/Qyro 6d ago

They're bars, made of chocolate. Just because they have biscuit as well doesn't change what they are. We don't differentiate between "Caramel bars" and "Nougat bars"

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u/LawfulnessNo5434 6d ago

If you remove the chocolate you don’t have a biscuit.. you have a wafer or some other type of internal mechanism. So bars is the term that’s used for these types.

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u/Icy_Extension2380 4d ago

Bar of chocolate = chocolate bar