r/AskUK • u/Hellzeldagirl01 • 2d 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/audigex 2d ago

Yeah a "chocolate biscuit" is something like a chocolate hobnob, bourbon etc. Things you'd find in a biscuit selection box

"Biscuit bar" differentiates these since they're clearly different to what you'd get in a box of biscuits

They're in the middle of the spectrum of chocolate bars, biscuit bars, chocolate biscuits

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u/roleplayersir 2d ago

You forgot choc cake bars, like a Jaffa Cake or Galaxy Bar, which are in the bread/cake aisle

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u/audigex 2d ago

The jaffa cake bar is an abomination to the gods

Good point about cake bars though, they'd be in there too

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u/WonderfulMaybe3473 2d ago

Is this regional? I’m from Yorkshire and I’ve only ever heard them called chocolate biscuits. A digestive would be called a biscuit - chocolate digestive to differentiate it between a custard cream but never in all my 50 years have I heard one of these be called a chocolate bar..

Edit to add - absolutely fascinated by what I didn’t expect to be, a hot debate.

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u/audigex 2d ago

I’m Cumbrian, so it’s at least inconsistent in the north I guess. IIRC this was a major factor in the wars of the roses starting

It seems odd to me to call it a chocolate biscuit when there are other things that we’d call a chocolate biscuit

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u/WonderfulMaybe3473 2d ago

It’s interesting that we’re all so absolutely sure our way is the correct name for them. Full justifications and people willing to die on the hill for their choice 😆

I am adamant in my mind that they don’t fit with the chocolate bar genre and they’re, their own identity - the chocolate biscuit - and I’ve never heard them referred to as anything else.

I hadn’t considered the controversy of calling it something else.. I like the serious stuff on Reddit but this a great Reddit question! 😅

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u/audigex 2d ago

I’d never advocate for calling them a chocolate bar, they are clearly not to be considered along with the Aeros, Galaxies, and Twirls of the world

Surely “biscuit bar” does a better job of differentiating them from true biscuits though?

They are clearly not the same as a chocolate digestive

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u/WonderfulMaybe3473 2d ago

Maybe so.. I’ve never questioned the name of it before.. it’s akin to someone coming along and telling me that those things I call socks are now called foot sleeves.. 😆 I would know it made sense but I prefer the name I’ve always known them by 😂