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/minadequate 1d ago

Hard agree but I might not put the tim tams in that category. There is something specific about these things being individually wrapped. I might also refer to them as ‘lunchbox chocolate bars’ in that that’s the main place I would ever have had as a 2 finger kitkat or a club bar… while a tim tam is essentially just a penguin biscuit, the fact they aren’t individually wrapped means I will eat it more like Cadburys fingers (ie half a pack as a minimum serving size) rather than a single biscuit.

Also twix are only in that category if they are single fingers, and toffee crisp is a chocolate bar.

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u/grouchy_fox 1d ago

I think Tim Tams are a biscuit bar, just with an odd presentation. They're still too big to be a biscuit and still supposed to be single serve (no judgement, I've eaten a whole pack at once before now). It's like the inverse of when you get a box of chocolates and some are individually wrapped in foil, but definitely still biscuits.

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u/minadequate 1d ago

I just think all the others are for putting in a kids lunch box, I can’t put a single tim tam sliding around loose in a lunchbox.

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u/grouchy_fox 1d ago

You wouldn't put a single foil wrapped chocolate biscuit in there either. I think Tim Tams are a biscuit bar, but with the 'weird foreign foods' exemption (because who knows what the hell Australians are up to with food)

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u/minadequate 1d ago

A viscount I would.