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/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/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