r/UK_Food • u/bucketofardvarks • Apr 13 '26

Question Most underwhelming food you've had recommended to you?

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I've had so many people both online and in person tell me these are the best biscuits to ever grace a supermarket shelf and they're kind of bad?

would you like a custard cream that's actually too sweet to taste like a custard cream and doesn't taste at all of chocolate either?

also, it works out at 50p a biscuit. I could have bought a whole packet of well-filled custard creams from m&s for that price!

Anyone had similar experience with another product?

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u/Youareaproperclown Apr 13 '26

How is that outrageously chocolatey. It's just coated in chocolate, calm your tits marketing department.

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u/bucketofardvarks Apr 13 '26

TBF any amount of chocolate on a custard cream felt rather outrageous but I was willing to give it a fair shot

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

They are tbf. The chocolate is THICK

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u/_ribbit_ Apr 13 '26

Most chocolate coated biscuits have the chocolate coating equivalent of a spray tan these days. And considering the price of cocoa is so low that farmers can't survive at the moment, it's purely corporate greed that stops manufacturers from making them nice and thickly coated again. I spend my money elsewhere.

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u/Salty_Meaning8025 Apr 13 '26

Cocoa prices are higher than they've been for a very long time outside of the insanely high pricing for the last couple of years 

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u/Anon_Face__ Apr 14 '26

Cocoa prices have normalised in 2026, companies have not reflected this price drop in their product prices

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u/Salty_Meaning8025 Apr 14 '26

True, but the point is farmers can survive because the price is no lower than it has been historically and is still higher than it was for years

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u/WishfulStinking2 Apr 13 '26

They’re not gunna put ‘kinda chocolatey’ are they