Just had a raspberry jam donut........

Another vote for plain chocolate hobnobs. And fig rolls. Why can't you get plain chocolate covered fig rolls, I wonder.

Rather more obscurely the Country Cottage Biscuit Company's plain chocolate covered ginger thins are the absolute business.



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Chocolate covered ginger thins - where can I get some - stuff losing weight!

They sell them in the Al Amin deli/cornershop/supermarket/ source of all things yummy on Mill Road in Cambridge (the UK one), but I guess that doesn't help unless you live nearby.

(I may have got the company's name a bit wrong . . . but it's something like that, and there's a black-and-white drawing of a cottage on the packaging)



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I can be counted more as UK now than Portuguese... not going to go back...

Seemed relevent... (from Ananova)


Biscuits the key to business personalities

Businessmen and women give away their personality every time they bite into a biscuit, according to new research.

Psychologist Gladeana McMahon studied the behaviour of boardroom members and how their choice of biscuit reveals character traits and approaches to work.

She says a Jaffa Cake shows someone who is creative and imaginative, while a traditional custard cream indicates reliability.

"The biscuits they choose, the number they eat, and whether they stick to the same biscuit all say something about the people themselves," she said.

"Take one biscuit and you are seen as conformist, two biscuits shows confidence, and three or more looks overly competitive or aggressive.

"Anyone deliberately taking the chief executive's favourite biscuit is seen as making an indirect challenge."

The person who picks a luxury Boaster is likely to be the chief executive or chairman who will be an effective decision-maker with a high business acumen and sound judgment.

A Hob Nob indicates someone who is dynamic and thrives under pressure. It is likely to be picked by the busy networking sales director who is drawn to its name.

The Rich Tea will be chosen by someone sober, strategic and discerning who sees all the options and helps the team make balanced decisions.

Digestives are the favourite of technical specialists or financial experts who are logical types seeking precision and accuracy.

Traditional shortbread shows someone who makes sure the team is protected from mistakes and problems. Eaten almost whole, this is the biscuit for those who like action.

The study was carried out on behalf of United Biscuits.

Well, other companies obviously have more orderly employees. If a plate of biscuits is put out here, the effect is not unlike throwing a goat into a piranha infested river.



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I'm a Rich Tea and Shortbread person and really truely this is me to a T!! Very weird stuff!

"The Rich Tea will be chosen by someone sober, strategic and discerning who sees all the options and helps the team make balanced decisions.


Traditional shortbread shows someone who makes sure the team is protected from mistakes and problems. Eaten almost whole, this is the biscuit for those who like action."

First of all, welcome, Guy!

I'm fascinated by this survey. Translating that into the sort of biscuits I eat, I'd be the one going for the Boaster. That clearly augurs very well for my financial future... *mutterings of "and it's about time, too" in the background* Oh, yes, and I'd definitely take two. One biscuit isn't worth the bother; three are too many to eat at a sitting, unless they're those teeny little Nice biscuits which in my opinion aren't worth eating at all.

Wilfred wants to know about the business potential of anyone who eats squid liqueurs. I would tell him, but I'm trying to be tactful!



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Jestives. definitely Jestives.

Hello Guy (it's taking me awhile to get back through posts I've missed, and I may just give up)



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I have to say, this is DEFINITELY NOT an American trait! We drink soft drinks and coffee and eat donuts and bagels at work. No one brings cookies to work unless it's the yearly Girl Scout Cookie "begging" time. I mean you get the occasional Holly Hobby - do-gooder type, but not generally.

I mean Americans do eat cookies, it's just not something that happens at work. And we certainly don't put quite as much thought into personality traits based on what kind of stinkin' cookies we like.

:-D

Sadly, American culture is lacking in the rich variety of biscuits available over here. Oreos were available over here once, as a novelty in some supermarket. About six people in one RPG group tried them, and no one really liked them. They resembled manhole covers, for one thing.
American cookies, muffins and donuts are lovely; I'm happy to admit that. However, there's something about Chocolate Finger Biscuits, Jammy Dodgers and Party Rings that can't be beat.
Oh, and squashed fly biscuits.

An Australian perspective - yep we love our biscuits including at work.

Often minor fights break out over what sort of biscuits (or if biscuits provided). Often have biscuits provided in tea rooms. Also quite common (at all the companies I have worked for, large and small) to have "refreshments" provided (meaning coffee, tea and biscuits) served at meetings as a matter of course (re Twila's comments on US and biscuits and workplaces).

As a training consultant of many years and for different organisations and institutions it always annoys me how a fairly common "feedback point" which workshop participants give/write on their evaluation form is about the damn biscuit (choices, amount of etc) which is somewhat frustrating. "Erm did anyone want to comment about what they *learned" over these 2 days or was the catering the most noteworthy issue?"

Yep. Same thing here. I asked our students why they chose Leeds rather than other Unis and they said because we did the best food...

Saves me having to learn lots of complicated electronic to teach them I suppose...

One of the best things about my first job at the Employment Service, was that the more highly paid managers were very generous about providing cream cakes for everybody, every other week or so. Marks and Sparks, too. The ES doesn't supply tea and coffee, each team organizes their own, but each floor has it's own tea point/room, with a sink, kettle, microwave and fridge.

we have a thing here where on your birthday, you provide cakes or sweets for your department. One of the partners in the firm is also a director at a certain v.posh tea&cake shop in ilkley (yorkshire folk will know the one, I'm not sure I can mention it by name for various reasons). So on his birthday he'd bring in dozens of really really nice cakes. Always worth a trip past his office on that day...