fig rolls crap/not crap

[8ball]

Have got some (Bolands) Fig Rolls today.
They are very nice.

If you're gonna bump, bump hard.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fig rolls are lovely, and a packet counts as one of your five a day.

 

[StoneRoad]

totally 'orrible things, I can't stand 'em.
but my OH thinks that they are delicious.

 

[billy_bob]

Suburban - where you can bump a seven-year-old thread and less than 50% of the original posters are now banned

 

[quimcunx]

When there are so many amazing or just good biscuits out there to choose from why would anyone choose these?

 

[fishfinger]

I love fig rolls. Unfortunately, being diabetic means I no longer eat biscuits, cakes etc

 

[spanglechick]

Suburban - where you can bump a seven-year-old thread and less than 50% of the original posters are now banned

yeah but the one who was banned was tobyjug, so that counts as at least five people...

 

[Cid]

But ShiftyBagLady is still here and I demand an explanation of this 'dandelion coffee' thing.

 

[Manter]

Foul vile evil disgusting and wrong.

Dandelion tea *and* fig rolls

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Suburban - where you can bump a seven-year-old thread and less than 50% of the original posters are now banned

You saying we're boring?

 

[billy_bob]

You saying we're boring?

You're not going to provoke me into an expletive-laden flame war. Not on this forum. Let's just have a biscuit (/weird dried-fruit-filled biscuit/cake combo looks-like-a-dog-treat thingy) and be friends

 

[Dr_Herbz]

The only biscuits you can open, leave for 5 years and they still the same as the day you opened the packet... except harder.

 

[Blagsta]

fig rolls are lovely

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

But ShiftyBagLady is still here and I demand an explanation of this 'dandelion coffee' thing.

It's the root of a dandelion which has been roasted to develop a rich flavour. Hard to describe what it tastes like... I'd say it tastes like a combination of coffee with malt extract... only not bitter and not sweet...
I like it. It's traditionally used as a liver tonic and to support the digestive system. You can get some instant stuff which tastes like really milk instant coffee and is not as nice as using teh roasted root but is a lot more convenient.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Foul vile evil disgusting and wrong.

Dandelion tea *and* fig rolls

 

[Cid]

What's wrong with proper coffee?

 

[Sirena]

I'm on the side of not liking fig rolls.

I think a biscuit should be crisp and firm and fig rolls are too yielding, almost like cake. And I don't like cake. And I don't like Jaffa Cakes either, even though some people think of those as biscuits.

Now a Ginger Nut. There's a biscuit!

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Nothing. What's wrong with dandelion coffee? Or tea? or warm milk?
It's good to branch out...

 

[DaleyMale]

I can think of a lot more varieties of biscuit that I would prefer to eat.

 

[Cid]

Nothing. What's wrong with dandelion coffee? Or tea? or warm milk?
It's good to branch out...

It's the coffee element. It has pretensions.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And I don't like cake.

And I don't like Jaffa Cakes either

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I LOVE FIG ROLLS! FACT!!

 

[Cribynkle]

Horrible nasty things

 

[RubyToogood]

As long as it's a Fig Roll and not a Fig Newton then yes. Absolutely nothing wrong with a fig roll

According to Wikipedia, a fig newton is the same thing. Is it not?

 

[Callum91]

According to Wikipedia, a fig newton is the same thing. Is it not?

Fig rolls are fig inside a cakey outside. Fig Newtons are fig inside a more biscuit like outside. I believe that's the difference.

 

[gentlegreen]

If I don't have a whole packet to demolish, there's sometimes dates / figs plus digestive biscuits as an alternative.

 

[Cheesypoof]

crap - too dry. They are 'dated' rather than 'classic' biscuits. However figs by themselves are amazing.

 

[DaleyMale]

I don't mind the taste of them, it's just that thick wodge of fig in the middle that means they're just a bit too chewy.

They're also rubbish for dunking.

The Italian brand, Mulino Bianco do a version called Settembrini which is my 'go to' fig roll. Less stodgy but still virtually undunkable

If there was a biscuity centre, wrapped in a layer of fig with a final casing of that pastry stuff they use, then you could dip one end into a glass of vinsanto (for example), suck on the other end until the alcohol has been drawn through. Then you have an alcohol soaked centre waiting for you as a reward for getting through all the fig.

 

[Mr Moose]

had a hankering for a fig roll biscuit earlier, but hten i thought yuk.
im still undecided, you?

Do it Shifty. And get a packet of Garibaldi's while you're at it.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

The ones with the ridges were nice ...