Tesco Biscuit Barrel Selection 700g

These are biscuits I remember from childhood. For the price, you'd hope that they were packaged well. Nope. 3 out of 4 inner packages had damaged biscuits. I guess you'd say they were expensive crumbs. Won't be purchasing again.

Delicious and fresh. The packaging on the outside is one big piece and then inside the biscuits (cookies) are individually wrapped in 4 sleeves of the 4 types in the variety pack. This wouldn't be an issue for most, but I was hoping to split them up as stocking stuffers so that didn't work. Everyone in my family loved them though.

Good biscuits, but the chocolate ones had a bloom because they were left on the doorstop in the sun

No bubble wrap. No padding. Just one sheet of brown paper around a box of fragile biscuits. Really? The Tesco biscuits themselves are exactly what you'd expect. The shipping is the problem. If you're going to charge import prices for breakable food, wrap it like you mean it.

Mine DID get delivered in a box, but there was another box inside that so they crashed around inside I guess. The pack is: Malted Milk - Custard Creams - Bourbon Creams - Shortcake biscuits. I have icing left over from Christmas cookies so I got the English biscuits to decorate and for my partner to try for the first time. I haven't had these in about 15 years myself. It's going to be hard to decorate crumbs and they're not going to dunk in our tea either. Disappointed and sad. I'll be over here with a spoon and some milk!

This is a good introduction to English biscuits. I had seen them mentioned in some books I have read and had to try them with my afternoon tea, and they have been a great accompaniment.

First, the cookies are not packaged in a box, nor is there any kind of tray, so at least some of them will probably be broken, but mine weren't too bad. I tried these out of curiosity and wasn't really sure what to expect. Have to say I found them underwhelming. First, this is not Tesco's fault, but I had always assumed when I heard talk of "Bourbon" biscuits that they would be flavored with Bourbon. Nope. They are essentially Oreo's with chocolate cream (but less sweet). (I also recently discovered that brandy snaps have no brandy!) The "custard" cream are basically golden Oreos. The other two are essentially crumbly crackers, they are really not sweet at all--not something I would want to dunk in tea or coffee. The "malted milk" have absolutely no flavor of malted milk. So if you're already familiar with these types of biscuits, and you like them, I guess they're fine. If you're just curious... you're really not missing much, I wouldn't bother.

I think Amazon finally stepped up it's packing game because these were meticulously packed (seriously, I've never seen a more perfectly bubble wrapped item) not a single broken biscuit in sight! They were also fresh and tasty, just like I remember them. I do wish they were slightly cheaper, especially considering they're just Tesco biscuits. Still, I'm chuffed I can get them here in the States and I'll be buying them again when I run out!