Friday's Unscientific Poll: Important biscuit question

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Poll #17275 Important biscuit question

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50

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When presented with a choice between these two biscuits, which will you eat first?

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Bourbon cream
21 (46.7%)

Custard cream
24 (53.3%)

This is because

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I prefer that biscuit.
26 (52.0%)

I prefer the other biscuit, but want to eat it last.
6 (12.0%)

I'm being polite - I don't like either of these biscuits.
4 (8.0%)

Biscuit!
15 (30.0%)

BISCUITTT!
19 (38.0%)

I like to tick boxes. Sorry, what was the question?
17 (34.0%)

Comments

[cxcvi]

Unless I'm feeling like shit, in which case I'm going straight for the chocolate...

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm not mad about custard creams (I've never gone out and bought them), but they are perfectly acceptable. I don't like bourbons, although if I was in a situation where I had to eat a biscuit to be polite, I'd take them over a Nice or malted milk cow biscuits.

(Also, hello! We have friends in common).

[aella_irene]

I consume all biscuits, but custard creams have a very slight edge

[gwendraith]

Coincidentally, I bought a double packet of custard creams yesterday as I have the boys visiting this weekend (to have with cups of tea).

[ironed_orchid]

Bourbon creams are not a biscuit we have here, and they look like a Tim Tam without the all important chocolate coating.

I like custard creams, but shortbread creams tend to win out when I'm shopping.

[soliano]

I had to google these pastries. So I am thinking a variation on a golden oreo. I will have to check the specialty cookie section of the store and try some out.

[ayebydan]

bourbons are easier to break apart when dunked in tea. bourbons are best when you manage to peel the top layer of biscuit off and scrape the goo out with your teeth. omnomnom

[davidgillon]

This!

[cmcmck]

I quite like both, but much prefer a digestive! :o)

[antisoppist]

I have a choice between two biscuits, I pick the one I like more, which is custard creams. You didn't tell me I could in fact have had both biscuits! If I had known that, I would have picked the bourbon in question one and saved the best (the custard cream) until last. That is assuming that there are only two biscuits and I can't have two custard creams. If you are offering me a plate containing both bourbons and custard creams (plural), my choice would depend on whether I think you are likely to offer me the plate again a bit later (in which case I could have the other one then), and on how many other people will be offered the plate as well and whether they are likely to take the nicest ones so I should grab the nicest one on the first round. If by the time the plate gets to me there is only one custard cream and several bourbons, I would take a bourbon so as not to Take The Last Nice Biscuit.

It is difficult.

[redsixwing]

I've never had either, but "custard cream" has the word "custard" in it, and that is usually a winner, as I'm not fond of the flavor of bourbon.

Unless it's bourbon and spices, a la bourbon balls, and then bourbon wins.

Tough choices!

[azurelunatic]

I've had neither, but after a bit of searching I have a guess as to my preferences.

The current meds regime means that I'd likely stick with one biscuit.

Now, if there were raspberry shortbread creams, my answer would be different...

[adrian_turtle]

I'd say "no thank you," and leave both of them for people who actually want them. My capacity for eating sweets may SEEM unlimited, but my capacity for eating sweets without ill effects actually does have a limit, and I should save it for things I really enjoy. (And not cause more social awkwardness than absolutely necessary by asking "is there any dairy in this?" when I don't care deeply.)

[serene]

Having never tried either one, I'd probably just go left to right.

[perennialanna]

But how can people prefer custard creams to bourbons?

Although I do like custard creams. I always think I don't because of the word custard (I hate custard), so I very rarely eat one. Every time I am surprised by how much I like them and resolve to eat them more often.

[liseuse]

I answered as if I was at home, or with friends, in which case I prefer the Bourbon and have bought both, but will eat the Bourbon. If in a social setting - work, or friends of friends, or people I don't know very well, I'd eat the Custard Cream because I recognise more people want the Bourbon, but would be cranky because I'd want to eat the Bourbon rather than the Custard Cream.

[davidgillon]

Bourbon, because dark chocolatey goodness.

Though in fact I just got in with two packets of custard creams in the shopping, because no obvious bourbons.

I would, of course, have gone for ginger snaps or coconut rings in preference to either, but Asda's selection was particularly poor today.

[omnipotent]

Don't think I have had the pleasure of sampling either of these two delicacies, but bourbon cream sounds divine and I must have a meeting between it and my tastebuds at some point in my life.