Those cookies with currants in them
 

When we were traveling in England last summer we got hooked on some kind of cookie that has black currants in them. Or some kind of currant. Or dried something anyway.

I didn't even know that we were missing out on something. What are they called? I can't remember. Can you get anything like that here?

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Garibaldi biscuits? A packet of flat rectangles with very small dried black fruit bits?

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I often bought some biscuits in uk with currants in they where known as fruit shorties, they where round with a scolloped edge.

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Where food is the subject of a thread it'll just run and run, way over 10 posts.

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Otherwise known as 'Fly Biscuits' :blink:;)

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Could be an Eccles cake?


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I'll respond to your next question in a new post... to ensure this thread goes over 10 posts... cos that's how I voted.... and I don't want to lose.

Re: Those cookies with currants in them
 

You can get Eccles cakes in Victoria BC.

I only know that because I worked at a place that sold them.

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that would be "squashed fly biscuits" coz that's what they look like! lol

when i was still at school i loved these biscuits and remember them being quite cheap at 19p a packet :D
not so cheap these days at around 65-70p a packet! inflation eh?! lol

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Sorry - thread closed - please move along. guess how I voted? :sneaky:

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you can vote? :confused:

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Post number 11! ie... post number greater than 10!

I win! I win! I WIN!!!! :thumbup:

(and a few others too!)

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Fly cemetary, we called them when I was a kid.

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Fly's Graveyard - same thing, diffrerent area

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This sounds like the one. Do they come just wrapped in a stack of biscuits?

We found name brand ones and Co-op brand ones but they all tasted the same. We could go through a stack of those in an afternoon.

We found a couple of England stores in Calgary but neither of them have those particular cookies.

Oh well, I guess we'll just have to go back for another visit.

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The eccles cake looks addictive too.