BristolUK

Ah, got it now.

You should have teamed up with David Nobbs. I reckon that would work quite well in a novel. He already wrote the biscuit factory sitcom Rich Tea and Sympathy and there are similarities with Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy.

Nutek

I wish I had a biscuit factory.

Pulaski

Working there was an interesting experience, on several levels. Working nights, the people I worked with, the warehouse staff v drivers tension (there was little love lost there!*), the sheer quantities of food that were delivered twice a week to large supermarkets, week after week.

* I was actually fairly popular with the drivers as I stacked tidy pallets, and wrapped them well with plastic. One day I loaded the 40ft artic for the driver's shop steward, and at the end of the day, having driven Gloucester to Plymouth and back, he came into the warehouse office and asked who had picked and loaded his deliveries as he wanted to go and thank them! .... He was generally known to be short-tempered and difficult, so this in itself was unusual.

The charge hand (deputy foreman) who was a friend of mine, having trained me on my first day, told him who was responsible for his load. His face fell, he said nothing, and he turned and left the building, got in his car and drove away.

The charge hand told me what happened, as he felt I deserved to know that I had done good work, and we both had a good laugh at the drivers shop steward because he had proved what we knew, that he was an a-hole. And his beef with me was that he hated temps, as they were non-union, and he could not bring himself to thank a non-union worker for a job well done.

kimilseung

My mum worked in a biscuit factory. We used to get big boxes of seconds. Club orange were my favourite.

BristolUK

Hey mister. Have you got any broken biscuits?
Yes, sonny.
Well you should be more careful then.

Jolly Good

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club..

BristolUK

You should be able to get them. They have them up here in a few places. I liked the Fruit ones as they were very like Tiffin bars and Raisin and Biscuit Yorkie bars but only orange club available.

I bought a box from Amazon once.

robin1234

Back in the day, we lived in York. I worked at Terrys, my wife worked at Rowntrees. The amount of chocolate we ate was prodigious.

Pulaski

Terry's belonged to United Biscuits when I worked there. The UB warehouse wasn't a main distribution channel, but we did deliver to the supermarkets that we delivered biscuits, crisps and peanuts to.

And nobody in the warehouse touched the Terry's - it was a firing offence, as one guy found out. Very little was damaged, as everything was delivered in robust cages, but damages were returned to the factory, not sold to employees.

Having worked in a biscuit warehouse, I can assure you that it's a miracle that any biscuits arrive in one piece.

Lion in Winter

I had no idea that BE was such a biscuit and chocolate powerhouse.

BristolUK

Wafer thin in the scheme of things.

Pulaski

That didn't take long!

NC man has his Mustang confiscated the day after he bought it.