Why don't nice plain chocolate biscuits exist?

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheBananaKing@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

Not counting Choc Ripple, which are horrible.

You can get any number of chocolate-coated biscuits, but dammit I just want a simple chocolate shortbread or near offer. Hell, I’d settle for a giant Tiny Teddy, though those too are a bit industrial.

Just give me a pack of bourbons without the cream in, that’d do fine.

Is this some terribly rare niche interest all of a sudden? Am I really the only person in this country who would buy such a thing?

Yes I know I can make my own, it’s just tedious - and the lack of demand for anything like it confuses and enrages me.

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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Personally, I find chocolate mixed into in baked goods a waste of coco powder. The taste always is a let down.

Chocolate chips, yes. Chocolate bickies, no.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I take umbrage at the unwarranted sledging of ripples. Perhaps belvita breakfast cookies are more to your taste.

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- Baku@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  those belvita things are actually so good
  
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WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ways chocolate baked products get ruined (even one of these things is bad):

Sugar too high. It might taste nice on the initial bite, but then 15 seconds later your mouth tastes disgusting. This continues for several minutes to half an hour. Example: Timtams.

Replacing cocoa butter with other cheaper vegetable oils. Again it seems nice initially, but tastes weird as you go on. Most chocolate chip cookies do this.

Stupidly low amount of product in big packaging. I feel like a victim of a crime and never buy your stuff again.

I think all of the companies focus too much on (1) the initial purchase decision and (2) the initial flavour/sensation. They’re idiots that don’t realise they need people to become recurring customers (for reasons other than “least worst option”) and not regret eating the product 30 seconds after consumption. We remember these things, we’re not idiots.
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ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Florentines are the greatest ‘choc’ biscuit, imho. (Usually need to go to Italian mercato style places to get good ones)

Could have been Kingstons on the top, but they’re 42% sugar, it’s just too much.

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- ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  PS. You may want to try Mcvitie’s Digestives for a simple choc biscuit.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Both Kingstons and choc Digestives are regular biscuits with chocolate coating/filling, so they’re not what OP is looking for.
    
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  - TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They are excellent - but yeah, I’m looking for cocoa powder in the dough vs chocolate applied afterwards :)
    
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Nonameuser678@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not sure if they count as a chocolate biscuit but I personally really love digestives.

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- cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  +1 for Digestives, cheap (Aldi), delicious, available in dark chocolate and sugar-free and really high in fibre (which helps to regulate the glycaemic response).
  
  I haven’t heard anyone say recently “I have too much fibre in my diet”.
  
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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Personally I love Choc Ripple.

As a kid I loved Gollywogs. Unfortunately they got (rightly) hit by the cancellation hammer long before cancellations became commonplace. I don’t know when exactly, but probably over 10 years ago. It’s a shame they didn’t keep the same biscuit flavour and just change the shape & name.

Oreos are good. I often open them up, eat the cream, and set them aside, before eating just a whole bunch of choc bikkies sans cream at the end.

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Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have a dietary restriction to excludes cocoa chocolate from my diet.

It is almost impossible to get packaged ice creams, restaurant deserts or sweet biscuits that don’t have some sort of chocolate in them.

Also carob is disgusting.

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