does anyone else call them by there proper name ?

I get the piss took out of me at work all the time and told they are Blue Ribbons and i am just a snob, who is right ?

It says blue ribbands on the wrapper, i guess its you who's right

keep em in the fridgeand eat with a nice cuppa tea.....what is a 'ribband'....?

I thought it was spelt with just the one 'b'.

They were a poor biscuit I thought, much too wafery and light. Not substantial like a Club or Breakaway.

Breakaway, now your talking, fooking king of the choco biscuit!

nudge,nudge,wink,wink say no more

My gran used to keep a huge selection of biscuits for us as kids over the years:

Mint Viscounts
Breakaways
Trios
Kit Kats
Clubs
Foxes Classics
Gold bars

Interestingly she used to keep them in an empty old 'tuc' biscuit tin. When the miners strike was on the telly, I was puzzled about all the blokes with 'TUC' on their donkey jackets getting panned in by the muskers. I had no idea why people who worked at the biscuit factory wanted to be flying pickets.

As well as all the biscuits, she had a mate who worked at the crisp factory in Billingham, so there was a never ending supply of crisps too.

And she used to get loads of pop off the Alpine lorry.

Looking back I've no idea how I wasn't a fat bastad kid. Probably cos I have always shat for England I guess.

fooking hell are we related coz my nan had a tin with the same assortment of biscuits in and a endless supply of crisps and alpine pop, the king biscuit got to be the toffee trio

Alpine pop, great stuff, although the lads who delivered it always seemed somewhat rough to me.....

come on then what was the top flavour

Ohhhhh, toughie, I'll go for American Cream Soda, because I'm a Yankee, Imperialistic, Pig Dog!

talbot the nudge nudge,wink wink was from an advert in the 70s done by one of them out of monty python(i think),and was the catchphrase for breakaway,maybe someone else can remember it or even find it on utube

Thought that was a beer advert???

What do the people at work call them like? A blue ribband is a blue ribband isn't it?

i no they are called that but everyone i no calls them ribbons

Well they sound like a bunch of doyles. You're right.

We used to got to Seaton Baths and when we came out, that green cabin over the road set into the prop yard fence used to sell Wagon Wheels that were bloody enormous for about 3d. When I had one some years later they'd reduced the size by about two thirds.

Was it them getting smaller or me getting bigger.

I blame Thatcher.

So tell me, were you lot so keen on chocolate that you would consider stealing it from the corner shop?

ie. you would admit to being a chocolate thief?

I was caught by Tommy Raw, as a 12 year old paper boy, stealing a Mars Bar from his shop in Northgate. He took me out to the storeroom at the back of the shop, and gave me a long lecture about me stealing his profits.

I pronounce them Blue Ry-bands because that's how I said it as a kid. Sounds better.

Biscuit kings:
Kit-Kat
Twix fingers
Rocky
Fox Classic
Happy Faces


In fact, Happy Faces win hands down. Fact.

Did he give you a lecture about being a chocolate thief?

Is this the type of chocolate thief that you are referring to Grave

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chocolate+thief

You lot know nowt because the king of the biscuit world is the unsurpassable Fox's Classic.

Close second is the impeccable Viscount Orange.

And bronze medal goes to the Kit Kat where they've forgotten to put the wafer in it. Like four leaf fookin' clovers they are....

What ever happend to United biscuits they where elish

Nah, they were just a chocolate covered morning coffee affair, no biscuit merit at all....

why did the mint club have a golf ball on the wrapper ?

They had a series called 'Golf' and 'Club' which was either orange or mint, and chocolate. All made by Jacobs.

I presumed everyone already knew I was that type of chocolate thief as well.