This is the thread where we do homage to the glory that is the Tunnocks Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Wafer Biscuit

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Gold and Red, from scotland and it makes your teeth hurt but is there anything better with a cupper than one of these.

More than 4,000,000 of these biscuits made and sold every week.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Ed will you send me one please? Alright thanks.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.shopdownhomer.com/pgi-Product%20Spec?4290,

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Behold the majesty of Tunnocks...

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/17-1-19103-0-34-22.html

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

BASTARD. They only sell them in the BIG supermarket. Which is now closed.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

mwahaha.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

num num. just tucking into a load. a wafer for peace.

http://www.geocities.com/flyingscot2001uk/wafer.gif

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather have a teacake

― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you had the Tunnocks LOGS? Oh my god, they're even more amazing. Cause they are dipped in coconut. Mmmmm, the joy that is Tunnocks. Yum yum yum, I love them.

First had one on a ferry to Dunoon to be maid of honour at my best friend's wedding, and so every time I eat them I think of her, and that wonderful magical trip. Yum.

― kate, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Tunnocks wafers are gorgeous, but primarily remind me of holidays at the teeny Sheffield flat of my poison dwarf granny, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as a girl should have some experience of reading ancient Woman's Own articles, watching snooker, and playing Knockout Whist before she has attained 10 years of age. Also introduced to me at this time were individual frozen raspberry ripple ice-cream desserts, the card lids of which you could fit back on the plastic pot after you'd finished, "to stop witches crossing rivers in them".

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh Liz we used to have those at home. Also the mint chocolate ones. Lovely classy early 1980s kiddie foodstuffs. These kids today with their cheestrings don't know they're born.

I have a Tunnocks Wafer in my cupboard at home and despite repeated efforts have been unable to feed it to anyone. I am not too keen on them myself.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes, all hail!

I don't how this tradition arose, but when I lived in a flat in Fallowfield my flatmates and I would always crack the Tunnock's tea cakes on our foreheads before opening and eating them.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

those little ice-cream tubs: we had one's with moulds of birds and stuff in the base so you could make smashing plaster casts of british wildlife and then paint them. if you wanted. it wasn't a law or anything. unless your parents were militant blue peter fans. which mine weren't.

the "to stop witches crossing rivers in them" thing applied to plastic pots is a modern adoption of the smashing-up egg-shells thing, isn't it?

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, fantastic, thanks Alan, FINALLY I've found someone who remembers the moulds of birds and stuff! I've told loads of ppl abt these and all I normally get is blank stares.

would a witch that small be a threat to anyone?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Are witches really small enough to fit into an ice-cream box?

When I was a child I had a jelly-mould shaped like a kitten, but god know's where it is now.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

We had a cat and a rabbit jelly moulds. My dad used to thrill me & my bro by asking which body part we wanted (THE HEAD THE HEAD. Mainly cos there's only 1 head therefore only 1 of us would win) and slicing it off with surgical precision.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

we had the rabbit jelly mould! And in my family it wasn't so much that we wanted the head, it was that WE DIDN'T WANT THE BOTTOM!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The parent who is truly striving for jelly realism would put raisins in the jelly at the rabbit arse end to recreate rabbit shit.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no, "fruit in jelly" rant, OH NO!

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

EEEEUUUUUUWWWW!!! No wonder I hate raisins so much!

― kate, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma I would love your caramel bar. How did you acquire it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck me, I used to eat them all the time but haven't had oen for AGES! Mind you, I've just rediscovered orange Clubs, which are tha bomb, or something.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never even *heard* of these things. What day is it? Where am I?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

at the risk of starting food war 2873287438273, fruit in jelly is total lunacy. I bought an M&M brownie recently, it was disappointing, I am always taken in by new gimmicks.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you try setting it in jelly?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

No I never thought of such a stupid idea.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Fruit in jelly is grebt, especially radioactive tinned fruit cocktail. Served with ice-cream (pref. Tesco Value), dinner fit for an impoverished king, or a birthday party of tartrazine-crazed 6-year-olds.

N. you are too far away to have Emma's caramel wafer. I am just down the road and will have it if you don't watch out. Mmm wafery goodness. Marshmallow teacakes are gloriously artificial as well, soggy digestive biscuit base and all.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the joys of the Barras is the stall which sells huge bags of Tunnocks goodies at tooth rottingly cheap prices.

That and the dodgy looking guys shouting "two fer' a fiveeerrr".

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Liz and N, I don't have either of your addresses. It is beyond my technical ability to email you a Tunnocks wafer (which I acquired as part of a pack of 4, the other 3 having vanished down the digestive tracts of other ILXers).

Fruit in jelly is sick and wrong.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Why did you buy the pack? For kindness, like a nice old lady, or did you think that you liked them?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a present. Most people give their girlfriends chocolates but OH NO some people have to be different and give them Tunnocks Wafers.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor wot a swizz.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

You wouldn't let it lie. a present = left in your flat.

I have just had a THIRD wafer. contributing to the 4 million sold every week.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Good grief man your teeth will all fall out at this rate. My definition of a present = someone else bought it with their money and it is now in my possession.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Though on reflection this would also apply to something I might steal from someone else. hmm.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Oh yes, Oh yes, revive now...

in honour of the Tunnocks Appreciation Society Of Scotland.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that there were logs... I just knew it!

http://www.tunnock.co.uk/log-det.htm#top

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

they sell them in our staff canteen, come to think of it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That Tunnocks website is fantastic.

Teacakes are a favourite of pop stars "Supergrass" who visited the factory to watch their favourites being made.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god I remember that visit - it got written up in Select or something when I was religiously following the Oxon boys' progress.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

More importantly, I've never seen a dark chocolate teacake in the shops even though they would be clearly the best thing ever. Have pop stars "Supergrass" got them all?

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, if you want the logs they sell them in the paper shop just round the corner from me - but NOT THE NORMAL WAFERS! Normal wafers are sold by the man by the tube station for 35pee. MMMMM. I wasn't hungry before, but now I'm starving.

― my full sodding name (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Those students are RUB though.

― my full sodding name (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is this corner shop? Is it within walking distance of Southwark?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope. It's in the newsies on the little square by Goodge St station. I can get you some if you want?

― my full sodding name (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you coming to the pub tonight? Please bring some with you! That would roX0r!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

NTK: when you buy a multi-pack of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers do they come individually wrapped for lunchbox suitability? I have been eyeing them in Tesco but don't want to be forced to eat them all at home. OR DO I?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. They do. But it won't stop you :)

― my full sodding name (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate - will do!

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

::drools in anticipation::

Thanks, Starry!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i somehow managed not to devour all four of them last night. i'm going to have one soon, with my lunch. YAY.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i want one now

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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