A box of biscuits for xmas....

jellyhead

**Patty** wrote: »

Can someone please exlpain why M & S biccies are *seemingly better* than supermarket ones?


You seriously think M & S have their own wee biccie factory? :rotfl:



(They don't.....they were made by Foxes last year:p)

The tins are prettier, and sometimes have music The biscuits themselves don't seem any posher, but I've given musical tins of M&S biscuits before and people (well okay, little girls and their mums) were always impressed.

FBaby

It depends who it is for. I wouldn't buy these because I think there are much too expensive for what they are and I wouldn't want to receive one because I don't really eat biscuits (at least not the ones that come in such tins) and because I wouldn't know what to do with a Christmas style box for the rest of the year.

Saying that, my partner loves to receive his tin of jelly babies (which he only eats then, but boy does it make up for the whole year!), I love a big bag of Chuppa Chups lollies, and my kids get particularly excited at those typical Chritmas chocolate bar boxes!

JimmyTheWig

**Patty** wrote: »

Can someone please exlpain why M & S biccies are *seemingly better* than supermarket ones?


You seriously think M & S have their own wee biccie factory? :rotfl:



(They don't.....they were made by Foxes last year:p)

You've answered your own question there, in my opinion. Foxes make the best biscuits without a doubt.

[But in general I think the idea is that as a present it is better to get something a bit more "special" than what you would buy for yourself throughout the year. In reality it may just be the packaging that is more special.]

lika_86

Mojisola wrote: »

16 biscuits for £43.50!:eek:

But so pretty!

Lunar_Eclipse

It really depends.

Generally, I think that unlike chocolate and homemade items, they feel a little bit too everyday for me to give as a gift, apart from the incredibly expensive ones which I think are just too expensive.

I have given biscuits as gifts on two occasions. The first was a packet of scottie dog shortbreads in my daughter's Xmas stocking (which I repackaged so they looked prettier, purely for my benefit since she really wouldn't have cared) and the second were homemade gingerbread stars & Xmas trees, beautifully packaged, with icing pens for some young children to decorate. They went down well.

We have also received biscuits on two occasions, very different and completely highlights my it depends comment. The first was actually to my daughter on her 5th birthday and was utterly memorable for the thought, so is one of my favourite presents she has ever received. A jar with a beautifullly personalised label of very simple homemade cookies from a close friend. The second occasion was a jar of foil covered (I think Foxes!) chocolate biscuits to DH & I, from a relative for Xmas. We let the kids eat them because they were really not very nice (and I felt guilty that she wasted £5-10 on them.)

LondonDreamer

**Patty** wrote: »

Can someone please exlpain why M & S biccies are *seemingly better* than supermarket ones?

The M&S jaffa cakes are certainly better! I've converted everyone who's tried them. Makes McV's seem dry and horrible. Which they are.

But generally no, the biscuits are exactly the same. Price is much the same too but because it's from M&S, it's considered "posh" so people assume they were more expensive. I only buy M&S biscuits for the tins. I have a collection of all the giant biscuit ones (e.g. a tin shaped like a bourbon biscuit) and get excited every time a new one comes out. :rotfl:

onlyroz

**Patty** wrote: »

Can someone please exlpain why M & S biccies are *seemingly better* than supermarket ones?

Perception is everything. Biscuits in an expensive-looking box *will* taste better than biscuits in a cheapy box because your brain tells your tastebuds to expect something good.

Experiments were done with bottles of wine. The same wine was put into different bottles and the tasters swore blind that the wines with the fancier labels and the more expensive price tag tasted better than the ones they were told were cheap.

Lunar_Eclipse

**Patty** wrote: »

Can someone please exlpain why M & S biccies are *seemingly better* than supermarket ones?

I only regularly buy the dark chocolate covered ginger biscuits, which I've yet to find anywhere else.

I am quite sure a digestive biscuit is a digestive biscuit, but I don't think that's what people mean when they say 'M&S biscuits'.

And I'm someone who hates tins. Love jars, but cheap packaging tins, as opposed to the expensive (must be different material) ones you can buy for storage, have a sort of blackboard effect on me. They also dent easily, which bugs me too. :rotfl:

lostinrates

onlyroz wrote: »

Speak for yourself
We buy biscuits once in a blue moon, so a box of nice biccies (and I'm not talking digestives here) would be appreciated.

This is how it is here too.

I never buy much or any extra 'junk' for the festive period, though I do make very nice meals :Dand have some normal snacky stuff. We don't buy tins of chocolates or biscuits for ourselves at all, and so a nice box of special biscuits is a rare thing and so a treat for us.

victory

Thanks for the link jellyhead I love stuff like that, had a quick look and was going ' oh I have done that one and that one':rotfl: I am sure there will be many I have not tried, thanks:D

Biscuiteers? No way, so very expensive I was thinking more like £5 each, I have made gingerbread houses/men/angels/xmas trees, iced and decorated them put them in lovely boxes and everyone loved them, just when you weigh up the time, ingredients, decorations, cello bags,ribbons, packaging etc plus electricity usage could it not be cheaper to buy the box of biscuits for half price at M&S?

I take the point that HM is much nicer and personal and if it is not then the tin/biscuits has to be a bit more than tesco own brand:D

I have cheated at times some years ago and found at boot fairs or charity shops the loveliest of boxes and put HM inside, I remember someone did that one year to me with HM fudge in, I still have the box it is so beautiful and the fudge was delicious:D