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[Anona.Mouse]

MSN UK News - Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Named: the UK's deadliest biscuit

A research company has estimated that half of the country has suffered a biscuit-related accident during a tea or coffee break.

A research company has calculated the biscuit most likely to cause someone an injury during a tea or coffee break.

The custard cream was found to be the UK's most dangerous snack, on the basis of something called the Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the research was carried out by Mindlab International at the request of the chocolate biscuit bar Rocky. Mike Driver, Marketing Director for Rocky said: "We commissioned this study after learning how many biscuit related injuries are treated by doctors each year."

Accidents have included people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit, falling off a chair while reaching for the tin, sustaining burns after dunking a biscuit in scalding tea, and being hit by fragments flying through the air.

Other people have reported choking on crumbs and damaging a tooth or filling on a particularly hard biscuit. One unlucky person ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.

Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis explained the background to the research.

"We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits," he said, "along with aspects of their consumption such as 'dunkability' and crumb dispersal."

According to Mindlab's calculations, here is the full list of the UK's riskiest biscuits, together with their 'danger' rating:

Custard Cream 5.64
Cookie 4.34
Chocolate Biscuit Bar 4.12
Wafer 3.74
Rich Tea 3.45
Bourbon 3.44
Oat Biscuit 3.31
Digestive 3.14
Ginger Nut 2.99
Shortbread 2.90
Caramel Shortcake 2.76
Nice Biscuit 2.27
Iced Biscuits/Party Rings 2.16
Chocolate Finger 1.38
Jaffa Cakes 1.16


(Not a mention of Tunnock's Caramel Wafers, I see . . . )

[spry]

Funny that about custard creams. Before elder son got married he stocked only two kinds of biscuits, chocolate digestive and custard creams. Then he read in Trail magazine that custard creams were the unhealthiest of all biscuits (on the basis of hydrogenated fat content and other nasties). He hasn't eaten them since.

[Anona.Mouse]

I've never been a great fan of custard creams, to be honest. I'll eat them on occasion just to be polite, but really I prefer a proper digestive biscuit to most other kinds.

There is something wonderfully decadent about eating a couple of suggestive biscuits in bed with a nice cup of tea, and ideally with a friend who shares my tastes . . .

[SueDOnym]

I'm with you on that on, Anona - give me a good old digestive over a custard cream any day!
Oh, and if we're talking chocolate on a biscuit, it's got to be dark chocolate for me!

[Anona.Mouse]

Ah, well, chocolate is another matter! A chocolate digestive is even more decadent.

And a gigantic bar of Cadbury's Whole Nut, all to myself, is more decadent still.

[wen]

I'm fairly catholic in my biscuit tastes but you two have hit the spot!

[mentalbovine]

i loved the gypsie cream biscuits- ibn the orange packet with a lovely drawign of a travellers caravan - but havent seen them for ages

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