Ranking Arnotts Biscuits
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At one point or another, almost everyone has been faced with a choice that looks something like this:
It will have either been at work or a picnic or an afternoon tea and if you’re anything like me, you know you need to get in quickly – if you miss out on your preferred option, it’s a big drop off in quality between first and last. Sure you probably would have preferred there to be Tim Tams, Mint Slices or Iced Vovos but they’re nowhere to be seen — it’s Arnotts Assorted Creams or starvation.
So without further ado, here is my definitive ranking of Arnotts Assorted Creams:
5. Shortbread Cream a.k.a. “the rectangular one with the white filling”. It’s not bad per se — I mean it’s a sugary biscuit how bad could it be? — but it’s just not very good. Surely that space in the packet could be devoted to something with a bit more flavour?
4. Delta Cream a.k.a. “the poor man’s Oreo”. Before reading this post, did anyone know that the one in the packet with a chocolate biscuit and the vanilla filling was called a Delta Cream? I certainly didn’t.
3. Orange Slice a.k.a. “the orange one”. They’re just middle-of-the-road. If you get to the work biscuit jar mid-morning, you go for a better option and don’t even consider them but if it’s mid-afternoon and there is one of these remaining you’ll gladly take it.
2. Monte Carlo a.k.a. “Monte Carlo” — that’s just what they are called. Potentially a controversial choice for runner-up, these have the advantage of being significantly bigger than all of the other biscuits in the pack giving you a little bit more bang for your buck. And they are definitely delicious which makes it hard to relegate them out of the top spot and but there is something in the texture which just doesn’t do it for me. The stickiness combined with the crumbliness is just too confusing for my tastebuds.
- Kingston a.k.a “two ANZAC biscuits with chocolate in between”. That description should tell you everything you need to know. They’re delicious, they’re Australian. They’re #1.
Now that that’s sorted. Did you know two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70, with more than 434,000 people treated for one or more non-melanoma skin cancers in Australia each year. Please take care of yourself for the sake of your loved ones, book a skin check today. Come on. Just book it now. You’ll save yourself a year of wondering if that freckle is getting darker and thinking you should really do something about it. Now go reward yourself with a biscuit. You’ve earned it.
Let me know what you think
Jez
