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Then I spot them - tucked away on the top shelf, a 12 pack of Burtons Original Wagon Wheels. They are unopened as well which is surprising in my house but that is probably something to do with them being on the top shelf.
I actually bought these a couple of weeks ago in my local Lidl ... Read review
Advantages: Cheaper than standard choccie biscuits. Disadvantages: Chocolate flavour coating rather than real chocolate.
...shelf, a 12 pack of Burtons Original Wagon Wheels. They are unopened as well which is surprising in my house but that is probably something to do with them being on the top shelf.
I actually bought these a couple of weeks ago in my local Lidl store, since at 99p for a family pack of 12 they seemed a real bargain. Tesco only sell the 6 pack and these are 72p so they certainly were cheap by comparison. You will find these in all good ... ...The packs themselves haven't changed much in years - the packaging is predominantly red showing two horses galloping along pulling a wagon with a cowboy therein (like a scene straight out of a Western). Wagon Wheels is depicted on the front in white, shadowed writing and you are advised in yellow that they are original flavouring.
Nutritionally each biscuit provides you with 163 calories and 5.8g of fat - probably around average or ... more
Hi, folks - it's coffee time again and that also means it's time to search the kitchen cupboards to see what treat they have in store for me today. I know I shouldn't but I really fancy a biccy with my coffee and something tasty at that.
Then I spot them - tucked away on the top shelf, a 12 pack of Burtons Original Wagon Wheels. They are unopened as well which is surprising in my house but that is probably something to do with them being on the top shelf.
I actually bought these a couple of weeks ago in my local Lidl store, since at 99p for a family pack of 12 they seemed a real bargain. Tesco only sell the 6 pack and these are 72p so they certainly were cheap by comparison. You will find these in all good supermarkets and even in some local shops.
The packs themselves haven't changed much in years - the packaging is predominantly red showing two horses galloping along pulling a wagon with a cowboy therein (like a scene straight out of a Western). Wagon Wheels is depicted on the front in white, shadowed writing and you are advised in yellow that they are original flavouring.
Nutritionally each biscuit provides you with 163 calories and 5.8g of fat - probably around average or slightly less than a normal chocolate biscuit. But I must remember just to have one.
When you open the pack you are met with round biscuits, individually wrapped in a red foil for freshness. The same picture is shown on each individual wrapper as was shown on the main packaging and you are advised that it is "A Taste For Adventure". The pack has to be torn open at either side which can be quite hard if your hands don't work quite as well as they should (like mine).
Once opened you are met by a quite sickly chocolately smell but not at all like real chocolate. This is obviously because it is chocolate flavour coating rather than the real McCoy. The appearance of the biscuit is quite nice being a circle with a ridge in the middle (probably to give a wagon wheel effect) fully coated in chocolate. It looks quite filling but I was disappointed to see the biscuit shining through the chocolate topping - no thick chocolately experience for me here, I thought.
As I took my first bite I could tell that I was right. It was quite a nice combination of crunchy biscuit with a layer of mallow in between. The mallow was soft and very tasty, albeit a bit sickly. My real disappointment, as I expected was with the chocolate - definitely not enough of it. The taste of the chocolate coating was very articial and overly sweet and did in fact ruin a good biscuit. Obviously things have changed since my childhood because I seem to remember these biscuits being a lot deeper and the chocolate being thicker but perhaps it was just that I was a lot smaller.
They are quite filling to have along with your coffee and I certainly didn't find that I needed anything else. They did, however, leave a horrible sickly aftertaste in my mouth.
They were certainly better than having nothing at all but they wouldn't be my first choice in the future.
For the price I paid I suppose they were quite reasonable and I am going to recommend them to others with the warning that it is not real chocolate. I have only, however, given them 3 stars so you can make up your own minds.
... round and round... well, you know how it goes.
Price & Size
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I purchased these wagon wheels from "Bargain Madness", for just £0.50 for a pack of 10.
I found this price to be amazing, so I just had to buy three packets of ten.
Each wagon wheel is slightly smaller than an average compact disc.
The Packet
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The packet which holds the ten wagon wheels, and the packets which hold each wagon wheel are the same type of packets.
... ...The Tag Line
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The main tag line on the packaging is :
"10 Jammie Wagon Wheels, A Taste For Adventure".
And, there is also a short description of the wagon wheels, which is:
"Delicious Mallow Biscuits With A Chocolate Flavoured Coating"
Nutritional Information
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You may or may not want to know this information, but I thought it would be useful information, especially those who are cautious about the healthiness ...
rjmachin 06.10.2002
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Advantages: moreish Disadvantages: very sweet, full of fat and sugar
Wagons must have shrunk a great deal, in size, during the past ten years, or so. I can make this observations by studying the size of 'Wagon Wheels'. They used to be far more adequate for the task. I can only assume that todays 'Wagon Wheels' are designed to fit miniature or scaled down models. Mmm, moan over...
What are these biscuits like?
They are round (hence the 'Wheel'part of the name.) They are thin biscuits covered in jam and marshmallow ... ...tastes of what I would call 'cooking chocolate'. The packaging is a soft, shiny blue foil packet. Each biscuit is individually wrapped so these are great for lunch boxes.
How much are they?
These seem to vary greatly in price. There are infact two variations on 'Burton's Wagon Wheels'. You can by the jammy ones for between 50p and 99p for a pack of ten. I recently bought a double six-pack at Tesco for 99p. The ones without jam are harder to find ...
janharper 02.05.2003
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Advantages: There larger than a standard biscuit and quite cheap. Disadvantages: It is only a chocolate flavoured coating not real chocolate.
...title of this opinion.
BURTONS ORIGINAL WAGON WHEELS
Ive just bought these for my little boy and he seems to love them i liked them as a child but ive just had one then so here is my opinion of them.
PRICE
I paid 99p for ten biscuits which i thought was cheap if you consider the size of these biscuits, they are about 6 and a half cms in width and about 7 cm in length.
PACKAGING
These came in a pack of ten individualy wrapped biscuits. They ... ...free-post address which is -
Burtons Foods
FREEPOST
Pasture road
Moreton
Wirral
Merseyside
CH46 1BR
The packaging is recyclable.
If you are interested here are the INGREDIENTS-
wheat flour, glucose syrup, sugar, vegtable oil and hydrogenated vegtable oil, skimmed milk powder, reduced fat cocoa powder, whey powder,egg, gelatine,raising agents(ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate )emulsifier(lecithins) cinnamon, salt, humectant(glycerol)
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jayne78 30.09.2002
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Advantages: Large Disadvantages: Tastes Like Cardboard
We are all quite fond of eating biscuits in my household. In fact we tend to go through quite a lot in the space of a week often as a result of packed lunches for all of us and an after school snack for the children. I tend to try and buy slightly more healthy versions for example serial bars however occasionally if I see a special offer on at the local supermarket I will tend to buy a slightly more indulgent biscuit pack. Apparently the Wagon Wheel ... ...I was enticed to buy a packet of the caramel version of the product as it was on offer for a pack of six for 50p. I remember these years ago however I'm sure they had jam in them then!! The wagon wheel biscuit apparently has been around since the 1940's and are the biggest chocolate biscuit available to buy on the market (these are the manufacturers words not mine I hasten to add). They were apparently modelled on the huge wheels on the American ...
anniehiccups 29.05.2009
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Advantages: Quite Cheap, Nice Packaging Disadvantages: Taste Very Artificial
Wagon Wheels have never played a huge part in my life, but I do remember eating them occasionally at my Grandmothers on a Saturday afternoon. I have no idea which brand she used to buy, and sadly she is no longer here to ask, but if they were offered to me as a child I always ate them, so I guess I must have enjoyed them.
On a recent dash around my local 99p shop (yes everything they sell is 99p) I spotted a packet of Burton's Wagon Wheels which ... ...Get Four Free". That was ten Wagon Wheels for a fraction under 10p a time, which I thought was a bit of a bargain and so I snapped them up.
THE PACKAGING
The product is packaged in a long and narrow pack, which is predominantly red and yellow in colour. The picture on the front of the wrapper depicts a scene from a fictitious Western, of Horses pulling a Wagon across dusty terrain, and the backdrop to this is bright yellow, to give the impression ...
micksheff 19.01.2006
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