McVities are a well know biscuit and snack manufacturer in the UK. The Victoria Luxury range certainly lives up to the name as they are a truly luxurious selection of chocolate coated biscuits.
Product and Packaging
The biscuit assortment is presented in a beautiful royal blue, rectangular shaped tin. The tin is sealed with a sellotape strip for freshness and once this is torn open the biscuits themselves are covered with a padded paper shield which also acts as the description for each biscuit. The tin contains 800g in weight, the biscuits are well protected in a plastic inner tray.
The tin contains twelve different biscuits, all either half or fully coated in milk, plain or white chocolate. There are approx four to six biscuits in each of the varieties, spread over two layers of biscuits. The variety is very good, cookies, wafers, digestives and shortcake style biscuits are all included in the selection. The biscuits contained include chocolate chip cookies dipped in milk chocolate, white chocolate coated cream filled wafers, Milk chocolate cream crumbles and plain chocolate coated coconut squares. My personal favourite is the Milk chocolate wheel, a crispy shortcake wheel shaped biscuit with covered in milk chocolate. The chocolate is very good although I felt that it could be thicker on some of the biscuits. The white chocolate was very sweet, almost to the point of being sickly, but perhaps it is that my personal taste preference is for dark or milk chocolate.
The biscuits do smell chocolatey and look delicious. Each biscuit has it's own merits and as long as you like chocolate, it is fair to say that there is something for everyone! The product is usually only available around Christmas time and is perfect for giving or sharing. No, stop! Let's be honest here, they are perfect for hiding away from friends and family in order to gobble up yourself!
We received our tin as a Christmas gift and due to it being a present, I am not 100% certain where it was purchased or at what price. A quick web search has shown an average cost of £7.99 for the biscuits, however I am sure that in the pre-Christmas period supermarkets would offer this style of product on a special promotion, of the 2 for £10 or buy one get one free type!
I will not bore readers with a long list of ingredients, suffice to say that these biscuits are calorie, fat and sugar laden, as you would expect, from chocolate biscuits! McVities Victoria Luxury biscuits are suitable for vegetarians, but caution should be exercised by nut allergy sufferers as the product is produced in a factory which also manufactures products using nut recipes.
McVities Company info
McVities are part of the United Biscuits group who are responsible for popular brands such as Hula Hoops, Go Ahead, Penguin, McCoys and KP. The name McVities has been associated with biscuits for over 100 years. The United Biscuit website has little snippets of information such as the number of McVitie’s Digestive biscuits baked during one year would go round the world four times and over 71 million packets of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives are eaten in the UK each year which equates to 52 biscuits per second!
For further information the web address is:- www.unitedbiscuits.com
Postal Address
United Biscuits Hayes Park Hayes End Road Hayes Middlesex UB4 8EE United Kingdom
Tel. 020 8234 5000
Conclusion
A lovely biscuit collection which my family and I thoroughly enjoyed. The biscuits were a splendid selection of chocolatey treats and the tin will come in useful now empty too! In all honesty, I would not actually purchase these for myself, but as a gift for another, they are ideal. To sum up, I have to say quite expensive, but a lovely treat!
Feb 26th, 2009
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