McVities Victoria, a biscuit for for royalty!

Advantages: Luxury chocolate biscuits, very attractively packaged
Disadvantages: Chocolate could be thicker, rather expensive

...Review of McVities Victoria Luxury Chocolate Biscuit assortment 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...

brittle1906 26.02.2009 · Read review
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Mcvities Ginger cake

Advantages: A moist and super sticky ginger cake
Disadvantages: none

...The Chinese were the first to use ginger for medicinal purposes but ginger has been used in cooking for thousands of years, though I doubt the Ancient civilisations and the Indigenous tribes made sticky ginger cake as good as McVities! Ginger is reported as being especially useful in helping digestive problems. A mcVities ginger cake would be pretty hard to reproduce, how on earth do they get it so moist and sticky? McVities brand is now owned by United Biscuits. McVities cakes cannot be mistaken on the supermarket shelves, especially the ginger cake which has been packed in the same way for light years! The terracotta brown and blue plastic wrapper is dominated by the Palm trees which overhang McVities announcing the arrival of their ginger cake. Take off the tropical wrapper and you find a very dark brown and sticky rectangular...

Sarahjh1 21.01.2009 · Read review
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McVities' Gold standard

Advantages: Wondeful creamy taste
Disadvantages: A bit small

...this lets you enjoy both the components properly. I would recommend the Gold bar to anyone who likes custard, especially the type of custard you used to get at school. I do think that it tastes quite similar to a Caramac so if you like them then you will probably like this as well. They are the perfect size to go in your lunchbox as a small but not overly filling treat. Alas their small size means that they will not make a very filling snack. Overall I have to say that I really enjoyed my Gold bar. Two bars and I am now hooked. I think that they provide excellent value for money. They taste divine and each one only costs 9.8p (I actually paid less for mine thanks to them being on promotion in Asda). I will definitely be buying these again, I daresay that my sanity might even depend on it. If only McVities would just produce...

jammy_banana 29.04.2005 · Read review
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McVities Milk chocolate digestive biscuits

Advantages: A superb chocolate biscuit
Disadvantages: too many arent good for the figure!

...This week Sainsbury`s have McVities chocolate digestives on offer, a whacking 50% reduction. The biscuits have a good sell by date on them so I stocked up and bought four packets. If they had been on the shelf at full price I would have more than likely considered buying their own brand or even buying the Sainsburys Basic range chocolate digestive. Admittedly the own brand and basic range don`t have the refined almost `syrupy` taste of McVities but when the chips are downits beetr to keep a tight rein on the weekly shopping budget. McVities is a brand owned by United biscuits, McVitie and Price were originally Scottish biscuit makers and started baking their delicious biscuits in the early 1800`s in the city of Edinburgh. The first big selling biscuit ever made by McVities was the digestive. Then in 1947 the company were asked to...

Sarahjh1 19.01.2009 · Read review
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Honestly, McVities Boasters are the tops

Advantages: Loaded with chunks of Belgian chocolate and hazelnuts
Disadvantages: High in calories

...Mc Vities Boasters are very aptly named, there is nothing modest about the cookies what so ever. Like many of us I am a biscuit addict and I love nothing more than to share my biscuit experiences with other like minded people. I regularly buy the common or garden cookies, the value packs or the supermarket own brands. All of them dunk well but I have to say that some do have a tendancy to be `sawdusty`. But beggars can`t be choosers! For a change lets do a comparison, if the cookies were fish ( yes you have read correctly!) the supermarket own brands would be sardines, whereas McVities Boasters could only possibly be a salmon fillet! Mc Vities have recently updated the Boaster biscuit packaging and the attractive royal blue and white packet looks busy, I would think that Mc Vities have quite rightly cottoned onto the idea that...

Sarahjh1 14.03.2009 · Read review
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Mcvities Rich Tea Biscuits

Advantages: Mcvities Rich Tea Biscuits
Disadvantages: Mcvities Rich Tea Biscuits

...Mcvities Rich Tea Biscuits Now there is nothing I like more than a nice cup of tea and the perfect accompaniment to that said cup of sugary tea is a rich tea biscuit. There are many brands available in the rich tea biscuit ranging from the basic range at most shops to the more well known brand which is this one from Mcvities and these in my opinion are by far the best ones to buy. The Mcvities Rich Tea Biscuits cost me 59pence for a standard packet, which contains about 30 single rich tea biscuits. This price is quite a bit higher than the basics range as I think Tesco savers brand is about 20 odd pence per packet but they just don?t live up to the rich tea made by Mcvities. The rich Tea biscuit has really got itself a name over the years and that is that it?s a very boring biscuit. I can admit that really there is...

newby2 03.05.2007 · Read review
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I Take My Hat Off To You Mcvities

Advantages: A moist sweet and delicious syrup cake
Disadvantages: High in fats and sugar

...I am having a little trip to Morrisons this afternoon and I am fairly sure that one of the McVities Golden Syrup cakes may well slip into my shopping trolley. I cant think of a reason why but every food that I enjoy is packed with a zillion calories. The packaging is unmistakeable, the cake has a plastic cover that is in shades of racing green and gold, very elegant and sophisticated. Inside of the heat sealed plastic packet the cake is in a white paper wrapper. This is where the whole isssue becomes very interesting, as you cut a slice of syrup cake the soft moist cake clings for dear life to the paper wrapper, so as you put the slice on your plate your eyes are flashing back and forth to the sticky residue that still remains on the wrapper. I dont like waste, so I just have to get a knife and scrape the paper wrapper clean...

Sarahjh1 27.03.2009 · Read review
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Mcvitie's Jamaica Ginger Cake.

Advantages: moist delicious cake
Disadvantages: very moreish

...This has to be one of my favourite shop-bought cakes of all time. I came across one today, after not seeing one for around two years. After school in tesco's with my mum and brothers and trailing around the bread and bakery section this little beauty caught my eye. At first i looked straight past it, but then my eyes took a second look and after much persuasion i was allowed to put it in the trolley! RESULT! PACKAGING The packaging in my opinion is very traditional looking. It is a brownish, cuboid shaped package with a blue top, and pictures of palm trees on the brown part. Written on the main part of the package is THE ORIGINAL JAMAICA GINGER CAKE. There is also a little Mcvities logo on the top left hand corner. COST I bought my JAMAICA GINGER CAKE (well my mum bought it FOR me), from Tesco's. It cost £1.05, which i...

SweetTooth93 30.01.2008 · Read review
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McVities Choc Hobnobs - They Have Oats In - Must Be Good For You!

Advantages: Quality ingredients
Disadvantages: High in calories and sugar

...McVities Chocolate Hobnobs I do not usually buy these but when I went into a nearby Sainsbury's recently they were on offer - they were half price. So as they have quite a long best before date I stocked up (roughly 6 months grace). The reason I don't like to buy them is that they are sooo moreish. You can easily get carried away. What are they like? Well they are available in both plain and milk chocolate and there is also a more expensive version which is packaged in a sealed cardboard container, I suppose to help keep the biscuits fresh. The thing is in our house they never hang around that long! These are an essentially 'oat' biscuit topped with chocolate. The packaging has recently changed to a predominently orange colour, so if you haven't bought them in a while you could miss them on the shelf. On a positive...

LAURALILIA 05.07.2009 · Read review
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My Love Affair With McVities

Advantages: GORGEOUS
Disadvantages: FATTENING

...I would like to tell you a secret...... despite my recent dieting efforts I too have a weakness. This weakness is exposed each time I visit a supermarket or my local corner shop. This weakness is exposed by one company and one company alone. They are ' McVities. ' More specifically my achilles heel is the ' Milk Chocolate Digestive Biscuit ' Before I go into too much detail of my personal favourite I'll tell You some more about these two evils namely Chocolate and Digestive Biscuits came to be; ☼ The History of Chocolate The origins of chocolate can be traced back to the ancient Maya and Aztec civilisations in Central America. Christopher Columbus is said to have brought the first cocoa beans back to Europe from his fourth visit to the 'New World' between 1502 and 1504. There were many other treasures on board...

Multtinems 26.09.2004 · Read review
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