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Excellent marketing if so - I already want some. I love a Tunnock's teacake - but they are pretty dangerous for me. I work maybe 3 mins walk from a Tesco Expre
by ljf 2y ago
Excellent marketing if so - I already want some.
I love a Tunnock's teacake - but they are pretty dangerous for me. I work maybe 3 mins walk from a Tesco Express and by the time I've left the shop I've usually eaten one, another on the walk, one in the lift then there are only 3 left - and I can share three with my work mates. So I eat the rest...
Delicious.
- stevekemp 2y agoDangerous indeed. They come in boxes of six, which I always treated as a single-serving. I moved to Finland so I can't get them here, but at least I'm consoled by the availability of Irn-Bru!
- unwind 2y agoI haven't tested either, but I would of course give [1] a try for comparison purposes. If you already have, how did they compare? [1]: https://brunberg.fi/en/tuoteryhma/chocolate/kisses/ https://brunberg.fi/en/tuoteryhma/chocolate/kisses/
- stevekemp 2y agoThey're very similar to look at, but the chocolate is wrong and the consistency of the "foam" part differs too. Close, but sadly not close enough! (I enjoy both, but the Tunnock's teacakes, and their caramel logs too, are a clear winner for me. Probably due to my childhood memories and associations as much as anything else. Bias!)
- andrewaylett 2y agoThey still have Irn Bru in Finland? They stopped making it in Scotland once the sugar tax came into force :(. Although if I'm honest, I drank far too much of the stuff so it's probably a good thing I can't buy it any more.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoYou can definitely still buy it in Scotland.
- andrewaylett 2y agoYou can buy something marketed as Irn Bru, but it's not really Irn Bru. Real Irn Bru does not contain artificial sweeteners.
- stevekemp 2y agoWe're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing! I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to the door, when I was a kid. But the stuff that's out there, to my mind, is still just fine. It cures hangovers. It tastes of sugar and love, whether there's real sugar, real iron, or real love in it is almost immaterial.
- andrewaylett 2y ago"Made in Scotland, from Girders" :). Un(?)fortunately I taste Aspartame as being bitter so it's not as sweet for me as it used to be :(. Which is probably a good thing, given how much I used to drink :P.
- stevekemp 2y agoThey do. Sometimes I see individual cans in K-supermarkets, but otherwise: https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/327752/Irn-Bru-virvoitusjuoma-330-ml-24-PACK https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/327752/Irn-Bru-virvo...
- ljf 2y agoSingle serving indeed, they don't really work for sharing. Similar for the 8 Tunnock's caramel bars...
- LilBytes 2y agoI moved to Australia and forgot they existed until I found them in the "Foriegn Food" aisle and my house has been stocked with them every day since. They've been my favourite sweet for as long as I can remember.