I shot these particular biscuits on a board for playing the Japanese game Go. It rather gets abused in my house, often used as the base for bathroom scales in rooms where the floor is uneven. However, given the wide diversity of length of biscuit packets and the size of biscuits even of the same type, I am wondering if I will used it more often so that you can see from the number of squares covered the scale of what I am showing.
I had not been to Asda for a while so when in there for a reason I have now forgotten, I thought it a good idea to pick up some of their standard biscuits in order to provide more comparators for the basic biscuit types common in the UK. I started with Asda's Garibaldis. One positive thing about these is that they are scored well. Unlike most biscuits, Garibaldis are sold in strips which require the eater or the person filling the biscuit tin, to break them off. It is unfortunately too common for Garibaldis to be scored poorly or for the biscuit to be too crumbly, so that breaking them off you end up with erratically sized biscuits and often too many wasted crumbs. As you can see from above, these break very neatly.
I do expect a glaze on the top of my Garibaldis and that was missing from these. In fact they are rather lacking in sweetness all round. The raisins used are not particularly sweet. The biscuit itself has a very dry flavour. It has an appropriate snap when you bite into it, not crumbling away too much as can be a problem with Garibaldis. There is some degree of moreishness but it is not that strong, I think because the actual biscuit is somehow plainer than the best Rich Teas and the sweetness is really lacking.
I would be tempted to add half-a-star if I could to the rating below, because Asda has got the scoring of these Garibaldis done very well, but overall it is not an appealing biscuit.
Rating:
*****
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