I must apologise for the photo in this posting, the light level was lower than I realised even though I have always lived in unfortunately gloomy houses. As seems typical with Belmont, the ordinary biscuit brand from Aldi, they have gone for a lengthy title. These went into a head-to-head with the Lidl equivalent for a taste test by two members of my house and came off slightly worse. They crumble easily, a trait common for shortbread, but the full biscuit lacks 'bulk' when bitten, it seems too dry. There is no visible sugar, but the butteriness that you would hope for given the title also seems absent so it comes off as very plain biscuit with only a little of creamy after taste. The Lidl version just wins out for having better structural integrity and some more of that creamy flavour that you look for in shortbread.
Rating:
*****
Aldi biscuit used to be a lot thicker than they are now. I understand they need to cut costs to survive but why follow every other company and quietly, secretly, sneakily, make the biscuits a lot thinner. Please ,put the thickness back and get back value for your buck......from a angry Australian in QLD.
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