Jack and the Biscuit Stalk

Off to the market Jack shall go

With his highland cow in tow

But Jack was too late

The market, he missed it

All he could trade Daisy for

Was Snapjack Biscuits

Home he went, feeling quite content

But his old ma she didn't relent

She threw the Snapjacks
 out into the wood

‘We don’t want these,
 they aren't any good’

The very next morning to Jack's surprise

Stood a biscuit stalk that reached the skies

Jack started to climb towards the top

To find the golden honeycomb crop

Maryland was his destination

There he’d find the golden biscuit creation

Jack ambled anxiously along the street

Fearing a giant that he might meet

Walking down that crumbly road

Jack felt the burden of his heavy load

A giant choc chip cookie man blocked his path

Jack so shocked, started to laugh

Then he jumped up quick and chomped his hand

Poor ginormous cookie man looked far less grand

'He tastes so scrumptious in my tum'

thought Jack as he gulped him down in one.

'Who wants Snapjacks from Maryland anyway?

I’d rather have their choc chip cookies any day!'

The morale of the story? Here's the facts 

These awful Snapjacks should be axed

Maryland your choc chip cookies are top notch

Focus on them, not this honeycomb hotch-potch!

Biscuit: Maryland Honeycomb Snapjacks

Taste test: 4 out of 10
Cost:  £1 from Asda in Totton

Club Osbourne

Today is the day of the budget

When the Chancellor gets busy with his boxes

When Osbourne sets out again to fudge it

And takes our money for his taxes – we begrudge it.

George Osbourne likes his Clubs.

One to munch on,

Another for luncheon,

A member of all the 'too much' clubs

The leader of the 'out of touch' club.

He will only cater for the elite Tory Boys club,

the rest of us peasants he will certainly snub.

Soon, like Cyprus there'll be no cash in the machines,

poor old Georgie Boy will have to come clean.

He doesn't live in our world

Where biscuit crumbs matter,

He's the king of the cats

And just keeps getting fatter.

Biscuit: Club Biscuit (we tried orange and mint - greedy!)

Taste test: 9 out of 10
Cost:  Jacob's Club Variety Pack (24 biscuits) £3.99 from Tesco in Brockenhurst

The Welsh take the Biscuit

It may sound weird,
It may sound funny,
But the mixture of kiwi fruit
and manuka honey
tastes really rather scrum-my.

Out of the 'old world of Europe'
came the recipe,
from there exported
to the New Zealand Maori.

Just like the Maori people
they are made of sterner stuff,
dunk them in your tea and they'll
still stay tough.

Thanks Heavens New Zealand
weren't in the 6 Nations Cup.
England wouldn't have stood up
to the All Blacks ruck.

In the end it didn't matter
it wasn't the flippin' Haka,
we were beaten 30 points to 3
by the men from the welsh valley.

Biscuit: Aotea's Kiwi Fruit and Manuka Honey Cookies

Taste test: 9.5 out of 10
Cost:  10.40 NZ$ - Thanks Wendy and Keith x

Costa Cookie Monster

[Listen to us on the radio at 57 minutes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p015bmnj/Julian_Clegg_14_03_2013/]


We're sitting here in Costa
in a post Radio Solent haze,
our 5 minutes of fame has left us
all a-daze!

First the Echo,
now Julian Clegg,
must make sure it doesn't go
to our heads.

We've reverted to biscuits
to try and relax.
and two massive snacks have stopped us
in our tracks.

Sat on Southampton Road
or is it Sesame Street?
The Cookie Monster would feel at home
with these 'supersize me' treats.

Biscuit: Costa's Monster size Bourbon and Custard Cream

Taste test: 9.9 out of 10
Cost: £1.75 each from Costa Coffee in Southampton

Extra, Extra, Read all about us!

Excuse the overexcitement but we are all a dither over our Biscuit Poetry feature in the local rag today.
Have a read....

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10282896.Poetry_about_biscuits_helping_head_injury_victims/?ref=nt

We're pretty sure this means we're published poets.

And we'll be performing on BBC Radio Solent's Breakfast Show on Thursday 14th March.

We're pretty sure this means we're performance poets.

That makes us PUBLISHED PERFORMANCE POETS - WOW.

Who would have thought that biscuits and tea could ignite such poetry!

Recipe for a Rocky Road

First take a roller to flatten the earth
Add a porous membrane
so the weeds won't grow again
Then tip on rough aggregate for what it's worth

Fill the gaps with fine stone just like that
Next roll it and roll it 'til it's nice and flat
Pour on silken sand and level it out
roll again to make it strong, sturdy and stout

For good measure add another membrane
Spread on hot tarmac and roll it again
Oh and add some rocky chips
to make sure it binds and grips

Make sure you leave to harden for a while
before you take time to consume your golden mile



Biscuit: Kellogg's Rice Krispies Rocky Road Squares

Taste test: 6.8 out of 10
Cost: £1.99 from Tesco in Brockenhurst