Who doesn’t love a warm cookie, freshly plucked from the oven? Terrorists, probably. But other than that, nobody. For all of our political divisions, a warm cookie fresh from the oven is a pure delight, no matter your views on […]
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Review: Dairy Milk Chips Ahoy! Cookie Dough chocolate bar
God bless giant multinational corporations. With Kraft’s 2010 acquisition of beloved British confectionary mainstay Cadbury, which subsequently found itself under the Mondelez International brand, both the Dairy Milk family of chocolate bars and the Chips Ahoy! brand of supermarket cookies […]
Review: Cadbury Digestive cookies
Digestives are, to me, a quintessentially British invention. They’re sort of a scratchy hybrid of cookie and cracker often sold at U.K. import shops, and they typically pair well with a lovely cuppa tea. London Drugs continues to confuse and […]
Review: Mr. Christie’s Arrowroot Biscuits
Who in Canada doesn’t have childhood memories of chomping on Arrowroot cookies, possibly while sipping from a plastic tumbler of apple juice? For some reason, Arrowroot cookies have become the toddler snack of choice. How this connection between children and […]
Review: Tunnock’s Milk Chocolate Tea Cakes
Part of the fun of moving to a new city is exploring a whole new retail landscape. On a recent stroll through a strip mall in northwest Calgary, I stumbled across an amazing little U.K. import shop called British Pantry. […]