PAISLEY’S FAVOURITE? THIS NATIONAL DAY TAKES THE BISCUIT
Would you pick up a Penguin – or dig in for a digestive?
Dunk them, munch them, enjoy them with a morning cuppa or before you go to bed – we are definitely a nation of biscuit lovers.
Yesterday was National Biscuit Day – so we visited Paisley town centre armed with a platter of treats to find out what the town’s shoppers enjoy.
The milk chocolate digestive has come out top in several surveys for the nation’s favourite biscuit, and it was no surprise to see these fly off our plate.
Paisley mum Jenna Givens, who was manning her Storybook Facepainting stall, went straight for the chocolate digestives and revealed she has an unusual way of eating them.
“I dunk them in Nutella,” she said. “I put the Nutella in the microwave then dunk the biscuit in.”
Bob McCormick is another fan of the chocolate digestive, while his wife Eleanor prefers a plain biscuit.
Jacqueline Johnstone picked the Scottish teatime favourite, a Tunnock’s teacake, joking: “Not bad for an English bird.”
Six-year-old Keiran Givens has a controversial choice for his favourite biscuit – Jaffa Cakes. The St Mary’s pupil also enjoyed a bourbon biscuit from our tray. His younger brother Killian, aged one, in typical toddler style, made a fine chocolatey mess of his bourbon biscuit.
Connor Maloney, five, was in town with his gran Carolyn and went straight for the Tunnock’s teacake in its shiny wrapper.
Carolyn said: “It’s still a tradition to have a biscuit with a coffee. I’m on a diet but I do enjoy a biscuit.”
Kathleen Morgan said she’s borderline diabetic but confessed to enjoying a plain biscuit.
“I stay off the chocolate, it’s too tempting,” she added.
Steven Gray immediately went for a classic Blue Riband chocolate wafer, but he doesn’t dunk them. “I’m a scoffer!” he joked, while son Colby, aged two and a half, was delighted to get his hands on a Tunnock’s teacake.