What r McVities Tasties Bourbon Creams usually called?

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PracticalAd4401@reddit

Tasties is like a range name McVities use - you can get ginger nuts, custard creams, shorties, bourbons etc under this range. Note - ginger nuts are top tier

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spinneywoman@reddit

The best to dunk due to their structural integrity!

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Captain_Tufty@reddit

Ginger nuts dunked into hot chocolate is a soul restoring snack.

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Captain_Tufty@reddit

It's even better in winter when you're drying off in front of a fire after being caught in the rain - proper warms your cockles!

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Apologies this short anecdote is offensive - my aunt (by marriage not a proper blood relative, and you'll understand this disclaimer when you get to the end) used to leave the ginger nuts in an open container so they could go soft before she'd eat them.

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elf_n_safety@reddit

I’ve never heard them called anything other than Bourbons. Didn’t actually know that was their full name. And it’s mc(like McDonald’s)-vit-ees

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perflict@reddit (OP)

Thank you!!

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Have you heard before Americans pronounce McDonald's?

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elf_n_safety@reddit

No, actually. How do they say it? Like Mac, as in Mac and cheese? It’s hard to put the proper sound of ‘mc’ into letters, since the whole point of the difference between mc and mac is the absence of a vowel sound

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Yeah, every American I've heard it's mac, but not as funny as asking them to say worcestershire

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Green_Sprout@reddit

to be fair, listening to most Brits trying to say Worcestershire is also funny.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Almost as fun as listening to Brits who adamantly claim that it's "Worcester sauce" because they can't / can't be bothered to pronounce it correctly.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

It sometimes **is** called Worcester sauce. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morrisons-Worcester-Sauce-150-ml/dp/B01EYTJUDK

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Not what it says on the bottle

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Green_Sprout@reddit

Been a Brit all my life (coming up on my first half-century) and I've honestly never heard that, usually people around here fall back on brand name or just ask for the Hendo's even though it isn't quite the same.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Thankfully rare, although seems to be gaining traction, but maybe I just spend too much time online

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Material-Net-5171@reddit

Worcester sauce is an old thing, not a new thing. The area of the south I grew up in it's thr only way I heard anyone say it until I moved. & yes, it is because if laziness.

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trevorpogo@reddit

I'm from Worcester and everyone called it Worcester sauce there too and obviously not because we didn't know how to pronounce Worcestershire

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Just lazy, apparently.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

It's still a wrong thing.

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Puzzleheaded-Lynx204@reddit

Yeah I've only ever called it Worcester sauce even though I know the full name. Not a pronunciation thing, that's just what we've always called it.

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VodkaMargarine@reddit

"mook"

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dereks63@reddit

They are bourbons, end of.

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perflict@reddit (OP)

Thank you!

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

Bourbons. And it's "muck-vit-ease". Not mick. A short u sound. Like duck or fuck.

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ScottishOnyuns@reddit

It’s mick. Established in Edinburgh, so it’s the Scottish pronunciation.

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SnooDonuts6494@reddit

https://youtu.be/Gv1zjkAkSZA?t=10

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ScottishOnyuns@reddit

She’s literally saying mick 😂

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Rediscovered_Magpie@reddit

Oh, and Bourbon is Bore-bonn.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

I bet you say "scone" like it rhymes with "flown"

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Rediscovered_Magpie@reddit

Scone rhymes with gone. Otherwise the joke doesn't work.

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ThePants999@reddit

Which would be criminal, cos it's an amazing joke, ergo this argument is definitive.

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Rediscovered_Magpie@reddit

Correct. I see you are a person of education and taste.

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Chamerlee@reddit

That comparison doesn’t work if you’re Scottish.

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Rediscovered_Magpie@reddit

Sorry, you're right. I'm Lancastrian, so I just put my pronunciation without thinking. Sorry dude.

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Chamerlee@reddit

Don’t need to apologise. Just ‘flare gan’ and therefore ‘bareban’ made me laugh.

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Rediscovered_Magpie@reddit

I might start calling them barebans now. It sounds like a Lancasteuan trying to talk posh.

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ScottishOnyuns@reddit

In Scotland it’s pronounced buhr-bin/bun, like how Americans pronounce bourbon whiskey.

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Illustrious_Sea7480@reddit

Same in Hull.

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Carlomahone@reddit

You lot can't even pronounce nine and five properly so you're in no position to chip in 😂😂

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Local_Refrigerator_5@reddit

That's how we pronounce it in northern ireland.

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oldandinvisible@reddit

Never heard that way

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neilm1000@reddit

It seems that 'Tasties' is a brand name and covers Rich Tea, Custard Creams, Pink Wafers and so on. It must be recent because I don't recall ever seeing that.

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moneywanted@reddit

Yep, started last year or so I think. It’s their ‘classic biscuit’ range.

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ot1smile@reddit

They’re budget versions.

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Xerothor@reddit

It didn't start last year lol. It's at the very least over 10 years old. Oldest webpage I saw was 2013

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moneywanted@reddit

Then they must have rebranded it recently - I’d never noticed the Tasties angle before.

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Xerothor@reddit

Tasties is what I'm talking about. This is what I saw: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/mcvities-launches-1-range-of-tasties-biscuits/235420.article

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moneywanted@reddit

Yes, I mean they must have made “Tasties” more obvious on the packaging.

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Xerothor@reddit

Did you click the link? It's not like you could have missed it on their packaging before. Maybe shops near you didn't stock it.

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moneywanted@reddit

I did but no images came up… who knows! I only spotted them last year.

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Stunning_Leading2705@reddit

Its a budget range

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beargrowlz@reddit

Bourbons, or bourbon biscuits. McVitie's is just a biscuit brand; you can usually get cheaper own-brand bourbons from any supermarket that are just as good.

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Own_Class5769@reddit

McVities = Muc (with a very, very short sounding U). Not Mack or Mick. Vities, sounds like titties. And they're called .... Wait for it Bourbons, or Bourbon creams.

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oldandinvisible@reddit

Which are pronounced bORbon not burrbun like the whiskey

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editorialgirl@reddit

Except for viewers in Scotland

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oldandinvisible@reddit

So I heard , though my mum and Edinburgh family say something in between bore and burr I think

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LexFori_Ginger@reddit

So they've turned classic biscuits into a "Tasties" range huh? Bourbons, Custard Creams, Pink Wafers and Nice biscuits... none of which would be refered to as McVities (that'd be digestives, surely?) or Tasties, since they're own name is pretty ubiquitous.

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Oldsoldierbear@reddit

We just call them Bourbons. Very popular And made by loads of different manufacturers. And McVities is Mic Vit Ees

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oxfordfox20@reddit

It absolutely isn’t. It’s Muck-Vih-Tease. Never Mick: no Mc is ever like Mick. Are you from Scotland Tennessee?

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Oldsoldierbear@reddit

Mc/Mac are never said as Muck. Never.

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secretrebel@reddit

Could be pronounced the way OP said by someone speaking Estuary English.

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Oldsoldierbear@reddit

It's a Scottish name. I am Scottish.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Apparently that doesn't mean you can pronounce it correctly... You're saying Mc is pronounced "mic"? Really?

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ayeayefitlike@reddit

No he’s right. You don’t pronounce the short Mc in eg McDonalds as ‘mac’ in most Scottish accents, it gets shortened to more like ‘mic’. So mic-vit-eez.

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

You don't pronounce it like "mac" in anywhere except America, it's more like "muck", but obviously not quite.

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Oldsoldierbear@reddit

Yes, really

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AppropriateDeal1034@reddit

Maybe you're pronouncing "mic" wrong then

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Y-Bob@reddit

'you're in Berkshire now m'boy, I think you'll find it's pronounced Mike V'tayes'

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Oldsoldierbear@reddit

Maybe you need to get a life.

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Xerothor@reddit

I reckon a lot of people don't leave space for an i in Mc

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Cabbagecatss@reddit

M&S do chocolate covered bourbons 🤤

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spinneywoman@reddit

Try a timtam!

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Gorf1@reddit

So do McVities. Pick up a Penguin.

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Fibro-Mite@reddit

Penguins (the biscuits, I don't know about the birds) have a gritty texture to the biscuit\* and the cream filling isn't very "creamy" textured, either. I don't recall bourbons having those issue. \*and that's why I object when someone tells me that Penguins are the same as TimTams. They aren't even in the same league. They just happen to look vaguely similar.

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Active_Doubt_2393@reddit

Penguin biscuits are not covered in chocolate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo?app-referrer=deep-link

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Cabbagecatss@reddit

I have both in the cupboard currently, think I’ve got a problem

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TongueDemon75@reddit

The problem is they're in your cupboard and not your belly.

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moneywanted@reddit

So do Lidl and Home Bargains, but they’re not as good.

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Foundation_Wrong@reddit

It’s pronounced Muc Vit Ees. Bourbon biscuits are called Bourbons. They are a chocolate cream sandwich style biscuit. Very popular!

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TSotP@reddit

Or, sometimes I call them a naked penguin.

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Y-Bob@reddit

Or Twickenham penguins.

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pharmamess@reddit

Thanks. It's about time someone called them that!

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pjwlondon@reddit

Someone has to post this: [https://youtu.be/hOO9W_o2yj0](https://youtu.be/hOO9W_o2yj0?si=1MVx_rQ1yGkptJ_B)

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idlesilver@reddit

I was hoping this would be Jesse. I was not disappointed. 😊

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

Huh, I had no idea they were called that. We just call them bourbons / bourbon biscuits. And it’s usually closer to mack-vitt-ees but the “mack” is really short, basically just mc but if you need to “suggest” a vowel in there it’s definitely not i

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Jimmyboro@reddit

Because of the 6 million accents within a 10 mile radius if any village in the UK, its normally 'Mac-vit-ees' Or 'Muck-Vit-Ees' That particular biscuit is just called a bourbon, very common and liked sandwich biscuit in the UK, similar in style to the Custard Creme. Smashing accompaniment to a good proper British Brew!

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Correct-Couple8086@reddit

A long time ago, I worked in one of the only factories that makes them. They all come out of the same oven and then they get wrapped into cellophane for all the different shops, or some get sent to the assortments department to be put in selection boxes and tins.

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salladfingers@reddit

Mcvities rhymes with "look, titties!"

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