We've been rage-baited by NZ's best and worst biscuits
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Caitlin's here filling in. I saw the New Zealand Herald has begun the noble quest to find the best biscuit in New Zealand. I love a bicky. This is a job that I took very seriously during lockdown. I ran quite a stringent process to find the best biscuit in New Zealand. It was called the Bicky Off.
Yes, that's right.
What started the conversation about New Zealand's best biscuit?
So far, the Herald's voting aligns with my research, which wouldn't necessarily be the case. My research is five years old. Right. When I did it.
Some of those biscuits probably aren't even being made.
The biscuit that is currently in first place on the Herald search for the best biscuit is the biscuit that won my search for the best biscuit. Do you know what that biscuit is? Has it a guess?
No.
Like a Tim Tam?
Not a Tim Tam. Tim Tam was finalist in my one. It wasn't Tim Tam.
Was it a squiggle? Squiggle, yeah.
Hokey pokey squiggle. Yum. So at the moment, that is in first place. Well, first equal actually on the Herald. First equal with the mint slice. Which, okay, so the quest to find the greatest biscuit is a tale as old as time. The Project did a search for the best biscuit in 2018 and they chose mint slice as the best biscuit, which at the time I wasn't mature enough to accept. I was like, what a crock of biscuit crap. But as I have mellowed with age, I can now appreciate that a mint slice, particularly a mint slice from the fridge, it's a top tier biscuit. Would you agree? Well, yes. You asked us to choose our favourite. So I want to know from everybody, best biscuit, worst biscuit? Those are the two that you get to vote on this afternoon.
Yeah. One biscuit you could eat for the rest of your life, one biscuit you'd be happy if it was discontinued. Yeah. And I feel like you're champing at the bit to tell me yours.
Well, I thought mine was rogue, but my best biscuit is a mint slice.
Mint slice, yeah.
And I thought that was super rogue.
You know why? Because you're 36 tomorrow.
Is it like having an after dinner mint?
Yes.
Is that how old I am?
Yes. Whereas no kid wants a mint slice. What? Boring biscuit.
No, that was, I'm sorry, I'm jumping in here. Mint slice is my favourite as a kid. Really? Okay. Me too.
Which biscuits do hosts rank as contenders for ‘best in NZ’?
All through.
Okay, all right. Some people think chocolate, minty chocolate is like eating chocolate with toothpaste, but it's my favourite.
Oreo. I mean, not Oreo. But I feel like it takes a level of maturity to appreciate that. Right. Okay, so you, okay, good. So number one for you, mint slice? Yeah. Worst biscuit? Shortbread. My girl. What? My girl. Finally. Dry ass shortbread. Dusty. Have you ever had a homemade shortbread though?
No. Do you know what? This is terrible. My grandmother, rest in peace nanny, she used to make shortbread all the time and I would just eat it just to make her feel better, but I hated shortbread.
So dry. It's what killed her, wasn't it?
Oh. Not quite, but it could have been. But yeah, no, I just shortbread. No, it's a useless, there's nothing, like there's no point in them.
Okay, you've done it, so I feel safe to go next. Mine best is, I have to go with my research and I endorsed it at the time. I'm going to go with Hokey Pokey Squiggle, best biscuit in New Zealand. And worst, shortbread or choc-thin.
Oh, no.
Because there's no joy in a choc-thin.
Get out of here.
Not enough chocolate, not enough biscuit. That's why you double them up. Do you know the only good thing about a choc-thin is, remember the Jaffa ones? Yes.
Why is the mint slice defended as a top-tier biscuit?
Do they not do them anymore?
Maybe they do.
Yeah, I think they do.
Not enough to redeem choc-thin as a category, though.
No, but you just eat the whole pack. That's the beauty of it.
In one bite.
Yeah.
Claudia, best biscuit, worst biscuit.
Do you know the chocolate butternut snap?
No.
It's one of those Arnott's ones.
Of course, Claudia chooses an alternative biscuit.
The spin-off also named it as New Zealand's top biscuit, I'll have you know. What's it called? The chocolate butternut snap.
No, no, no, no. Don't bring the spin-off into this.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:30
2
What started the conversation about New Zealand's best biscuit?
0:30–2:21
3
Which biscuits do hosts rank as contenders for ‘best in NZ’?
2:21–3:34
4
Why is the mint slice defended as a top-tier biscuit?
3:34–5:16
5
Which biscuits do the hosts nominate as their worst and why?
5:16–7:24
6
What unexpected favourites do guests like Claudia and others reveal?
7:24–8:19
7
How do listeners' texts (Herald voting) stir up biscuit controversy?
8:19–12:20