Anyone for Dog Biscuits (Bisc & Mars)

Member Name: sandrabarber

Product:	Bisc & Mars
Date:	05/07/03 (212 review reads)
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Advantages: fairly cheap

Disadvantages: like dog biscuits, much too sweet, look unfinished

I do like a good BOGOF, so when I saw one on some new biscuity-chocolatey things in Tesco recently, I snapped it up. The biscuity-chocolatey things in question were Masterfoods Bisc&, which came in four different varieties: Bisc&Twix, Bisc&M&Ms, Bisc&Bounty and Bisc&Mars. Being a Mars lover, I grabbed two six-packs of the Bisc&Mars and rushed them home.

To tell the truth, I would probably have bought them - or at least been drawn to them - even if they weren't a BOGOF as their bright yellowy packaging was positively beaming on the shelves.

Packaging ripped off, the first thing that gets you about these biscuits is their looks. They're very hard to describe, but I'll do my best.

Imagine an oblong narrow trough made of a taupe coloured biscuit with ridges on the long sides but not on the short. Then imagine the trough cavity filled with a very thin layer of Mars (i.e. nougat, caramel and chocolate).

They looked unfinished. Cheap. Like factory seconds.

And I must return to the colour of that biscuit. Not beige, not yellowy, but definitely taupe. The biscuit part of Bisc&Mars looks exactly like a piece of cardboard that's got wet and discoloured.

A quick sniff then only reinforced the cardboard theme, and mixed it with a sickly oversweetness to boot.

Not promising, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so I took a good big chomp without qualms. After all, what was there to have qualms about? Biscuit is lovely, Mars is even lovelier - this product couldn't fail but be gorgeous.

How wrong I was.

The biscuit tasted just like the cardboard it resembled with a texture to match, and the taste of Mars was non-existent. Instead, I got only the taste of much-too-sugary, chocolate coated horse pellets (as a child I did indeed once taste horse pellets). Or dog biscuits. Take a Bonio, spread it with a bit of sticky goo and melted chocolate and you'll have a fair approxi
mation of what I'm talking about.

Bisc&Mars are without doubt the most disgusting biscuits I could possibly imagine.

Currently 88p for a six-pack at Tesco and they can damn well stay there.

NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL.

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