To glam things up with foil ! (McVities Victoria Luxury Biscuits)

Member Name: leighsady

Product:	McVities Victoria Luxury Biscuits
Date:	01/08/08 (247 review reads)
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Advantages: Some chocolate in there...

Disadvantages: Lots of sugar and high dental bills...

We bought a box of these for Christmas and for some reason you don't really see them around at other times of the year, or is it just me...? Of course, the biscuits have been long finished, but we've kept the tin box for storing odd bits.

This large tin contains 12 varieties of biscuits covered in milk, plain chocolate and crèmes. Generally, there are about 3-4 of each of the varieties all placed in their own compartment try. There are two trays, so in essence it's almost like having two packets of biscuits.


Milk Chocolate Cream Crumble - 8/10
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This thick round biscuit comes with chocolate crème filling, there are two chocolate biscuit layers that sandwich the chocolate crème filling and the whole of this thick biscuit is entirely covered in milk chocolate and wrapped in a shiny red foil sheet. I really like this one, will obviously be a favourite for those who love chocolate.


Plain Chocolate Finger cookie - 8/10
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A thin rectangular shaped cookie covered in milk chocolate. Personally, I feel it is a very 'thin' layer of chocolate on there, though still a nice little crisp cookie.


Double Chocolate Cookie dipped in Milk chocolate - 9/10
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This is another one loaded with chocolate, possibly my favourite out of all of them. There are thicker chunks of chocolate in this, you almost forget about the biscuit part...


Milk Chocolate clover - 7/10
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This is a clover shaped basic biscuit covered in milk chocolate and drizzles with a small amount of the plain chocolate. Very similar to a digestive biscuit.


Milk Chocolate Digestive - 8/10
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This is exactly what it is - a plain digestive biscuit with a thin layer of milk chocolate. McVities actually sell these by the packet separately! A little out of place here, but still very tasty!


White Chocolate Cream Wafer - 10/10
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This is a small finger sized triple-layered wafer covered in white chocolate. Gives a different edge to all the other biscuits, very soft and light - though very sweet!


White Chocolate Crispy Biscuit Finger - 8/10
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This is almost exactly like Cadbury's chocolate fingers but covered with white and drizzled with a little milk chocolate. I think these are far nicer.


Coconut Cookie - 6/10
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My least favourite. Probably because there's no chocolate! Being slightly biased, I also find this quite dry and it's also very crumbly in texture.


Chocolate Coated Coconut Square - 7/10
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Perhaps it's just the coconut flavour that I don't like, but I'm not really too keen on this either. It's a thin square shaped biscuit covered in plain milk chocolate with coconut flavouring. There appears to be some minty flavour to it as well...


Milk Chocolate raspberry Triangle - 9/10
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Back to a nicer one - this biscuit is covered in thick milk chocolate and in between there is a lovely helping of soft raspberry crème in its centre.


Milk Chocolate Finger Cookie - 8/10
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This is exactly the same as No.2 but obviously with milk chocolate.


Plain Chocolate Orange Crumble - 10/10
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This posh looking one is wrapped in shiny gold foil. It's quite a thick biscuit and with a good decent helping of orange crème sandwiched in between. All of this drenched in milk chocolate. I nearly gave it just a '9' because this one is probably the one with most sugar in. There is only two in each compartment, probably for a valid reason - and they are so sweet, I wouldn't be surprised to feel queasy after eating more than one.


These cost around £7.99 for 800g - the stated weight is pretty misleading, because it is actually a very large tin with well over 50+ biscuits. Normally, I see these around at Tesco's on a 'Buy One, get One Free' situation - so, very good value for money.

A nice large box of 'luxury' biscuits, though I do think it's a little over-rated - mainly because of the packaging. Many of the biscuits, though nice, can normally be bought in packs with plainer packaging - I'm sure others will have noticed the especially familiar digestive biscuit and the chocolate fingers that McVities normally do.

Although, it's a really nice box of biscuits - it may be one to avoid for those who are not big fans of sugar or chocolate.


Thanks for reading :) xx



©Leighsady 2008

Summary: Some nice biscuits in a nice large tin.