HomeUnited KingdomAt the ripe old age of 32 I have bought my first pack of Gary Baldies. I have also learned that Gary Baldy is not spelled the way I thought it was.
Never fear OP, I call them dead / squashed fly biscuits. Hope you enjoy them!
Named after Bald Gary, one of the founders of Italy.
Named after an Italian military leader and revolutionary. They call him a “father of the fatherland”, and the “hero of two worlds”. Supposedly, he sat on a fruit biscuit during a visit to South Shields.
It is rather amusing that Giuseppe Garibaldi dedicated his life to unifying Italy for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, but we all just know him as Gary Baldy the man who unified raisins and biscuits.
Shame you get so few biscuits per pack. Tea/biscuit ratio is 1/1 with these bad boys.
Gary Baldy…
That bloke was head of security on Babylon 5.
You’d know this if you ever watched Babylon 5!
my ex had an uncle named Gary Boldy
What do you think of them? I personally think they are one of the worst biscuits
It’s interesting how many biscuits are named after revolutionaries. You’ve got your Garibaldi, you’ve got your Bourbon, and of course you’ve got your Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment.
Wait until you learn how “flem” is really spelt.
In what I think is a missed opportunity, Aldi do not sell GaribAldi’s
Welcome to a new level of biscuit.
My favourite thing about them apart from the name is that they usually come in a hefty great slab. Beautiful.
I don’t think I’ve ever had one…I’m 30…
My father referred to those as “squashed fly biscuits”. I do not believe there was a deep hidden ITA-unification meaning to that expression.
I’m Italian and I have to say that your spelling is WAY BETTER than the official one.
With enough tea I can finish a whole packet. But they are very dry and realistically they are the one biscuit I can buy that I know I won’t eat the full pack in one sitting.
The only reason I knew these existed was because I was watching Poirot on tv one day at my mums and the next day I saw them in Tesco. So I bought them and they were not what I expected. They were nice but definitely not what I expected. They do pair very nicely with tea though. Very nice indeed.
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Never fear OP, I call them dead / squashed fly biscuits. Hope you enjoy them!
Named after Bald Gary, one of the founders of Italy.
Named after an Italian military leader and revolutionary. They call him a “father of the fatherland”, and the “hero of two worlds”. Supposedly, he sat on a fruit biscuit during a visit to South Shields.
It is rather amusing that Giuseppe Garibaldi dedicated his life to unifying Italy for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, but we all just know him as Gary Baldy the man who unified raisins and biscuits.
Shame you get so few biscuits per pack. Tea/biscuit ratio is 1/1 with these bad boys.
Gary Baldy…
That bloke was head of security on Babylon 5.
You’d know this if you ever watched Babylon 5!
my ex had an uncle named Gary Boldy
What do you think of them? I personally think they are one of the worst biscuits
It’s interesting how many biscuits are named after revolutionaries. You’ve got your Garibaldi, you’ve got your Bourbon, and of course you’ve got your Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment.
Wait until you learn how “flem” is really spelt.
In what I think is a missed opportunity, Aldi do not sell GaribAldi’s
Welcome to a new level of biscuit.
My favourite thing about them apart from the name is that they usually come in a hefty great slab. Beautiful.
I don’t think I’ve ever had one…I’m 30…
My father referred to those as “squashed fly biscuits”. I do not believe there was a deep hidden ITA-unification meaning to that expression.
I’m Italian and I have to say that your spelling is WAY BETTER than the official one.
With enough tea I can finish a whole packet. But they are very dry and realistically they are the one biscuit I can buy that I know I won’t eat the full pack in one sitting.
The only reason I knew these existed was because I was watching Poirot on tv one day at my mums and the next day I saw them in Tesco. So I bought them and they were not what I expected. They were nice but definitely not what I expected. They do pair very nicely with tea though. Very nice indeed.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Dead fly biscuits, love them.
That’s what those are called! 20 yes of life and I’ve just now learned the name of those raisin biscuit cracker things.
You appear to have misspelled “squashed fly”
Excellent, you have just taken your first step into a larger world…
Dead fly biscuits
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