How you eat a cream biscuit says a lot about you.
You see, a cream biscuit is an open invitation to break the rules. It’s like the cream biscuit makers are saying, “Here’s how we made the biscuit. We think you should eat it this way. But we’ve made it really easy for you not to eat it this way. Go ahead. Choose.”
Kids take to cream biscuits easily because it combines three things they love:
- Taking things apart
- Licking things
- Eating sweet stuff
At that age, they’d happily choose either as a career – as long they are paid in cream biscuits.
As a kid, I would separate the two halves of the cream biscuits that came my way. This was a delicate operation because it was critical that all the cream remain on the bottom half. Sometimes, if I were impatient, part of the cream would stick to the top half. Now, qualitatively it made no difference. I would eat all the cream first anyway. But this somehow “spoiled” the experience for me.
I was initially worried that my parents would object to me breaking these rules. But they didn’t seem to care that I ate the cream first. What got me in trouble was trying to sneak the biscuits back into the packet after licking off the cream. The biscuits had to be eaten. The problem, of course, is that you are essentially eating the worst part of the cream biscuit – the biscuit – in the end, instead of saving the best for the last.
All this changed when I discovered a cream biscuit called Pure Magic. This brand had a dark chocolate cream filling sandwiched between two dark chocolate biscuits. The biscuits were so light that they tasted better than the cream. Finally, eating the biscuit became the best part of eating cream biscuits.
Soon, I grew up. I discovered there was such a thing as excess cholesterol that my body liked to make. So I cut down on junk food. Rarely do I have biscuits – let alone cream-filled ones.
But when I do have one, here’s how I eat it. First, I break the biscuit in half. I eat the first half biscuit and cream together. I then take my time with the second half – separating the top and bottom halves of the biscuit, eating the cream, and then the biscuits.
What does this say about me? Perhaps, I’m a freak. Maybe, I’m confused. The way I look at it, I want to have the best of both worlds. I want to have the cream and biscuit together and separately too.
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