14 August 2024

fred_mouse: Ratatouille still: cooking rat (cooking)
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Today, we wandered into a random supermarket in Dublin (I remember it said 'Good Food Market' on the branding, if that helps anyone identify it). After some wandering, we found their gluten free 'section', which seemed to be scattered across random shelves in one aisle.

In the bikkies section, I found custard creams. Now, custard creams are one of the options that one gets in what I think of as one of the family tradition bikkie selections - the Arnotts Family Selection (title may be different; there is a plain and a creams variation). I have not seen a GF version in Aus, which means it is ~15 years since I'm likely to have eaten one. They are advertised as 'crunchy biscuits with a vanilla flavour filling'.

Taste wise and texture wise they are about perfect, when held up to the rose coloured memories. They are beautifully short biscuits, the amount of filling nicely balances the biscuits. Size wise they are a bit smaller than I was expecting (it is possible that the regular ones are also smaller than my memory), and I was on my third one before I realised. I think there are nine in the packet, so enough for a small group of friends to share.

Brand is 'love more' with the tag line 'fabulous free from foods'. Information on the side says 'baked in a dedicated free from bakery', with an address in Wales. Ingredients lists are translated into ES, SV, NO, and FI, which I'm interpreting as Spain, Sweden maybe Switzerland?, Norway, Finland, so presumably can be found in those countries as well as Ireland and the UK.

Allergen advice lists them as 'gluten free, wheat free, and milk free' and 'suitable for vegans'. They do not contain oats, soy, or umm, a third thing I remember noticing and have forgotten. They do contain potato, but I'm pretending to be okay with that.

Overall: highly recommended,