[Danielle F.]

Loose Biscuits​

Back in the day, biscuits were bought loose by weight, scooped from big square tins at the local grocer.

They’d be tipped into a brown paper bag, and if you were lucky, the grocer might slip a couple of broken ones as a treat!

Many will remember the joy of buying a bag full of broken biscuits for just a couple of bob: a simple pleasure that felt like a treasure.

Do you have fond memories at the supermarket? Share them with us here!

Source: Australia Remember When/Facebook

 

[PLK]

I remember these quite fondly. The local grocery would give out bags of the broken bikkies for a penny.

 

[Will Riker]

Our parents were not very well off and often bought bags of broken biscuits from the local grocer! (1940s) No difference in taste to unbroken!

 

[Jethrotull]

We were poor, when I was growing up, we had a grocer a mile away, who sold bags of broken ones. I had to walk that far to but a bag. I think it cost threepence a bag…

 

[Leenie]

I recall my parents getting ginger nut biscuits in those bags , probably the start of my love of ginger.

 

[Vet543]

I remember these quite fondly. The local grocery would give out bags of the broken bikkies for a penny.

This I remember well ... but I wouldn't tell the other kids ONLY MY MATES... for obvious reasons. The shopkeeper wouldn't tell either .. I was a kind of favourite as sometime I helped clean up the yard for him. It all started with the bob-a-job idea but I wasn;t a boy scout ...just a private kid.

 

[Bazza boy]

in my young days all the biscuits were weighed and packed by the grocer

 

[EllieN]

My dad was in the fruit game all his working life. Started as a kid before the war and on his return (thankfully), started back in fruit immediately. The year I was born (1949) he started a fruit run around Mitchelton/Gaythorne in Brisbane. Not long after that he bought a 2nd truck which mum drove.
On those trucks we always had tins of loose Arnott’s biscuits. Tins of assorted plains and creams and sold in brown paper bags (no plastics then).
I was forever in trouble for helping myself to the “Custard Creams” - my favourites.
Dad would always give little kids that came out to the truck with their mums, a biscuit from the tins. It would make their days.

 

[gordon1940]

I recall my parents getting ginger nut biscuits in those bags , probably the start of my love of ginger.

Our Local Grocer had all the loose Biscuits on the top shelf and needed a small ladder to get to them. One day a Lady customer stated she required some loose Biscuits so he climbed the ladder at which time she said” I see you have Ginger Nuts” to which he replied “ Bugger , my Wife didn’t fix the hole in my Undies!

 

[Vet543]

Our Local Grocer had all the loose Biscuits on the top shelf and needed a small ladder to get to them. One day a Lady customer stated she required some loose Biscuits so he climbed the ladder at which time she said” I see you have Ginger Nuts” to which he replied “ Bugger , my Wife didn’t fix the hole in my Undies!

hahahaha Unbelievable LOL

 

[PLK]

Our Local Grocer had all the loose Biscuits on the top shelf and needed a small ladder to get to them. One day a Lady customer stated she required some loose Biscuits so he climbed the ladder at which time she said” I see you have Ginger Nuts” to which he replied “ Bugger , my Wife didn’t fix the hole in my Undies!

 

[Leenie]

This I remember well ... but I wouldn't tell the other kids ONLY MY MATES... for obvious reasons. The shopkeeper wouldn't tell either .. I was a kind of favourite as sometime I helped clean up the yard for him. It all started with the bob-a-job idea but I wasn;t a boy scout ...just a private kid

Haha love it .

 

[Leenie]

Haha am still laughing.

 

[RieTreesSilver]

It wasn't only the bikkies, a treat for being well behaved on a big days shopping. I know we had a number of the flip top tins for toys and puzzles. My favorites were the teddy bears, still are to be Honest.