How many biscuits can you have......

[Dos_Box]

..before it's classed as greedy? I've just had 6 Hobnobs (plain, not chocolate) and feeling a little guilty. Edited November 17, 2011 by Dos_Box

[elsiegee40]

When it comes to hobnobs.... You can't have too many (or so I keep telling myself)

 

 

.... Just lay off the ones I've sent for ZH when they arrive

[aerospacemango]

I can smash a packet of ginger nuts in one sitting.....

 

Is that greedy????

 

Hmmmm..I think, perhaps, so!!!!

[theriver]

Greediness is correlated with available biscuit volume.

 

Let me explain.

 

Here at work we once had a cake tin that was about 40cm high (it had some huge Italian cake in it to start with). As an experiment we decided to see how many packets of biscuits we could get in it - I can't remember now how many, but it was a sufficiently large number that we had to use Value ones in order to make the experiment affordable. It was a LOT. We took bets on how long the biscuits would last. Some people estimated time to completion based on an average consumption of biscuits per person per day, but those of us who have experience with doughnuts knew better.

 

Doughnuts work like this:

 

- someone buys some doughnuts

- people help themselves

- as the number of doughnuts decreases, people are less likely to take a doughnut

- eventually you've one doughnut left

- someone cuts it in half and takes one piece

- nobody eats the final half, and it is either thrown away by the cleaner or found behind a desk several weeks hence

 

So some of us applied the doughnut model to the biscuit tin experiment, and this proved to be correct.

Half the biscuits vanished in moments, and as the days went past the number of biscuits taken per day decreased, until after quite a long time there were two and a thin film of crumbs left.

 

Conclusions: Firstly, Value biscuits aren't too bad when dipped in tea. Secondly, people don't want to be seen as greedy, so modify their consumption based on the resource available. If there's a lot, you can have a lot; if there's not much, you should have not much.

 

In other words: from a full packet, six hobnobs is nothing. Go on, have another. But if you take the last one, you're a greedy swine.

[Dos_Box]

But if you take the last one, you're a greedy swine.

 

Ah.....

[FN-GM]

"plain, not chocolate" That makes it ok then

 

I every now and then i will eat a full packet of foxes cream cruch in the space of 30 mins.

[SimpleSi]

I believe this question has strayed into MY area of expertise

 

For fat geeks, anything up to 1 packet/day is fine and nothing to be worried about. As long you don't exceed 5 packets a week you won't end up more than 20 stone.

 

(Assuming a normal home diet of chips, pies,pizza,curry and beer)

 

Once you start exceeding this amount on a regular basis - you'll end up looking like..... well ...... me

 

Si

[laserblazer]

I have a biscuit reputation here

[newpersn]

i like the fox's Jam Ring Creams

 

i dont share those

[Scifigirl]

its not greedy if you own the packet.

[Oaktech]

exactly... I don't share. I buy my own, I eat my own. DO NOT ask for one. i will growl at you.

[sonofsanta]

Well I seem to have some deep-seated guilt trigger where any more than two and I start worrying that I'll ruin my lunch, or I should just have my banana instead of something. But you can always just take two every time you have a cup of tea, and when you drink as much tea as I do... well, let's just say value is the way forward here as well, at least until I can convince the bursar that the network genuinely wouldn't run without tea and biscuits therefore I should use my budget to buy them in.

[teejay]

Always store the biscuits on the other side of the room, you then burn off calories walking across the room to get them, therefore more biscuits allowed:p

[X-13]

until I can convince the bursar that the network genuinely wouldn't run without tea and biscuits therefore I should use my budget to buy them in.

 

Tell the bursar that the server is a finite improbability generator.

[p858snake]

It's only greedy once people start looking at you…

[sonofsanta]

Tell the bursar that the server is a finite improbability generator.

 

And that it could turn into a very surprised blue whale falling through the air at any moment?

[X-13]

And that it could turn into a very surprised blue whale falling through the air at any moment?

 

Or a bowl of petunias.

[featured_spectre]

I tend to limit myself to a maximum of 3 biscuits at a time, however the time between each 3 biscuits is short!

[witch]

6 hobnobs is about 1500 calories. Daily recommended intake for a man is approx 2500 calories.....doesn't leave a lot, does it!

[Hawkeyez]

6 hobnobs is about 1500 calories. Daily recommended intake for a man is approx 2500 calories.....doesn't leave a lot, does it!

 

1500 for 6....... thats mad.

[aerospacemango]

6 hobnobs is about 1500 calories. Daily recommended intake for a man is approx 2500 calories.....doesn't leave a lot, does it!

 

Where do you get your info, witch??

 

 

McVities HobNob Biscuits Calories and Nutrition per Serving (1 Serving=1 Biscuit/14g)

 

Calories 67

Protein 1.1

Carbohydrate 8.7

Fat 3

Fibre 0.8

Alcohol 0

 

There are 92 calories in Milk Chocolate Hobnobs

 

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/nutrition-calories/food/mcvites/milk-chocolate-hobnobs/#ixzz1dxkWi8Ht

 

 

Is what I came up with, so 6 would be around 400 cals.......

 

Carry on with the hobnob eating chap/chapesses!!

 

(Not that I'm calling you out, or anything, witch!!!)

[witch]

1500 for 6....... thats mad.

But true, unfortunately - all that fat and sugar

[witch]

Where do you get your info, witch??

 

 

McVities HobNob Biscuits Calories and Nutrition per Serving (1 Serving=1 Biscuit/14g)

 

Calories 67

Protein 1.1

Carbohydrate 8.7

Fat 3

Fibre 0.8

Alcohol 0

 

There are 92 calories in Milk Chocolate Hobnobs

 

Read more: Calories in McVites Milk Chocolate Hobnobs - Nutrition Facts & Other Nutritional Information | LIVESTRONG.COM

 

 

Is what I came up with, so 6 would be around 400 cals.......

 

Carry on with the hobnob eating chap/chapesses!!

 

(Not that I'm calling you out, or anything, witch!!!)

 

Oh, that's interesting - I did check several sites - 67 calories is really quite low though. Maybe my figures are for 100g?

Still a sixth of your daily calories!

AND 3g of fat including 1g of saturated - don't think your arteries would like that..

Edited November 17, 2011 by witch

[aerospacemango]

Oh, that's interesting - I did check several sites - 67 calories is really quite low though. Maybe my figures are for 100g?

Still a sixth of your daily calories though!

 

Yeah...but what a way to have 1/6th of the cals!!!

 

Interestingly (for me) gingers come in at between 35 and 53 cals.....So I'm even better off!!! Must crack in with the next pack....!!!

[creese]

400 would be about right.

 

Some fool made a Key Lime Pie and brought in here today. I resisted whilst making it but had 2 serving today, good job I'll be able to dance it off later.