Oily and Stale!. Review on Britannia 50 - 50 Biscuits

I have had the pleasure of tasting some fantastic salted biscuits such as Monaco, Cheeselings and Sixers, courtesy of a well known brand called Parle.

I was very eager to try out another type of salted biscuit called 50-50, courtesy of yet another well known brand called Britannia, which has created some yummy sweet biscuits over the years such as Jim Jam, Little Hearts, Milk Bikis and Bourbon(to name a few). I was so sure that this brand's salted biscuits would be as fresh and tasty, as the sweet biscuits.

While sampling a specific brand of salted biscuits for the first time, I keep the following factors in mind: taste, freshness and method of preparation(whether baked or fried).

For starters, I bought a 50 gram packet of 50-50. As a consumer, 50-50's taste as a biscuit was nothing to write home about(I could have sworn that this biscuit was both sweet and salty, to taste!), especially since I have been spoiled by Parle's excellent range of salted biscuits!

Second, I really did not appreciate the fact that my fingers had been coated by an oily residue left by the biscuits, while handling them! Personally, I like my biscuits baked, not fried!

Third, within 72 hours of emptying the biscuits into an air tight plastic container(I also made sure to close the lid tightly to prevent any air from getting into the container), the biscuits became stale! Mind you, this happened on two separate occasions! I have no idea how that was even possible as I have stored other brands of biscuits like Milk Bikis, Cheeselings, etc. in the same type of plastic containers and these biscuits(thankfully!) remained fresh, at least for a couple of weeks!

I was happy that I had bought only a 50 gram packet of 50-50 biscuits, as this packet costed just Rs. 10 and did not burn much of a hole in my pocket!