Your latest (slightly) healthy addiction?.

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Your latest (slightly) healthy addiction?.

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The local filling station has added a mini-ASDA shop. They sell packs of Eccles Cakes. Can't leave them alone. Bloody lovely :D
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My mum feels the same way about Custards, I have to get her some every Saturday from Morrisons. 2 Boxes for £1.70p
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Custard Creams are the crack cocaine of Biscuits as far as I'm concerned. Hot cup of tea, duck the bastards and I cry with guilt afterwards.
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I've had a few spells myself with the Eccles cakes from Asda, but I'm not having any at the moment. An Asda product that had a grip on me for a while was the cherry pies—and the apple pies. That started shortly after the death of David Lynch in January of this year, and I remembered that one of his characters from the TV show Twin Peaks, Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan), was always talking about cherry pies. So I sought one from the shelf in Asda, and at £3.98, I looked on it as a bit of a treat. A week or so later, I noticed that the price had been reduced to £2.98. For a while I was in fruit pie heaven, and I expanded that delight by alternating cherry with apple pies, and I was getting cartons of custard to go with them. I always suspected that the price reduction might be temporary, like a loss leader, and then one day, a few months later, to my bitter disappointment, the price went up again. I was of a mind that they might one day be reduced again, and I've held off treating myself. I'd thought that my boycott might have an effect, but alas, that hasn't happened. I spotted a guy putting one in his basket, and I was silently raging that he was a traitor to my cause. The bastard.

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my unhealthy addiction, in this order ...battenburg cake, custard tart (portugese tart over ere), vanilla slice, eccles cake.

ate at one sitting, all four on a plate, one by one with a cuppa Tetley tea with milk.

a no to doughnuts/donuts
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Some while back Mrs Bert had an email, somehow connected to Nectar points and Sainsbury's, informing her that we were the biggest buyers of cream toffees in the area. Another first for Berts.
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That's a nice touch from Sainsburys.
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