Food Review: Parle - G Biscuits
Tea and biscuits go together for me, like some other people. Today I bought a very inexpensive brand of biscuits called Parle - G. Only 300 grams packages were available on the shelf. I bought one package in case I didn’t like them. The package is plastic wrapped, not a boxed. Opening the package, there are four plastic wrapped packages containing 15 biscuits each. The biscuit is approximately the size of a domino.
The first thing that I notice is a pleasant odour from the still sealed biscuits. They smell good! I open one package. There are certain things I am looking for.
None of the biscuits are broken. This is a good sign. This biscuits were manufactured in Mumbai, India. The product arrived to the store shelf intact.
The biscuits are all the same colour, all identical. This indicates to me proper baking. This is important because one does not want one biscuit that looks or tastes different from the next, that looks or tastes different from the first, and so on.
A design is along the edge, and the brand name on the front. This is something I like. It tells me they take pride in their product, and they stand by it by putting their name on it. This practice is old, so I suspect this company has been around a while. It turns out they have, for 80 years.
The taste is excellent! The biscuit has just the right amount of sweetness to it. It is not a too hard biscuit. After eating one on its own, I dunk another into my tea. The biscuit turns soft very quickly, but holds together long enough without falling apart. To be fair, this biscuit is likely not intended to be dunked into hot tea, unlike the Maria biscuit that is a very good biscuit for dunking into tea.
My conclusion is I will definitely purchase and enjoy this fine biscuit again in the future. In fact, I have had to stop myself from eating the entire package in one sitting. Tea or not, these Parle - G biscuits are a quality and delicious product.
© Trevor Dailey