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'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again

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Original source (linked from TFA): https://www.forcesnews.com/services/raf/cold-war-calamity-di...

That was published on the first of April.

D'Oh!

I keep them safe from harm in my stomach

They still expand though!

It depends a bit on the flight altitude and plane type (newer planes have higher pressure and shorter flights are lower altitude) but i’ve learnt not to have carbonated beverages before flying.

Definitely, and never ever a non-alcoholic beer, yet to find one that isn't 99% gas by volume, you'll explode like Mr Creosote

Timely reminder to head to World Market to stock up on pre-tarriff teacakes and caramel wafers..

Is this viral marketing for Tunnocks?.

Excellent marketing if so - I already want some.

I love a Tunnock's teacake - but they are pretty dangerous for me. I work maybe 3 mins walk from a Tesco Express and by the time I've left the shop I've usually eaten one, another on the walk, one in the lift then there are only 3 left - and I can share three with my work mates. So I eat the rest...

Delicious.

Dangerous indeed. They come in boxes of six, which I always treated as a single-serving.

I moved to Finland so I can't get them here, but at least I'm consoled by the availability of Irn-Bru!

I haven't tested either, but I would of course give [1] a try for comparison purposes. If you already have, how did they compare?

[1]: https://brunberg.fi/en/tuoteryhma/chocolate/kisses/

They're very similar to look at, but the chocolate is wrong and the consistency of the "foam" part differs too.

Close, but sadly not close enough! (I enjoy both, but the Tunnock's teacakes, and their caramel logs too, are a clear winner for me. Probably due to my childhood memories and associations as much as anything else. Bias!)

Same for me, nothing comes close!

Thanks, this kind of information is very hard to find elsewhere and ... I just find snack food interesting. :)

They still have Irn Bru in Finland? They stopped making it in Scotland once the sugar tax came into force :(.

Although if I'm honest, I drank far too much of the stuff so it's probably a good thing I can't buy it any more.

You can definitely still buy it in Scotland.

You can buy something marketed as Irn Bru, but it's not really Irn Bru. Real Irn Bru does not contain artificial sweeteners.

We're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing!

I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to the door, when I was a kid.

But the stuff that's out there, to my mind, is still just fine. It cures hangovers. It tastes of sugar and love, whether there's real sugar, real iron, or real love in it is almost immaterial.

"Made in Scotland, from Girders" :).

Un(?)fortunately I taste Aspartame as being bitter so it's not as sweet for me as it used to be :(. Which is probably a good thing, given how much I used to drink :P.

They do. Sometimes I see individual cans in K-supermarkets, but otherwise:

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/327752/Irn-Bru-virvo...

Ingredients: ... sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K)

Unfortunately that's the new "not really Irn Bru" recipe :(.

It's still Scotland's leading soft drink and you can buy the original high-sugar recipie:

https://irn-bru.co.uk/products/1901

That's the original recipe, but not the one that was known as Irn Bru immediately before the sugar tax -- it's got no caffeine in it. I've not tried it.

Any changes made before I started drinking it are merely historical baggage, but any changes made after I started drinking it have a fundamental effect on whether I consider it the same product. See also: "New Coke".

(Also, I can taste Aspartame -- so while many people might say that the low sugar variant is sufficiently similar in taste, I really don't enjoy it. Although, as I posted above, this is probably a good thing.)

Single serving indeed, they don't really work for sharing. Similar for the 8 Tunnock's caramel bars...

I moved to Australia and forgot they existed until I found them in the "Foriegn Food" aisle and my house has been stocked with them every day since.

They've been my favourite sweet for as long as I can remember.

It's viral marketing for the RAF.

You're probably right at that.

USA equivalent: think Mallomars or Pinwheels, but with better chocolate.

PSA: I recently carried a box full in my hold luggage and am happy to report that they survived intact (presumably the hold is pressurised), in case anyone was worried about that.

The cargo hold of most pressurised aircraft is itself almost always pressurised, yes.

Glad that’s sorted now. I wouldn’t want to be lose a limb at altitude to any snack.

I wonder how much does it cost to run an experiment like this?

If the facility is being used regularly, practically nothing. Plus, being able to do these kinds of things is a great boost for morale for people who like what they're doing.

Well the consumable confectionery items cost about £1.15

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254923832

Except, no, there are eight teacakes, so they must have bought at least two packets.

Wonder who ate the other four?

It was a spooky ghost!

Air-transport pressurized suites at your own peril.

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