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Description: | While all of the biscuits illustrated in this catalogue have plain ingredients by modern standards, there are no layers of thick chocolate or cream, the illustrations remind us that their designs could be quite fancy. Clearly the idea that shaped biscuits (or shaped spaghetti for children!) are a modern niche marketing device is not the reality. Some of the fancy biscuits are intended for adults such as 'Conversation Biscuits'. These were intended to be used as a form of mildly flirtatious game (a bit like 'Love Heart' sweets - for full details of this game see 'Conversation Biscuit Sheet, about 1880' on this website). Others, though, were designed for small children, for example biscuits in the shape of numbers and letters, or with slightly comic human and animal figures. More evidence that the 'Victorians' were not as straight laced as many people today assume! | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade advertising biscuit | Temporal: | start=1884-01-01; end=1884-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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