{"product_id":"glico-bisco","title":"Glico Bisco Milk Cream Sandwich Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eBisco is a small cream sandwich biscuit Glico has been making since 1933: two crisp, lightly sweet biscuits around a milk cream with a faint yoghurt-like tang. It is mild rather than rich, and it is not a very sweet biscuit, which is most of the reason a box disappears. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if you want something small and mild to keep in a desk drawer or a bag; if you are after something rich or chocolatey, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ: \u003cem\u003ebisuko\u003c\/em\u003e. The red box with the boy on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA tang you won't be expecting.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cream tastes more like a yoghurt sweet than a custard cream: there is a real acidity behind the sweetness, and it is the first thing most people notice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCrisp and clean-melting, not dry.\u003c\/strong\u003e The biscuit snaps rather than crumbles and clears the mouth quickly. You won't need something to drink alongside it, which is not true of every biscuit this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cream is the reason the biscuit is a sandwich at all.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's founder wanted a live yeast culture inside a biscuit, and the yeast he wanted died in the oven, so he built a sandwich and put it in the cream instead, which is never baked. Glico still puts the cultures in the cream today, so the shape is doing the same job ninety years on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt looks like a children's snack and isn't one.\u003c\/strong\u003e The boy has been on the box from the start, but this is what a Japanese adult keeps in a desk drawer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen small biscuits in three sealed packs of five.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are small, and the three sachets are why the last five are as crisp as the first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one: the sachets are stiff.\u003c\/strong\u003e They take a moment to tear, and a small child may not manage one on their own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewheat\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Bisco sold as a long-life emergency ration in a sealed tin, that is a different product from this one: a different pack, made to sit in a cupboard for years. This is the ordinary box. The front of the pack makes a good deal of the cultures in the cream; treat that as part of what Bisco is rather than as a reason to buy it, because we are not making any claim about what it does. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743231202,"sku":"SH-SNK-0037","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-milk-cream-box.webp?v=1788164028","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-bisco","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}