Talk:Garibaldi biscuit

Where are they from?
where are garibaldi biscuits actually FROM then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.243.171 (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

US brand?
I love these. I'm from the U.S., but I had them when I was little and called them "dried fly cookies". My mom says they were easy to find in supermarkets here (in the regular cookie section, not the British foods section) and at some point just disappeared. Anyone else remember, or know what American brand made them? (This was presumably in the early 90s...) --Galaxiaad 02:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

fly biscuits
Please use the redirect thing for 'fly biscuit', as it is the same thing apparently. (proof : explanatory notes from the Oxford World's Classics edition for Katherine Mansfield's "Selected Short Stories".) Zigzig20s 16:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I made a redirect. --Galaxiaad 07:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I feel that there is something missing from the explanation posted on Wiki. It mentions the lack of rations of the guerrilla fighters: During the war they had to use limited rations to prepare food, the result was a simple biscuit. Garibaldi made a popular visit to Tynemouth in England in 1854. It was first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861

but it does not say that they only had flour and currants, so made biscuits which were called Garibaldi biscuits. I am quite sure that this is a myth (but cannot prove it). Between '1854' and 'It was first ...' there is surely a sentence or two that has been omitted. I am fairly sure the Garibaldi biscuit was so-named purely to cash-in on Garibaldi's popularity. It has no other connection with the revolutionary leader. 86.139.0.27 (talk) 14:21, 13 September 2010 (UTC) In fact, on another wiki page (foods named after people), it says that Garibaldi's visit to England was 1864 (NOT 1854) and so the date of 1861 for the introduction of the biscuit looks suspect. 86.139.0.27 (talk) 14:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Better delete the bit about Garibaldi only having flour and currants - it's unsourced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.235.212.17 (talk) 09:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Prosecco?
Garibaldis are traditionally eaten with prosecco? Are you having a laugh? I've deleted this preposterous assertion. Iantnm (talk) 12:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

rise up from your tin
Is it not rise up from your tin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.141.111.245 (talk) 01:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Watching YouTube it looks like Alexei Sayle sings "Rise up out of your box!" so the current version of the lyrics in the "In popular culture" section is correct. - Ttwaring (talk) 03:19, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Status of the biscuits made with raisins, sultanas
Are they exclusively made with currants? Are ones made with raisins, sultanas or other fruit also Garibaldi biscuits, or are they just similar to Garibaldi biscuits? Nurg (talk) 08:53, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think the Dutch Verkade Sultana biscuits are basically the same. Main difference is that Verkade claimed he invented them in 1935 ("Sultana History"). W\&#124;/haledad (Talk to me) 17:45, 23 November 2022 (UTC)