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    "excerpt": "Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits is a thin biscuit stick coated in milk chocolate along most of its length with one end left bare, 75g.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.The bare end is the design. A marked finger stops people reaching for a second coated biscuit, and a centimetre of plain biscuit turns each stick into something with a handle, so a pack sits open between four people with no napkins. A thin stick is also mostly coating by proportion, which is why it reads more chocolatey than its size suggests. Keep it in the box and never dunk one.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits is a thin biscuit stick coated in milk chocolate along most of its length, with one end deliberately left bare. Seventy-five grams. What you are buying is a sharing pack, not a household one.\n\nThe bare end is the design decision worth noticing, because it is the whole reason this format works socially. A coated biscuit marks fingers, and a marked finger is what stops people reaching for a second one at a table. Leaving a centimetre of plain biscuit at the bottom turns each stick into something with a handle, which means a pack can sit open between four people for an hour without anybody needing a napkin. No other coated biscuit on our shelf solves that.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nMilk Chocolate: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) The dominant note by a wide margin, and sweeter and milder than a dark coating. On a stick this thin there is very little else to get in its way.\nBiscuit Stick: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Light, dry and almost neutral. It is structure rather than flavour, and it is meant to be.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) High. There is no salt, no bitterness and no acidity anywhere in the product to hold it back.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind Mikado\n\nThe chocolate-coated biscuit stick is a format that began in Japan and Mikado is the name it carries across much of Europe, which puts it in the same family as the filled bite-size biscuits that came the same way. It is a genuinely different idea from the British coated biscuit: rather than making a substantial biscuit and putting chocolate on it, the stick makes the biscuit as slight as it can be and lets the coating carry almost everything.\n\nWhat the product is, is visible from the pack: thin sticks, milk chocolate over most of the length, one plain end.\n\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n What You Are Actually Buying\n\nWeight: seventy-five grams.\n\nMostly coating: a thin stick has far more surface for its weight than a thick biscuit does, so proportionally more of what you eat is chocolate. That is why it reads more chocolatey than its size suggests.\nThe bare end: a handle, and the feature that makes the pack work on a table rather than on a plate.\nWhat it is not: not a dunking biscuit, not a cheeseboard biscuit and not a household staple. It is something you open when there are other people in the room.\n\n How Does Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g Compare to:\n\nCadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Milk Chocolate Covered Biscuits, 114g: the British answer to the same idea, and a fully enclosed finger rather than a stick with a handle. The Cadbury is a richer mouthful and it marks your fingers; the Mikado is lighter and cleaner to share.\nFox's Chocolatey Biscuits Milk Chocolate Rounds, 117g: a plate biscuit rather than a table one. Buy the rounds if people are sitting down with a cup; buy these if they are standing up with a glass.\nMeiji Hello Panda Biscuits with Chocolate Flavoured Filling, 50g: the other small pack from the same broad tradition. Hello Panda is for one child; Mikado is for four adults around a table. Different jobs entirely.\n\n Ideal Serving Conditions\n\nTwo things govern this pack: heat, which the coating hates, and pressure, which a thin stick cannot take. Both are easy to manage.\n\nThe Table Serve\n\nOpen and leave it: the pack is the serving vessel. Standing the sticks up in the box, coated ends out of the way, is how the format is meant to be used.\nCool room: milk chocolate softens sooner than dark, and once it softens the bare end stops being much of a defence.\nHold the plain end: obvious once you notice it, and half the people at any table will not have noticed it.\nGood with a glass: this is the one thing on our biscuit shelf that works alongside a drink in the other hand, which is exactly what a party needs.\n\nThe Storage Rules\n\nKeep it in the box: a thin stick snaps under almost no pressure, and a bag full of broken pieces is a different product entirely.\nCool and dark: the usual rule for a milk chocolate coating, and it matters more here because the coating is most of the product by proportion.\nReseal the inner bag: the stick itself is dry and light, so it takes moisture from kitchen air quickly and loses its snap.\nBloom is not spoilage: a pale grey coating means the pack has been warm. Harmless, permanent, and a sign to store it somewhere better next time.\n\n Getting It Right with a Hot Drink\n\nPairing: a strong black tea or a black coffee. Milk chocolate has no bitterness of its own, so it needs some from the cup or the whole thing is sugar on sugar.\nAlso good: an Earl Grey, where the bergamot gives the citrus edge the biscuit lacks entirely.\nAvoid: hot chocolate, lattes and anything sweetened. There is no salt, no bitterness and no acidity in this product to balance a sweet drink.\nDunking: no. A thin stick has almost no crumb to hold a shape, and a hot cup takes the coating off it before anything else happens.\nBest with: a table with people around it, a glass in the other hand, a film, or a long car journey.\n\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nWe make no gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free or vegan claim.\n\nNo health claim: this is a sweet chocolate-coated biscuit and we claim no benefit of any kind for it.\n\nChild safety: the sticks are long and thin, which is worth a thought for very younger children.",
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                "content": "Why is one end of the stick left bare?It is a handle, and it is the best idea in the product. A coated biscuit marks fingers, and a marked finger is what stops people taking a second one, so a centimetre of plain biscuit lets a pack sit open between four people for an hour with no napkins needed. Why does it taste more chocolatey than it looks?Proportion. A thin stick has far more surface for its weight than a thick biscuit does, so more of what you actually eat is coating. The stick underneath is deliberately light and almost neutral. Can I dunk them?No. A thin stick has almost no crumb to hold a shape once it is wet, and a hot cup takes the coating off before anything else happens. Keep the cup beside them. Which drink goes with them?A strong black tea or a black coffee. Milk chocolate has no bitterness of its own, so it needs some from the cup, otherwise the whole thing is sugar on sugar. Earl Grey is the interesting choice, because the bergamot gives a citrus edge the biscuit lacks entirely. What should I not drink with them?Hot chocolate, lattes and anything sweetened. There is no salt, no bitterness and no acidity anywhere in this product to balance a sweet drink. How many sticks are in the pack?The pack is 75g and states its own count. How should I store an open pack?In the box, upright, resealed. A thin stick snaps under almost no pressure, and the stick itself is dry and light so it takes moisture from kitchen air quickly and loses its snap. Why has the chocolate turned pale grey?That is bloom and it means the pack has been warm at some point. It is harmless and permanent, and it is the sign to keep the next pack somewhere cooler and darker. How does it compare with Cadbury Fingers?Same idea, different execution. A Cadbury Finger is fully enclosed and a richer mouthful, and it marks your fingers. Mikado is lighter, cleaner to share and has the bare end. The Cadbury is better sitting down; this is better standing up. Where does the format come from?The chocolate-coated biscuit stick began in Japan and Mikado is the name it carries across much of Europe."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: wheat flour, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, vegetable fats (palm, coconut), glucose syrup, milk fat, whey powder (from milk), salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), raising agent (e503), yeast, flavouring. May contain nuts.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy477 kcalFat19gof which saturates11gCarbohydrate67gof which sugars34gFibre2.8gProtein7.7gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsThe bare endroughly a centimetre, uncoatedThe best idea in the product. It is a handle, and it is what lets a pack sit open on a table between several people without anybody marking their fingers or needing a napkin.Pack: Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g; thin biscuit sticks coated in milk chocolate along most of their length with one end left bare. Store cool, dry and dark, keep the sticks in the box rather than loose in a bag because they snap under almost no pressure, and reseal the inner bag so the light dry stick does not take moisture from the kitchen air. Read the net weight, the stick count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown. The sensory placements are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings and hold no brand specification sheets.Sourcing & blend. Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g belongs to a format that began in Japan, and Mikado is the name that format carries across much of Europe. It is a genuinely different idea from the British coated biscuit: rather than baking a substantial biscuit and putting chocolate on it, the stick makes the biscuit as slight as it can be and lets the coating carry almost everything, then leaves one end bare so the whole thing can be shared without mess.What's in Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g, and what isn't:\nIn: thin biscuit sticks coated in milk chocolate over most of their length, with one end left bare, in a 75g pack.\n\nNo gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free or vegan claim: we make none in any direction.\nNo salt, bitterness or acidity to speak of: that is a description of how the product tastes rather than an ingredient claim, and it is the reason the drink beside it matters.\nNo health claim: this is a sweet chocolate-coated biscuit. We claim no benefit of any kind and quote no sugar, fat or calorie figure."
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                "content": "The flavour of Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the biscuit tastes the way it does from the first bite to the last swallow.The outer layer is the milk chocolate coating, and on this product it is not one element among several: it is very nearly the whole thing. The reason is geometry rather than recipe. A thin stick has a far higher ratio of surface to volume than a thick biscuit does, so for the same weight of product you are eating proportionally much more coating and much less crumb. That is why a Mikado reads as more chocolatey than its slight appearance suggests, and why the coating's character matters more here than it would on a digestive. Being milk rather than dark, that character is sweet, mild and rounded, with cocoa present as a soft note rather than as an edge.The flavour spike is, unusually, in the same place as the outer layer, and the honest description of this product is that it has no mid-palate of its own. There is no salt, no bitterness, no acidity and no second flavour anywhere in it to create a turn. What happens instead is a single sustained sweet chocolate note from the first contact to the swallow. That is not a criticism of a snack built for a table rather than for contemplation, but it is the reason the drink beside it matters more than usual: the contrast this product does not contain has to come from the cup.The base structure is the stick itself, and it is deliberately the quietest biscuit on our shelf. Light, dry and close to neutral, it exists to give the coating something to be on and to give your hand something to hold, and it contributes a faint baked note and a clean snap and very little else. The snap is worth attention though, because it is the only textural event in the product and it is the first thing lost to a warm room or a damp cupboard. The finish is sweet and fairly short, fading without leaving much behind, which is precisely why people take another one.Getting it right in the cup. The cup belongs beside the pack, never under it. Dunking fails twice over here: a thin stick has almost no crumb to hold a shape once wet, and a hot drink takes the coating off before the biscuit has time to soften. What the drink is for is the contrast the product lacks. Milk chocolate carries no bitterness of its own, so a strong black tea or a black coffee does real work, and an Earl Grey does something more interesting still, because the bergamot supplies a citrus edge that nothing in the biscuit provides. What fails is agreement: a hot chocolate, a latte or anything sweetened simply adds to the one note already there.How water and temperature change it. Heat is the enemy and it arrives sooner than people expect, because milk chocolate softens at a lower temperature than dark and because the coating here is most of the product by proportion. A warm room takes the gloss off, makes the sticks tacky and undoes the one thing the bare end is there to prevent, and chocolate that has warmed and re-set carries a permanent pale bloom which is harmless and unattractive. Humidity works on the stick rather than the coating: it is light and dry with very little mass, so it takes water vapour out of kitchen air quickly and the snap goes soft within days of opening. Reseal the inner bag, keep the box out of the cupboard above the hob, and store the sticks upright in their box rather than loose in a bag, because a thin stick snaps under almost no pressure at all and a pack of broken pieces is a different and much worse product."
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                "content": "Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits, 75g is built for a table rather than a plate, and the builds below mostly respect that. Recipes, born here first The Open Pack on the Table How to make The Open Pack on the Table with Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits. 2 min 4 people Easy You'll need 1 pack Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits A pot of strong tea Or a cold drink each The box it came in Method Open the pack and stand it up on the table. The box is the serving vessel and no plate is needed. Point out the bare end to anyone who has not noticed it. Half the table will not have. Keep the room cool. Once milk chocolate softens, the bare end stops being much of a defence. Leave it there. People take one at a time over an hour rather than emptying a bowl, which is the whole point of the format. The Film Night Bowl How to make The Film Night Bowl with Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits. 3 min 2 people Easy You'll need 1 pack Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits A bowl of grapes A tall glass or jar Cold drinks Method Stand the sticks upright in a tall glass or jar rather than laying them in a bowl. Flat in a bowl they snap under their own pile. Put grapes or another sharp fruit beside them. The biscuit has no acidity of its own and an hour of pure sweetness is a long hour. Keep them away from a warm lamp or a radiator. Reseal the inner bag on whatever is left before you go to bed. What you'll end up with: A sweet thing that can be eaten in the dark without looking at it, one-handed, with nothing transferring to the remote control. The Coffee Pairing How to make The Coffee Pairing with Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits. 4 min 1 serving Easy You'll need 4 Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits 1 strong black coffee A glass of water Method Brew the coffee strong and leave it unsweetened. Milk chocolate has no bitterness of its own and the cup has to supply it. Hold the bare end and eat them dry, alongside rather than dipped. Try an Earl Grey instead on another day. The bergamot gives a citrus edge this biscuit lacks entirely. Avoid a latte or a hot chocolate, which add to the one note already there. What you'll end up with: Bitterness against a single sustained sweet note, which is the contrast this product needs and does not contain anywhere within itself. Ice Cream Garnish How to make Ice Cream Garnish with Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits. 2 min 2 servings Easy You'll need 6 Mikado Milk Chocolate Biscuits 2 scoops vanilla ice cream A little grated dark chocolate A few raspberries Method Scoop the ice cream and press three sticks into each bowl at an angle, bare ends up. Scatter raspberries, which give the acidity neither the biscuit nor the ice cream has. Grate a little dark chocolate over for bitterness. Serve immediately, because the sticks soften on contact with the ice cream within a few minutes. What you'll end up with: A sundae that looks like it took effort and took two minutes, with the bare ends doubling as handles for eating the garnish afterwards."
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