17 comments

  • rootusrootus 7 minutes ago

    Once in a while we pick up a pack of these from Costco, when we haven't flown in a while. They're pretty sweet, so we don't get them too often, but once in a while as a treat.

  • SoftTalker 17 minutes ago

    > a peanut shortage prompted Delta, then America’s fourth-largest airline, to seek an alternative onboard snack

    I never knew this was the reason. I had assumed that airlines stopped serving peanuts as an accomodation to the increasing numebr of people with peanut allergies.

  • Dries007 30 minutes ago

    As a Belgian I still dislike this new branding.

  • sasaf5 16 minutes ago

    Please, make sure you try these at least once in your life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos

  • c0rruptbytes 36 minutes ago

    Claire Saffitz makes cinnamon rolls with these cookies as the inner cinnamon filling, they’re so good with the spice

  • HumblyTossed 39 minutes ago

    Too sweet. Much would rather p-nuts.

    • dieselgate 27 minutes ago

      Are there allergy concerns with nuts?

      • lotsofpulp 16 minutes ago

        https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/conditions-librar...

        >Myth: Smelling an allergen can trigger anaphylaxis.

        >Fact: While people often don’t like the smell of a food they’re allergic to, smell does not provoke an allergic reaction...While smells can linger in the air, the allergen proteins do not, which is why smelling a food will not trigger anaphylaxis.

        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33548082/

        >Allergic reactions to airborne peanut proteins are rare and cannot be predicted by high levels of IgE-antibodies to peanut or Ara h 2. Only small amounts of biologically active peanut proteins were detected in the air and seem unlikely to trigger moderate/severe allergic reactions.

  • el_don_almighty an hour ago

    I love these cookies

    • malfist 20 minutes ago

      Me too. Have you seen that Kodiak is now making "cookie butter" protein granola? Cookie butter is the US naming of speculoos and they're amazing. Love that stuff. Tried making my own to improve the macros more, but haven't nailed it yet.

  • MC995 an hour ago

    Honestly that's one of the few things I look forward to when flying these days, and a serious consideration on picking Delta if other factors are equal between airlines.

    • drcongo 39 minutes ago

      You can just buy some from a shop.

      • em3rgent0rdr 27 minutes ago

        Sure, there are a lot of things like this you can do. It would eat up a minute of your time and cost a premium to buy a tiny packet of an individually-wrapped biscoff. Or you could spend ~$36 to buy a box of 300 biscoffs that occupy a space in your cupboard, and then every time you fly, you take one out of the box and put it in your carry-on, and resist the temptation to eat it unless you are 10km high.

        • xattt 10 minutes ago

          Keep the box, set a chair in the middle of the living room, strap on a VR headset (viewer’s choice) and put on an airline passenger POV video from YouTube. Crunch away at your Biscoff.

          You’re welcome. You just saved thousands of dollars.

      • MC995 32 minutes ago

        I do, sometimes. But when I can always get them it's less of a "treat".

        There are a few things I only get intentionally when traveling for work so it's something to look forward to and brings something positive to the trip.

      • tigen 32 minutes ago

        Anticipating it nervously as the attendant distributes them down the aisle and then receiving it for free makes it taste better.

      • tekla 30 minutes ago

        Like half the article is about why these cookies are popular in flight