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It's both. That's why Southwest stopped, for instance. Literally just opening a small bag of peanuts around people who aren't eating peanuts is enough to bring someone with a severe allergy into anaphylactic shock.

Yea, I once brought some to game night, and another gamer brought actual Biscoff cookies. Then a third person put them together into a sandwich cookie which I thought was equal parts funny and violating some kind of Kosher rule "Do not seethe a kid in it's mother's milk" I invented in my head.

I use that often as a filling for snickerdoodles, it's quite good.

If you care about your health at all, do NOT buy a jar of trader joe's cookie butter, or their cookie butter ice cream...

Yes because I read the article.

Slightly related but you can crumble these cookies and use them as a (cheese)cake bottom. It's nice.

Oh my

ChocZero makes a zero sugar version of the speculoos cookie butter and it's amazing.

lol how could this not be sfw??? I can't open right now because I'm at work but I'm so curious haha

Wife got the same thing but it’s Oreo cookie spread. The stuff is crack.

This is usually the first thing I think of when I think of f**InG BiScoFf.

They make a great graham-cracker style crust for a skyr cake.

I'm not on GLP-1s, but I am on metformin [1] which my wife says has similar food aversion properties to the GLPs, and for me I've noticed virtually anything with peanut butter I can still eat a nearly infinite quantity of. One of the worst things that has ever happened to me was finding out that peanut butter fudge is ridiculously easy to make.

[1] Off label for weight loss. My insurance wouldn't cover GLP-1s, and metformin is out of patent and super cheap, and I read that at least some people have had good success using it for weight loss. I am fortunately one of those happy few.

As well as ‘taaitaai’, the chewy variety ( https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taaitaai )

If it's any help, the company denies that Delta came up with the name, but doesn't offer an explanation to the origin of the name itself.

It's also funny how they deny that the original deal with Delta was only a temporary short term deal, but that it was always a longterm deal.

Same.

I moved to America in July 2011, first delta flight in August that year, and have pretty much not bought any other cookie since.

When I was young and shameless back then I would even ask for an extra one! My wife hates the cookie though, so probably in your boat

Yeah I'm so confused in the comments, these things suck.

Grinding them up as bottom for cheesecake is heaven!

same. biscoff is loathsome

> They're pretty sweet, so we don't get them too often, but once in a while as a treat.

Then a Costco pack should be close to a lifetime supply.

The "then passengers fell in love" portion was enough context (for me, at least) to know we were about to read about Delta Airlines, the first place I've had Biscoff cookies, and other than when I get them at Costco, the only place I eat them.

Same. All these snacks have added sugar or oils, I'd rather have something simple.

Are there allergy concerns with nuts?

They're also very chocolate-deficient and therefore not worth my time. Life is too short for anything vanilla, shortbread, or sugar cookie adjacent (which I recall Biscoff to be).

I understand that this is a blazing hot culinary take and might be the most controversial thing I've written on HN. Before downvoting please consider that this isn't elitism or opinion - everybody the world over deserves the joy of flavor in their confections instead of cloying bland sweetness. Embrace variety and live your life. Throw your Biscoff in the trash and buy some Tim Tams or Thin Mints.

Came here to say this. I thought I liked them when I was given just one packet on the airplane. So I bought them at Costco when I saw them there. It's been like two months since I bought it and I barely finished a third of that because it's too sweet.

Turns out just anyone can call themselves a nutritionist, according to Dr Ben Goldacre, but "dietician" is something you actually have to be qualified for.

So, you can call yourself a nutritionist, run a blog about it, write a book about it, anything really, and tell anyone any kind of bullshit you make up.

I think I'm on pretty solid ground with mine though.

> I have been known to inhale entire costco sized sleeves of biscoffs > I don't look at the nutrition facts

Here's the title:

"What You're Eating Is Probably Pretty Much Fine"

The strapline is "maybe just not so much, and don't do it all the time"

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.

I do too, but realized i like ginger snaps, at least some varieties at least as well if not better.

That also helps reduce the crumb issues. Though I do prefer the stroopwafels served by another major US airline.

Or hot tea. Along the same lines too, try the ultra-flat and crisp and dunkable Moravian cookies (specifically the spice or ginger flavors) or ginger-flavored Swedish thins.

American serves them too.

You can just buy some from a shop.

Can you just let us have this one? The other countries already have plenty to talk about!

More seriously, the biscoff variant is quite distinctively Belgian, as it's using caramel rather than a traditional mix of spices.

Sure. They even sell a sandwich version with cream: http://nibblesnscribbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Lotu...

It's like eating a cinnamon-y, ginger-y oreo.

Yeah, put two of them in a cup of plain yogurt, let them sit for a short while and then stir them it - it's just perfect, not too sweet.

They're... cookies. A treat.

Looking at the nutritional profile of cookies doesn't make sense. You're supposed to eat them in such low quantity/frequency that it doesn't matter.

> So the Belgians enshittified speculaas to create speculoos

Yes and no. This "Speculoos is actually cheap Speculaas" isn't completely true. That's what people like to say today, but the "Speculoos" name has been around much longer than Lotus bakeries. It's just a dialect thing and there is no reason. Some people called it "Speculaas", some people called it "Speculoos", and _then_ a cheaper variant got made and they choose the "Speculoos" term for it.

It all just sounds really fitting because the "-loos" suffix in Dutch means "without".

Yes things made with sugar have sugar.