Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit

Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit

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A bunch of years ago I was looking for one of my favorite cookies on the grocery shelves -- Sunshine Raisin Biscuits (Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits) and couldn't find any; even during my travels to many states. Needless to say I was disappointed.

The Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits was a flat, thin, dry segmented sheet of raisin filled cookie/biscuit dough. It is unlike any average cookie. And was great.

Searching the WEB later found that the Keebler Co. and the Sunshine Biscuit Co had merged in around 1998 and later, Keebler discontinued the "Golden Fruit" product line. See:

's why my cookie vanished. Some would say, "that's the way the cookie crumbles" but some enterprising people on the Internet found a British item that was quite similar. It is Crawford's Garibaldi Biscuit. Now it's not 100% the same --but it is pretty close. The cookie is distributed by the United Biscuits in Middlesex, United Kingdom. Actually, it is made in Holland for United Biscuits.

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a News Group someone mentioned that The Vermont CountryStore [See: carried it as a product[See: was expensive, but I had to try it out -- and it was great. Since then I have found a much cheaper source:

British Delights

page: a bulk purchase of 30 packages at The Vermont Country Store would costme: (6 packages of 5) @ $12.95 = $77.70 + $11.95 (s/h) = $89.65 or a cost of $2.99 each

British Delights offers them at: (30 packages of 1) @ $1.56 = $46.80 less 5% for box lot = $44.46 + $10 (s/h) = $54.46 or a cost of $1.82 each

Now that's quite a saving.

If you are interested in renewing your taste or are just curious -- try them out.

Of course, I you visit the UK I believe you can pick up a package of Crawford's Garibaldi for just under $1.

I would love to have Keebler re-introduce their Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuit -- but that would probably take a massive write-in campaign.

Gary Hayman Maryland