In rec.food.baking I read this message from "Gary Hayman"
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>Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit
>
>FOR USA AUDIENCE
>
>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: http://www.keebler.com/about/faq_prod.jsp?menuOpen=3
>
>That'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.
>
>SEE PHOTOS:
>http://tinyurl.com/3ch9o
>http://tinyurl.com/2jwpj
>
>In a News Group someone mentioned that The Vermont Country
>Store [See: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com] carried it as a product
>[See: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/p...GroupID=25456].
>
>It was expensive, but I had to try it out -- and it was great.
>
>Since then I have found a much cheaper source:
>
>British Delights [http://www.britishdelights.com]
>[See page: http://www.britishdelights.com/misc_biscuits.htm]
>
>While a bulk purchase of 30 packages at The Vermont Country Store would cost
>me:
>(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
>
There is a similar cookie from Australia that is sold at Trader
Joe's.

Susan Silberstein