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Someone once said a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand - they could have worked for Checkpoint . This week we've had our snouts in the good old-fashioned Griffins biscuit sampler box that one of our producers bought, and boy, has it brought back the memories. And it's proved controversial.

There used to be a broader selection in the box, and some of you don't agree with the designated survivors. What happened to the Swiss Creme? And didn't the pink wafer used to be a wafer finger? Checkpoint asked people about their Christmas biscuit habits, starting with which one they reach for first. "I wouldn't have that one - hundreds and thousands, not really my thing," one person said.



"Chocolate Wheaten," said another. "I wouldn't do a pink wafer or a chocolate chip," said a third. Some asked what happened to the Cameo Creme.

Griffin's NZ marketing director Hannah McKee said the origin of the sampler box was lost to history, but she had seen a "snippet from a Nelson newspaper which celebrates the sampler with 19 different biscuits in 1931". She said the decisions on which biscuits go in go "all the way to the boardroom". There are presently nine flavours in the sampler.

"Nine's pretty good and it's 86 biscuits in total, so there's plenty in there for friends and family, for sure." She said there had been backlash about which flavours make the cut. "We get people dialling in to our customer services team all the time asking for their favourites to be included.

.. it comes down to on.

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