Patersons Shortbread Reviews 54

Clotted cream shortbread made with rapeseed oil tastes like old frying oil couldn't eat them . Have been a chef for 35 years never written a review before this product gives shortbread a bad name .

Poor shortbread biscuit

I used to love these shortbreads. Then shrinkflation happened. Far too thin and crispy. Stopped buying them now.

Hate to write a bad review but yuk!
I absolutely love shortbread biscuits, a crumbly, buttery treat. Have bought these when all the others have sold out. Ended up feeding them to the birds after tasting them.
Hard, oily and just really unpleasant and nothing like shortbread... If you love shortbread, don't buy these!

Had box of Patersons Heritage & Jam Shortbread biscuits for Christmas and we were looking forwards to eating them, they were in date (March 2024) but they were absolutely ghastly, flavourless, no butter taste whatsoever, the nicest thing was the box with the Scotties on, my hairdresser spat hers down the toilet but the birds ate them. I did complain and received £4 in vouchers but can only buy more Shortbread by the same company, so if that's the case the vouchers are useless like their shortbread.
At least the birds will be well fed, very disappointed to say the least.
They need to look at their recipe and act on it.
Denise Waller

Terrible taste like they’ve gone off, leave horrible after taste, don’t buy, supermarket own brands are the best.

Worst shortbread I’ve ever had - I took one mouthful and then chucked the rest in the bin (along with the rest of the packet).

Definitely won’t be buying it again.

I was very disappointed in Paterson’s new recipe which used clotted cream. There is still some butter in the recipe but I couldn’t taste it and the shortbread has the consistency of a biscuit rather than shortbread.

It certainly doesn’t get my recommendation. The packet still says ‘Britain’s No.1 shortbread’ and i wonder if that refers to sales figures, flavour or something else.

It is certainly off my shopping list!

they took away the butter so it tastes bad

Not buttery...just tastes of oil.
Supermarket own brands far more buttery and tasty.

I don't even call them biscuits but rubbish my wife persists every time in buying new products that they sponsor on TV frankly as soon as I tried to taste one it gave me the impression of tasting a piece of rotten fish then reading the ingredients I was disconcerted palm rapeseed niacin etc etc here's the disgusting taste probably reading the reviews here on trustpilot I deduced that the English have rightly reviewed in a negative way now through advertising sponsors they are trying to place them in Italy but they have done the math very badly however thrown in the undifferentiated absolutely not to buy

No longer a decent shortbread biscuit.
Reduced in size and the texture is nothing like it used to be. Very thin and just like a plain biscuit. Won't be buying any more.

What went wrong? They have made a shortbread fit for the 21st century so like most things these days it is rubbish. This is not short bread it is a cheap but expensive biscuit. What a shame yet, one more of life's pleasures gone and they know full well what they have done. This is not shortbread by any stretch of the imagination.

There is not a lot to say just BAD BAD BAD.
Looks the part but that it, taste like rancid biscuit.
I think the butter was on holiday that day on the made it. What a terrible shortbread

Stills tastes great BUT got 150g pack and goodness me how thin they have become!

Absolutely terrible, they are mostly made with oil and leave a terrible taste in your mouth.
Shortbread cookies are not supposed to contain oil.
They call it rapeseed oil which is just a fancy name for Canola which is the cheapest crap oil that you can buy.
Never again !

We used to buy this shortbread every week unfortunately to reduce the package weight the biscuits were made much thinner. This has resulted in the flavour and texture of the biscuit being compromised. We would have preferred to pay an increased price to the changes. We no longer buy these biscuits.

WORST SHITBREAD EVER! I can’t get the taste from one bite of this shortbread, or in better terms SHITbread out my mouth. I don’t know if I got a bum batch or what but it tasted like there was spoonfuls of baking soda in just one bite. BUY WALKERS.

The shortbread is ok for the price, However i was in Tesco the other day and notice the same buscuits in two different packages.
First thing i looked at was the weight.
New Package and weight has gone from 380g to 300g.
Another large company taking the p and hoping that customers will not notice.
Also going by the way Tesco are bumping up the price on everything in the store (Another scam like there clubcard prices) The price will not stay at £1 for long.
Unfortunitly another product i will never purchase again as not being made a fool off.
Hope everyone else follows suit. Its about time customers stood up and stopped being exploited by large companys.

Shortbread!!!!! Worst shortbread I have ever tasted! Better just getting a bag of flour out and having spoonful. Horrible and a waste of a pound!!!! Do not buy. As for the best selling shortbread! Yes foe people with no bloody taste buds!