So what's it all about (Alfie)? Why are you asking us about biscuits, getting us into newspapers as mc airheads and telling us it's crucial?

We need to know [stern]

Creme Anglais biscuits <snurk>

You need custard cremes to be really posh!

Custard creams are definitely less posh. DH insists on having custard creams, bourbons and jammy dodgers in the house. If they're crawfords he's happiest. I call these his 'common biscuits'.

Me, being posher than dh obviously, bought cadburys chocolate digestives the other day and DH could not believe they were cadburys and not mcvities. He thought me the epitomy of posh. Its a good job I didn't buy green and blacks eh ?!

Cafe Noir are posh

<aspirational>

Rich teas - average. Too boring to bother eating, IMO.

Custard creams - so unposh that I once got a black eye from one that hit me in the face.
Took me a decade before I could eat another one...

This site, Gourmeton is helpful on all food matters I find...

So, where do these fit in? scratches head

For me custard creams are the most aspirational of the two, unless the rich tea biscuits are the chocolate covered ones.
Neither are posh really, you need some hand baked cookies/cream filled macaroons or similar for posh. Belgian chocolate butter cookies....mmmmm yummy.

I love venison. <wipes mouth politely with napkin after dribbling slightly>

I'm not sure I'd like shortbread made with it though [boak]

Nah - commoners make their shortbread with butter up here, wmmc - you can't move for the stuff, which makes it by definition common. But we also get shedloads of vension, and it's often cheaper than beef, so have maybe a different perspective on posh food...

Now Iced Gems and Pink 'n' Whites are very unposh.

Shortbread is by it's nature posh though 50% butter, not your nasty riff raffy vegetable fat

May I widen the MNHQ search for class appropriate snacking pleasure to include tiffin?

Shortbread not posh up here - it's ubiquitous.

oh the suspense....
really wondering what this is all about

I like a nice Bronte biscuit myself. Does anyone else get Bronte biscuits... usually in a cafe? Dead, dead posh.

well we had a complete disaster in the hat household last night. dh is still recovering from the awfulness of it all. he came home from Tesco's (and I reserve my right to have an apostrophe and an s on that) with PLAIN hob-nobs . he was devastated.

but there's a sliver lining - equally shocking - I have discovered that I prefer them . I don;t get it. I adore chocolate, but feel that plain hob nobs have a whole crumbly biscuity quality that the chocolate ones lack.

Dunking is what we do with common witches Leningrad . Not with biscuits.

Which means RT must be posher because I'm sure posh people don't dunk biscuits in tea, or at least not when anyone is watching. I have no such shame.

Dunkability is the litmus test for me; if they break up they're no good, so custards win.

What were those Peak Frean ones called? Two circles of biscuit, sandwiching a pink cream. Had a little hole in the middle of the top biscuit?

They were pretty horrible. But not as horrible as custard creams.

Now, Fox's Millionaire Caramel Shortbreads - there's a classy biscuit <drools>

Rich Teas are on a par white bread, custard creams are the Deliverance-Banjo-Boy of the biscuit world.

If you are going to do biscuits you want to find something with integrity like a Chocolate Hobnob.
IMHO

DH is from a posh family. He says that biscuits as a rule aren't posh at all (if posh you would serve small cakes).

Custard creams are the most downmarket as they are trying to be fancy (like souping up a Ford Escort).

(starting to feel outclassed here)

Let's be honest, quality people don't offer biscuits after 11am - for afternoon small cakes or shortbread should be served rather than biscuits (and no, Jaffa cakes don't count).

In extremis, I suppose you could crush the rich tea biscuits as a base for cheesecakes .

Re: fig rolls, is this a vegetarian alternative to parma ham covered figs?

ahhhh choco leibnitz.........

<swallows hard>

Sadly no.

Does it involve free biscuits Justine? <hopeful>

Seems our consensus is that custard creams are the commonest biscuit of all, and Rich Tea are merely plain Janes. Thanks everyone (though you're all wrong). More on this to follow [woman of mystery emoticon].

Rich Tea.

Custard Creams are just a poor substitute for a Bourbon Cream.

I think those little thin gingery ones with almonds in are quite posh. RT definitely posher than CC, though.

Florentines are quite posh as a tea accompaniment.

Neither.
for uber-poshicity you'd have to go for a garibaldi or a fig roll. or something hand cooked from prince charles.

custard creams are a bit chevesque and rich teas are just middle aged and a bit dull.

digestives or hobnobs are more of a working man's biscuit.

nice or malted milk - middle class

choco leibniz are in the same league as a viscount or a kitkat. not really a biscuit at all.

I spend far too much time in the biscuit aisle.

Lupus - I agree Choco Leibniz are naff. Mannerschnitten are quite Von Posh in an Austro-Hungarian empire kind of way.

Neither are posh.

Custard creams are tastier than 'not enough spit in the world' Rich Teas.

Asda Smartprice custard creams are the superiorerest of all custard creams! FACT!

What custard creams are not vile or minging - how very dare you!!!

I don't think either are I think you might have to go down the hob nob (how is it spelt not posh enough to have any in the cupboard)

Actually now i think about it when we are talking in work about what biscuits we'd be if we were a biscuit one of the guys told me I'd be a Rich Tea because I'm posh (I'm posh merely because I'm english - DH almost wet himself laughing when I relayed this information to him - slightly offended I was!!)

Oh come on. Choco Leibniz are the Ferrero Rocher of the biscuit world.

RT posher than CC
Garibaldi posher than fig rolls but both get left in biscuit barrel
JD posher than PR but there's nowt better than sucking the polyfilla off the top of a party ring

Custard creams are as common as muck

Rich tea deffo. But the poshest are Garibaldi.

Even I can't work my way through 244 posts on biscuits, but I would agree with whoever said that shortbread is frightfully posh compared with all other biscuits. Even Duchy Originals (in the same way that true aristos think that the Royal family are actually not all that posh).

Anzac biscuits are nice, and posh in a old-lady-putting-them-on-a-doily way.

animal biscuits? <puts cat amongst pigeons with this site!!> party rings nice too!

Maggie, I was taught that trick on a Buddhist Retreat! Apparently its ^the done thing^ in Australia with a certain type of biscuit. I find it works best with a twix and I have taught it to everyone in work who all agree it is an excellent way to eat biscuits but probably not in front of your Granny! The inside goes all nice and soft and warm, the toffee goes gooey and the chocolate melts on the outside - its fab!

There is a certain technique to it though...

Twix straws are the way forward in biscuits IMO.

Neither are posh, they're common as muck!

....also....
Party rings Not Vegetarian

yeah, I'm having difficulty processing the leibniz not posh revelation too....

what?????
choco leibniz not posh?

DD2 advises- custard creams posher because of
1. baroque detailing
2. more components

suspect this is because of her time wasted on the 'nice cup of tea and a sit down website'.

Or maybe I am thinking of Pokky?

mikado, yum, spesh banana ones

I will have to say it again: Choco Leibniz are NOT POSH.

I loathe Mikado- I'm not a fan of coconut.

Kimberley biscuits, however- different case completely.

Ah, they had a bakery in Liverpool- that will be why we used to have them so much as kids. I haven't noticed any in years

Maggie, you are a girl after my own heart. Only in the privacy of my own home you understand.

The day I teach DSs to do it will be an important one

and I give you the mikado

I thank you

Rich tea are posher, but not posh.

Nice biscuits are posher still.

Hey, do you ever nibble a tiny bit off each end of your chocolate finger, stick it in to your tea and suck up just enought tea so that the whole biscuit is tea-soaked, and then pop the lot into your gob/?

just me?

Now I never kidded myself that that was posh

tunnocks are nice if you are vegetarian because you can chew them like a nice steak

Rich Tea deffo posher as you don't get the urge to open them up and lick and poke the cream like ya do with the custard cream.

They are too chewy for me. I have to be in the right mood to chew. I prefer a nice piece of shortbread tbh

I used to give my first huband Tunnocks in his lunchbox

I don't have any further opinions though

I am slightly uncomfortable with the whole biscuit class system to be honest

I am more comfortable with biscuit theology

Mm interesting debate.

I don;t recall seeing ginger nuts on this thread...

The biscuits of choice here, posh or not, are chocolate covered Rich Teas. Yum.

I'm not very patriotic. I think they're a bit spongey.

BitofFun - they are Mikado biscuits and tis patriotic duty of all children here in Ireland to eat them and offer them to their grandmothers.

The less pretty, but more sophisticated Kimberley is near relation.

oops sorry, missed the previosu link. doh.

Maggie, those are not posh, they are middle class aspirational biscuits. They are too German to be posh

a website for the folk at HQ Orange clubs, mmmmm

custard creams more common

Those blobs of marshmallow biscuits are very gay. Can't remember what they are called. Fig rolls also gay. And party rings.

What were those biscuits with three little blobs of marshmallow in two rows divided by a line of jam and sprinkled with dessicated coconut? It's been bugging me all afternoon...

It would NEVER occur to me to buy Tunnocks caramel wafers

Thats a choccy type bar thing surely, not a biscuit

Having read the thread I propose the theory that the more scottish the biscuit, the posher it is - shortbread in order of complexity (ie petticoat tails, stamped with a thistle, fingers)followed closely by Tunnocks teacakes and caramel wafers.

i would say custard creams are a bit gay

I think the frugal, slightly Spartan qualities of Rich Tea make em posher than the Custard Creams.

I don't think anyone has already linked to A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - the biscuit review archive but it's quite an important site.

I think cc are common,
i think Rich tea are posher but saying that is like polishing a turd.

sorry, my link didn't work. it's the liebniz dark chocolate biscuits. like a rectangular rich tea biscuit with dark choc on one side. Very posh.

I remember thinking ooooooh you're quite posh aren't you when I was offered these the dark chocolate ones

Has to be Bourbons for me, Custard Cream are nice but I would be able to resist one. Resisting a Bourbon is impossible!

The only truly posh biscuit is homemade shortbread.
Rich tea posher than cc.
Garibaldi posher than fig roll.
Tunnocks caramel wafers are not biscuits, they are the food of Gods.

I think only biscuits with cheese (carrs water biscuits for eg) are posh.

other biscuits are common.

I am partial to a nice bit of shortbread myself.

Bath olivers sound as though they should be posh.

Is there a hostile takeover of McVities afoot?

McNetties?

Malted Milk that's it!

I think Mumsnet are being visited on by minor royalty (Princess Michael of Kent, Countess of Wessex, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands?) and want to put on a posh spread.

Oh I see, the answer will be revealed...

Anyway, plates are the poshest and tunnocks are gorgeous!

Oh and NOT fig rolls. And Jammie dodgers more posh.

Off to read the rest to see what other biscuit questions there are.

Why are you asking anyway? <curious>

My brothers use to call garabaldis 'dead fly biscuits'!! Guess which we had when it was my turn to chose....

lol at this. Well after careful consideration (of all of 2 seconds) I would ahve to say custard creams. Simply because rich tea are very boring. And I don't even like to dunk them in my tea. Mushy biscuits ugh.

ooh
oh well fortunately I never buy them
I remember them being rather delicious though
fuck me they are a tenner

Yes, I think they are aspirational.

Countess - @ chocolate orange

well they niver used to be
Have they been chavvified? A la burberry
<fans self>

Countess - I think they're posh like Posh Spice is posh.

Biscuits in literature:

When I read What Katy Did At School, the tale of the Christmas box with a top layer of cake and 'Debbie's Jumbles' I wasted several weeks craving a jumble, despite not knowing what it was.

So, for me, jumbles are the biscuit of legend - I must google. I bet they're grim.

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

chocolate olivers are the poshest biscuits known to man I think you will find

surely a chocolate orange would be more suitable

no disagree rich tea deffo posher
sports bics great still very cheap
choc malted milk yum yum
chocolate leiboniz(however its spelt)poshest !

Justine - Everyone with a family sporting estate in the Highlands knows about Tunnocks.

Really the only bought biscuit with proper posh credentials is an oatcake. And for reminiscing about childhood, a toff might buy a packet of those little chocolate covered marshmallows (just like the governess used to serve after a coddled egg and soliders at high tea). They are always displayed beside the till in M&S, I think so Tory MPs and other ex boarders can pick up a packet as a perfect pick-me-up after their evening of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

ooh i now remember chocolate animal biscuits - i never had them except at other kids houses cos mi mum was too tight

I didn't realise they'd actually renamed them.

cow biscuits
you must remember them
they used to call them malted milk

look here

now they are cow biscuits

here

Is no-one on here going to admit to eating crumbly-edged organic home-style 40p-per-inch biscuits?

I think chocolate cow biscuits are the very pinnacle of biscuit-production, those and apple-pie cookies - they have chewy dried apply bits and are guaranteed to break into rubble and land firmly down your cleavage, and they rub.

Don't remember the cow biscuits at all, but remember the excitement of the sports biscuit packet when I was young, bright green with corrugated cardboard liner, and the smell of the milky biscuits <proustian moment>

Rich Tea, Custard Creams are as common as moooook.

yes
I loved them
they are the same as cow biscuits but with sports people

Does anyone remember Sports biscuits. Milky flavour biscuits with pictures of stick men doing various track and field sports on them. They were yum. Didn't actually see the point of the sports symbols, but still.

Custard creams were our builders' biscuit of choice - seriously they got through several packets a day when doing our bathroom - does that make them posh biscuits ?

Think rich teas are slightly posher but of course milk chocolate hob nobs are the creme de la creme...

Jammie Dodgers???
I think they use some petro-chemical process by-product for the jam in those
It tastes foul and very artificial
{mouth like cat's arse}

@hatwoman All will become clear - hopefully some time next week [mysterious].

neither are remotely posh! but I'd sooner have a custard cream than a Rich Tea. Bourbons are posher, imo, but you have to get up to Viscounts before you're talking real class

My faves are Bahlsen's Choco Leibniz though. Dark.

ah, there you see. I can make any biscuit common by 'dunkin'' So maybe it's not what you eat but the way you eat it.... or the way you describe the act of eating it.

Any talk about dunking is an abomination and you should be ashamed of yourself . Honestly a thread about poshness of biscuits and people sully it with the dunking abberation.

Don't dunk your biscuits, it's a vile habit and you end up with soggy biscuit remnants at the bottom of your cuppa tea <shudder>

<puts soapbox away>

Loving Custardo's summary

custard creams - much better with tea

dxx

hob nobs SAS of biscuit world

and in fact fig rolls were the post-Mass biscuit of choice when I were a nipper.

rich tea "one dips"

I had forgotten the Theology of Biscuits, Lupus!

for a fuller explaination one should see peter kay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc it is the biscuit bible

No, you're too English to know about Tunnocks, Justine...

Anyway, how about the rarely-spotted Chocolate Rich Tea?

Mint Viscounts are common. Orange ones are yummy....

one needs to be technical with a question like this. Firstly we should define its purpose.

1) to look nice on a plate on a plate for guests

2) dunking

3) taste

4) method of eating

for a nice plain, understated biscuit for guests at MNHQ it should be the rich tea. It says " we have thought of you" rather than "try not to get crumbs on you tie/frilly blouse"

for dunking purposes again i have to vote rich tea. One cannot dunk a custard cream in earnest. The reason for the dunk is to get sufficient soak to bite ratio. There are better biscuits on the market for this purpose for example, the dunk of a plain chocolate digestive into ones brew leaves not only the corect soak to bite ratio - but also melted chocolate to leave a velvet satisfying blend in ones gob- but between these two rich tea it has to be

for taste one should choose the custard cream. it is far amiable to the palette than the dry basic rich tea. however there are better on the market ( see chocolate digestive above)

the most satisfying in terms of method of eating ( if chocolate digestive isn't in the running) is teh custard cream.

one must seperate the two biscuits - not causing breakage ( breakage spoils the experience) we are then left with a plain biscuit and a biscuit with the custard cream.

one must then eat the custard cream by scraping ones front teeth across the top. this gives small curls of cream in ones mouth and the gnawing sensation is pleasing.

the ain is to eat as much of the cream as possible without actually breaking the biscuit below. when we are left with a small amount on the biscuit - we must then begin to lick the remainder - however we must not break the biscuit below.

we are then left with two plain biscuits. you must eat one and give the other to the dog.

when applying these principles to jammy dodgers and ice rings

dodgers look nicer on a plate
ice rings look cheap and tacky

neither should be dunked

jammy dodgers wins on taste

and jammy dodger method of eating is similar to custard cream - hence wins.

in face the ice ring is an abomination to biscuit kind.

Do you lot know there are wars and things going on in the world and you are all here waffling away about the poshness or otherwise of biscuits. No wonder the world is in the state it is. Sigh.

I love custard creams. We can buy them here in Budapest in Tesco. With bourbons. And choc hob nobs and Nice biscuits and rich tea fingers. So I think that answers your question. The demographic of the Tesco customer here in Hungary cannot ever be described as posh. In fact the new Tesco near us runs free shuttle buses from real Eastern European style tower blocks.

They do also sell Choco Liebnitz too.

Christ this thread moved on...

Can I just mention Maryland Cookies - the ones in a purple packet. Best biscuits ever.

When I was a kid you used to be able to buy Maryland Cookies in a bag, that way you didn't have to tussle with a packet fgs, you could grab a handful of cookies at a time, a lot better way to eat biscuits I am sure you will agree.

Gerry's got Jammy Dodgers, I've got Viscounts - need I say more ?

I'm too posh to know about Tunnocks...

not read whole thread but they are both a bit common, I should know I was practicaly brought up on them

If you are needing biscuits at MN towers to impress visitors, those are not the ones you want to be considering.

Prince Charles' lemon biscuits are quite refined.

Camilla makes them herself, bless 'er

Having just skimmed the rest of the thread, I also want to add that although neither fig-rolls nor Garibaldi are posh, Garibaldi are man-biscuits, and therefore below my personal radar regardless of status.

Seriously, name me anyone without hairy knuckles that eats Garibaldi for pleasure?

Rich tea. Custard is common. Creme anglais bakes, they should be, if you want posh.

I have long thought that custard creams were the biggest waste of calories ever invented.

So long as neither are from a 25p for a 100 'value' range, and are McVities, then either will do for a cuppa with your neighbour. Posh would be stretching it. But a lack of hydrogenated fats is always a bonus when aiming for posh.

Rich Teas are posher. I was courted by being offered a custard cream. I am really common.

Well, if you have to ask . . .

Is that a dunked or undunked Rich Tea biscuit?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/783580-What-39-s-your-favourite-sandwich-filling

Voila.

right-oh

I've started a whole nother thread for sarnies.

tinned salmon?
boak boak boak
I get it for the dog sometimes - it smells like rancid cat food

See now, two threads for teh price of one HQ. If you fillet this thread carefully, you can get the Mumsnet Guide to Sandwiches and the MN Guide to Biscuits out of it!

pmsl at slyandgobbo - only just saw that

ooooooh BOF you rotter <runs to shop for tin of salmon and a cue>

Justine OBVIOUSLY rich teas
I can't believe you have to ask <tsk>

Why?

Oh but tinned salmon and cucumber...that is the sandwich of kings, surely < salivates >

Plate!!! you should display your rich tea and party rings on a silver platter, have you no class

That surprises me about tuna and cucumber - the cucumber actually makes the tuna taste too fishy in my view.

I may well bitoffun

Although I did of course mean glutton not gluten!

No, the clear favourite was tuna and cucumber, or bacon.

I reckon by definition biscuits aren't really posh.

But if a biscuit is to have any pretensions to poshness it must be plain and dull looking. And probably should taste of almonds.

Oooh, fruitstick, impeccable logic...have you ever considered writing an etiquette book?

I know I know - thsi whole thread will go on and on and on, with HQ throwing us the odd hook, and then, lightly edited, will hit the shops as the Mumsnet Guide to Biscuits

cc

Plate signifies meanness as you are signifying that you have more biscuits than you are prepared to offer.

A packet indicates that you are such a gluten they never have chance to go off or don't care about crumbs everywhere.

Therefore - tin.

I bet you didn't get many for egg mayonnaise.

arrowroots are a refined choice

In my clubbing days, my mate Debs and I used to approach random strangers and ask them what their favourite sandwich filling was.

People would take it REALLY seriously, and often go away and think about it before coming back with their answers.

Bonkers. But quite interesting. 6'5 tattooed bald men saying their favourite was shaved parmesan and sundried toms on focaccia, for example.

Maryland only work if you soak them in quite a lot of tea, ime.
I'd like a nice chocolate milkshake, wouldn't you, hatwoman? Or.... a coke float... Or a really nice iced coffee with icercream in it.

chocolate digestive: milk or plain?

Plate BTW. Or better still, a biscuit tin/jar.

I absolutely forbid a thread about ice cream. I have just eaten a mountain of chocolate and if we start talking about ice cream I'll have to go to the ice cream shop and clog my artieries up even more.

We keep a pack of Tunnocks Caramel wafers in the pantry for FIL visits. He's quite posh.

Personally I like Maryland cookies but then I am shamelessly vulgar.

Also we all know you live on sprouts and humous at HQ and have to clean up any crumbs with one of those mini-Henrys...

out of the 2, I would say Rich teas are less common than Custard Creams

Yes, Kirstie is prob closer to Wayne but surely she would be able to detect the closest thing to "home-made" (while not actually doing it herself)

Most of these biscuits are terrible . Except anything by tunnocks.
Is too hot for biscuits also. What about a thread about ice cream?

Surely any biscuit with its name printed on it is to be sniffed at?

You make them yourself and arrange them on a delicate bone china plate with a doyley (sp?). At least thats what FILs desperately pretentious gf does!

Custard Creams definately, but then Oreos are better.

All will be revealed in due course, we promise <cryptic>

<passes Gerry a Choco-Lebnitz while Justine's not looking>

Actually, I bet they've got someone in from McVities and they're using phrases like "enhanced branding opportunities" and "dissemination of key messages"

Is it a slow day at MN Towers?

yy, hatwoman's point...
Stop toying with us HQ

slyandgoob sneaked in there before I pressed post.

Nah, they're all pissed (again)

you know what the best thing about this thread is? as far as I can see no-one has queried why mn needs to know. everyone's waded in with their opinions. we really would do anything for mn.

if this is an mn-towers competition to see who can come up with the most ridiculous question and get the most answers my trust will be severely eroded...

wtf, are you writing an article for the DM, HQ? Or what?

Both equally common.

<sulks as needs a party ring and they don't do gluten free ones>

Actually no, custard creams are more common.

tunnocks are not common they are an authentic artisanal scottish product and they sell them in waitrose.

Custard Creams very Anglican apparently. According to one MP...



Does that help at all?

Wayne Hemingway is retro Pseud chic though- closer to Kirstie than Wayne Rooney, for example.

Found it, now in MN Classics!

enjoy...

I think you need morningpaper, justabout, Iorek, habbibu etc: didn't they have a loooong spiritual discussion about biscuits one time?

Custard creams are common as muck and strictly for kids or biddies.

They remind me of my afterschool club when I was a kid (it was common), where we'd get a luke warm beaker of Kiora and a supermarket own brand custard cream

Rich tea are quite common, too. And they taste like sawdust.

You need a box of nice biscuits to be posh, dahlings.

Not packet or plate but TIN

Haven't read rest of thread but neither are posher.

I would say rich tea are nicer. DC would say custard creams.

If Wayne is the litmus at one end of the scale, surely Kirstie is at the other end?

I see we agree on the plate issue BitOfFun

Straight from the packet.

Plate (with or without doily) HORRIBLY try-hard.

Tin at a push (although they don't last that long in this house).

A bit of chipped fine bone china, royal worcester or something, both posh and common.

I know Old Etonians who eat Tunnocks, so they are not class-defined.
I think that HQ needs to consult the Oracle of Biscuits.

I am sorry but you cannot have a posh biscuit from a pack (unless to go with cheese). To be posh it has to be homemade.

It's got to be plate- a plate is posh and pretentious, hence common at the same time.

Om nom nom.

And <raises bar> posh or not, packet or plate?

tunnocks dead common

rich tea, garibaldis and jammie dodgers

I bet Reality is doing that right now...

Party Rings are not neater to eat. the nuclear icing shatters and drops bits all down your cleavage <empirical research evidence>

Boco, that has to be the funniest advert I have ever seen

lol at Wayne The Litmus.

no bisquit is posh when you have left in your tea to long and half falls on your t-shirt

See fruitstick, that's why I thought Wayne would like them. And they are neater to eat.

Always the Dodgers as I would say party rings are strictly a children's food (party, if you will) which adults may may only eat if a child is nearby whereas the Jammy Dodger is multigenerational.

Ooh, that's a tough one,

Jammie Dodgers are not posh, but posher than party rings I think.

I would say Garibaldo posher than Fig roll but it's close,
I ahve never heard of Tunnocks caramel wafers but was a deprived child and brought up on homemade biscuits.

Custard Creams are common next to Rich Tea! but neither are what I'd call posh!

Now Lupus, I was thinking on the same lines as you, but I was thinking Wayne would choose party rings...is he the litmus?

Jammie dodgers and party rings neck and neck - both are extremely posh.

I couldn't possibly choose between the two.

Dodgers at a push, but only for the jam content. I like a biscuit you can dismantle.

Oh I LOVE party rings. They are nicer, and a bit posher, in an ironic postmodern way perhaps?

Jammy Dodgers though probably edge it with their retro appeal (Wayne Hemingway would choose them for example). Party Rings a bit nouveau too (although taste nicer)...

SEE! 4 million sold every week. And look what a healthy nation it is!

My om nom nom was to the wafers, not the policemen and oral sex, btw.

OK, now for the REALLY important one....

Jammie Dodgers versus Party Rings?

And <splutters> by the way: Choco Leibniz are NOT posh. They are very nouveau Hyacinth Bucket.

Wot Seeker said are yer actual posh.

No only madelaines, surely fruitbeard.

TCW - I know of these beauties nom nom nom, especially the plain chocolate ones <scoffs the whole packet>

Wrong! Tunnocks caramel wafers are baby led weaning food where I come from. Hence all the cavities too.

Here Om nom nom

Whaaat? Does Justine have heat stroke? Everyone has heard of tunnocks caramel wafers - what other biscuit gets policeman simulating oral sex in the street?
tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/tunnocks-caramel-wafer/

Tunnocks are lush.

I'm just waiting for BonsoirAnna to find this thread and tell us what the posh nobs are snacking on in Paris.... or don't they do anything so common as eat biscuits over there?

Ooh, teacakes <yum>. You have to pick all the chocolate off and eat it first before stuffing the marshmallowy bit in yer mouth whole and eating the biscuit base last.

There's posh.

HOW can she say such a thing?? Clearly she is not Scottish or knows anyone who is. Hasn't she read the wrapper where it is 5 billion are sold ever minute of some such thing??

Tunnocks Caramel Wafers (and their lesser known siblings, Tunnock's Caramel Logs) are the biscuits of the Gods. But they are not posh!

Rich tea are posher than cc. Garibaldis posher than fig rolls

My Ds thinks that my dad is amazing cos he has a packet of custard creams by the bed, and lets DS eat them in their bed.

I want the Waitrose Free From team on to talk about the important things like why don't they do a decent GF jammy dodger

Yes, I know those! Tunnocks teacakes are nicer though. If a leetle common as well...

I have three packet of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers in my cupboard RIGHT NOW. They are my biscuit of choice.



And at BoF.

tunnocks caramel wafers rock!

Justine says no one has ever heard of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers! Right or wrong?

< reads Reality's post >

< cancels plans for a proper dinner >

< reads Reality's post >

< cancels plans for a proper dinner >

yes forget the fish, it's the biscuits that matter, fgs!!

Carr's water biscuits
Bath Olivers
Oatcakes
Langues du Chat

These are all posh biscuits.

Can we have a webchat with the waitrose biscuit buyer to discuss this? Are garibaldies even sustainable? Where are they farmed fgs?

None of them are posh. But Rich Teas are posher than custard creams, and fig rolls (although absolutely vile-tasting) are posher than garibaldi's

yappybluedog - yes but they're also known as 'squashed fly biscuits' which is downright disgusting, not posh!

Garibaldis are least posh because you have to do self-separating, they don't even come ready separate. And people invariably make a mess of it and you get only half a biscuit, or a corner missing. Fig rolls are not posh but at least there's no mauling to be done.

And rich tea posher than custard creams because the cream bit is scutter.

Jaffa cakes are THREE of your five a day, you know.

Cake, fruit AND chocolate. If you have it with gin and a fag, that's all five sorted

Good logic, BoF. But it really is marginal because you can imagine someone eating either of them and thinking "this is one of my 5 a day".

If a biscuit is named after an Italian national military hero, then by default it is posh

oi justine
have i missed a webchat

Garibaldis are more common than figrolls, because I can imagine being able to buy a couple of them in cellophane at a service station. So figrolls are marginally posher.

Yes, garibaldi def posher.

Fig rolls better.

In the biscuit world, posh does not mean better.

The plainer the posher - CC's are a bit 'new money' frankly. If you really want posh, get cook to whip you up some shortbread <goes back to Horse and Hound>

I ate a whole packet of fig rolls by accident the other day <burps politely>

Garibaldis definitely posher. Fig rolls are lovely but very council-house-in-the-1980s.

listen MN HQ
go for plain to be posh

nothing more delish than plain choc digestives

But you are not posh.
posh people like ME have black tea and plain biscuits

its like any adornement is rough

that's difficult, that is

I would say fig roll less posh

Dunking <thud>

For preference, I would have a custard cream. Why would you eat a Rich Tea, they are like eating paving slabs. Vile.

Why don't you really push the boat out and get some chocolate digestives (plain choc though <controversial>)

Rich tea with squirty cream and a sweet gherkin <delish>

Not posh, like, but tasty .

Ok, this time Garabaldis and fig rolls. So neither posh but which is less posh?

RICH TEAS are like a plain tuile kind of biscuit

cc are deffo chavvy

<gavel>

ooh rich tea

Have been giving this some more thought. If you are thinking in terms of a meeting scenario, the rich tea does require dunking which may place it below the custard cream.

Think they are both a bit charlady common, ackcherly <awaits banishment from site>

I think you need to buy something like Butter Thins from Fortnum & Mason to qualify as posh.

Agree that Choco Liebniz and Boasters are the luscious biscuits of choice, but only if you scran the whole packetful at a time. Not for sharing dear god no.

Neither of them are posh.

But why would anyone want a rich tea if there are custard creams on offer?

Hmmm, Rich Tea is posher, agree that CC are a bit too bling to be posh.

What on earth is going on in MN Towers?

I'm thinking rich tea are slightly posher too.

Damn you MN, I have to go and buy biscuits now

If in doubt, rich tea. Just because there's so little difference between the cheap ones and the branded.

Ooh, can I <gavel> please?

Of the two, definitely the custard creams. A cult classic.

Both are decidely un-posh but if you had to choose, I'd say RT have a very slight edge.

I guess rich tea are a bit posher than custard creams (or cricket biscuits as they are know in our house, for some reason they are prized above all other biscuits!), and I know a lot of mums who would balk at giving their lo's a custard cream but don't mind a rich tea, because they are boring less sugary.

well, i always judge a biscuits poshness on the ones that children won't choose

so deffo Rich Tea, in this instance

If you closed your eyes and ate a bourbon or a custard cream, or any of those other cheapy creamy ones, you'd think they were all one- which they obviously are, with a bit of nasty colouring added....
So it must be Rich Tea. Though I'd wager a Morning Coffee posher still than a Rich Tea.

Choco-Leibniz most definitely the phwoarrrr-better-than-sex biscuit. With really chunky Boasters a close second.....

both vile

rich tea

custard creams are for pseudo snobs

I would also say the rich tea finger is more classy than the round one.

This is keeping me from important tidying

No you may NOT suggest Digestives Fruitstick!

CC are a bit "bling" with their fancy sides, so they err on chav

<rushes back to V chat>

Unless you want an MN wide custard cream shortage PLEASE don't open them when I'm around

Custard creams would appear to be marginally more expensive than rich tea. However, you can buy a bigger pack of CC then you can RT, thus making them cheaper than RT. Also, you can buy Tesco's Value RT in a separate pack, but if you want value CCs you need to buy a "biscuit barrel" pack which included Nice, Malted Milk and Bourbons as well.

which proves that, er, I have too much time on my hands....

HTH.

I think you need to further define 'posh' - landed gentry posh, nouveau riche posh?
<this is bugging me now>

I'd go for rich tea.

CC definitely an economy biscuit.
Rich Tea, whilst certainly not out to impress, could potentially show an understated class against the glitzy showiness of a taste the difference cookie.

May I suggest the Digestive?

neither ... but rich tea do at least have dullness simplicity in their favour, whereas custard creams have a fun-tackiness - linked to theb desire to take the sarni apart and lick off the cream. I can imagine an ad agency (or similar) offering custard creams out of a sense of retro-chic. BUT custard creams are also tackier. God it's really tricky isn't it?

CC!!!!!

Yes we know neither are posh SD! That wasn't the question...

Ok put it another way then - which are more dirt common?

CC are minging and not at all posh.
rich tea are just boring and plain and show a distinct lack of imagination.

I'm not sure either are posh

I would say a choco leibnitz is a posh biscuit and a bourbon is dead common

<obviously both/all biscuits are lovely - apart from Rich Tea which is like eating sweet MDF>

When I had tea with an Earl he served Rich Teas but there wasn't a custard cream in sight. Does that help?

Neither!

CC are vile.

RT are trying to be afternoon tea-ey gentile but failing dismally.

rich teas deffo

most bizarre question ive heard all morning...and ive got 4 kids asking me weird stuff today

neither

Good lord, neither are posh!

We're split down the middle at HQ and it's more important than you think!