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Crucial biscuit question - which are posher: Rich Teas or Custard creams?

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JustineMumsnet · 02/07/2009 13:26

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

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fruitstick · 02/07/2009 20:01

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

differentID · 02/07/2009 19:57

Rich tea are posher, but not posh.

Nice biscuits are posher still.

MaggieBeeBeau · 02/07/2009 19:56

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

morningpaper · 02/07/2009 19:56

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

Goober · 02/07/2009 19:55

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.

MaggieBeeBeau · 02/07/2009 19:53

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

morningpaper · 02/07/2009 19:48

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

SpookyMadMummy · 02/07/2009 19:48

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.

MaggieBeeBeau · 02/07/2009 19:40

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

RedLentil · 02/07/2009 19:20

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.

slyandgobbo · 02/07/2009 19:15

oops sorry, missed the previosu link. doh.

Overmydeadbody · 02/07/2009 19:13

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

slyandgobbo · 02/07/2009 19:09

a website for the folk at HQ Orange clubs, mmmmm

Overmydeadbody · 02/07/2009 19:07

custard creams more common

slyandgobbo · 02/07/2009 19:05

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

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 19:01

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...

yappybluedog · 02/07/2009 18:45

It would NEVER occur to me to buy Tunnocks caramel wafers

Thats a choccy type bar thing surely, not a biscuit

ChippyMinton · 02/07/2009 18:40

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.

FrannyandZooey · 02/07/2009 18:37

i would say custard creams are a bit gay

VintageGardenia · 02/07/2009 18:35

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.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 02/07/2009 18:34

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

MaggieBeeBeau · 02/07/2009 18:27

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.

MaggieBeeBeau · 02/07/2009 18:26

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

Gorionine · 02/07/2009 17:43

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

YeahBut · 02/07/2009 17:40

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.