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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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Pollyanna · 02/07/2009 17:27

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.

snigger · 02/07/2009 17:23

Is there a hostile takeover of McVities afoot?

McNetties?

GetOrfMoiLand · 02/07/2009 17:22

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.

gibbberish · 02/07/2009 17:20

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

Anyway, plates are the poshest and tunnocks are gorgeous!

gibbberish · 02/07/2009 17:17

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?

lemonpuff · 02/07/2009 17:13

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

gibbberish · 02/07/2009 17:12

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.

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 17:07

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

Swedes · 02/07/2009 17:05

Yes, I think they are aspirational.

Swedes · 02/07/2009 17:04

Countess - @ chocolate orange

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 17:03

well they niver used to be
Have they been chavvified? A la burberry

Swedes · 02/07/2009 17:02

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

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 17:00

look at choc olivers they are damned posh

snigger · 02/07/2009 17:00

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.

damnhayfever · 02/07/2009 16:58

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

damnhayfever · 02/07/2009 16:58

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 16:57

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

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 16:56

surely a chocolate orange would be more suitable

damnhayfever · 02/07/2009 16:56

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

Swedes · 02/07/2009 16:53

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.

Tortington · 02/07/2009 16:51

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

snigger · 02/07/2009 16:50

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

CountessDracula · 02/07/2009 16:47

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

look here

now they are cow biscuits

here

snigger · 02/07/2009 16:45

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.

GetOrfMoiLand · 02/07/2009 16:44

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