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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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LupusinaLlamasuit · 02/07/2009 14:27

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

Does that help at all?

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 14:26

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

LupusinaLlamasuit · 02/07/2009 14:26

Found it, now in MN Classics!

enjoy...

LupusinaLlamasuit · 02/07/2009 14:24

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

MrsMattie · 02/07/2009 14:22

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.

Boco · 02/07/2009 14:21

Not packet or plate but TIN

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 02/07/2009 14:19

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

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

squeaver · 02/07/2009 14:19

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

Cadelaide · 02/07/2009 14:19

I see we agree on the plate issue BitOfFun

RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion · 02/07/2009 14:18

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Cadelaide · 02/07/2009 14:18

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

Lilymaid · 02/07/2009 14:17

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

theITgirl · 02/07/2009 14:17

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.

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 14:17

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

RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion · 02/07/2009 14:15

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HelenMumsnet · 02/07/2009 14:15

And posh or not, packet or plate?

Cadelaide · 02/07/2009 14:15

tunnocks dead common

Cadelaide · 02/07/2009 14:14

rich tea, garibaldis and jammie dodgers

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 14:14

I bet Reality is doing that right now...

LupusinaLlamasuit · 02/07/2009 14:14

Party Rings are not neater to eat. the nuclear icing shatters and drops bits all down your cleavage

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 14:13

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

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HelenMumsnet · 02/07/2009 14:12

lol at Wayne The Litmus.

jumpingbeans · 02/07/2009 14:11

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

BitOfFun · 02/07/2009 14:11

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

fruitstick · 02/07/2009 14:10

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.

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