What's the deal with these fecking jammy dodgers?

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I've been on MN a while now but I still have no idea why you keep giving biscuits to people... what's that all about?

It's something to do with "you're taking the biscuit" after Gordon Brown avoided a question in a MN web chat about his favourite biscuit (I think)

I always thought it was an anus as in "you're an arsehole"

I wondered what the thread was about as I see bastard jammy dodgers in every shop I go in. All I want is a Happy Face and they don't make them anymore

I thought it was an arshole too.

I use it as one

It’s also used as the MN version of ‘put a sock in it’, I think.

Thought you were going to say they'd changed the recipe for jammy dodgers. Don't scare me like that 😥

Sorry for the panic @DontGoIntoTheLongGrass

@Rockbird pretty sure you can still get those happy face ones in those red family boxes of biscuits... y'know, the crappy ones you give to people you don't really like at Christmas.

Thanks everyone! Although now all I'll see is an anus every time I see a biscuit 👍 

Regardless of true origin, its contextual usage has led me to translate it as MN shorthand for 'you're a tit'.