Random question about biscuits

[IzzyHandsIsMySpiritAnimal]

If you had to categorise what type of item a biscuit was, in terms of 'essential', 'treat', 'luxury' or so forth, (bad examples I'm thinking of the terminology "Store cupboard essentials"), what would you classify a Rich Tea biscuit as?
Please indulge me - I'm reviewing some potential quiz questions and am not sure the wording around the question is correct.

They would be an essential for me....as are most biscuits 😂

Maybe 'basic' rather than 'essential'? It's a bottom-tier biscuit!

Rich tea biscuits are only bought in this house when someone has had a stomach bug or has been ill and needs to eat very plain food. They're the sick person biscuit for us.....which doesn't really help you. 🤣

Exactly this.

It's a bottom-tier biscuit.

It's not essential, but it's hardly a treat or a luxury. It's one-up from a cracker. Basic.

Rich Tea is a pathetic biscuit. Zero stamina in the dunking stakes.

Luxury is the M&S loaded pistachio cookie. A whopping 500 calories though.

A disappointment?

Rich tea is elevated when dairylea is applied.

Emergency biscuit?
Last resort biscuit?
Penance biscuit?
”I resent you calling to the house without texting me first” biscuit?
It’s sort of the biscuit equivalent of ending an email with “Regards” instead of “Kind Regards” isn’t it? A passive aggressive biscuit.

I hadn’t realised I felt so strongly about this actually.

HTH😂

Basic.

But...

Spread thickly with salted butter and sandwiched together (the way my grandmother used to do it with a very similar Danish biscuit) they become fabulously delicious.

Rich tea I would class as a waste of time. Get me a chocolate hob nob!

I had forgotten that! Now I want some..

Yup, this!

Rich tea is the boring biscuit my kid gets after he's been sick and can't stomach much!

Same!

I would call it basic instead of essential and rich tea would be in the basic category

TBH- If you need advice from MN about a biscuit category, then you need to change your quiz question to make it a clear answer! Not the100 different replies you have from here already.

Personally, I'd call it a plain, basic biscuit.

One???!!! 😳 gosh I’ve eaten these three at a time! 😬 probably explains a lot! 🤭

Are you sure you've eaten three of these at a time? The ones from the in-store bakery, not the boxed ones.

Oh phew!!! I thought you meant the boxed ones 😂

I eat my basic rich tea biscuit with Lindt chocolate so it becomes a luxury biscuit

But do try the bakery one!

A rich tea biscuit is a disappointment.

Do they still make the chocolate Rich Tea? They were good.

On the subject of Marks and Spencer's fancy biscuits does anyone remember the carrot cake cookies? They were marvellous and I think about them far too often.

For me, it's actually a surprising treat biscuit because it's better than expected. Seems no-one agrees. It's presumed to be a basic bitch biscuit, but is actually quite nice. Malted milk are presumed basic also but I love them even more!