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That Yorkshire Tea Advert with Sarah Lancashire?

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ginasevern · 14/04/2026 17:58

If anyone has seen the Yorkshire tea advert with Sarah Lancashire in it, can they please explain it to me. A woman office worker goes to the cupboard at tea break and basically declares that her biscuits have been nicked. Sarah Lancashire, who is playing a security guard, happens to overhear and proceeds to question everyone in the office. It then transpires that it was the original woman (the owner of the biscuits) that had in fact eaten them all and the wrapper was found in her bin. So why did she say they'd been nicked? Was she trying to stitch up her colleagues? Was she just being forgetful? What's the deal?

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MyThreeWords · 14/04/2026 18:00

I think I assumed she was being forgetful. However, your post has made me realise I haven't, in fact, given this enough thought or attention.

JellyMouldJnr · 14/04/2026 18:02

It is a parody of Happy Valley where Sarah Lancashire plays a police detective, that’s the first thing to know.
the second is that it is part of a series of adverts about doing things the proper, Yorkshire way. The joke is that Ito is overkill to get a police detective to search for stolen biscuits. And yes the lady forgot she had eaten them.

Allseeingallknowing · 14/04/2026 18:02

Sarah Lancashire looks very matronly in that ad!

ginasevern · 14/04/2026 18:05

Thanks everyone. And I'm sorry to have planted seeds of doubt about this @MyThreeWords !

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MyThreeWords · 14/04/2026 18:12

Not at all, @ginasevern . It is important to give these matters the attention they deserve. What is wrong with this woman, that she can't monitor her own biscuit consumption?

ginasevern · 14/04/2026 18:16

MyThreeWords · 14/04/2026 18:12

Not at all, @ginasevern . It is important to give these matters the attention they deserve. What is wrong with this woman, that she can't monitor her own biscuit consumption?

Quite. Personally I think she's shifty and this matter hasn't been satisfactorily resolved.

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DappledThings · 14/04/2026 18:17

I don't think she's forgotten. I think she knew she'd eaten them but was hoping someone else would be blamed and have to replace them so she would end up with extra free biscuits.

ginasevern · 14/04/2026 18:20

DappledThings · 14/04/2026 18:17

I don't think she's forgotten. I think she knew she'd eaten them but was hoping someone else would be blamed and have to replace them so she would end up with extra free biscuits.

I think you're on to something! I wasn't buying "forgetfulness" and as I've just said to @MyThreeWords I think she looks decidedly shifty.

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DisplayPurposesOnly · 14/04/2026 18:29

Oh, shifty as hell. I dont think SL falls for it either but lack of evidence blah blah. She'll get her another time...

Butteredtoast55 · 14/04/2026 18:33

DappledThings · 14/04/2026 18:17

I don't think she's forgotten. I think she knew she'd eaten them but was hoping someone else would be blamed and have to replace them so she would end up with extra free biscuits.

This, 100%, and Sarah Lancashire aka Catherine Cawood, is onto her!

namechange62 · 14/04/2026 18:55

I love Sarah Lancashire. And she was brilliant in Happy Valley.. great acting by every character. Good story (even though it was a hard watch sometimes)

likelysuspect · 14/04/2026 18:57

ginasevern · 14/04/2026 17:58

If anyone has seen the Yorkshire tea advert with Sarah Lancashire in it, can they please explain it to me. A woman office worker goes to the cupboard at tea break and basically declares that her biscuits have been nicked. Sarah Lancashire, who is playing a security guard, happens to overhear and proceeds to question everyone in the office. It then transpires that it was the original woman (the owner of the biscuits) that had in fact eaten them all and the wrapper was found in her bin. So why did she say they'd been nicked? Was she trying to stitch up her colleagues? Was she just being forgetful? What's the deal?

Yes, she forgot she ate them. Its a play on what most of us do, eat something and then we forget those calories, they didnt count!!

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