Crucial biscuit question - which are posher: Rich Teas or Custard creams?

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We're split down the middle at HQ and it's more important than you think!

I'm not very patriotic. I think they're a bit spongey.

Mm interesting debate.

I don;t recall seeing ginger nuts on this thread...

The biscuits of choice here, posh or not, are chocolate covered Rich Teas. Yum.

I used to give my first huband Tunnocks in his lunchbox

I don't have any further opinions though

I am slightly uncomfortable with the whole biscuit class system to be honest

I am more comfortable with biscuit theology

They are too chewy for me. I have to be in the right mood to chew. I prefer a nice piece of shortbread tbh

Rich Tea deffo posher as you don't get the urge to open them up and lick and poke the cream like ya do with the custard cream.

tunnocks are nice if you are vegetarian because you can chew them like a nice steak

Hey, do you ever nibble a tiny bit off each end of your chocolate finger, stick it in to your tea and suck up just enought tea so that the whole biscuit is tea-soaked, and then pop the lot into your gob/?

just me?

Now I never kidded myself that that was posh

Rich tea are posher, but not posh.

Nice biscuits are posher still.

Maggie, you are a girl after my own heart. Only in the privacy of my own home you understand.

The day I teach DSs to do it will be an important one

and I give you the mikado

I thank you

Ah, they had a bakery in Liverpool- that will be why we used to have them so much as kids. I haven't noticed any in years

I loathe Mikado- I'm not a fan of coconut.

Kimberley biscuits, however- different case completely.

mikado, yum, spesh banana ones

I will have to say it again: Choco Leibniz are NOT POSH.

Or maybe I am thinking of Pokky?

what?????
choco leibniz not posh?

DD2 advises- custard creams posher because of

1. baroque detailing
2. more components

suspect this is because of her time wasted on the 'nice cup of tea and a sit down website'.

yeah, I'm having difficulty processing the leibniz not posh revelation too....

....also....
Party rings Not Vegetarian

Neither are posh, they're common as muck!

Maggie, I was taught that trick on a Buddhist Retreat! Apparently its the done thing in Australia with a certain type of biscuit. I find it works best with a twix and I have taught it to everyone in work who all agree it is an excellent way to eat biscuits but probably not in front of your Granny! The inside goes all nice and soft and warm, the toffee goes gooey and the chocolate melts on the outside - its fab!

There is a certain technique to it though...

Twix straws are the way forward in biscuits IMO.

Anzac biscuits are nice, and posh in a old-lady-putting-them-on-a-doily way.

animal biscuits? party rings nice too!

Even I can't work my way through 244 posts on biscuits, but I would agree with whoever said that shortbread is frightfully posh compared with all other biscuits. Even Duchy Originals (in the same way that true aristos think that the Royal family are actually not all that posh).

Rich tea deffo. But the poshest are Garibaldi.

Custard creams are as common as muck

RT posher than CC
Garibaldi posher than fig rolls but both get left in biscuit barrel
JD posher than PR but there's nowt better than sucking the polyfilla off the top of a party ring

Oh come on. Choco Leibniz are the Ferrero Rocher of the biscuit world.

What custard creams are not vile or minging - how very dare you!!!

I don't think either are I think you might have to go down the hob nob (how is it spelt not posh enough to have any in the cupboard)

Actually now i think about it when we are talking in work about what biscuits we'd be if we were a biscuit one of the guys told me I'd be a Rich Tea because I'm posh (I'm posh merely because I'm english - DH almost wet himself laughing when I relayed this information to him - slightly offended I was!!)