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!

Asda Smartprice custard creams are the superiorerest of all custard creams! FACT!

Neither are posh.

Custard creams are tastier than 'not enough spit in the world' Rich Teas.

Lupus - I agree Choco Leibniz are naff. Mannerschnitten are quite Von Posh in an Austro-Hungarian empire kind of way.

Neither.
for uber-poshicity you'd have to go for a garibaldi or a fig roll. or something hand cooked from prince charles.

custard creams are a bit chevesque and rich teas are just middle aged and a bit dull.

digestives or hobnobs are more of a working man's biscuit.

nice or malted milk - middle class

choco leibniz are in the same league as a viscount or a kitkat. not really a biscuit at all.

I spend far too much time in the biscuit aisle.

I think those little thin gingery ones with almonds in are quite posh. RT definitely posher than CC, though.

Florentines are quite posh as a tea accompaniment.

Rich Tea.

Custard Creams are just a poor substitute for a Bourbon Cream.

Seems our consensus is that custard creams are the commonest biscuit of all, and Rich Tea are merely plain Janes. Thanks everyone (though you're all wrong). More on this to follow [woman of mystery emoticon].

Does it involve free biscuits Justine?

Sadly no.

ahhhh choco leibnitz.........

Let's be honest, quality people don't offer biscuits after 11am - for afternoon small cakes or shortbread should be served rather than biscuits (and no, Jaffa cakes don't count).

In extremis, I suppose you could crush the rich tea biscuits as a base for cheesecakes .

Re: fig rolls, is this a vegetarian alternative to parma ham covered figs?

DH is from a posh family. He says that biscuits as a rule aren't posh at all (if posh you would serve small cakes).

Custard creams are the most downmarket as they are trying to be fancy (like souping up a Ford Escort).

(starting to feel outclassed here)

Rich Teas are on a par white bread, custard creams are the Deliverance-Banjo-Boy of the biscuit world.

If you are going to do biscuits you want to find something with integrity like a Chocolate Hobnob.
IMHO

What were those Peak Frean ones called? Two circles of biscuit, sandwiching a pink cream. Had a little hole in the middle of the top biscuit?

They were pretty horrible. But not as horrible as custard creams.

Now, Fox's Millionaire Caramel Shortbreads - there's a classy biscuit

Dunking is what we do with common witches Leningrad . Not with biscuits.

well we had a complete disaster in the hat household last night. dh is still recovering from the awfulness of it all. he came home from Tesco's (and I reserve my right to have an apostrophe and an s on that) with PLAIN hob-nobs . he was devastated.

but there's a sliver lining - equally shocking - I have discovered that I prefer them . I don;t get it. I adore chocolate, but feel that plain hob nobs have a whole crumbly biscuity quality that the chocolate ones lack.

I like a nice Bronte biscuit myself. Does anyone else get Bronte biscuits... usually in a cafe? Dead, dead posh.

oh the suspense....
really wondering what this is all about

Shortbread not posh up here - it's ubiquitous.

Shortbread is by it's nature posh though 50% butter, not your nasty riff raffy vegetable fat

May I widen the MNHQ search for class appropriate snacking pleasure to include tiffin?

Now Iced Gems and Pink 'n' Whites are very unposh.

Nah - commoners make their shortbread with butter up here, wmmc - you can't move for the stuff, which makes it by definition common. But we also get shedloads of vension, and it's often cheaper than beef, so have maybe a different perspective on posh food...

I love venison.

I'm not sure I'd like shortbread made with it though [boak]