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!

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Is that a dunked or undunked Rich Tea biscuit?

Well, if you have to ask . . .

Rich Teas are posher. I was courted by being offered a custard cream. I am really common.

So long as neither are from a 25p for a 100 'value' range, and are McVities, then either will do for a cuppa with your neighbour. Posh would be stretching it. But a lack of hydrogenated fats is always a bonus when aiming for posh.

I have long thought that custard creams were the biggest waste of calories ever invented.

Rich tea. Custard is common. Creme anglais bakes, they should be, if you want posh.

Having just skimmed the rest of the thread, I also want to add that although neither fig-rolls nor Garibaldi are posh, Garibaldi are man-biscuits, and therefore below my personal radar regardless of status.

Seriously, name me anyone without hairy knuckles that eats Garibaldi for pleasure?

Prince Charles' lemon biscuits are quite refined.

Camilla makes them herself, bless 'er

not read whole thread but they are both a bit common, I should know I was practicaly brought up on them

If you are needing biscuits at MN towers to impress visitors, those are not the ones you want to be considering.

I'm too posh to know about Tunnocks...

Gerry's got Jammy Dodgers, I've got Viscounts - need I say more ?

Christ this thread moved on...

Can I just mention Maryland Cookies - the ones in a purple packet. Best biscuits ever.

When I was a kid you used to be able to buy Maryland Cookies in a bag, that way you didn't have to tussle with a packet fgs, you could grab a handful of cookies at a time, a lot better way to eat biscuits I am sure you will agree.

Do you lot know there are wars and things going on in the world and you are all here waffling away about the poshness or otherwise of biscuits. No wonder the world is in the state it is. Sigh.

I love custard creams. We can buy them here in Budapest in Tesco. With bourbons. And choc hob nobs and Nice biscuits and rich tea fingers. So I think that answers your question. The demographic of the Tesco customer here in Hungary cannot ever be described as posh. In fact the new Tesco near us runs free shuttle buses from real Eastern European style tower blocks.

They do also sell Choco Liebnitz too.

one needs to be technical with a question like this. Firstly we should define its purpose.

1. to look nice on a plate on a plate for guests

2. dunking

3. taste

4. method of eating

for a nice plain, understated biscuit for guests at MNHQ it should be the rich tea. It says " we have thought of you" rather than "try not to get crumbs on you tie/frilly blouse"

for dunking purposes again i have to vote rich tea. One cannot dunk a custard cream in earnest. The reason for the dunk is to get sufficient soak to bite ratio. There are better biscuits on the market for this purpose for example, the dunk of a plain chocolate digestive into ones brew leaves not only the corect soak to bite ratio - but also melted chocolate to leave a velvet satisfying blend in ones gob- but between these two rich tea it has to be

for taste one should choose the custard cream. it is far amiable to the palette than the dry basic rich tea. however there are better on the market ( see chocolate digestive above)

the most satisfying in terms of method of eating ( if chocolate digestive isn't in the running) is teh custard cream.

one must seperate the two biscuits - not causing breakage ( breakage spoils the experience) we are then left with a plain biscuit and a biscuit with the custard cream.

one must then eat the custard cream by scraping ones front teeth across the top. this gives small curls of cream in ones mouth and the gnawing sensation is pleasing.

the ain is to eat as much of the cream as possible without actually breaking the biscuit below. when we are left with a small amount on the biscuit - we must then begin to lick the remainder - however we must not break the biscuit below.

we are then left with two plain biscuits. you must eat one and give the other to the dog.

when applying these principles to jammy dodgers and ice rings

dodgers look nicer on a plate
ice rings look cheap and tacky

neither should be dunked

jammy dodgers wins on taste

and jammy dodger method of eating is similar to custard cream - hence wins.

in face the ice ring is an abomination to biscuit kind.

Mint Viscounts are common. Orange ones are yummy....

No, you're too English to know about Tunnocks, Justine...

Anyway, how about the rarely-spotted Chocolate Rich Tea?

for a fuller explaination one should see peter kay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc it is the biscuit bible

I had forgotten the Theology of Biscuits, Lupus!

rich tea "one dips"

and in fact fig rolls were the post-Mass biscuit of choice when I were a nipper.

hob nobs SAS of biscuit world

custard creams - much better with tea

dxx

Loving Custardo's summary