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

[JustineMumsnet]

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

Any talk about dunking is an abomination and you should be ashamed of yourself . Honestly a thread about poshness of biscuits and people sully it with the dunking abberation.

Don't dunk your biscuits, it's a vile habit and you end up with soggy biscuit remnants at the bottom of your cuppa tea

ah, there you see. I can make any biscuit common by 'dunkin'' So maybe it's not what you eat but the way you eat it.... or the way you describe the act of eating it.

neither are remotely posh! but I'd sooner have a custard cream than a Rich Tea. Bourbons are posher, imo, but you have to get up to Viscounts before you're talking real class

My faves are Bahlsen's Choco Leibniz though. Dark.

@hatwoman All will become clear - hopefully some time next week [mysterious].

Jammie Dodgers???
I think they use some petro-chemical process by-product for the jam in those
It tastes foul and very artificial
{mouth like cat's arse}

Custard creams were our builders' biscuit of choice - seriously they got through several packets a day when doing our bathroom - does that make them posh biscuits ?

Think rich teas are slightly posher but of course milk chocolate hob nobs are the creme de la creme...

Does anyone remember Sports biscuits. Milky flavour biscuits with pictures of stick men doing various track and field sports on them. They were yum. Didn't actually see the point of the sports symbols, but still.

yes
I loved them
they are the same as cow biscuits but with sports people

Rich Tea, Custard Creams are as common as moooook.

Don't remember the cow biscuits at all, but remember the excitement of the sports biscuit packet when I was young, bright green with corrugated cardboard liner, and the smell of the milky biscuits

Is no-one on here going to admit to eating crumbly-edged organic home-style 40p-per-inch biscuits?

I think chocolate cow biscuits are the very pinnacle of biscuit-production, those and apple-pie cookies - they have chewy dried apply bits and are guaranteed to break into rubble and land firmly down your cleavage, and they rub.

cow biscuits
you must remember them
they used to call them malted milk

look here

now they are cow biscuits

here

I didn't realise they'd actually renamed them.

ooh i now remember chocolate animal biscuits - i never had them except at other kids houses cos mi mum was too tight

Justine - Everyone with a family sporting estate in the Highlands knows about Tunnocks.

Really the only bought biscuit with proper posh credentials is an oatcake. And for reminiscing about childhood, a toff might buy a packet of those little chocolate covered marshmallows (just like the governess used to serve after a coddled egg and soliders at high tea). They are always displayed beside the till in M&S, I think so Tory MPs and other ex boarders can pick up a packet as a perfect pick-me-up after their evening of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

no disagree rich tea deffo posher
sports bics great still very cheap
choc malted milk yum yum
chocolate leiboniz(however its spelt)poshest !

surely a chocolate orange would be more suitable

chocolate olivers are the poshest biscuits known to man I think you will find

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

or coop own make chocolate chip and stem ginger cookies

Biscuits in literature:

When I read What Katy Did At School, the tale of the Christmas box with a top layer of cake and 'Debbie's Jumbles' I wasted several weeks craving a jumble, despite not knowing what it was.

So, for me, jumbles are the biscuit of legend - I must google. I bet they're grim.

look at choc olivers they are damned posh

Countess - I think they're posh like Posh Spice is posh.

well they niver used to be
Have they been chavvified? A la burberry

Countess - @ chocolate orange