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!

Yes, I think they are aspirational.

ooh
oh well fortunately I never buy them
I remember them being rather delicious though
fuck me they are a tenner

lol at this. Well after careful consideration (of all of 2 seconds) I would ahve to say custard creams. Simply because rich tea are very boring. And I don't even like to dunk them in my tea. Mushy biscuits ugh.

My brothers use to call garabaldis 'dead fly biscuits'!! Guess which we had when it was my turn to chose....

Oh and NOT fig rolls. And Jammie dodgers more posh.

Off to read the rest to see what other biscuit questions there are.

Why are you asking anyway?

Oh I see, the answer will be revealed...

Anyway, plates are the poshest and tunnocks are gorgeous!

Malted Milk that's it!

I think Mumsnet are being visited on by minor royalty (Princess Michael of Kent, Countess of Wessex, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands?) and want to put on a posh spread.

Is there a hostile takeover of McVities afoot?

McNetties?

I think only biscuits with cheese (carrs water biscuits for eg) are posh.

other biscuits are common.

I am partial to a nice bit of shortbread myself.

Bath olivers sound as though they should be posh.

The only truly posh biscuit is homemade shortbread.
Rich tea posher than cc.
Garibaldi posher than fig roll.
Tunnocks caramel wafers are not biscuits, they are the food of Gods.

Has to be Bourbons for me, Custard Cream are nice but I would be able to resist one. Resisting a Bourbon is impossible!

I remember thinking ooooooh you're quite posh aren't you when I was offered these the dark chocolate ones

sorry, my link didn't work. it's the liebniz dark chocolate biscuits. like a rectangular rich tea biscuit with dark choc on one side. Very posh.

I think cc are common,
i think Rich tea are posher but saying that is like polishing a turd.

I think the frugal, slightly Spartan qualities of Rich Tea make em posher than the Custard Creams.

I don't think anyone has already linked to A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - the biscuit review archive but it's quite an important site.

i would say custard creams are a bit gay

Having read the thread I propose the theory that the more scottish the biscuit, the posher it is - shortbread in order of complexity (ie petticoat tails, stamped with a thistle, fingers)followed closely by Tunnocks teacakes and caramel wafers.

It would NEVER occur to me to buy Tunnocks caramel wafers

Thats a choccy type bar thing surely, not a biscuit

What were those biscuits with three little blobs of marshmallow in two rows divided by a line of jam and sprinkled with dessicated coconut? It's been bugging me all afternoon...

Those blobs of marshmallow biscuits are very gay. Can't remember what they are called. Fig rolls also gay. And party rings.

custard creams more common

a website for the folk at HQ Orange clubs, mmmmm

Maggie, those are not posh, they are middle class aspirational biscuits. They are too German to be posh

oops sorry, missed the previosu link. doh.

BitofFun - they are Mikado biscuits and tis patriotic duty of all children here in Ireland to eat them and offer them to their grandmothers.

The less pretty, but more sophisticated Kimberley is near relation.