Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

Done it. Ordered some.

That reminds me, I need to do a Waitrose order and buy some more!

Actually, I am eating lots of apples at the moment as I have a tree full of them. Feeling virtuous.
But it's good to have some in the cupboard, just in case I feel in need of a treat.
I do tend to eat gluten free biscuits, because I think it's far too easy to eat too much gluten.
That was on the Trust me I'm a Doctor programme. Some people said they would stick to their gluten free pasta because, even though it did not show any discernable difference in their blood readings, they felt better. I buy gluten free pasta as well.

Durhamjen Nor would I have had a vision of you sitting at your computer, on GN, scoffing Nairns GF stem ginger biscuits all the time

Just envious as I am being very Jeremy-like at the moment and trying to avoid biscuits.

If it hadn't been for Corbyn going on Mumsnet, you would never have known, Jalima.
Now there's a thought.

rosesarered I've not heard it called Pobs! It was just 'bread and milk'.

djen thanks, I will take some with me when I next visit DD.

Jalima same here with illness and bits of bread and sugar in hot milk, it was called Pobs!

They are also delicious.

True

They're a treat!

They are blimmin expensive though.

Nairn's gluten free stem ginger biscuits can be dunked. I do it all the time. Well, I do it whenever I have one. I like their wheat free dark chocolate chip, the most chocolate flavour you can get without a biscuit being coated.

Bread and hot milk with sugar was one of my mother's remedies when we were poorly!
That may have put me off, the association with illness

Hot of course

I love bread and milk with butter and sugar!!!!! Often used to have it for breakfast as a child.

Just back from Spain and watched the Spanish dunking churros into chocolate for breakfast it looked delicious but I'm gluten free

I remember being told that about dunking bread in hot chocolate in France when I first started learning French at school. I thought it was a great idea.

An improvement on bread and milk that nursery characters used to eat, or so we're told. I suppose it's not much different from soggy cornflakes in milk.

Anniebach I am feeling so sorry for you that I will make a batch of gf biscuits

Oh - I forgot, DD complains that gf biccies are no good for dunking

Only ginger nuts are good for dunking, scones with jam and cream are no use at all, Daphne.
When I stayed with a French family the children used to dunk their bread in a bowl of hot chocolate yuk yuk

But you can't dunk a bacon butty carolmary, I mean can you imagine the mess.

so how do you feel about shortbread Anniebach? I rather like it and thought our biscuit diet could maybe do with a little more variety. I was going to say could do with more balance but I'm going to do the same as rosesared and hold a biscuit in each hand; one for me and one for you.

trisher I have no idea who Lisbeth Simm is, but I expect Anniebach will know if I ask.
That is despite me being brought up in a 'socialist' household with politics going in one ear and out t'other' being discussed loudly and vociferously at every mealtime.

Yet another thing i have in common with Jeremy Corbyn - the B word.
Like him, i try to avoid them [virtuoushalo]

Having been vegetarian for forty years, carolmary, no.

Oh how I loved my Shortbread Eating Primer! Ours had to be covered with brown paper too, but underneath they were all defaced, or should I say enhanced! i remember it was full of funny rhymes.

I still like shortbread too but what is it about biscuits? Boring boring or too sweet! Now a bacon butty, well wouldn't you rather have one of those?

We had to cover most of our text books, but the ones that just got handed round (like the song books) did get defaced - usually by the older girls. 'Ye banks and braes' was always changed to 'pants and bras'...oh, schoolgirl humour!

We had to cover ours in brown paper or wall paper reversed. You could write what you liked on that, but heaven help you if there was a mark on the book cover when you returned it.

Book plate on the inside front cover.
You wrote your name on it. Any defacement was your responsibility, whatever you said.
Books in my school were very well looked after.

Same here, janeainsworth. My school had a much more liberal and relaxed ethos than any of the other schools in town. I expect if there had been any behaviour problems, the perpetrator(s) would have been kicked out. I don't remember defacing my Latin primer. We had a tuck shop, which sold biscuits, but they weren't very nice.