Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

eloethan I'm sure whoever said it didn't mean you. But if they did it says a lot more about the person than you. Rise above such silliness

I assume that your comment "I'd much rather be called an oik than an envious, bitter, resentful, automatically antagonistic twerp" was aimed at me. How bloody nasty.

Smileness, I insist you enjoy your ginger nuts, no use us both suffering, you eat the ginger nuts for both of us and I will suffer for both of us

There is a baker in Saddler Street who makes ginger biscuits which cry out to be dunked. This is to Gillybob . It is best to run past.

That sounds like completely normal behaviour to me, smileless . Not OCD at all. Why waste the yummy soggy biscuit pulp?

gillybob, ,

gillybob I had better not come round for tea, with a cup and saucer and a china cake stand I would feel like the next door neighbour in "Keeping Up Appearances" and something would only get broken.

Yes, it's a great thread isn't it, wish we had more like this one.

getting so funny!

You're absolutely right about the residue of biscuit (gunge) in the bottom of the mug being a 'revolting mess' trisha (page 6). I suppose I could be described as an organised dunker or a dunker with OCD as I always have a tea spoon to hand then, the moment a piece of the biscuit drops off due to excessive dunking it can be quickly retrieved and the gunge avoided or at least greatly reduced.

Didn't enjoy dunking my ginger nut at lunch time Anniebach as I was thinking of you.

From Welsh dictionary - people who are obsessed with dictionaries but not .jingle

From the Tyneside dictionary "your brother,son, uncle or father"

jings

From Cambridge dictionary: "a rude and unpleasant man from a low social class"

From Oxford dictionary: "an uncouth or obnoxious person"

The Cambridge lot are snobby!

I actually wrote "was your mouth out" by mistake daphnedill and half expected a cheeky reply of "no, my mouth was in its usual place"

For the record I prefer slimmer faces too.

Wash my mouth out...with tea?

I prefer china mugs (cups) because they seem to retain heat better. I don't like chunky mugs, but that's nothing to do with disliking oik drinking vessels.

"Dunking oiks" indeed. daphnedill was your mouth out !

Hmmm...so what's your definition of an oik, phoenix?

I only ever use it ironically to describe the attitude of people who think they're a cut above others towards those they perceive as lower in the pecking order.

That's what I tell myself daphnedill . I am rather fond of china cake stands too. I guess that makes me posh.

Just to clarify, my comment re Corbyn was in no way "class" related. My own definition of oikdom knows no boundaries with regard to education or background!

Saucers are for the cats.

I sold my remaining tea set on EBay last year, so if I invite anybody round for tea, they'll have to drink out of (china) mugs. Not that I'd invite any of you lot round, because you're all dunking oiks!!

@gillybob

It's trendy not to have matching cups and saucers. It's called shabby chic.

I've still got some cups. Saucers long gone.

@thatbags

This is beginning to sound like the 'Three Yorkshireman' sketch.

I think it's quite comical that people are judged on how they eat, drink tea or dunk biscuits.

By the way, I agree with you about Oxbridge students and grads.

We're a class-obsessed society.