Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

Speak for yourself jings I am very much a cup and saucer girl.

I mean, they might not match but........

Don't even have saucers these days do we. How oikish can we get?!

Oh thatbags so did my grandad and with a loud slurping noise.

Good.

Yes,I have it on good authority that parents or perpetrators always pay up for any damage done by members of the Bullingdon club as well as compensating for loss of business, stress, and any other occurrences. It's an unwritten rule that goes with the territory.

My grandparents (all except paternal grandma) were so oikish (in a nice way, obv) that they didn't even know teacup etiquette existed. Paternal grandpa drank tea out of the saucer, much to grandma's disgust. He used to wink at me when she commented.

I sometimes wonder if the virtuous and vociferous bullingdon yob critics have ever even been to Oxford or Cambridge, let alone know anything about the great universities that characterise those towns other than that they have a higher (though falling) proportion of fee-paying school educated students than most other unis.

I'd much rather be called an oik that an envious, bitter, resentful, automatically antagonistic twerp.

Yes, you hit a nerve eloethan but only because I get tired of people mentioning the
bullingdon club as if it caused half the country's ills. There are yobs in all levels of society from the poorest to the richest, but some people seem completely hung up on a few rich yobs (does anyone know, btw, whether they or their rich daddies paid for the damage they cause while they were students?). Not that those they know of having belonged to the club are yobs any more, but don't let a bit of growing up get in the way of your judgmentalist reverse snobbery.

It"s actually the reverse snobbery that hits the nerve, the mention of the bullingdon clubites is just the medium through which the snobbery exudes.

Mine too daphnedill she thought it was common to drink from a mug and insisted on china cups. She was quite cutting in her remarks too and never suffered fools well except me

I remember cutting myself a slice of cold mince pie when I was dashing back to work after one of her many, minor emergencies. For quickness I put it on a piece of kitchen roll with the intention of eating it on my way out the door. She went ballistic and said "no one eats off paper in my house. You will use a plate or you won't eat"

Shame my grandmother is dead. She'd have loved it. She was definitely 'nouveau riche' and thought the most important thing she could teach her grandchildren was table etiquette, including which cutlery to use for each course. According to her, it was 'common' to raise your little pinky when drinking tea - a sign of a working class person trying to be posh. Oh, the irony!

What a perfect idea for a new TV chat show. A Mrs Merton (granny) type sitting down with celebrities. A spread of various teas, milk,lemon, sugar (loose and cubes), biscuits of all kinds Rich Tea (for those who want to pretend to be humble) choccy ones, gingers etc.

I think it would make for riveting viewing.

I wouldn't go that far, gillybob, but the result might be just as relevant. Real snobs could use the cut of candidates' suits.

Why not? Ed Miliband had to suffer public trial by bacon butty.

Infact daphnedill why not take your idea one step further and make all major decisions using the "tea and biscuit choice technique". You're a genius!

And how (or if) they dunk daphnedill

No daphnedill it actually enhances the taste of the biscuit.

Thank you gillybob, sympathy when one is craving a ginger nut iis appreciated

Anyway, I think we've solved a problem. Next time there's an election, we'll abandon those appalling TV debates and sit all the candidates down with a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits. We can then judge the suitability for the role after observing what kind of tea they drink, how they drink it and which biscuit they choose.

Not if done properly. There is of course the danger of a bit dropping off into the tea if you are not a skilled dunker. The resulting gunge in the bottom of the cup is revolting.

OMG! If only I'd known earlier than you were all such oiks!

PS. Does dunking make the tea taste strange?

Well I am a very happy Oik then daphnedill

Dunking never done no-one no harm.

for anyone who can't enjoy a nice ginger nut.

If I could eat ginger nuts I would dunk them and be such a happy oik

Oooh that makes an awful lot of oiks!!!

Well, I have a terrible confession. I was brought up to think that dunking biscuits is oikish. Sorry!

whitewave he he he