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Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

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DaphneBroon Tue 20-Sept-16 08:25:33

So, apparently he told Mumsnet
I’m totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits,” replied Mr Corbyn. “But if forced to accept one, it’s always a pleasure to have a shortbread ???
(How do you "force" someone to eat a biscuit?) hmm
Thank goodness they didn't ask him about cupcakecupcake ?

Smileless2012 Wed 21-Sept-16 14:31:35

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

trisher Wed 21-Sept-16 14:36:26

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.blush

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 14:36:56

gillybob, grin, grin

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 14:38:27

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

Stansgran Wed 21-Sept-16 15:15:13

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.

Anniebach Wed 21-Sept-16 18:42:39

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

Eloethan Wed 21-Sept-16 19:32:54

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.

whitewave Wed 21-Sept-16 19:54:05

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 sillinessgrin

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 20:03:41

It wasn't aimed at anyone, eloethan. It was contrasting two attitudes.

Eloethan Wed 21-Sept-16 20:03:51

Thank you whitewave - I appreciate your kindness.

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 20:14:10

I think there is an fairly widespread automatic antagonism whenever Oxford and Cambridge are mentioned. I wasn't talking only about attitudes on gransnet. In my experience people often make resentful assumptions about Oxbridge undergrads and Oxbridge alumni when in reality the vast majority of them are perfectly decent people. Why wouldn't they be, even if their parents did send them to fee-paying schools? It gets very tiresome.

The repeated mention of the Bullingdon Club only reinforces the impression of that automatic antagonism especially when I also expect that very few people know of more than a very few ex-Bullingdoners (or whatever they call themselves).

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 20:19:27

There are over 3000 new undergraduates at Oxford every year and over 5000 graduates. Graduates in particular are an extremely divers group of people from all over the world. Out of all those thousands Bullingdoners account for a miniscule fraction of one per cent. They are not typical of Oxford students at all. So why are they mentioned as if representative over and over again?

phoenix Wed 21-Sept-16 21:32:53

Just to perhaps balance things, or maybe not, I think that sometimes Boris Johnson behaves in an oik like way.

(Tin helmet time)

rosesarered Wed 21-Sept-16 21:42:39

When DD2 was at Oxford years ago, she didn't know anyone remotely like the Bullingdon Club members the media are so fond of.
ginger nuts are a staple part of my diet ( not that kind of diet!) I have tried all makes and they are all good, when the biscuit factory that makes them was flooded recently( this year) I was gutted not to be able to buy them.
Plain choc digestives are my favourite biscuit ( the more, the merrier)

gillybob Wed 21-Sept-16 22:27:00

I am the next door neighbour in "keeping up with appearances" trisher but ones gotta try ones best (curtesy emoticon)

I can understand why you choose to run past that bakery Stansgran it must break your 'art to see those poor little weeping ginger nuts. I mean there's no stigma in being a ginge these days.

gillybob Wed 21-Sept-16 22:28:26

I think Boris has had more than his fair share of biccies . I expect he's a bit of a custard cream kinda man.

DaphneBroon Wed 21-Sept-16 22:33:01

ginger nuts are a staple part of my diet ( not that kind of diet!)

Move over Slimming World, Foxtrot Oscar off Weightwatchers - this is the diet for me!! grin

thatbags Wed 21-Sept-16 23:00:19

People do seem to think that about Boris Johnson, I agree, phoenix. Can't say I've ever watched him closely enough to know. Theresa May says he's doing a good job in the Foreign Office, apparently.

I might make some ginger biscuits tomorrow.

rosesarered Thu 22-Sept-16 10:31:34

I think Boris is more a bacon butty kind of man.

gillybob Thu 22-Sept-16 10:42:06

Oh bacon butty biscuits I haven't tried them rosersrered I wonder here would I find them? smile

thatbags Thu 22-Sept-16 12:11:07

grin

Stansgran Thu 22-Sept-16 12:30:36

I bet Heston Blumenthal could make them.
There is nothing little about those ginger biscuits GillyB.

Smileless2012 Fri 23-Sept-16 16:30:40

Oh well, if you insist Anniebach I'll eat extra just for yousmile. Hope know one notices though, it's going to sound mighty strange if someone asks why I'm consuming soooo many ginger biscuits and I reply 'I'm eating for 2' especially if the person asking is Mr. S.shock.

Thanks thatbagssmileI suppose I'm simply a dunker and clunker (dunking the biscuit and clunking the spoon). I don't think anyone's described my behaviour as perfectly normal before so these are for youflowers.

Anniebach Fri 23-Sept-16 17:05:55

Good idea Smileness, if you eat them for me then you are not eating them for yourself grin

rosesarered Fri 23-Sept-16 21:21:23

grin Boris has no time for biscuits I suspect, of any flavour, but I can imagine him scarfing a bacon butty ( more elegantly, one hopes than poor old Ed Miliband.)