Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

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

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.

gillybob, ,

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thank you whitewave - I appreciate your kindness.

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).

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?

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

(Tin helmet time)

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)

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.

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

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!!

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.

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

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

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

Oh well, if you insist Anniebach I'll eat extra just for you. 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..

Thanks thatbagsI 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 you.

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

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.)