Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

I eat a balanced diet Daphne...... A choccy digestive in each hand

Us Corbynistas enjoy a piece of good traditional shortbread. Any politician who is not a media darling is unable to say anything without the the masses taking the piss. It is the current equivalent to the stocks!

It is rumoured that us Corbynistas now intend to make shortbread eating compulsory for all Labour supporters. Any Labour MPs who fail to reach their eating targets will be automatically deselected. Only those with a real and absolute commitment to shortbread eating will be allowed to stand.

Did anyone else use Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer at school and alter it to the Shortbread Eating Primer?
Perhaps it could become the Labour Party's manual, like Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book.
Sorry Corbynistas, couldn't resist

You must have gone to a posh school ja never had one of them to alter! Took me a while to get what you were on about.

I used it, jane, but never even thought of that. Defacing books got you into trouble.

Only if you got caught!

It was a Direct Grant school Trisher and although considered posh in some quarters it had a liberal ethos.
The highlight of my 6th form years was a visit by the late great Brian Redhead who at that time edited the Guardian to talk to us about current affairs.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

Having been vegetarian for forty years, carolmary, no.

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]

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.

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

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.

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

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

Hot of course

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

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.

They are blimmin expensive though.

They're a treat!