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It's nearly tea time, which got me thinking about writing while eating. We've already discussed the amount of tea that's consumed, but what about the biscuits?

I like Tim Tams.

Hallo, C W Brady! I see that you're in Australia so please could tell me what Tim Tams are? I already like their name …

Any kind are my favourite but preferably those with chocolate. As long as I don't have to share the packet.

Hallo, C W Brady! I see that you're in Australia so please could tell me what Tim Tams are? I already like their name …

Well, a Tim Tam is an oblong biscuit with chocolate on the outside. What flavour you get defines what's on the inside. They're quite nice.

McVities caramel slices. mmmm. Must resist however as I'm on a diet and eating such delights as bran-flakes and carrots. Oh the joy

Oh and of course the Gold Bars. Love them.


(Donna, branflakes and carrots ? With milk?)

I'm strictly a rich tea and Chocolate Bourbon person. Though I find some cerals (I know I can't spell) go very well with tea and typing. Such as Cornflakes or Weetaflakes.
Joey

Bourbon, for the win. Or just a big bar of daily milk, or two, or three.

Toffeepops. I've had a thing for those bad boys since I was little. They're brilliant for dunking.

Other than those, I'm not a biscuity person, I prefer really bad chewy fruity sweets, the ones that make your teeth cry out when you pop one in your mouth.

Rowntrees Fruit Gums. Mmmmm. And good blackcurrant and liqorice sweets, ones with really generous liqorice and very flavoursome blackcurrant shells. Divine.

These things have to be enjoyed in private though, as you do tend to look and sound very odd while eating them.

Depends on the tea, I suppose (drawing m' emeralds smugly around me). For Earl Grey? Well, I propose nothing short of a digestive: it absorbs liquid well, remains firm in the face of elevation, and its inherent sweetness complements the bitterness of the tea (Elbows off tables!).
Ah, and coffee... coffee and biscuits. Hub-Nubs (<Swedish for Hob-Nobs) are a true delight, marrying themselves so readily to the black and bitter liquid that J. Collins looks-on in envy (is that envy her face is registering? It's hard to tell nowadays. She may'). The hubnubs- owing, I suppose, to the treacley stuff They mix the oats with- are still somewhat resistant to the teeth, chewy, don't you know.
Bourbons, CUSTARD CREAMS! Nice biscuits are not, malted-milk:yes. No jaffa cakes, no tea-cakes, please- tea is serious business. Caramel digestives... Enema cookies...

Ginger nuts for me... got to be about 5, can't have 1 or 2... they are perfect for dunking - but you've got to know your dunk technique for each brand or it all goes horribly wrong. My sprogs love ginger nuts as much as me... which is a bit of a shame - and they know all possible hiding places, little rats! My other half, he has a box of seconds delivered by the milkman once a month. But they're his.

*The Easter Bunny is a little behind schedule. He leaves a bag of chocolate eggs*

This is a deeply insensitive forum for overweight diabetics such as myself :-)) There, double chin - I said I was overweight. I don't know if any of you are familiar with the French singer / songwriter Claude Bourbon? Now he really takes the biscuit.

milk chocolate digestives for me though no good in the rucksack or out and about because once you have had one biscuit then the rest tend to crumble up if carrying them about.... or is that just a pathetic excuse to eat more than one?