Tea and the accompanying biscuits are a religious sacrament to the British, regardless of race or class.
Nothing, but nothing, is allowed to get in the way.
Only our biscuits resemble cookies only in the baking process.
Typical British Biscuits (cookies) are:-
Rich Tea - a skinny plain brown disc, wheatflour based and slightly sweetened;
Digestive - A thicker, oatmeal-based and sweeter version of the Rich Tea;
Custard Cream: two pallid rectangular slabs of cooked biscuit dough with an egg-custard flavoured blob of flavouring trapped between them, sandwich-style;
Bourbon: like the Rich Tea, only rectangular, darker and vaguely coffee flavoured;
Pink Wafers - not so much a confection as an infection.
Of course, these are all what the following site (all about the British and biscuit culture) describes as “entry-level”.
We do have better, nicer and more sophisticated biscuitys, such as the Holy Grail of biscuit-making, the Hob-Nob, and the Abbey Crunch: but these are getting on for £2 a packet, whereas Rich Tea, Custard Creams, et c, may be picked up in cheap supermarkets such as Netto and Happy Shopper for 20p a pack (a tenth of the price) and would therefore be more within Flo and Andy’s price-range.
Well, £2 for a pack of biscuits when many Northern English pubs and working mens’ clubs can still do you a pint of beer for £1.50 or less?
Tea and the accompanying biscuits are a religious sacrament to the British, regardless of race or class.
Nothing, but nothing, is allowed to get in the way.
Only our biscuits resemble cookies only in the baking process.
Typical British Biscuits (cookies) are:-
Rich Tea - a skinny plain brown disc, wheatflour based and slightly sweetened;
Digestive - A thicker, oatmeal-based and sweeter version of the Rich Tea;
Custard Cream: two pallid rectangular slabs of cooked biscuit dough with an egg-custard flavoured blob of flavouring trapped between them, sandwich-style;
Bourbon: like the Rich Tea, only rectangular, darker and vaguely coffee flavoured;
Pink Wafers - not so much a confection as an infection.
Of course, these are all what the following site (all about the British and biscuit culture) describes as “entry-level”.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/index.php3
We do have better, nicer and more sophisticated biscuitys, such as the Holy Grail of biscuit-making, the Hob-Nob, and the Abbey Crunch: but these are getting on for £2 a packet, whereas Rich Tea, Custard Creams, et c, may be picked up in cheap supermarkets such as Netto and Happy Shopper for 20p a pack (a tenth of the price) and would therefore be more within Flo and Andy’s price-range.
Well, £2 for a pack of biscuits when many Northern English pubs and working mens’ clubs can still do you a pint of beer for £1.50 or less?
Extravagance!