I really don’t what it is about dunking a rich tea biscuit in tea that I find the most rewarding.  Is it the taste of soggy biscuit?  or is it the achievement of managing to do this with out the biscuit breaking off and forming a slowly disintegrating mush on the top of your cup of tea?  Or maybe it is a flash back to when you are very young and the simple pleasure that food gave you when being feed by your mother?  Who knows but I like dunking my biscuits.  (To see more about the significance do a search of Google and you’ll quickly see that I am not alone!)

When I was younger I felt a little self concious about this guilty pleasure but now I don’t care.  I love dunking my biscuit.  Now of course you have to just the right biscuit – different biscuits suit different drinks.   For me rich tea rules for tea and digestive biscuits are for coffee along with chocolate bourbon biscuits.  There is also a significance between McVitie biscuits and store generic versions.  I always find that McVitie biscuits have the superior texture and so don’t fail fowl to the aforementioned disintegrating biscuit problem.  Of course this doesn’t cause a problem for the king of all biscuits – the Hobnob – although this is not the best for dunking and certainly will put extra inches on your waste without too much effort (DON’T I KNOW!)

There are all manner of variations along this theme, and many people have their own favourite biscuit with which to indulge this guilty little pleasure.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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