Brits’ favourite biscuit revealed ahead of National Biscuit Day

New survey reveals Great Britain’s favourite biscuit variety 

• Chocolate Digestives are the nation’s favourite biscuit to eat with 28% of the vote, and plain Digestives ranked as the favourite to dunk with 26% 
• PG Tips is the UK’s favourite tea brand with 32% of the vote, though Yorkshire Tea is confirmed as Yorkshire’s preferred brand 
• Tea bag, water then milk has been revealed to be the correct way to make the perfect cup of tea

May 2023: While tea and biscuits are at the very heart of British culture, the much-loved pastime can often be quite a controversial topic. Whether it’s a debate around what tea bags you use, what biscuits you dunk, or the order in which you make your tea, it’s almost certain to spark a debate. 

With this in mind, new research by TopRatedCasinos surveyed the UK public to determine the nation’s favourite tea and biscuit brands, and to find out once and for all what the correct way is to make your tea. Alongside this, the team also conducted an experiment to find out which of Britain’s most popular biscuits is the most dunkable. 

You can find the full research here: https://www.topratedcasinos.co.uk/spotlight/the-tea-and-biscuit-experiment 

Jaffa Cakes crowned the most dunkable biscuits, allowing for 116 total dunks 

With 116 dunks, and a total time of 3 minutes and 16 seconds before it broke apart, the Jaffa Cake was crowned the ultimate dunkable biscuit. However, this could be a deciding factor for the on-going debate around whether Jaffa Cakes are a biscuit or a cake. 

Following in second place was the Chocolate Leibniz taking 80 dunks to crumble, and the Bourbon came in third place with 78 dunks. 

However, the plain Digestive came out as the least dunkable biscuit, withstanding only 6 dunks. Despite this, the nation actually chose it as their favourite biscuit to dunk, with 26% of the vote.

Most dunkable biscuits
Rank	Biscuit name	Number of dunks before breaking	Time taken to break
1	Jaffa Cakes	116	3 min 16 seconds
2	Chocolate Leibniz	80	2 min 20 seconds
3	Bourbon	78	2 mins 28 seconds
4	Caramel Digestive	53	1 min 36 seconds
5	Walkers Shortbread	40	1 min 15 seconds

Chocolate Digestives revealed to be the nation’s favourite biscuit

Chocolate Digestives topped the list of the nation’s favourite biscuit to eat, with 28% of the vote. It was a favourite for both men and women, and for each generation, apart from 25-34 year olds, with 22% of them preferring to eat Jaffa Cakes. 

Jaffa Cakes came in second place as the overall favourite biscuit to eat, with 22% of the vote, and in third place was the plain Digestive, with 19%.

Among the least popular biscuits to eat were Lotus (7%), Pink Wafers (7%), and Garibaldi biscuits (6%). Sadly, Lotus biscuits also ranked very low in the dunkability experiment, managing only 6 dunks, and 12 seconds, before breaking. 

	Overall favourites biscuits to eat
Rank	Biscuit	Percentage that agree
1	Chocolate digestive	28%
2	Jaffa cake	22%
3	Digestive	19%
4	Custard cream	17%
5	Chocolate hobnob	16%

PG Tips is the UK’s favourite tea brand 

With 32% of the UK public choosing it as their preferred brand, PG Tips ranks as number one on the list of the nation’s favourite tea brands. 

While only coming second place overall, Yorkshire Tea was a clear winner for the residents of Yorkshire, with 51% of those in the county voting it as their chosen brand. Yorkshire Tea is also the chosen brand among the over-55s, while the younger generations aged between 16 and 34 prefer PG Tips. 

	Overall favourite tea brands
Rank	Brand	Percentage that agree
1	PG Tips	32%
2	Yorkshire Tea	31%
3	Tetleys	27%
4	Twinings	17%
5	I don’t like any tea brands	15%

The CORRECT way to make a cup of tea is finally revealed 

The study also revealed the most common method for making a cup of tea, with 53% of the public preferring to use the ‘tea bag, water, milk’ method. This method was also the most common across all ages, all star signs, and all cities that were analysed. Clearly, this is the right way to make the perfect brew. 

	Overall tea method ranking
Rank	Method	Percentage that agree
1	Tea bag, water, milk	53%
2	I don’t make tea	12%
3	Water, tea bag milk	12%
4	Tea bag, milk, water	10%
5	Milk, tea bag, water	7%

You can view the full research here: https://www.topratedcasinos.co.uk/spotlight/the-tea-and-biscuit-experiment