Chandru is trying to hobnob to secure a job for himself at the RTO. Therefore, people "hobnob" over tea or a biscuit. In 2014 a UK survey declared the Chocolate Hobnob the nation's favourite biscuit. In a non-dunking poll the Chocolate Hobnob was ranked first with custard creams coming third. Both black and white couples dance and hobnob with each other in the foreground. The Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle 1943-1945, (Hobnob Press, 2017), pp.