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Anne Carvallo	Hi there Nicey! I've not emailed you before but have spent far too much time perusing your website when I really should be doing something else like the ironing or clearing up the furball the cat's just sicked up! Anyway, hoping you can help.  Last week at work my friend Maureen and I were having one of our regular biscuit discussions (her having purchased in Tesco's that lunchtime a bumper pack of Malted Milk and me saying I wasn't actually that struck on them as I don't really like anything with a malty taste - apart from Maltesers - and then proceeding to eat at least 15 of them!).  As usual, the discussion involved much "do you remember...." and I suddenly experienced a flashback to my childhood and an image of a particular biscuit from many years ago (I am 44).  On describing it to Maureen, she felt a growing sense of recollection, but neither of us could remember its name so I'm hoping you might be able to solve the puzzle. From memory, the biscuit was rectangular, maybe 2" by 1.5" with maybe one of those scalloped type edges.  It was quite a crisp texture and not particularly sweet (perhaps akin to the base of an iced gem??).  It had a thinnish covering of icing - again quite crisp.  The colour I recall most vividly was a sort of bubble-gum pink, but I think they may also have come in yellow and may even have had both colours in the same pack.  Two more features are ringing in my memory.  The first is an image in white icing on the pink or yellow background of maybe a figure of a lady (crinoline/parasol type thing) and the second is that when the biscuit was tapped with your fingernail it actually sounded sort of hollow. I know this probably all sounds a bit weird and I'm a bit worried that I might be imagining the whole thing but it is really bugging me and the fact that Maureen has an inkling of it as well makes me think that my memory might not be playing tricks on me after all.  There again, Maureen has admitted to liking Malted Milk dunked in Horlicks - yuk! Does it mean anything to you?  Hope you can put us out of our misery and look forward to hearing from you! Best wishes! Anne
	Nicey replies: Yep, they sound like the sort of iced biscuits that many people recall but can't name. Iced biscuits used to be way more popular than they are today although I didn't get that many at home, if at all, I certainly remember having biscuits such as you describe when visiting friends or relatives. Hopefully your detailed recollection will jog some memories.
Edward Brennan	Hi During a conversation at work, diverting from our usual topic of how to better serve the customer & improve efficiency, I discovered something unnerving in common with my colleague, Trish. It was one of those moments, normally experienced by teenagers, when you discover something long consider a dark secret, & possibly very shameful, may in fact be common and even the topic of a popular opera or musical: the eating of digestives with butter. Delicious. Move aside ambrosia, throw away your stodgy manna, these slices of the godhead came close to replacing the communion wafer in our house on a Sunday. They were eaten by myself and my family in southern Ireland, and, now I know, by at least one other family, located on the periphery of Dublin. I am sure this was not a recommended serving suggestion. Maybe it's a mutation of the Irish love of butter and our custom of spreading it with more fever than sense, much as the Scot's love of deep fat frying leads to unholiness with Mars bars and the Soviet passion for vodka to the defilement of tea. Who knows. Regardless, from this revelation, I am bravely sticking my neck out and asking for others with similar tastes to come forward. If there is enough of us, we can change the parameters of normality and push back the tide of night, loosening the chains of convention and blessing all kinds of bizarre unions. Regards Eddie
	Nicey replies: Yes we have just returned this very afternoon from a biscuit safari through the Republic, where I admired some Jacob's Digestives in a petrol station in Carrick-upon-Shannon before settling for the big pack of fig rolls on special offer. I was also very interested to see Jacob's branded Café Noir biscuits. I could have stayed for many minutes longer but the Wife was waiting outside in the car with the younger members of staff.
John Swift	Thought you may be interested to know that in my local Sainsbury's I recently came across what was to all intents and purposes a Dundee biscuit. Made in the instore bakery, the biscuit had the same taste (so far as I can remember, it must be 15 years since I last had a genuine Dundee) texture, and ability of the chocolate to melt onto your fingers as soon as you pick it up. The only thing that was missing was the Dundee branding across the biscuit, not enough to diminish my enjoyment. The biscuit cost 70p. Quite expensive for a single biscuit, but well worth every penny for a trip down memory lane. John
Tim Mosedale	Dear Nicey and Scott Wilding, Recently I found some Cadbury's animals in a shop near me in Reading. They were packaged in the box of old. Whether this indicates that they are still made like this, or that the grocer in question keeps stock of dubious vintage, I am not sure. I didn't buy them to test as I had only enough money for the jar of marmite I was purchasing at the time. yours, Tim
	Nicey replies: Tim Thanks, thats the second report we've had of proper Animal biscuits in boxes. I'll keep a sharp look out for some next time I'm buying Marmite.
Hofheimward Bahlsen Orange Choco Leibniz Review	Hi,  A British friend (in London) has just sent me your website address (via an American friend!!).  So here am I sitting in Germany feeling EXCEEDINGLY MIFFED that Bahlsen has decided to launch their orange biscuits with you UK residents.  I was somewhat mollified that they were launching it in milk choc, cos I would go for "Edelherb" every time and I think it suits orange better anyway.  I mean, Terry's red orange is a lot better than the blue one, oder?  I shall drop in for a sit down and a chat more often, now that I know you exist! Alison
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