Your ViewsKeep your e-mails pouring in, it's good to know that there are lots of you out there with views and opinions. To help you work out what is what, are now little icons to help you see biscuit related themes. And now you can see at a glance which are the most contested subjects via this graph (requires Flash 6.0 plugin). Please keep your mails coming in to nicey@nicecupofteaandasitdown.com | If you like, you can use this search thingy to find stuff that matches with any of the icons you pick, or use the fantastic free text search, Yay! | Your e-Mails |
Katie Drummond |
You wondered if Mark Dinsdale’s tea song (which I have definitely never heard before, and I was born in 1975, so perhaps it’s a generational thing) contained the words ‘a quarter past three’, and I thought that perhaps you might be confusing it with the ‘Chick chick chick chick chicken’ song? Vis:
Chick chick chick chick chicken,
Lay a little egg for me.
Chick chick chick chick chicken,
I want one for my tea.
I haven’t had an egg since Easter,
And now it’s half past three, so…
Chick chick chick chick chicken,
Lay a little egg for me.
Which also, excitingly, contains the word tea (though in the other sense of course). |
Nicey replies: I think you may be right Katie, Nicey's got confused. So much so that's he's left me in charge!
Just as well I've sent him off for a weeks recuperation skiing in Meribel, where it's apparently the best conditions ever.
Wifey
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Nicky Bramley
HobNob Review |
You have completely made my day by telling me that Plain Chocolate HobNobs are coming back as Dark Chocolate HobNobs! I wrote to McVities when they were discontinued to plead the case, so it's great to see they've bowed to public pressure (I'm assuming it wasn't just me that changed their mind).
I hope the chocolate will be a teensy bit darker than previously, just to add more contrast to the lovely hobnob bit.
I'll stop jigging about the office now, because people are starting to look at me funny.
Nicky |
Nicey replies: Yes it did seem incomprehensible that they dropped them in the first place.
Mind you if the ever bring back the Abbey Crunch I will openly weep tears of joy in public I suspect. |
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Phil Musselwhite
HobNob Review |
Bah!
I have been diligently working hard to shift the Christmas indulgence, and now news has come in that I’m going to start eating biscuits in large quantities again. Great news for those not overweight though.
I wonder how far one has to cycle to shift a half-packet of Dark Chocolate Hobnobs’ worth of calories.
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Nicey replies: Yes the HobNob Mile (HbM ?) seems like a very useful unit of measurement. Once we have that we can estimate how many packets of HobNobs are required for a man to cycle to the shops / pub / moon etc which certainly seems much easier to grasp than all of this talk of abstract calories. Then all other foods would be relative to the HobNob rather than the teaspoon of sugar which seems to laid claim to this particular area. It would also be useful to have a measurement of how much other foods were like HobNobs. Things like oysters, kale and olives would score badly on the 'being like HobNobs scale' where as flapjack would do very well.
I'm sure there is still a bit of free space left on packaging to fit these extra arbitrary figues, that way consumers would know for definite that tins of sardines in tomato sauce were not at all like Hobnobs, and how far they could cycle before collapsing if they were to eat a whole box Frosties. |
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Mark Dinsdale |
Dear Nicey, Wifey and The Crumbs,
It was whilst savouring the morning’s first freshly made pot of leaf tea in the office that I began to sing to spontaneously sing “I like a nice cup of tea in the morning” before coming to a premature halt at the end of the line. Much conversation followed with colleagues as to the rest of the song.
It was easy enough to obtain thus:
I like a nice cup of tea in the morning
For to start the day you see
And at half-past eleven
Well my idea of Heaven
Is a nice cup of tea
I like a nice cup of tea with my dinner
And a nice cup of tea with my tea
And when it's time for bed
There's a lot to be said
For a nice cup of tea
Most gratifying. However my colleagues remain unsatisfied as to the lack of information about where this ditty was used in terms of advertising or at least want to know how this came to be ingrained in the British consciousness. Is it hard coded in our DNA or have we long forgotten where this song emerged? Can you or your diligent tannin-stained audience assist us on its origins over here in our government bunker? This message was produced in flexi-time at no cost to the taxpayer (and we pay for the tea ourselves).
The Campaign for Real Tea office splinter group.
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Nicey replies: Yes I'm pretty clueless on this, although I think its does mention 'a quarter past three' at some point. |
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Hiromi Miura |
Dear Nicey, wifey and YMOS,
Thanks to your past picking up on NCOTAASD.com, I expect that many people outside Korea have already known the Korean style Wagon Wheel, "Orion Choco-Pie" biscuit, which is well-known as military use biscuit as well as the korean's favourite.
Now, the "Orion Choco-Pie" is undertaken a new project.
The project is a "Dr.You Project" by Dr.You and ORION!
In short,the Dr.You Project is that eat one banana and a milk carton (maybe 200ml) with a piece of the "Orion Choco-Pie" so that such a combination will meet an ideal CPF ratio.
As you know, CPF means Carbohydrates, Protein and Fat.
The ideal CPF ratio seems to be approximately 65% carbohydrates /15% Protein /20% fat.
I hear that the CPF balanced-diet with such an ideal ratio is helpful for keep slim.
Dr.You, who was born on the seventh of June in 1955 and is a great professor of family medicine at Seoul University in Korea, found how to enjoy the "Orion Choco-pie" perfect for the CPF-balanced diet.
How lovely Dr. You is !
And, I guess that a banana and some milk with a "Wagon Wheel" biscuit might also meet the ideal PFC ratio.
Good luck with your diet, Nicey!
I am sure that it will not long before you complete your diet project successfully.
Because you has wonderful supporters, Wifey and YMOS, always with you.
For you, Wifey and YMOS must be greater doctors than Dr.You.
(F.Y.I)
Dr.You appears on MBC FM radio "radio doctors"currently on air in Korea.
< Mondays to Saturdays 8:30am-8:35am >
And he published his book titled "Everyone can lose 10 kg".
I hope that my translation from Korean via Japanese into English about the "Dr. You Project" will be correct.
Cordially,
Hiromi Miura (Seoul Korea)
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Nicey replies: Hoorah for Dr You and his bonkers Project.
Despite his lovely pie chart and stethoscope I don't think eating chocolate biscuits bananas and milk in abundance is really going to shift the pounds. There is probably something in the Korean small print about how often you are allowed to do it and if you are allowed to eat anything else.
Anyhow he looks a lot like he is from the Dharma Initative
But maybe that's because Wifey made we watch 23 episodes of Lost season 3 in a week after she had the box set of DVDs for Christmas. |
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