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Chris Rayment |
My first ever job was in an accountant’s office and as the youngest and newest employee I had to fetch the drinks from the vending machine and clean said machine on a weekly basis. You would not credit the foul smelling sludge/slurry that had to be scooped out using gloved fingers! Twenty seven years later and it still gives me the shakes! I’ll have to have a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
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Tim
Abbey Crunch Review |
I am appalled by the whole Abbey Crunch de-listing, and reminds me of the sadness I felt when our local TOPS supermarket in Bangkok stopped selling M&S Bourbons.
But I was wondering if it's not just a result of the UK populations' general nosedive into the development of a very short attention span and the need for re-branding and flashy marketing to make them reach for those bics off the shelf.
So McVities could:
1. rename Abbey Crunch to something like 'abbey' (as in National)
2. Put some random hyrogliphics in - like Abb>y Cr*nch
3. That's it.
As for people complaining they will be devastated by the loss, just think of us out here in Thailand where we have to put up with a slew of mediocre japanese sugary pieces of tat. Use your right to vote by purchasing the biscuits you claim to love! Or just buy them and post them out here :-)
Tim.
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Ben Yeats |
Dear Nicey,
Sorry to trouble you but I did not know where else to turn and my sister reminded me of your site. My village is 'lucky' enough to have a large branch of Morrisons (near Cambridge is this their most Southerly store) and I was interested to note that they categorise the biscuits into chocolate biscuits and everyday biscuits (and another category for kit kats and the like who's name eludes me, to avoid confusion lets call it individually wrappered biscuits for now). Now as far as I am concerned almost all biscuits of the tubular packaging design with more than say 25 biscuits in the pack are everyday biscuits, this includes chocolate digestives and chocolate hobnobs (my somewhat predictable favourite). I personally find it pretty disturbing to find a biscuit apartheid system in operation in this day and age and suggest that readers of this site boycott Morissions until they change this unconventional naming convention.
Best Regards
Ben |
Nicey replies: Yes we have been to the Morrisons in Cambourne. Don't fret about biscuits being called 'Everyday' its simply implies that you are not treating yourself by having an everyday biscuit, where as with the other ones you are having something a little bit special. We often forget how affluent society is today, and the concept of everyday biscuits is not as relevant as once it was, especially in a world that would see families spending ten pounds on a take away meal of fat and carbohydrates.
Actually I would say Horrah! to Morrisons for keeping it real. |
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Adam Christmas |
Hello,
I love tea, but I find the few minutes when it is too hot to drink a freshly made cup very frustrating. It is either burn my tongue, or sit there smelling the delicious aroma unable to actually taste it.
Do you have any tips? Clearly more cold water would help, but I feel I would be sacrificing the strength of the cup. I can't brew it any longer to off-set this as I drink mainly green tea which becomes very bitter when over-brewed.
Is this just one of those un-solvable conundrums of tea?
Adam |
Nicey replies: Try blowing on it or taking very small sips. |
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Steve Henly
Abbey Crunch Review |
Hi all I have just rang mcvites giving the lady on the end of the phone all my best complaints about MCVITES delisting Abby crunch . SO WE WILL NEVER HAVE THEM AGAIN ! So could you and all the many who visit your site ring them up and pester them and we will try and get them to start to bake the little buggers again cheers Steve Henly ........
PS we need a big push from everyone!
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Nicey replies: Of course I've already phoned McVities, as have many others.
Your efforts would be better directed at Mr Sainsburys/Tesco/Asda etc. Of course McVities have been baking them for the last few years but they haven't been on the supermarket shelves so were not easy to find and therefore buy. If McVites started to bake them again would that situation magically reverse itself? No. We would simply be where we were two months ago.
If any of the big supermarkets want to be a champion of the biscuit eating public and work with UB to bring back some much loved brands then we would surely do our level best to promote that. There simply has to be an opportunity here.. |
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