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Dave Spence Abbey Crunch Review	I heard your plea for the Abbey Crunch biscuit on BBC Essex today and it rekindled my liking for those wonderful biscuits.  It must be 10 years since I tasted that lovely nutty flavour and it has made me want them again. How can McVites be discontinuing such a tasty product. Surely they must realise this could cause a backlash on their other products. I will keep an eye on your site to see if you get any further news and now I am going to find a source of Abbey Crunch!! I am off to Spain on Monday so I may be lucky!  Thanks Dave Spence
	Nicey replies: Well you've answered your own question there haven't you. You really like them, but you haven't had one for more than ten years. Still with some creative marketing maybe United Biscuits can turn the fact that they have some much loved brands that don't deserve to be killed off, into a marketing plus. How about 'limited edition taste of tradition', 4 month long runs of Abbey Crunch, Royal Scot and Chocolate Garibaldi under say the Crawfords brand which has been recently spruced up to be the home of traditional everyday biscuits. The supermarket shelves should be able to find room for a rolling product range, and it could be an excellent way to reconnect with consumers especially the ever growing grey-pound bracket. Come UB sort it out!
Joan Deitch	Dear Nicey, I've just come back from the John Lewis store in London's exciting Oxford Street with a very nice looking fruit cake squelching with whisky, in an airtight tin. My brother Pete has a slice of this every night after a taxing day at work and he swears by it. Has anyone else discovered these gorgeously moist (thanks, Stephen Fry) cake treats? It's a whole 'tin' experience! I showed my friend Anita your website for the first time, by the way, and she was thrilled. It led to many stimulating biscuit discussions and a public contest between us in the Borders bookshop cafe to show who was best at dunking and slurping our Starbucks biscuits - huge ginger and buttery ones. There was a debate about nibbling up the sludgy bits left after a successful dunk and slurp. Anita maintains that the last fragment of biscuit should be placed on the tip of the tongue and be dunked by swishing a mouthful of coffee into your mouth direct. I laughed so much while doing this that I sprayed Anita, our table, our books and the people next to us with a mixture of ginger biccy and lukewarm coffee. Anita I may say, didn't turn a hair - but then she does come from Huddersfield. With best wishes,
Matthew Revell	Hello Nicey, I remember the Nescafe heated coffee cans. They were useful on the odd occassion but had two major problems: 1. The chemicals required to heat up the drink took so much space that there was hardly any room left for coffee. 2. They contained Nescafe, which is a disgusting coffee and should be banned. I also heard rumours that the heating chemicals were incredibly environmentally unfriendly. Also on the subject of vending machines, if you type "110" into the Cadbury's chocolate machines on Tube station platforms, you get a status message. Usually, it's the cheery "OK! No problems", which reminds me of Eddie the on board computer in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Matthew.
Colin Jamieson	Hello Nicey – I’ve just been reading all the e-mails on your site – phew, what a lot! It must keep you very busy, so I don’t suppose you have a lot of time to sit down and have a nice cup of tea! Just thought you’d like to know about “railway tea” – no not that awful stuff that you get on Inter Cities and things, but hot, well–stewed stuff that we steam railway volunteers drink. I work on steam locomotives on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, and we always take “a brew” with us when on duty (that’s after we’ve drunk gallons of the stuff in the locomen’s lobby beforehand). We have special enamelled tea cans that sit on a shelf, thoughtfully provided specially for the purpose, above the firehole door, which keeps the tea hot (very hot!). Of course, it gets well stewed after an hour or so, and you can stand a spoon up in it (well, nearly – I lied about that just to emphasise how strong it gets!). Can you believe that some chaps (and probably some of the girls) actually leave the tea bags in all day? – just think what that that must do for your constitution! Biscuits taste really good when held with oily/coaly fingers, and then consumed – nothing like a black fingerprint on your Rich Teas or Gingernuts! Why don’t you come down some time and sample the delights of a heady brew of railway tea? – it will knock your socks off and put some lead in your pencil! On the subject of milk (which we weren’t, but we are now), how can people adulterate their tea with anything other than full fat milk? That awful skimmed and semi-skimmed stuff should be banned (and should have a health warning on it, too). Happy dunking, Colin Jamieson
	Nicey replies: Well actually I quite like semi-skimmed in my tea, but if you are going to drink seriously stewed tea as a matter of preference then full fat is the what's needed for that proper greasy finish. When my good friends Andy and Louise walked to the base camp of K2 their sherpa guides liked to brew up tea with lumps of butter in it.
Mrs Liveinabin	Hi nicey, Just thought I would mention that cans of self heating coffee went on sale in the midlands about 2 years ago. I picked some up at a service station on the M6. I never saw them again and contacted Nestle to find out why. Well they trialed them there and decided not to sell them here. Shame they would have been useful on a fishing trip. Kate Mrs Liveinabin
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