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Mike Jones Bakers Iced Zoo Review	Hello Nicey Many thanks for the evocative trip down Biscuit Memory Lane that your review of Bakers Iced Gems provoked. I grew up in South Africa, and despite having dabbled with several dangerous drugs in adulthood (such as blue Smarties and double espressos), I have never quite been able to recapture the combined chemical high and sugar rush brought on by those luridly-iced confections. I also recall that we used to ink or pencil-in features on our favourite animals prior to consuming them, and I am pleased to report that ingestion of quantities of felt-tip and pencil lead seem to have done me no great harm at all. Sadly my memory of South Africa's fauna is not quite as well-developed, but I may have an idea regarding the pink slug/whale/fox hybrid thingy. The clue was in your comment that the icing appears to dress to the left, so to speak, and that perhaps you had this biscuit upside down, and lo and behold, after inverting my monitor I could make out the shape of a squirrel or possibly a beaver or other large-tailed rodent. I hope that this is of help, and wish you all the best in your biscuity crusade. I'm off to PC World now to by a new monitor. Cheerio! Mike
Jenni Conway Weston's Wagon Wheels Review	Dear Nicey, I have beside me a Canadian Wagon Wheel, along with a ruler. This diminutive treat is but 6.7 cm in diameter, and 1.8 cm thick. According to friends and family who ate the rest of the Wagon Wheels that I purchased, they are mighty delicious. For your information, there really is raspberry in the raspberry filling in the Canadian Wagon Wheel. There are also a number of positively frightening-sounding components. The ingredients of the Wheel are as follows: sugar, enriched flour, glucose, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, glucose-fructose, vegetable oil shortening, cocoa, apple pulp (apples, sulphites, potassium sorbate), gelatin, modified milk ingredients, fancy molasses, salt, sorbitan tristearate, sodium bicarbonate, raspberries, pectin, soya lecithin, citric acid, ammonium bicarbonate, sodium benzoate, monocalcium phosphate, nutmeg, natural and artificial flavour, colour (contains tartrazine). Each 41-gram cookie contains 167 calories (700 kJ) and practically no nutritional value whatsoever, but who cares? Something you should know: it appears as though Weston sold his Wagon Wheels, as the only ones I could find are made by Viau McCormicks, which appears to be a subsidiary of Dare Foods Limited. These Wheels are a genuinely Canadian product, however; it says so right on the box. I hope that this information proves useful to you and completes your quest for information on the Wagon Wheels of the world. Sincerely, Jenni
	Nicey replies: Jenni, Thanks for that wonderful piece of trans-altlantic biscuit detection, and the wealth of data in your report. Good to see that the Canadians are settling for a 67mm Wagon wheel which is 7mm smaller than our own, although you may have the edge over us on depth. Amazing to see Raspberries turning up in the jam, this must be a first for the whole genre, you should be proud as a Canadian, even if you are unable to eat them due to your dietary restrictions.
Wendy Gordon	Hello nicey, I was just referred to this site - what a find! I have a story that is more about a tea SPOON, than a tea mug. I worked in an office that was sited next to the office workers' kitchen. You had to walk through the kitchen to visit the toilet! (The least said about that, the better!) Anyway, I was very particular about my mug and enamel handled spoon, and was most disconcerted when the latter went astray. It was gone for a few days (I mourned) and then turned up down the bog! Well, I wasn't going to remove it, so just did my business as usual (in the bog). There the spoon remained for two days. On day three, I entered the kitchen to find a colleague emerging from the toilet with right arm soaked to the elbow, enamel handled spoon in hand, commenting about wasted resources. She simply rinsed the offending article under the cold tap then proceeded to make her tea with it! Needless to say I never accepted a hot drink from her again!
	Nicey replies: OK we'll put a mug against this one as its in the spirit of personal mug week.
Lloyd Wood McVitie's Lyles Creams Review	"We love the barking mad Lyle's syrup logo, of a dead lion with bees all round it, which the packs have emblasezend upon them. If only all product logos were this odd." The logo is, of course, emblazoned for a reason: Judges 14:8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. hence "Out of the strong came forth sweetness", which I've always viewed as an indication that the sweetness of strong tea does not need added sugar. I suspect that your site is entirely secular, and lacks a spiritual element. L. Praise the Lord that I don't have a television and haven't seen you on it.
	Nicey replies: Well actually if you had actually followed the link to the review you would have read that we were of course aware of the Biblical reference, and mention this. We are also aware of Mr Lyle's religious convictions which led him to choose this logo for his company. Also you'd best not listen to the radio or read the papers because I appear in those too at the moment.
Mary E Challen	My Nan still talks about the tea money - apparently it is vital to keep the bubbles central as long as possible! She also does the up and down pouring mentioned by B North.
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