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 |
Brian Barratt |
Esteemed Mr Nicey,
This is a serious message about a serious question.
We enjoy English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast and Scottish Breakfast tea, here in the Antipodes. However, a Welsh friend has asked me where we can buy Welsh Breakfast and, indeed, is there such a thing as Welsh Breakfast Tea.
Who makes Welsh Breakfast Tea, and can another Australian reader let us know where we can buy it?
Genuinely 'umble
Brian |
Nicey replies: 'The' Welsh tea is called Glengetty, I could only find one reference to it in Google and that was in the middle of a large piece of Welsh text. Don't know about a breakfast type of tea however. |
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Karen |
Dear Mr Nicey,
yes its true the bubbles on the top of your tea do mean good fortune is on the way,or so my nan told me! But you have to catch them with a teaspoon and drink them seperatley. However it can't just be a welsh tale as my nan hails from Newcastle and it is a habit I continue to do today. (still waiting for the money though!) Got to go kettles just boiled.
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Caryl Cowen |
I come from a welsh family (South Wales Valleys) and my mother would always say "look at the money in my cup" if she had bubbles floating on her tea. It's passed down the family and we all say it, but not in public because you get some strange looks!
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Lisa Anderton |
Mr Nicey,
Regarding Emily's note about 'tea money' - being from South Wales (although far from being a pensioner) I had previously not heard of this theory and yet as a married lady, I now find this very thing to be a minor source of dispute at home.
My husband hails from some northern place called Manchester and has long ago introduced me to 'tea money' which is deemed very lucky indeed, even to displaying affection by giving me the cup with the most money on top. However, as I make tea in the mug (let's not go there) I therefore produce very little money yield on tea, whereas my husband (a pot man) is always has a good crop. I therefore remain accused of not demonstrating the same affection - although I am heartened as my tea is better he tells me!
As for my Welsh granny, she used to read our tea leaves whilst we munched on our M&S tea cakes, but that's another story.
Cheers,
Lisa
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The Sugary Topped Bloomers
Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review |
Our small team of rather under-challenged colleagues spent just over half an hour gathered around a computer lapping up the delights of your website. Thanks for making our coffee break (value tin of Nescafe) so enjoyable.We thought it only right to review the small packet of Foxes Butter Crinkle Crunch we devoured within around 30 seconds:
KP - the yellow package is too bright & cheerful for a work biscuit, but actually when you bite into them they are quite gratifyingly rich... AND although they're very crunchy they have a melt in the mouth quality. Mmmmmmm - good dunkers. 7/10
RT - package highlights a midrange biscuit, however you are pleasantly surprised with the high standard contents. They are light in colour and taste with delicious buttery aroma. They do not come across as greasy. They work as dunkers - great retention of crunch. They are the Ronseal of the biscuit world - they do exactly what it says on the pack. I would repurchase. 8/10
SP - declined the offer of an FBCC. 0/10
SC - packing is bright & welcoming. Makes me feel I want a biscuit. The taste experience itself - exactly what's expected. 10/10 but I wouldn't buy them!
AH - I did expect them to look like crinkle-cut chips. It was saddening to see a rather regular biscuit within. I am a total sucker for Butter biscuits however - give me another!! 6/10 ( would rather have some Highland Shortcake)
Overall rating 6.2/10, but not bad considering the selection on offer at the local Newsagents (the type of vendors that sell 'Grandson' birthday cards with pictures of trains and boats on).
TTFN Nicey,
The Sugary Topped Bloomers
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Nicey replies: Yay, for informal biscuit reviewing circles. Perhaps, it might catch on as a social phenomena, like Karaoke. Amateur biscuit reviewers, up and down the country might dream of appearing in prime time TV shows like 'Biscuits in their packets'. |
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