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 |
Joanne Lucas |
Hello Nicey
Have just seen Pete's email and picture of the bourbons with white middles. These biscuits appear to be quite common in the civil service 'refreshments' sector as I have also noticed them appearing on the plates at meetings etc. recently
They are quite nice, you could probably eat loads (maybe 8) before you felt sick, because they aren't as sugary as bourbons. I'll never find out for sure though unless we work out who makes them, because our tea and biscuits people will NEVER put more than one of each type of biscuit on plate apart from those oblong shortie things. And I've also unfortunately noticed that civil service custard creams are pretty gross, with the biscuit tasting like its been made with fag ash or finely milled grit.
Anyway, suffice to say, the cogs of government are not kept turning by politicians, nor the 'faceless' civil servant, but by strange looking bourbons, highly prized jammie dodgers and 'fake' chocolate digestives.
PS:Today's biccie of choice - Walkers Pure Butter Shortbread Highlanders - brought back from a meeting in Edingburgh, and very nice. Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread is infinitely superior though.
Lots of love
Joanne
A civil servant from Bristol |
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James
McVitie's Lyles Creams Review |
Just for the record - the full story with the lion (abridged) is that Samson killed it, came back later to find a nest of bees in it. Took the honey. Made up a riddle about it. (Hence the strength and sweetness tag line). Dunno how Virgil got involved, Samson was around about 3000 years before him.
Cool site by the way.
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Nicey replies: OK. There was the bit about its flesh getting eaten by something, neither bees or Samson, adding a bit of irony to the first bit of the riddle. |
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Simon Vannerley
Custard Cream Review |
Sir,
I had a revelation this week. I used to think custard creams were just an also-ran, run-of-the-mill, ordinary WI coffee morning type of bsicuit but when I sat down for a nice relaxing elevenses yesterday morning I found some in the biscuit tin and because there wasn't anything else in there I ate one with my cuppa.
It tasted lovely, so I had another one.
I now think custard creams are vastly underrated and would like to encourage as many people as possible to shake off the stigma of eating what are often thought of by the unenlightened as 'ordinary' biscuits and appreciate every individual species as a tasty snack in its own right.
I would also like to apologise to an biscuit lovers I might have offended with my (formerly) bigoted views about so-called 'ordinary' biscuits.
Every biscuit is an individual, and ought to be treated like one regardless of colour, taste or texture. I intend to write to my MP to urge him to introduce a Biscuit Equality Act to Parliament at the nearest possible opportunity, with equal representation at coffee mornings and tea parties for all types of biscuit to end this scandal of biscuit discrimination.
I remain your most obedient servant,
Outraged of Tiverton
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Katie Drummond
McVitie's Lyles Creams Review |
Dear Nicey
I have just found your website and am suitably impressed. Possibly even better than www.rathergood.com and its Uber-Pea animation.
Anyway, I just wanted to inform your readers about the origin of the dead lions and bees motif on the golden syrup packaging. In Book IV of his long poem (in Latin) on country life, Virgil wrote about the ever-fascinating practise of bee-keeping. In this book he examines the mythological origin of bees. It was believed that Aristaeus was the keeper of bees and he lost his swarm somehow (I don't actually have the book on me at work, and left university a long time ago so can't recall the full details here.....). Someone or other (a god possibly?) told him that they would arise again from the carcase of a dead lion if left long enough, so he found a dead lion and left it for a while and sure enough the bees swarmed out of it. Or something like that.
Keep up the good work and stop slagging off Marmite.
Katie
PS have you ever tried drinking tea THROUGH a Tim-Tam? Bite off each end and suck. Recommended. |
Nicey replies: I'm not sure anything compares to Crab bloke's Uber-Pea.
As for lions and bees, I'm sure your right and that was what Samson was banging on about too in his own brand of wit.
I wasn't slagging off Marmite, just making fair and rational observations.
And finally, yes thats the Tim-Tam slam, and no we didn't try it as it seemed a bit sordid. |
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Brian Barratt |
Dear Mr Nicey,
Inspired by the recent feedback and comments, I would like to investigate:
The Zen of one biscuit snapping.
In a distant forest, naturally.
I remain your obedient and humble servant,
etc.
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Nicey replies: Good plan Brian. |
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