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Kathy Sadler |
Dear Nicey and fellow biscuiteers,
Does anyone remember a really old Wagon Wheel commercial with the tagline "It's so big you gotta grin to get it in"?
No one I've spoken to seems to have heard of it, but I'm sure I can't be hallucinating, I can sing the tune and everything!
This would be going back at least 20 years, but it's not the sort of slogan that's easily forgotten...
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Nicey replies: Sorry, not ringing any bells with me. |
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Glenn Pougnet |
Dear Nicey,
Partly inspired by your fantastic website and a passing interest in football but mostly due to our obsession with biscuits myself and a few of my work colleagues have launched The Biscuit Cup. We have selected 32 British biscuits, put their names in a biscuit tin and drew them out in pairs as follows:
Match 1. Pink Wafer v Jammy Dodgers
Match 2. Tunnocks Tea Cakes v McVities Jaspers
Match 3. Cadburys Boasters v Penguins
Match 4. Gariballdi v Cadburys Chocolate Animals
Match 5. Abbey Crunch v Digestives
Match 6. Breakaway v Malted Milk
Match 7. Fruit Shortcake v Chocolate Digestive
Match 8. Rich Tea v Jacobs Club
Match 9. Mint Viscount v Fig Rolls
Match 10. Custard Creams v Bourbons
Match 11. Shortbread biscuits v Iced Party Rings
Match 12. Jaffa Cakes v Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies
Match 13. Chocolate Hob Nobs v Lincoln
Match 14. Caramel Wafers v Nice
Match 15. Cream Crunch v Hob Nobs
Match 16. Chocolate Fingers v Ginger Nuts
There are some great matches here although I fear for the lowly Lincoln going up against the mighty Chocolate Hob Nob.
We have set up a panel to decide on the winners on the basis of taste, dunkability and biscuit design. Please advise if we are missing an important criteria. The winners of each match go into the next round involving tasting and dunking tests.
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Nicey replies: Fantastic,
This is going to be a an exciting event with some close matches like 10 and 15, and some walkovers like 8 and 13. Are you going to buy new packs for each round? Thats a lot of biscuits.
I would add style/ originality, and performance to your criteria, otherwise you might be faced with a 3rd round full of chocolate biscuits. A good performing biscuit should keep you coming back for more. Whilst biscuits like the Malted Milk have a classic styling that doesn't date.
Good luck and keep us up to date with the results. |
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Nick Kiwi |
Dear Nicey,
I have never seen the Mikado biscuits which you feature on your excellent site. I had always taken Mikado biscuits to be the thin biscuit sticks dipped in chocolate, to which you make brief mention. They are sold by LU biscuits in France, but I'm fairly sure that the Danone Group (who own LU) sold stick Mikados under their Jacob's brand in Britain. Surely the company can't have been selling two different products under the same name in the U.K. and Eire?
Yours
Nick Kiwi |
Nicey replies: The world of biscuits has more intrigue and mystery than one might suspect. |
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Biff Tannen
Jacob's Mikado Review |
hi there
i like reading your website when i am sat in the university library where i can only dream of a nice cup of tea. this morning i read the review of the jacob's mikado and when the picture had loaded i was shocked to see what used to be called the 'jamboree'. i'm not sure who manufactured it....but when i was younger my grandparents used to buy them from the local shop. i hope this is of some use to you....and do you have any other information regarding the history of the jam-bo-ree?
~biff~ |
Nicey replies: The format used in the Mikado is not unique although the underlying biscuit varies quite a bit between bakers. I'll keep a look out for other variants and their names. |
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Benjamin Smith |
nicey
I have just purchased a 6 pack of original Wagon Wheels, the packet of which is emblazoned with the legend "Great New Chocolatey Taste". This begs the question of quite what Wagon Wheels were supposed to taste of before (adventure, according to a different part of the pack). An internal
examination however has revealed no human-discernable change to the taste of the Wagon Wheels, and biscuiteers should not allow themselves to be unduly tempted by this marketing ploy.
ben |
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