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 |
Tom De Saulles |
Dear Nicey
A quick read of your latest biscuit review has left me with the munchies, but it is the New Year and I am trying to lose a few pounds, resulting in large part from the Christmas tin of assorted chocolate biscuits. Can you recommend a healthy yet pleasing biscuit that will help quell any thoughts of chocolate digestives until the diet fizzles out in a week or two and biscuit consumption returns to normal.
Yours hungrily
Tom De Saulles |
Nicey replies: You know some of the low-fat biscuits aren't to bad at all. There was one some years ago that was a like a low fat Hobnob made for Tesco's I believe. It was really tasty and actually was very crunchy due to the reduced fat. Of course the mighty fig roll is actually pretty good for you, in moderation of course. |
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Oliver Harris |
SIR -
It deeply distresses me that, on your buiscuit taxonomy page, you call Nice biscuits "on of the nastiest biscuits ever". I always assumed they are called 'Nice' because that is axactly what they are - not 'amazing', granted, but still 'nice'. Also you dis pink wafers, which is most out of order.
Yours agrievedly,
Ollie. |
Nicey replies: Oliver, SIR,
You are entitled to your own opinion. |
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Tom Davies |
Dear Sir.
I am in your debt. Your site has given me the abilty to choose the perfect biscuit for any occasion. For example, if i were to have a children's party BNs and Pink Wafers would be involved (and maybe those round ones with the hole and the icing on top, I forget the name). However I am stumped when it comes to the Hovis biscuit. To me it seems that the nation is divided right down the middle with these. You have to love or hate them. They come in one of those selection boxes for eating with cheese after a nice sunday meal, however if you do put cheese on them they taste utterly repulsive. They are always either the first or the last of the selection to go suggestion that there IS no grey area with them. However I have yet to judge wheter i like them or not because i do not know what they are supposed to taste of. Is it bread? Why make a bread biscuit?
I am baffled. Perhaps you could shed some light on the infamous "HOVIS Biscuit" ?
yours Dunkingly
Tom Davies |
Nicey replies: Actually for a children's party I would advocate Cadburys Chocolate Fingers and Custard Creams.
Hovis biscuits are simply digestives, but I do agree with you that they are not good with cheese although some people do like them that way. I fail to see why they single out the digestive to join the crackers on cheese duty. If its a sweet biscuit that is needed rather than a savory cracker then why not pop in a few Lincolns or maybe an Abbey Crunch! |
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Brian Barratt
Tim Tam vs Penguin Review |
Mr Nicey, you deserve a Henry Kissinger Award (or something) for your tactful and diplomatic handling of the Penguin vs Tim Tam War. We nice, quiet, modest old gentlemen down here in The Land Of The Tim Tam are grateful. Well, I mean. Never mind the Wars of the Roses -- you've probably averted a dreadful revenge attack in the War of the Ashes.
Coward!
Lt Col Sir Ernest ggrope-Kneightley, OAP (retd) |
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The Guild of Biscuiteers |
The Guild of Biscuiteers (East Mids, etc, etc) yesterday purchased a packet of Fox's 'Put The Kettle On' biscuits. They claim to be 'deliciously buttery biscuits' and the claim is not too far wide of the mark.
The sample pack have pretty well disappeared now, being a slim derivative of/tribute to the good old Butter Osbourne. The name caught my eye - is it possible that, given the generally favourable
reviews of their biccies on NCOTAASD, the company have paid some form of tribute to your lovely website?
They were sourced from Kwik-Save and I have never seen them anywhere else.
Happy New Year to you and The Wife and indeed the entire NCOTAASD crew.
The GOB (EM Sector) |
Nicey replies: Thanks GOB,
We will keep an eye out for them. They sound like a derivative of their Butter Tea biscuits which are really quite pleasant. We have had quite a few Fox's reviews last year, but then again they did send us a big box full of their new ranges..
I shall pass on your good wishes to the staff. |
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