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 |
James Fussell |
Nicey,
I have to concur with Loz. We had some biscuit-odoured poor kids at my school. More precisely they smelled of stale morning coffees. I wonder if this is the same smell as Loz has experienced in Liverpool? I live in Bristol, I wonder if there was some sort of geographical trend in biscuit type odour in these poor kids, ie. South West - Morning Coffee, Liverpool - Bourbon, Scotland - Hob Nobs. Perhaps you could initiate a study?
In anticipation......
|
| |
Loz H |
Hello Mr (or is it Ms.) Nicey.
A friend of mine pointed out to me one evening, probably over a nice cup of tea and possibly some biscuits, although my memory of this exact event is slightly hazy, that when we were at school, the poor kids used to smell like biscuits. Upon pondering this suggestion one day whilst sitting upon the kharzi, I further recalled that they used to invariably smell of the cheaper variety of biscuit. Custard Creams, and such ilk.
Anyway, my question is as follows. Is this phenomenon just localized to Liverpool in the 70s/early 80s, or is it more of a timeless, more national happening?
Loz. |
Nicey replies: I've not heard of this socio-economic phenomenon before, so I think it must be localised to Liverpool.
Well Liverpool is a major center of Biscuit production in the UK having Jacob's, Horizon and I believe a Burton's factory as well. May be these kids simply lived next to biscuit factories or their parents were employed by them and fed their kids on lots of reject/broken biscuits, as a perk of the job. |
| |
|
|
|