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 |
Huw Davies |
Hello again Mr Nicey,
I have to agree with Loz's email about poor children smelling of biscuits. I remember some of the children at Porth Comp smelling like they were rubbing themselves with all manner of biscuits before they un-tucked their shirts, messed up their hair, put their trainers on (Pan-Am) and came to school.
This has to be a global ocurrence.
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Biscuit Enthusiast Mandy |
Nicey, having read the letter on your feedback page, I felt compelled to respond. I can categorically state that this was not localized to Liverpool, I also remember the very same "cheaper type biscuit aroma" surrounding the poorer kids at my school. So, the phenomena obviously did spread, at least to Bar Hill around the same era! Maybe Bar Hill at that time was a migrating point for the poor custard cream misshapen biscuit fed Liverpudlians? |
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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......
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Craig Buckley |
I noticed while looking at your site, the reference to wafers and Kit Kats, surely the kit kat should be re-classified as a fully fleged biscuit? |
Nicey replies: The KitKat is a chocolate covered biscuit bar, and exists in the union of biscuits and chocolate bars, in the Venn diagram of the biscuit world. As such it finds it self able to being classified in any of the three categories that creates. As such it does not require reclassification.
I hope this helps. |
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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. |
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