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 |
Ian Stanton |
There is nothing wrong with nice biscuits. they have sugar (which is great) and they helped me through the early parts of my childhood along with Cow biscuits (which go great with a nice glass of milk - 4 year olds don't drink tea). Pink wafers are also full of sugary goodness and have the interest factor of being pink. As I think now there are very few pink foods which is a shame is the wafers are anything to go by.
P.S. I was recently shocked to find a teenager who had never heard of figrolls. What is wrong with the world? |
Nicey replies: I've been drinking tea from the age of three, (milky weak and sweet back then), but all biscuits are good with milk. Hoorah.
I think you'll find that strawberry blancmange is the benchmark pink food.
I hope the teenager in question has now been introduced to the wider world of biscuits. |
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Dominic Pain |
hi,
Did you guys go on "Skinner and Baddiel (sp) unplanned" the other week? Someone in the audience asked them if a Jaffa Cake was a biscuit or a cake... and then got very passionate when Frank Skinner decided it was a cake!
I immediately thought of your site, of course, and wondered if it was indeed you? Or just a fellow biscuit devotee?
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Nicey replies: Wasn't me but Frank made the right call. |
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Jon Beck |
After visiting your site today and reading some of the comments posted by various biscuit lovers, I was stumped and befuggled to say the least with regards to the seemingly posh biscuit eaters of todays modern market. Where are the comments about the humble digestive biscuit? This biscuit is a true stalwart of the tea dunking food market. The thing with digestives is regardless of what brand of digestive you buy, they all taste exactly the same. Whether it be Somerfield basic, tesco value, Mcvitie's they all taste as good as each other. It also goes very nicely soggy in your tea and makes for a very enjoyable brew. Remember kids. Do not forget your roots. With all these new fangled bisuits coming out with promises of 'jam' or 'chololate' or 'sugar' (like the ill-fated nice biscuit), you need to remember the digestive. Ultimately reliable and always up for a brew, the digestive is a! true giant of the biscuit world.
Jon Beck
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Will Shaw |
Nicey,
I have recently discovered a new wonder,
the 'Pink Panther Pink Wafers'. They are truly the best damn biscuits/wafers/confectionary/God-sent-masterpieces I have ever tasted. I discovered them at a friends house whilst I had the munchies (biscuits satisfy my munchy hunger everytime).
Anyway, I have to admit that pink wafers are simply the greatest biscuit ever, beating hob-nobs and buttery shortbread fingers at the finish line. The picture of the pink panther on the front of the packet added an air of nostalgia to them, as i used to watch it as a child. (Humming the pink panther theme tune is a must)
Pink wafers and the pink panther! what more could you ask for? (cup of tea included, obviously)
Great
P.S i would like to know if there are any other types of 'endorsed' biscuits anywhere. The pink panther pink wafer has to be the endorsed biscuit to mark all the others against of course.
Great work with the site!
woo
Will
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Nicey replies: Will,
Are you trying to cause controversy here? There was a pink panther chocolate bar years ago, which was like raspberry or strawberry flavoured white (pink in-fact) chocolate. They were good.
These wafers however are truly nasty, despite or possibly due to each one having your 10% of your RDA of zinc.
I'm sorry the Pink Panther has had to become embroiled in the seedy world of wafer biscuits, he must have fallen on hard times since his TV show was canned. |
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James Fussell |
Whatever happened to Barnstormers (the Asda equivalent of Hob-nobs)? They were larger and cheaper than their McVities equivalent representing a large boon for the discerned hob-nob eater. Many is the time I reminisce of my late Grandfather offering me a Barnstormer, which proceeded to disintegrate in my mouth. On closer inspection it was found to be infested with little weevils and on investigation of available primary evidence (the packet), were found to be 3 years out of date.
As for the pink wafer debate, I don't mind them. A handy tip to get more out of your wafer is to separate the ply's and then you get about 5 thinner wafers for the price of a thick one. Look out for stale wafers though, they taste like chipboard.
Regards
Jim Fussell
Stale biscuit connoisseur.
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