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Audrey Starkey McVities Milk Chocolate Digestive Review	What an interesting site and nothing but pleasure! I can almost taste the biscuits as they're discussed.  What about views on dunking and more importantly, HOW to dunk properly.  I like McVIts milk chocolate digestives, two together, choccy side in, and DUNK, the choc just oozes out.  So yummy!
Barbara Karayi Foxs Party Rings Review	How would my son's 5th birthday party have gone without Party Rings!!! He was begging for them to be included on the party menu for weeks.  We played the following party game with them: evenly tie (gotta tie or they'll all slide into the middle) 4 Party Rings onto a long piece of string. Get a person/parent/friend to hold each end, and ask 4 contestants to try to eat a biscuit without using their hands!  Whoever eats a whole biscuit first is the winner (but the others are too, as everyone gets to finish their Party Ring).  Barbara
Matthew Petty	A friend told me of the machine in the canteen at his university, which asked you to enter a number code for each drink. 100 was tea, no milk powder crap, no sugar. 101 was with sugar, etc. You get the idea. The machine also served cold drinks like fizzy orange, and hot soups as well. These also had their number codes. The numbers specified the ingredients, whether it was hot, fizzy or whatever. Normally you could only enter the codes listed on the front. The fun started when the machine went wrong, and allowed any number to be entered. The machine would then try it's best to produce Fizzy Soup, Cold Orange Coffee, and the frankly disturbing Chicken Tea with Sugar. All revolting, including the standard tea & coffee of course. Regards, Matthew Petty
	Nicey replies: Yes I once had to work in a place that had those. I don't think it was a malfunction that they could make stupid drinks, it was all part of the service. You could also make double strength drinks, which were twice as nasty.
Matthew Revell	Hello Nicey, I remember the Nescafe heated coffee cans. They were useful on the odd occassion but had two major problems: 1. The chemicals required to heat up the drink took so much space that there was hardly any room left for coffee. 2. They contained Nescafe, which is a disgusting coffee and should be banned. I also heard rumours that the heating chemicals were incredibly environmentally unfriendly. Also on the subject of vending machines, if you type "110" into the Cadbury's chocolate machines on Tube station platforms, you get a status message. Usually, it's the cheery "OK! No problems", which reminds me of Eddie the on board computer in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Matthew.
Jonathan Dean	Dear Nicey Following on from the current flurry of vending machine emails I thought people might be interested to hear the latest in vending machine developments over here in Japan. As many people know Japan is renowned for people working long hours with unwavering dedication to their company and its leaders. This company culture leads people to work 12 to 15 hour days five or more days a week. The end result of this is that a good 30% of people on the train are asleep at any one time. This is a country in clinical need of caffeine, but with little time to drink it. The Japanese solution to this? Canned tea and coffee of course! Yes! Walk up to any vending machine in Japan (there are 5 million of them at the last count, one for every 24 people or so!) and you will be presented with a selection of canned hot and cold drinks. Drop in 100 yen, about 60p sterling, and out drops a steaming hot can of "Royal Milk Tea" or "Mountain Roast Coffee" in a can. 'Sacrilege!' some may cry! But when you are standing on the platform at Kita Ickibukruo station waiting for the next train to Shibuya, the freezing winds of Western Russia streaming through your overcoat, the hot can vending machine yards away stops being a object of disgust and transforms into an oasis of comfort and warmth. The products in these machines are usually very sweet and slightly clinical, lacking the character and depth of a good, strong, cup of tea, but when there is little else on offer they do fulfil the need for tea. So do you think this could ever catch on in the west? If you could be sure of a satisfying drink of tea from a can would you buy it? Or is tea too complex a drink to be mass produced in a factory in the back end of nowhere?
	Nicey replies: It all sounds delightfully cyber-punkesque. Hoorah for the Japanese and their hatstand ideas. Gratuitous link to Oolong the sadly departed head performance rabbit.
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