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Sue Girard	Hello Nicey, My Gram was born in Hastings in the 1880’s, moved to London as a young wife, then brought her two young daughters to California after losing her husband in WWI. We always had proper English tea at holiday dinners, but I didn’t much care for it. To entice me, Gram used to call to my attention the bubbles in my cup. “Ooooo-o-o-o—loook, you’re going to have lots of money coming your way….” I still didn’t like tea, much to Gram’s chagrin. But I do have Gram’s biscuit tin. I use it every Christmas when I load it up with homemade cookies—err, biscuits. Best Sue Girard
	Nicey replies: Hello Sue, We have a special icon for tea bubbles and their associated wealth, and one for biscuit tins too. I think it's lovely that your Gram's old biscuit tin gets an outing at Christmas time. As for Hastings I seem to remember from my trip there as a child that it has very tall wooden sheds covered in tar, which were something to do with fishing.
Gill Casey	Does anyone else out there suspect that the credit crunch is due to too much coffee drinking? If the banks were to outlaw coffee machines and make everyone sit down with a nice pot of Darjeeling, which has to be brewed for 3-4 minutes under a charmingly knitted cosy, preferably with pom-poms, then surely the World of Commerce would be a little less jumpy. Kind regards Gill Casey
	Nicey replies: Your subject matter may be topical but more importantly it lets me use the tea-cozy icon.
David Schwartz	My Dear Mr. Nicey, In response to NickQ’s complaint about tea/biscuit choices in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, let me make a few suggestions: You can always get a cup of tea with piping hot water at McDonalds. The tea is their house-brand which tastes like Lipton yellow label and they’ll give you artificial creamer in a little tub, but it will be really really hot. (You can buy a carton of milk if you really need it). McDonalds uses superheated water for their coffee which was the subject of a lawsuit: a woman suffered severe burns when she spilled her cup on herself while driving. (The interaction between eating, automotive travel, and litigation is very American). As for the biscuit (a.k.a cookie), any supermarket will have several kinds of Italian cookies by a company called Stella D’Oro (originally located in the Bronx, New York, but they’re now owned by Nabisco so there’s national distribution) – the best are the Lady Stella assortment. Buy a box and you’ll agree with Harold Macmillian – you never had it so good. They also have a chocolate center cookie which used to be made with non-dairy chocolate so that orthodox Jews could eat it as a dessert after eating meat. (The rules of kashrut forbid mixing dairy and meat products within a set interval). They’re as good or better than anything on offer in the U.K. except for McVities’ Milk Chocolate digestives (hallowed by thy name). --David Schwartz Washington, D.C.
	Nicey replies: Thanks David, The genuine hot water from McDonalds is a very good tip indeed.
Nicky Bramley	Nicey, you star! I was made-up to go on the site today to find a new icon for Hiromi. She's a public treasure: always informative, enthusiastic and full of a pleasing wackiness that sits well with the British public. Hooray to you for recognising her unique strengths. Nicky
Hiromi Miura	Dear Nicey, Wifey and YMOS Wednesday the 10th, my husband and I came back to Korea ,dragging packets of Japanese biscuits from our three-day trip in Tokyo Japan to make our life in Korea more comfortable :-) Then I was able to get a case of twenty & fourteen "Black Thunder" biscuit bars, my favourite Japanese biscuit, which are chocolate covered biscuits like the "Penguin" and" Tim Tam" , although they have a rugged texture unlike those two traditional biscuits. To tell you the truth, the "Black Thunder" is much more popular than before in Japan. Reportedly, Kohei Uchimura of Japan, silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games men's gymnastics, is a "Black Thunder" fiend. Since such a fact spread all over Japan, Yuraku Confectionery, the manuacturer of the "Black Thunder" has been so busy filling increased demand for the biscuits that some employees were unable to take their summer holiday. I got mine at a 7-Eleven, which is a major convenience store chain in Japan. The shop manager who was kind enough to allow me to buy up all the "Black Thinder" biscuit bars in his shop, told me that each 7-Eleven shop could order only one case (20bars) of "Black Thunder" biscuits at a time, up to three cases a week, nowadays. Actually, it was not easy for me to spot a store sellig them. Hence, the biscuits appear to have become hard-to-get biscuits for shops as well as us consumers. It is reported that Yuraku Confectionery does want to keep supporting Uchimura with its "Black Thunder" biscuits until the 2012 London Olympic Games. So, you may see Kohei Uchimura munching some"Black Thunder"biscuits somewhere in London in 2012. And I obtained a box of "Mcvitie's digestive biscuits pumpukin flavour",too, which was made in Japan by Meiji Seika. It is probably a limited edition for this autumn-winter in Japan. However, if it turned out that another promising athelete were a huge fun of the pumpkin varaiant, Meiji Seika might be required to continue manufacturing it so as to support the athelete at least until 2012 when the London Olympic will be held. Sincerely, Hiromi Miura (Seoul Korea)
	Nicey replies: Hello Hiromi, Worrying events in the world of Japanese biscuits especially as you say you like to buy them otona-gai. I suspect once they have got the situation under control they'll probaby start making all sorts of spin off biscuits. I have to say we all enjoyed the Black Thunders you kindly sent. They seem to be a mass produced version of the sort of tray bake things you can make with smashed up biscuits, dried fruit and chocolate which are very pleasant. Not sure what biscuits Chris Hoy our triple gold medal winning cycling bloke or Rebecca Adlington our double Gold Medal lady swimmer eat. Some how what ever they were I don't think the whole nation would run out and buy them all up though.
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