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 |
Dave Spence
Abbey Crunch Review |
I heard your plea for the Abbey Crunch biscuit on BBC Essex today and it rekindled my liking for those wonderful biscuits. It must be 10 years since I tasted that lovely nutty flavour and it has made me want them again. How can McVites be discontinuing such a tasty product. Surely they must realise this could cause a backlash on their other products.
I will keep an eye on your site to see if you get any further news and now I am going to find a source of Abbey Crunch!! I am off to Spain on Monday so I may be lucky!
Thanks
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Nicey replies: Well you've answered your own question there haven't you. You really like them, but you haven't had one for more than ten years.
Still with some creative marketing maybe United Biscuits can turn the fact that they have some much loved brands that don't deserve to be killed off, into a marketing plus. How about 'limited edition taste of tradition', 4 month long runs of Abbey Crunch, Royal Scot and Chocolate Garibaldi under say the Crawfords brand which has been recently spruced up to be the home of traditional everyday biscuits. The supermarket shelves should be able to find room for a rolling product range, and it could be an excellent way to reconnect with consumers especially the ever growing grey-pound bracket. Come UB sort it out! |
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Darryl Snow
Abbey Crunch Review |
A fond and regular reader of your website, I have always felt that I deeply share your passion for the good-old heart-warmingly simple but most glorious king of biscuits... of course... the abbey crunch. I too share your dissension with McVities (and to some extent the supermarkets and their throat-grip on the biscuit market) for its desicion to... discard... discontinue... and disembody the very hmm of such a delightfully delicious biscuit.
When I... heard the news I... felt as if i'd lost someone special. Just like that. Never to be seen again. That was until last week when I walked into my local Spar and that familiar royal blue luminescence caught my eye from the biscuit shelves. As I walked closer in disbelief I grew short of breath.
Needless to say I bought all 13 packets.
What's more is that I've been back 3 times this week, buying every packet each time, and still they re-stock.
I'm sure if we spread the news then together, us and spar, side by side, can boost sales and ultimately bring back the crunch! |
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Jenny Moss
Abbey Crunch Review |
Firstly I would like to say that I love your site and it has reawakened my interest in biscuits (which is not necessarily a good thing).
Secondly, I am a strong believer in one tea bag per cup however I respect the right for people to drink their tea however they want. My sister merely waves a tea bag at hot water and adds in half a pint of milk so I have learnt to be understanding of other tea drinkers preferences.
Thirdly, I want to share exciting kettle news. I was recently given a new kettle for my birthday and it has changed my tea drinking. Previously I had to swirl the tea bag around non stop and lift it out fairly fast to avoid horrid scum on the top of the tea (I live in a hard water area). However, I now have a filter kettle and it is amazing. I can leave the tea bag for a good 5 mins to brew and no scum at all! The result is much nicer tea as I can properly taste it. I would recommend this kettle to anyone also suffering in a hard water area. I believe it was from John Lewis.
Finally, Abbey Crunch really is the king of biscuits. My boyfriend found a supplier for me last week as I was getting desperate to have an Abbey Crunch (having forgotten how wonderful they were until you reminded me) and I now have 5 packs lined up ready for a nice cup of tea and a sit down!
Yours
Jenny
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Paul Daintry
Abbey Crunch Review |
Dear Nicey
Delighted to discover your lovely website, and particularly thrilled at the lead status you give to the Abbey Crunch. The Abbey Crunch truly is the prince of bicuits, the most perfect eating experience and an unequaled accompaniment to a cup of tea. It is simply impossible to eat just one and, whilst never having had a wedding morning of my own, I completely empathise with your correspondent's whole-packet-eating experience. The only way to put down a packet of Abbey Crunch is empty. So important has this biscuit been in my life as friend, confidante and sugar-rush that I think of it more as the Abbey Crutch than Crunch.
More power to your elbow, and I look forward to spending more time on your website. Must run now, though - got to top up the pot.
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TandC Lidds
Abbey Crunch Review |
Abbey Crunch happens to be the favourite biscuit of both myself and my beloved, but for some unknown reason we cannot seem to buy them in any of the major supermarkets in the area in which we live ( Herts& Essex Border). You can imagine our delight however two years ago when we walked into a small shop in a little village in Ibiza and saw a shelf full of our favourites, we managed to get seventeen packets in our cases to bring home.
Earlier this year we were in Benidorm and went into a small shop near our hotel and discovered that they also sold Abbey Crunch needless to say but we stocked up again. Faced with the prospect of having to wait until the next time we went abroad to stock up you can understand the wonderful glow we felt when we discovered them in a Unwins off licence just round the corner from where we live, we can cancel moving to Spain for the time being. If anyone else can tell us of outlets where we might be able to purchase the biscuits I would be very grateful.
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Nicey replies: Oh yes all very valid stuff that. Finding Abbey Crunch is never easy, you have to look in unlikely places. I find petrol stations are useful. |
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