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Patrick Thornton Jammie Dodger Review	Having recently purchased a packet of the aforementioned biscuits, work colleagues discovered that the base level of the 'sandwich' had its patterned surface 'jam side'. Why hide this detail? Does this increase the adhesive capacity of the jam filling, offer a safer more stable 'plate status' (by using the plain side to increase the contact surface area) or, is it a mechanical error? Has anyone else noiticed this and is it replicated in the new orange dodgers? Yours, Pat
	Nicey replies: That's a profound point you've brought up there. I've always thought the reason was two fold. First the inner pattern plays an important role in retaining the jam as it is applied in liquid form. I would like to think that Burton's have spent considerable R&D money on refining this and getting it just right, and not simply made a bit of a pattern and stuck with it unchanged for years. Secondly the baked under surface of the biscuit is the natural surface for the final fully assembled Jammie Dodger to rest upon. This gives its most stable base and allows them to be stacked in nice little piles on plates for parties, to heights in excess of three biscuits.
Bewildebeeste Jammie Dodger Review	Reading your review of Jammie Dodgers, you say "This also makes attempts to part both biscuits somewhat futile, due to the adhesive jam". However following the biccy barrel being replenished, I discovered the elusive technique. Gripping one shortcake biscuit in each hand, one simply twists each biscuit in opposing directions, therefore stretching the jam until breaking point. The method wasn't 100% successful, the bottom biscuit has a tendency to crack if you try to pull the biscuits apart whilst twisting, but the majority of the time, i was successful. The anticlimax to all this however is that the jam is impossible to lick off wach shortcake half, rendering the process rather pointless, unless one desires to stick jammy dodger halves to the wall, in a sort of baked treat dado rail... Yours twistingly, Bewildebeeste
Vicki Wilsdon Jammie Dodger Review	A lad in our office has recently been trying to establish a link between the liking of Jammy Dodgers and the liking of Marmite, claiming that if you liked one, you inherently liked both. He claims to have picked up this information on the grape vine and despite being a Marmite hating Jammy Dodger eater himself, believes it to be true. Results in our office have been inconclusive, can such a correlation exist?
	Nicey replies: That sounds like a perfect thing for a poll!
Tom Hutchinson Jammie Dodger Review	Dear Nicey - Thank you for your lovely website.  I have been very much enjoying it on a semi-regular basis. I wonder if you have been doing any research into the 'raspberry-flavoured plum jam' problem which currently afflicts Jammie Dodgers and other biscuit/jam compounds. Raspberry jam is certainly a top jam, so I don't understand why Jammie Dodger manufacturers have to resort to this silly simulacrum.  Maybe they are worried about the presence of those little raspberry bits - like minature embryonic raspberrys.  If you reduce raspberries to a puree then these bits are certainly distracting, but in the context of jam, they present no difficulties.  Equally, I am worried at the thought that raspberry flavoured plum jam might retain some taint of former pluminess.  For indisputably, plum jam does not belong in the folio of classic jams.  But by what method is the plum flavour eradicated?  What would happen if this process was to backfire? Or maybe it is only a question of simple economics.  In which case, my response would be to wait a moment, and then to breathe softly: 'oh dear'.  I have seen Jurassic Park (one and two) and I know you cannot toy with nature for mere financial gain.   I hope you can shed some light on this for me, and many of my concerned friends. Thank you Tom
	Nicey replies: Tom, I covered this one in the review. Its to do with the amount of pectin which is the complex polysaccharide in plant cell walls that sets the jam. Plums and Apples are very rich in it soft fruits such as raspberries don't have so much and strawberries are notoriously low in it. Hence to get really stiff jam capable of holding the two sides of the jamie dodger together Burton's have gone for a plum based jam. However the flavours that people respond to are those of the of soft fruit jams, hence subterfuge.
Phil Tougher Jammie Dodger Review	I read your review of Jammie Dodger but you include no history of the name. The name comes from the French Wars of Religion fought from the middle to late 1500's. So heavy were the losses of men from towns and villages that ceremonial cakes were made to remember those who never returned. Two large rounds of unleavened bread pressed together with a heart shape cut out and filled with fresh or preserved fruit bore the legend "Never shall there be war". It's modern name, corrupted from the Old French 'Jamais de guerre' has become whimsically divorced from it's more sombre origins though it has stood the test of some considerable time. If not to be included in your review I'd recommend that you consider a historical reference somewhere on your site. Yours sincerely, TOWER Philippe
	Nicey replies: Hmmmmmmm. At least I get to use the fruit icon for the first time.