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 |
Brian Parker
Tunnocks Tea Cake Review |
When I was in charge of people, as a manager, rather than the contractor I am now, I instituted "Tunnocks Tuesdays", which meant that on a strict rota, staff had to bring in a Tunnocks product for the team to share. (I should add that I took well over my fair share of purchasing)
The tea-cakes went down a storm, but the most regular purchases were the caramel wafers, so I have to lay claim to adding to the 4m sold every week.
Never got any commission from them though. |
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Duncan Simpson
Tunnocks Tea Cake Review |
I was pleased to read your excellent reviews of the tunnocks teacake and caramel wafer. However, I wonder if you are aware of their latest offering, with teasingly limited availablility, dark chocolate versions of teacakes and caramel wafers. For fans of tunnocks who prefer their chocolate on the darker side, these really are a must-have biscuit to be sought out and snapped up.
I grew up in Hamilton, not far from Uddingston where the fabled teacake factory resides. I well remember the annual concert given to the Tunnocks staff by Earnock High School band on Uddingston town green. Oh, I've come over all reminicent now. THe same band used to play for the Phillips lightbulb factory in Hamilton, and I hope they still do. |
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Carol Swift
Tunnocks Tea Cake Review |
Please help! We are desperate to find out who makes chocolate teacakes with JAM. We are aware of the Tunnocks regular chocolate teacake but there is a version of this cake with jam available, we just can't find out the manufacturer's name. Can you help us?
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Nicey replies: Thats no problem, you could try 'Lees' a Scottish based baker of tea cakes, or just good old 'Burtons'. |
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Graham McKechnie
Tunnocks Tea Cake Review |
just looked at your fantastic site for the first time [got link from bbc news site].I was particularly impressed with your review of tunnocks tea cakes and caramel wafers.Regarding your queerie about consummsion levels of these delights in Scotland I can assure you they are very popular. The name Tunnocks is a guarantee of quality in the biscuit world north of the border. Being a patriotic Scot [exiled in England] myself I regard the Tunnocks tea cake as a prince amongst biscuits.
The Tunnnock company itself is interesting , its a family run business based in Uddingston just outside Glasgow ,they deliver their confection in very distinctive postman pat 50s style vans with the same livery that adorns the biscuit wrapers.There is a load of info written on the back of these vans regarding sales figures and the number of delivery vans in the fleet. I seem to remember that Tunnocks had an party recently to commemorate their 50th birthday and the tunnock family took the staff out on a slap up dinner and piss up in a fancy hotel in Glasgow.
The standard of the biscuits and the design of the wrappers, the packaging, the logo and vans havent changed since my childhood in the 70s, a symbol of tradition in a changing biscuit world of marketing, rebranding and diminishing quality. |
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Colin Campbell
Tunnocks Tea Cake Review |
Dear Nicey,
On further perusing your website I found the comments about Tunnocks teacakes (with which I wholeheartedly disagree having been raised on them) and also the question about Gray Dunn caramel wafers. I am sorry to tell you that Gray Dunn was part of the Rowntree group of companies that was so fairly taken over by Nestle ? that paragon of local produce and healthy living ? and that the Gray Dunn factory inGlasgowwas shut down. Gray Dunn also produced Toffee Crisps and Chocolate Gingers. I guess that Nestle may have moved production of the caramel wafers somewhere else but the factory itself is no more. I will pay more attention when in my local shops in case I can find a source of said wafers.
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