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 |
James Reynolds
McVities Taxi Review |
I too redeiscovered taxis recently, and agree with the guy who commented that they were originally in a blue wrapper. It is also my belief that the caramel is a recent addition, as my memory of the old taxi is of a very light wafer - and one which certainly didn't feature caramel.
Whilst I can't hide my disappoint that the re-launched taxi has changed somewhat, this is balanced by the fact that the new taxi is a very tasty biscuit, and achieves a very different taste to the classic Tunnnock wafer. |
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Erin Amar
McVities Taxi Review |
Dear Nicey, Just a wee, not really tea nor biscuit related correction to your comments about Taxi. The Taxi TV show ends with the woman saying "Goodnight Mr. Walters" not Mr. Brooks (ye gods, that is unless this was somehow changed in the UK). The bit refferred to the John Charles Walters Company, which was the show's production company, and oddly - according to my research - seems to have no John Charles Walters working there. (!!) As usual your website has left me loaded with anticipation about (and terribly hungry for) my next trip to the UK and what biscuits await me there. Keep up the fine work! Yours - Erin, Boston USA |
Nicey replies: Thanks for picking me up on my wobbly memory. |
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Patrick Grabham
McVities Taxi Review |
Dear Nicey,
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Taxis were originally blue. I remember the New York taxi-style chequered bit but they certainly weren't orange. Can anyone else remember?
Patrick |
Nicey replies: I know what your saying, I thought it might be latent Bandit memories though.
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Biscuit Man
McVities Taxi Review |
Glad to see your trip to Lidl was profitable and yielded some Taxi wafers, previously thought extinct.The volumes should be good through Lidl, so while they are listed there the brand will be safe. The wafer heyday was late 60's and early 70's, when McVities had another brand called Bandit, which was TV advertised with the catch phrase "You can stand it with Bandit get your chin off the floor!" the pack had a cut-out bandit mask on the back, which made it very popular with younger desperadoes. Burtons also had two wafer countlines "Lush" and "Striker". Like Bandit and Taxi, these were essentially the same product in different wrappers. Strangely enough, the "Lush" brand name never found favour with the British public and was largely an export line. "Striker" was re-launched in the 80's with Roy of the Rovers on the pack, but never took off. Eventually the wafer plant that they were made on wore out, so both brands were discontinued.
Biscuit Man |
Nicey replies: A friend of ours claims to have the Bandit advert recorded on cassette tape as he liked the jingle so much. He has yet to produce it though.
Its sad yet somehow poetic to to think that some biscuits met their end because the machines that made them wore out. Sounds almost like the plot for a Disney film, oh no the trailer is forming in my mind.. "This summer, get ready for the heartwarming tale of two biscuits and their journey to save the wafer plant they were fabricated on. 'Wafers'" |
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