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Devon
 Oreo Review |
I read your review of oreo's. I am pleased that you seem to understand america :). Statistically speaking, americans are fat and commercialized. We love our oreos almost as much as some "love" their heart attacks.
Thanks for reviewing oreo's! they may be the essence of over-proccessed-commercial-american food, but they're really tasty, especially with milk.
Thanks again,
Devon (not the province... thats my name....)
p.s. (i was kidding mentioning the province... you're not stupid) |
Nicey replies: Thanks for that. Actually Devon is a county, famous for dairy products, milk, cream, butter and so on. Cream teas are a feature of Devon's cuisine, consisting of scones spread with jam and clotted cream and a big pot of tea, epic! |
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James Fussell |
Nicey,
I've been on jury service for two weeks. Unable to leave the Jury room for 2 weeks for the whole day I would have expected some sort of biscuit provision to be made available, but no. Add to that the foul tea they served up and it all resulted in a very disagreeable two weeks. The original jury summons states that you must have a very good reason to forego jury service. I suggest that no biscuits and piss like tea is an amply good reason!
Jim. |
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Catherine Ford |
Nicey,
More a complaint about the site really than anything to do with tea or biscuits, but why does my favourite site take so long to type and invariably get spelt wrong? I always manage to miss out one of the 'a's of 'tea and' or put in an extra 'd' or something. Couldn't you have made it something a little easier, I don't know, just 'nicecupoftea' or something? I know it's a bit late for changes seeing how popular your lovely site is now, but I have to complain about something.
Catherine Ford
PS Help! There are only custard creams left in my house! And there are only about 4 of them! But I had a lovely cup of tea with my breakfast this morning.
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Nicey replies: You could always bookmark us. If not type 'fig roll' into Google that should do the trick. Also 'Nicecupoftea' had been taken by cybersquatting vermin. |
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Brian Barratt |
Dear Mr Nicey
As a tea-drinker for over 60 years, I would ask Nick Keegan if he also adds sugar and milk to his beer or wine.
When young students visit me for tuition, I permit them to add sugar and milk to their tea, if they wish. On the other hand, I offer them a choice from about 12 different types of tea and gently suggest that if they wish to relish it and learn about tea drinking, they must treat it like wine and savour it as the gods in their wisdom intended. (Alas, there is no soma in my kitchen cupboard.)
Why ruin the subtle nose and flavour of Assam, Darjeeling, Russian Caravan, Royal Ceylon, English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, Scottish Breakfast, Traditional Afternoon, Lady Grey, et al, not to mention the wide range of subtle Chinese teas available to us? Milk and sugar with jasmine? My Chinese students and their parents would be insulted.
As for adding milk to Earl Grey, well, why not just buy a tin of paint, water it down, and drink it? The result would be the same.
Oh well, never mind. These youngsters will learn, one day. |
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Nick Keegan |
Dear Mr Nicey...
Well. What can I say? You have reviewed biscuits and cakes of all types but you seem to pay little attention to the most important element of the whole experience: the Tea!- PG, Tetley, Assam, Twinnings to name a few. Even Tesco's don't make a bad cuppa. So what are you going to do about it? You really do need to do some in-depth research into this if you really want to be considered an authority.
One last thing. I am a student (and I hope to f**k you are) and in our house if you say the word Tea or even the letter T you have to make everyone who wants one a cup. This is great fun. You can try and catch people out. For example- "what channel is this?" - "ITV 1" to which you would reply ' milk two sugars ' along with some mocking of the poor unfortunate victim. I personally have two sugars in my Tea and anyone who doesn't should consider themselves inferior within Tea drinking circles. Do you have any statistics on the whole sugar no sugar debate?. if you don't you should.
Bye
Nick. |
Nicey replies: Nick,
Thank you for that. We don't review tea, we have our reasons.
As for sugar, well it is widely accepted that tradesmen and children enjoy sugar in their tea. We'll see if that statement sparks a debate.
If I were still a student I would now be in my 20th year at University, however, when I was one we couldn't afford sugar and so gave it up when the first packet ran out towards the end of October. |
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