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April Linke	Dear Nicey As I was in pursuit of a nice cup of tea and a sit down this afternoon, and this necessitated hiding in my office to get away from the offspring, I thought I might just cruise in and while away the afternoon reading about all the biccies  I've been missing.  Lo and behold the teacup (okay it's a mug, shoot me) was soon woefully empty and I was forced to make a secret foray into the kitchen to make a fresh pot of tea.  Alas my Sunday afternoon sit down has been fraught with delay and obfuscation as the tea jar was empty.  What to do?!  A frantic search of the tea cupboard ensued.  Chamomile, Chai and "Tension Tamer" tea flew in all directions and a brief, hectic, moment of joy evaporated as the Bigalow tin yielded only packets of Tazo Green tea and some vile Lipton Cold Brew foisted on the unsuspecting public by Chatalaine magazine as a free insert months back.  At last!  A package of store brand Orange Pekoe teabags and the reason for my contribution today.  You see the store is called Overwaitea and you would have to have visited Canada to have heard of it.  Are you with me?  Overwaitea?  Yep, according to the story on the box... Over-Weight-Tea.  Here it is:  "R. C. Kidd established himself in New Westminster, British Columbia as a tea and coffee merchant.  With his innovative marketing for the price of a pound of tea, R. C. gave his customers another 2 ounces.  He was famous for selling 18 ounces of quality tea for the price of 16 ounces. Since 1915, R.C. Kidd's "Over Weight Tea", a symbol of our continued tradition of "more for less", became known as OVERWAITEA."  All I can say is I wish I had some of his "quality tea" now instead of this dishwater in my cup, but I thought it made an interesting story highlighting local character and providing the world with a view of what one man and his cuppa can do in the Colonies. Cheers all! April
	Nicey replies: April, Thank you for that stimulating peep into Canadian life. We have made a icon to celebrate! Now to find the other two emails we've had from Canada..
Joanne Lucas	My dear Nicey I can confirm that kids also smell of digestives in Grimsby. At primary school I had to sit next to a particularly aromatic girl at lunchtimes. What I cannot confirm however, is whether or not she was poor. Her cardis never seemed to fit (arms too short), but maybe that was she was a bit portly. Of course this might mean that she was fat (oops sorry not very nice of me) because she ate far too many digestives and therefore smelled of them (??!!). I dunno. But have you ever noticed that when dunking digestives you can only fit a little bit in the cup, and when you nibble off that bit, the rest fits perfectly for dunking? Ahem. Ta ra! Joanne
	Nicey replies: Joanne, Thank you for that. The large diameter of the digestive, when dunking, teaches us temperance and restraint through biscuit reshaping, unless they have snapped in half in which case its full speed ahead.
James Fussell	Nicey, Just read your comments on the PG Tips bags. On the bottom of my current box of four score I notice that PG (Unilever) have trade marked the tetrahedral shape of the bag AND the name Pyramid. Surely they can't have it both ways. To add even more confusion I have just had a nice mug of PG Tips tetrahedral shaped pyramid tea, with a "Hand Baked" Current Shrewsbury biscuit. Surely they mean Hand Made, Oven Baked!? It's all too much for me, it's enough to drive anyone to Happy Shopper square bags and a packet of pink wafers. Jim.
	Nicey replies: Sound points there Jim. Baking stuff in your hands would almost certainly lead to very a serious burns injury. On a similar note things that proclaim themselves to be homemade when they are plainly produced in Industrial proportions always get me wondering. Do they have a vast network of homes in which their products are made, involving an exhaustive series of deliveries of raw materials and collection of the finished goods? Or perhaps somebody actually has to reside at the factory premises in order for it to be a home and therefore be able to produce homemade goods?
Thomas Newton	Dear Sir,   I do not know how you feel about hybridised biscuit/confectionaries, but I would have to heartily recommend the practice of sucking tea through a Twixel.   My Girlfriend and I tried it last night for the first time, and it was rather splendid.   My apologies if this is not considering decorum.   Cheerio,   thomas
	Nicey replies: Yes, you are really discussing something on the very fringes of the biscuit time space continuum there. Its a confectionary matter really.
Benjamin Smith	nicey To follow up James Fussell's comments regarding French biscuits, let me reveal that I have recently returned from Korea, where tea is green, watery, un-milked and smells of boiled cabbage. I experienced similar tea in Russia, which apart from being black is often served with a spoonful of jam inserted in it. A surprisingly civilized custom. ben
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