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Brian Careless	I have just come across your website, and I would very much like to complain. I feel you are being very unjust towards the Pink Wafers, as they are a tremendous biscuit, and were always the first to go in any biscuit selection box that was at conferences I attend, in my house (or any of my friends houses for that matter). I therefore, would like you to retract this harmful comment to the greatly under-appreciated biscuit of the 20th and 21st Century, and place a public apology on your website to the Pink Wafer biscuits. Even an article on the wonders of Pink Wafer biscuits, displaying that your opinion of them is only a very small percentage of the biscuit eating society, and that they are infact, a widely respected and tasty biscuit. I Bid you Good day sir, and hope for your speedy reply
	Nicey replies: Brian, I don't doubt what you say but our poll of nearly 3000 people placed the Pink Wafer way out in front as the most disliked biscuit with 11% of the vote. Mind you could argue that 89% of people don't mind them.
Tim Walters	Hello Nicey I much enjoy your website, devoted as it is to... well the best things in life. I've just voted in your current biscuit poll (but not currant biscuit poll obviously). I think it's a grand idea to show pictures of what you've just voted for, and the poll leaders. This, however, leads on to my problem. My favourite biscuits are from the hobnob family. I find that local supermarkets tend not to stock the dark chocolate hobnobs, so for reasons of (local) exclusivity they are the worthy recipient of my "best" vote. (Honourable mention must go to the figrolls that some misguided fools have shown as "yuckiest"). I notice that the pictures used for dark chocolate hobnob and dark chocolate digestive appear to be ONE AND THE SAME. Obviously I realise that biscuit production methods might mean the topping is applied in identical faashion to both biscuits. In which case I will accept your categoric assurance that the pictures are genuine. Might I be so bold as to suggest that side views could be shown in addition, so that no such confusion ensues. I am pleased to see pink wafers getting the scorn they deserve. Quite how coloured cardboard comes to be sold as a comestible is beyond me. A dishonourable mention to Kimberleys. Not sure why they aren't a clear second place. Keep up the good work Tim Walters
	Nicey replies: Tim, You have of course spotted my guilty secret, namely that I didn't have a dark chocolate Hobnob picture so switched in a Dark Digestive. It's also plainly time that I sorted out the votes and told everybody what has been happening. I shall get to it right away. I can say however in advance that the Top 10s are as follows: Favourite Dark Chocolate Digestive Milk Chocolate Digestive Milk Chocolate Hobnob Jaffa Cake Gingernut Dark Chocolate Hobnob Chocolate Caramel Digestive Hobnob Custard cream Regular Digestive Milk Chocolate Digestive Dark Chocolate Digestive Gingernut Rich Tea Jaffa Cake Hobnob Custard cream Choc chip cookie Bourbon Yucky Pink Wafers Fig Roll Wagonwheel Rich Tea Lemon Puff Iced Gems Gingernut Jaffa cake Garibaldi Nice Well done to the Gingernut and Jaffa cake for appearing in all three top 10s. Also we would like to add that the Jaffa cake is of course still a small cake despite its inclusion in the poll. Mind you maybe the VAT man will use this very poll as evidence next time they thrash out the eternal debate.
Charlie Tomlinson Penguin Review	Ahem, This is a polite but firm request for you to remove the foul and fematatory language regarding Pink Wafers which I have just read in the FAQ's of the Biscuit bit of your otherwise excellent website. Although nowadays I have to buy 'Pink Panther Biscuits' out of Somerfield to get my fix, I can still happily eat an entire packet dunked in tea and still feel that I could go another one without too much bother. Each to their own of course, you're entitled to your opinion, but they certainly aren't "unpleasant at best," and are amongst my favourite biscuits of all time. Charlie Tomlinson (P.S. I discovered Penguin-Tea-Straws through your website, and am eternally grateful...)
	Nicey replies: You won't be keen on what I said about them in our book then.
Aimee Jones Foxs Party Rings Review	Good morning Nicey, Wifey and YMoS, In these dark days of hooded tops and youngsters turning their backs on grand institutions like tea and sits down, there is a small glimmer of hope - the UWIC Undergraduate Prospectus I am a librarian at one of the UWIC sites and was perusing the stacks of new prospectus we had received when my eye fell on the cover of our very own - a huge chocolate digestive (I am using the distinctive ridge pattern as the basis for my assertion) with a healthy bite taken out. Further inspection of the whole document has each School and section represented by a biscuit - the mighty Pink Party Ring is there, the classic Chocolate Bourbon, and even the sometimes miss-understood Pink Wafer. At least there is one academic institution that realises the importance of biscuits - and I am assuming tea - to the successful development of our future movers and shakers. Maybe NCOTAASD could become an advisor for any future publications to ensure the correct use of biscuits at all times? Keep up the good work, ttfn, Aimee Jones
	Nicey replies: That all seems very sensible. Wifey undertook a special solo mission to Cardiff a couple of weeks ago, and was very impressed by the the tea, biscuits and homemade cake rota at the place she visited. She also had an lovely sit down at the cafe at the end of the David Morgan arcade. She arrived back with talk of handing out special awards to institutions for outstanding tea breaks.
John Osmotherly	Dear Nicey, I just thought I should keep you and your readers informed of a fearful biscuit with which they could become involved if venturing overseas. Recently while in Malaysia I had the terrible misfortune to encounter this "biscuit" while searching for something tasty to nibble upon. Actually a type of wafer confection -(yes, I know, always risky) it is all the more dangerous due to it's unfamiliar Malaysian name being entirely impossible to remember. All I can say is that it was clothed in transparent plastic (the warning signs were there). How to describe this peril? Ok... imagine a pink wafer that had been banished to the centre of the Sahara for a thousand years. (not a bad idea some would say). In that time it has gained an impressive tan. This is NOT due to chocolate content. It is so devoid of moisture that even touching it will draw the very moisture from your skin.No doubt its moisture grabbing properties could be put to good use in some field of science, but not that of biscuitology. In addition, this material has been coated with a couple of coats of brown paint- again this is NOT chocolate. The resulting item is astoundingly and completely devoid of taste of any sort. How they did it I don't know. It's kind of eery really. Rest assured that the fine teas of Malaysia are no match for this abhorrency, it is just too dry and too bland to be tamed by a simple beverage. If you are in that neck of the woods and fancy something wafery and chocolaty try Beng Beng in Thailand which is quite safe. Yours sincerely Mr John
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