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Rachael Oliveck Lidl's Choco Softies Review	Am in agreement with Tracey. In Switzerland these biscuits used to be called Tetes de Negre. Highly offensive and I believe they are now called something else. I have been tempted by all the reviews and will be buying some tonight. Rachael
Tracey Simonds Lidl's Choco Softies Review	Dear Nicey I was extrememly excited to see that you had chosen Lidl's Choco Softies for your biscuit of the week. Having spent most of my formative years in Germany, (this being the result of parents who thought it was a good idea to join the armed forces and then see how children with ginger hair coped with a new school every two years) I was always very partial to this particular tea-time treat. However, I thought I should bring to your attention the fact that the comedy name may well have been introduced for a very good reason as when we used to purchase this goey gem, it was then known as 'Neger Kusse', a name which I am sure you will agree is not only provocative but highly offensive. Maybe the renaming was a good way of diffusing what probably was a highly volatile marketing strategy. Or maybe it's just a variaton on a them. Tracey
Richard Lidl's Choco Softies Review	Hello. My name is Richard. I like Cake. After my brother David told me that Lidl (no less) were selling some sort of giant "Lyons Chocolate Teacake", I jumped at the chance to go with him and experience the Lidl mayhem at the Staple Tye branch in Harlow Essex. I must say that even after eating many of the Lyons Chocolate Teacakes in the past, I have never seen a teacake quite like the Super Dickman. Much like Trina had explained, the outer shell is vulnerable to melting under the heat of a fingertip, though I can imagine that a short period in the fridge would help in this matter. The wafer base has much to be desired in my books. It has that "all too farmiliar" wafer taste, leaving the confectioner with a mouth full of slimy ice-cream cone crap, and does not qualify the Super Dickman as a cake as such. Being on a biscuit base and with a less "dark" flavour to the chocolate, the Lyons Chocolate Teacake in my view, does qualify as a cake. Overall, the Super Dickman was a pleasant and Nice experience, though I feel that despite its similarities with the Lyons Teacake it remains in the category of "Seaside Confectionary" rather than a cake due to its wafer base and dark chocolate coating. Size 9/10 Flavour 7/10 Originality 2/10 Price 8/10 Name 2/10 Overall 56%
	Nicey replies: Richard, Full marks for the 'seaside confectionary' comment, I think you have gotten very close to the truth with that one. Mind you Germany is not over endowed with coastline so while it helps us personally come to terms with the teutonic treat, we are still none the wiser as to its origins. I'm not one for marking things out of ten, but I would certainly give it higher points for originality and name.
Trina Lidl's Choco Softies Review	Your piccie of a Lidl's Choco Softie has tormented me all week so I wended my way to Derby's Lidl's and fitted me up with said confection.  What can I say?  Well, 12 for 99p is excellent value although by Lidl standards they are flippin' expensive.  So, here's my thoughts?   What are they?  They are certainly not biscuits, nor cakes nor whatever.   And how should one eat them?  I have the luxury of living alone so my eating technique (now scoffed 6 of 'em) is still in development.  However, the choco shell is thin and tends to melt under your finger tips.  It also splits in the manner of a Magnum so there is plenty of catching of cracked chocolate.  The white fluffy bit gives the old tongue a work out (snickering, once more at the marketing idiot who named them Dickmans....) and the tiny wafer disk at the bottom is a lovely ending.  The remaining 6 are in my fridge - I think they are probably at their best when served chilled.  As I am on a Weightwatcher's diet and the packet does not contain calorie or fat information I determined they were, to all intents and purposes, calorie and fat free.  And that's my story when I get weighed tonight (and come home and scoff at least another). Still does answer the question - what are they? Trina
	Nicey replies: Trina, Your pragmatic approach to calorie counting is an inspiration.
Barbara Walker KitKat Review	Hello Nicey and Team I have been enjoying your site for some time now and it certainly takes the mind off things.  Good news about Huntley & Palmers.  As a Reading girl it brings nostalgic tears to the eye.  I recently took a British Airways flight in pursuit of the business your site helps me take my mind off, but not in swanky business class.  BA have taken to offering a strange box of snacklike things in lieu of a meal – rather more akin to the packed lunches everyone ate within ten minutes down the M4 on the school coach trips… Along with possibly the smallest cake portion I’ve ever seen and something in a steamy plastic bag reminiscent of those towels things in Chinese restaurants was a very tiny KitKat indeed.  I didn’t have a ruler on me, as that is probably one of the things they confiscate before you board these days, but it can’t have been more than 4cm long, but with two fingers for the sake of form.  As you have probably gathered I find something profoundly disturbing about miniturism, especially where food is concerned, but ate it anyway, so sorry no photographic evidence.  It sets the teeth on edge like really twee souvenir fairy things (I bet there were tons in Cornwall).  If someone were to offer you a bit of their KitKat and that was all you got you would think them jolly mean.  And it tasted funny – rather a praliney taste rather like foreign chocolate that has been made with homogenised milk like Hershey Bars. Now what I want to know is whether this is because it had been manufactured in some sinister Nestle plant far from all that is proper and Rowntree, or does KitKat taste different at high altitudes or in a pressurised compartment?  I gather tea is so foul on planes because water boils at a different temperature or something.  They serve it pointedly after they can see you have eaten everything which could possibly be dunked as well.  Has anyone else come across one of these midget KitKats (or other insultingly small airline biscuits?) Does anyone know where they are made?  Or has anyone eaten a proper KitKat smuggled on to the plane and found an unusual taste?
	Nicey replies: Barbara, It so happens I've written a bit in our book about aircraft food miniaturisation, in the section on Sitting Down. The thing about KitKats is that they are now made in all sorts of places, India, Czechoslovakia for example, by various parts of Nestlé so they could be some exotic ones.
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