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Sandra	My grandmother used to send us excursion biscuits when we were young. She has since passed away. My daughters have heard my sisters and I tell of these delicious biscuits and are eager to try them. I can’t find them here in the U.S. Do you have a source that I could order them from?? I have googled my fingers to the bone . . .
	Nicey replies: I have never heard of them. Can you describe what they were like - maybe that'll ring a bell? Nicey's still away, maybe he can help if none of the other NCOTAASD crew can. Wifey
Romie	With regards to the "nice cup of tea in the morning" song, rabid googling suggests that the song was originally written by playwright AP Herbert for a 1937 musical revue. (More detailed reference here.) The credits I can find for the melody simply say "Sullivan," which I would assume meant Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan), but he would have died before the song was written. Perhaps it was another Sullivan, or perhaps Herbert reused a pre-existing melody. In any case, the song was used as an advertising jingle in the '70s for Brooke Bond's D-brand tea (thanks again to Chelsea97 over at The Answer Bank), which muddies up the question of when it entered the general British consciousness. What wonderful news about hobnobs. I have been mourning for months. Regards, Romie
	Nicey replies: Yep, you win the prize for being first to find out all about it. Honourable mentions also to Richard Clark who adds "'Ring up the Curtain' by Ernest Henry Short and Arthur Compton Rickett first published in 1938 attributes the song to a Revue 'Home and Beauty' staged by Charles B Cochran, lyrics by AP Herbert to a tune by Henry Sullivan around 1936", Katie Exton and m b-w who remembers "in the sixties black and white ads "the tea set " you ran around with a tea cosy on your head singing the song, i remember , but dont know who paid for the ads! Also at this time bank managers were kept in cupboards and nimble bread floated about on baloons. That was proper telly, and then you could watch the next episode of Thunderbirds or man from u.n.c.l.e.Or Sunday night at the london palladium." Well done everyone! Wifey not Nicey
Katie Drummond	You wondered if Mark Dinsdale’s tea song (which I have definitely never heard before, and I was born in 1975, so perhaps it’s a generational thing) contained the words ‘a quarter past three’, and I thought that perhaps you might be confusing it with the ‘Chick chick chick chick chicken’ song? Vis: Chick chick chick chick chicken, Lay a little egg for me. Chick chick chick chick chicken, I want one for my tea. I haven’t had an egg since Easter, And now it’s half past three, so… Chick chick chick chick chicken, Lay a little egg for me. Which also, excitingly, contains the word tea (though in the other sense of course).
	Nicey replies: I think you may be right Katie, Nicey's got confused. So much so that's he's left me in charge! Just as well I've sent him off for a weeks recuperation skiing in Meribel, where it's apparently the best conditions ever. Wifey
Nicky Bramley HobNob Review	You have completely made my day by telling me that Plain Chocolate HobNobs are coming back as Dark Chocolate HobNobs! I wrote to McVities when they were discontinued to plead the case, so it's great to see they've bowed to public pressure (I'm assuming it wasn't just me that changed their mind). I hope the chocolate will be a teensy bit darker than previously, just to add more contrast to the lovely hobnob bit. I'll stop jigging about the office now, because people are starting to look at me funny. Nicky
	Nicey replies: Yes it did seem incomprehensible that they dropped them in the first place. Mind you if the ever bring back the Abbey Crunch I will openly weep tears of joy in public I suspect.
Phil Musselwhite HobNob Review	Bah! I have been diligently working hard to shift the Christmas indulgence, and now news has come in that I’m going to start eating biscuits in large quantities again. Great news for those not overweight though. I wonder how far one has to cycle to shift a half-packet of Dark Chocolate Hobnobs’ worth of calories.
	Nicey replies: Yes the HobNob Mile (HbM ?) seems like a very useful unit of measurement. Once we have that we can estimate how many packets of HobNobs are required for a man to cycle to the shops / pub / moon etc which certainly seems much easier to grasp than all of this talk of abstract calories. Then all other foods would be relative to the HobNob rather than the teaspoon of sugar which seems to laid claim to this particular area. It would also be useful to have a measurement of how much other foods were like HobNobs. Things like oysters, kale and olives would score badly on the 'being like HobNobs scale' where as flapjack would do very well. I'm sure there is still a bit of free space left on packaging to fit these extra arbitrary figues, that way consumers would know for definite that tins of sardines in tomato sauce were not at all like Hobnobs, and how far they could cycle before collapsing if they were to eat a whole box Frosties.
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