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Keith Andrews
 Wagon Wheel Review |
From the dim & distant, cobweb-cluttered cavern of my creaking, tattered mamory comes the following:
Wagon Wheels, they're a treat for me [wagon wheels!]
They're the biggest biscuit, you ever did see! [wagon wheels!]
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The biscuit thrill to beat the band!
..Can't remember the third line, but it came flooding back to me as I read your review!
Some thirty-five years have passed since I first stared, awestruck in wonderment at the sheer 'big-as-the-sun' experience... I remember them tasting better then they did when -a few short years ago- I decided to indulge a childhood memory and have another... I was struck by how fake the "chocolate-like food substance" coating was, I wondered about the freshness when my teeth finally met what passed off as "biscuit", and the whole experience reminded me of revisiting Santa's Grotto as a teenager and thinking "surely they made more effort in those days?" or "It can't have looked that fake can it?"
And yet, and yet, I stil find myself -having moved to the USA several years ago- longing to tear open the mylar packaging and to know that feeling again... Wagon wheels are really an experience... somehow much more than 'just a biscuit' despite being made from obviously lesser-quality components. -It's a conundr... a connunndrru... -It's a puzzle to me.. Could even the Masters at Burtons ever "improve" this? If changing even just one ingredient for a higher-quality version might break the spell somehow, then it must be magic!
The Wagon wheel is the best example that I can recall, where something is so obviously more then the sum of its parts.
...That said, the HobNob (sans chocolate, avec PG Tips!) is -for me- the pinnacle of Biscuit enjoyment.
Yours, sitting down,
Keith Andrews
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SarahBigStar |
Personally, I used to think it was nice to be able to press a few buttons and have a machine make my tea for me, but all that changed a few days ago. I had a rotten morning at college and decided to treat myself to a cup of tea from the machine. However, the liquid spewed out something foam covered - carefully, I took a sip, to discover it was actually cappucino with a teabag lurking in it. Grossly sacrilegious |
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Mo Overfield
 Foxs Party Rings Review |
Dear Nicey
Foxs party rings were a staple in the climbing shop I used to run. We also had a fetish for the similar cafe noir, but I can no longer get these. Somerfields used to stock them, but my enquiries have led nowhere. Shame, 'cos the two would counterbalance each other in terms of their geometry. Incidentally, Party Rings are especially good with Earl Grey tea.
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Mo Overfield |
Nicey replies: Tesco have been stocking McVities Cafe Noir.
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Gianna Kaye |
I was just reading about the 'sop' as described by some people, and it puts me in mind of a similar treat that my mother would prepare for me when I was ill (and only when i was ill!). It was cubed bread and honey in a bowl of warm milk, flavoured with cinnamon and nutmeg. The combination of bread and milk in any form now is extremely 'Proustian' for me. When I got a bit older, mum introduced me to slicing bread into a bowl of milky coffee....'sop' sounds like a British version of this rather Europan concoction!
PS: on which day do you normally update the 'biscuit of the week' ?! :) |
Nicey replies: Normally on a Sunday, but oddly it depends on the weather as I need a sunny day to take their pictures! Also life isn't very normal at the moment. However, we have a stack of really exciting biscuits waiting in the wings for their 7 days (minimum) of glory. |
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Zoe Healy |
Dear Nicey
There has been some debate in my household about the current survey - how many biscuits with a cuppa on average.
While we are all agreed that there is only one correct answer to how many biscuits to have when one is having a nice cup of tea and a sit down WITH biscuits (3) - hence my voting for 3-4 - the more pedantic household members insist that the question means 'counting every cup of tea with or without biscuits, what is the mean number of biscuits consumed per cup' in which case as 3 is the correct number to have when you are biscuiting, unless you have biscuits with EVERY cup of tea, AND when you have two teas in a row double the biscuit allowance, the correct answer would be 1-2. The most pedantic member insists that this is the answer as otherwise the survey would have a '3' option instead of '3-4'.
Being a scientist I found this argument rather convincing and am now concerned that I voted for the wrong option. Just out of interest, did you mmean the former or the latter? And can you amend the votes by one if it was the latter, or I'll feel bad!
Zee
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Nicey replies: Zoe,
I expect I might have meant the first thing you said probably, more "what is the optimum number of biscuits with a cuppa". Luckily none of this is an exact science so you can put the it all down to sampling error and muse over some form statistical treatment for data derived from NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown polls.
By the way well done on being a Scientist, I was almost one once, but I was rubbish at it, I spent too long sitting down drinking tea and eating Orange Clubs. |
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