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Maggie Schofield
McVities Milk Chocolate Digestive Review |
Dear Nicey
Regarding the debate on 'to top or not to top' the digestive biscuit: In my family we were firm believers in the addition of toppings, which could be anything from sweet to savoury, or indeed a combination of both e.g. cheese and jam. The most bizarre reversal of this trend that I ever heard is the use of the biscuit itself as a topping. I must say that I have never tried this myself but present it for the delectation of your readers. A former colleague of mine regularly used to top cheese on toast with a chocolate digestive biscuit and to grill lightly to enable the chocolate to melt into the cheese. This person would also, and for no apparent reason, regularly imitate the call of the female ring-tailed lemur. ??? |
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Anna Halford
Griffins Sultana Pasties Review |
I was hoping that, given your knowledge of all things biscuit-like, you would be able to assist in tracking down a confection from my mother's New Zealand youth. She claims they were called something like 'Chocolate Raisin Pasties' and comprised a sort of pastry case filled with raisins, and the whole covered in chocolate. Apparently they were small and dunk-able, as she remembers her father indulging in this habit. Any ideas?
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| Nicey replies: Sultana pasties, follow the link to our review. |
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| Patrick Grabham |
Dear Nicey,
I was intrigued to read Martin Booth's tale of a little old Hastings lady offering him a buttered McVitie's digestive. Whilst discussing this with a work colleague, I recalled eating digestives topped with a Dairylea triangle as a child. (Obviously a poor relation to the more traditional cheese and biscuits).
What are your views on adding toppings to biscuits. Should they remain 'au natreulle' or is a light spreading of some dairy product permissible? I await your wise words.
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| Nicey replies: Well in the quasi democracy that is NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown we defend peoples right to drink their tea and eat their biscuits in which ever way they see fit, unless of course they doing something plainly wrong. As you see we have an icon, albeit rarely used, that denotes cheese on biscuits, so that is grudging acceptance of the practice. |
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Simon Huxtable
McVities Milk Chocolate Digestive Review |
I'd like to thank Lisa Koester for her interesting point asking 'which way is up?' for a biscuit. It certainly caused me to question a few of my long-held beliefs on the 'natural' order of biscuits. This type of thinking is invaluable, and I'm sure there is role in management, or as a 'creative' in an advertising agency for such ability to 'think outside the box'.
However, if you stand a packet of Chocolate Digestives up the right way and open it at the right end, you will see that - clearly - Chocolate is the 'up' side, and the biscuit side should be on terra firma.
Thanks
Simon |
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| Lisa Koetser |
Which way is up. When I lay the biscuits on a plate I put them chocolate side down because I think that the chocolate is on the underside of the biscuit and the writing and holes are on the top. When I did this at my book group everyone thought that I had placed them that way to deter people from eating them by hiding the chocolate. Which way do you think is up.
Lisa
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| Nicey replies: Lisa,
Chocolate is always placed on the the base of the biscuit as this flat and more easily processed. However, once on there it effectively reverses the polarity of the biscuit so that the chocolate side is now considered up. Your book group is obviously a bunch of polite if somewhat conspiratorial people. I would have told you to stop mucking about and turn the biscuits the right way up before you create an unnecessary and embarrassing spectacle. |
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