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NickQ
Nabisco Nutter Butter Review |
Hi Nicey
I absolutely agree, Special Biscuit Correspondent Miura’s sterling research work in The Orient is deserving of her own icon. And the animation is quite splendid.
Now to matters of a more pressing nature. I’m fortunate enough to be off to the US on a two week business trip on Saturday. After all this time I don’t think you’ve come up with an icon for the US yet, which suggests there’s nothing to be had of any merit there, or perhaps your book sadly hasn’t crossed The Pond yet? They are a charming and hospitable people but they really don’t get the piping hot tea and crunchy biscuits thing do they? I suspect it may be down to their puritan heritage whereby a cuppa and chocolate digestive was historically probably considered somewhat indulgent.
I know the tea will probably be Lipton’s Yellow Label, prepared with water barely exceeding body temperature. I know if I ask for biscuits I’m likely to get some sort of gravy-coated hardened dumpling and I’ve suffered Oreos once too often to know not to go there again. I’m really not fond the soft and chewy cookies which to my palate, always taste rather underbaked.
So, I must throw myself upon the mercy of you and your international and esteemed readership. Can anyone perhaps suggest what I might seek out in the cookie aisle of the local Piggly Wiggly. Are there perhaps any local biscuit-like delicacies to be procured in Florida and Colorado where I will be spending my time? I’m open to the idea of novelty biscuits if necessary; I guess in Florida they might be ‘gator shaped and in Colorado, well, I really don’t know….beetles perhaps? And please, nothing that contains Hershey’s chocolate.
As ever, best wishes to you and the YMOS.
NickQ |
| Nicey replies: Hello Nick,
Good to hear from you again. By now you will be winging your way to the land of 'not yet achieving and icon'. We often get asked this question by forward thinking travellers such as yourself and so far the biscuit which I found the most plausible is the Graham Cracker. Its very name would be enough to keep most Brits at bay thinking its some kind of aspiring cheese board wanna-be. It is, however, a quite reasonable sweet biscuit and has little creases embedded in it which aid its breaking apart into smaller sections. For this reason alone it punches above its weight, making it one of the must see biscuits for the inquiring biscuit tourist.
Strawberry Newtons are notable in as much as there really isn't anything like them in the UK, so its worth just trying them to say you have. Likewise another Nabisco biscuit the NutterButter which having peanut butter in them isn't going to make on our shelves anytime soon, although I did actually find them appealing to my inner child like some sort of new sweet shop treat.
To be honest it is as you suspect a much more serious problem getting any sort of sensible cuppa, so I hope you have your teabags packed and access to boiling water over the next fortnight.
Nicey
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Mark Hodgins
HobNob Review |
Dear Nicey and Wifey,
I am delighted to inform you that Dark Chocolate Hob-Nobs have at last returned to Waitrose in Frimley, Surrey, after a long absence marked by occasional requests to the staff.
Mark. |
| Nicey replies: Mark
Thank you for that heads up on the Dark chocolate HobNob situation in Frimley. |
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| Nicky Bramley |
Nicey, you star!
I was made-up to go on the site today to find a new icon for Hiromi. She's a public treasure: always informative, enthusiastic and full of a pleasing wackiness that sits well with the British public. Hooray to you for recognising her unique strengths.
Nicky |
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Emma Hewson
Anna's Ginger, Blueberry and Lemon Thins Review |
Having been to Stockholm for work recently, I brought back two tins of Anna's Swedish thins (ginger) for my colleagues. We are now all seriously addicted and I'm not going back to Stockholm for a while. Can you buy them in the UK?
Thanks,
Emma |
| Nicey replies: Actually the answer is quite obvious, you can get them in IKEA. They also turn up in places like Waitrose and Budgens as well corner shops, petrol stations and so on. If I remember correctly they are imported by G Costa whose products can turn up just about anywhere so keep your eyes open. |
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Lauren James
Bourbon Review |
Hello Nicey, wifey and YMOS
I thought I would email you and ask you if it was perhaps time that Hiromi Miura had her own little icon?? All she gets is the little globe by the looks of things. It would be nice to be able to search for her under a little icon of her own – perhaps a lightening bolt to complement her love of black thunder biscuits and also to represent her dynamism.
Also I have a helpful tip for the fellow Aussie who will be visiting the UK soon – I would recommend he try a bourbon biscuit. He would need to look up the proper etiquette of eating one as we don’t have them over here (I have searched but to no avail) but they are really ultra yummy. Especially dipped in tea.
Thanks and kind regards
Great site as usual
Lauren |
| Nicey replies: Right that's a new icon for Hiromi then, or any other Korean based Japanese UK biscuit aficionados with a liking for Black Thunders that write to us.
In time honoured NCOTAASD fashion, here is a hearty Hoorah! for the new icon (I had to animate it and everything). |
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