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Amy Walters	I actually have a couple of questions. The first question is a home baked "chocolate chip cookie" called a biscuit in your land or is it a cookie. The second thing is marshmallow biscuits. I think you should do an international review. Here in America we have ... - a cookie called a mallowmar which is similar to your Tunnocks tea cake. - a Pinwheel which is the same a the above in the shape of a miniature bundt cake. - a Whoopie pie which is 2 big sort of squishy oat based cookies sandwiching a layer of marshmallow cream. In Israel there is a cultural tradition that surrounds the marshmallow cookie (biscuit) In the summer all the makollet (corner stores) sell ice cream... Magnum bars, prepared cones etc. but in the winter it's too cold for ice cream so they turn to what is called a Crembo (that's a transliteration.) I think they have imitations too but they come in vanilla and chocolate (marshmallow cream that is - not frosting. Cheers! Amy
	Nicey replies: Amy, Yes we call chocolate chip cookies the same as that is basically an American genre, also it would mess up the alliteration if we changed it. Thanks for the info about mallow biscuits, unfortunately I don't know what a 'bundt cake' is, so I'll assume its like a cake version of the Pinwheel. The 'Whoopie Pie' sounds like an out of control Kimberly.
Nick Q	Dear Nicey   Re the email from your correspondent Hel Moo. This is a variation on the theme of the use of tap water in hot beverages.   Many, many years ago I recall watching a film. I don't remember the name (it was one of those bleak and depressing 1960's black and white jobs) but I remember Glenda Jackson was the leading lady - I guess that makes it of a "certain age". There is in fact only one thing I remember about the whole film. In one scene, it is early morning and she is rushing out of out of her dreary bedsit accomodation and makes a cup of coffee using hot water from the tap (and drinks it as well!) That particular scene has stuck in my mind for the last 20 years and put me off Glenda Jackson for life - that's a bit of a bummer as she is now also my MP. I thoroughly agree with you and I couldn't express it better myself - Yeeerrrchhh.    Keep up the crusade!   Yours etc.   Nick
Hel Moo	Hello!   Money is still around, yay!  They told me I was mad!  Thank heavens for your authority.   I'd like to bring to your attention something that has horrified me for some time.  I'm not sure who started it, possibly someone with no time for a sit down.   This horrific practice involves pouring upto HALF of the tea away and refilling with cold water.  It's obvious that the strength, flavour and overall enjoyment is diluted along with it.  Not only this, but the surface becomes covered in bubbles and transforms the brew into a money infested "teappuccino".  The aim of all this is to cool the tea down and drink it as quickly as possible, but at what cost?   Has anyone else seen this done?  Did it chill them to the bone?   Please alert the public to this appauling habit and let us take action.  Think of the children!   Thank you   Hel
	Nicey replies: Yeeerrrrchhh, the horror. Such people will pay the price for such chemical abuse in later life, we would hope. I hesitate to use the Cup if Tea icon.
liz Malted Milk Review	Round our way, Malted Milks were always served at nursery schools and toddler's groups. This was because malt and milk were Good For You. They had a cow on them to tell you!! They weren't just any old frivolous biccky, but an Improving Food. Definitely regarded as a Cut Above by local education authorities and bossy ladies.
	Nicey replies: I was quite excited on a trip to the Bass Museum of Brewing in Burton on Trent to see a packet of Malted Milk biscuits in the display case about malt. They had tried to increase the 'wow' factor of this already gripping exhibit by using chocolate covered Malted Milks. So not only are they good for you but they use some beer technology in their manufacture. Of course I took a picture.
Wez	Morning, been a b3ta lurker for quite a while, and watched your site grow and the accolations it deserves. Nice. We're not big biscuit eaters in our house. We like tea, as do many of our friends. We employ the 5 minute rule (if a person enters within 5 minutes of you making a cuppa, you must make them one). We generally don't use a pot, one bag per person, unless there's about 5 or 6, which is when the pot comes out. Without wanting to cause conflict, I also am a firm believer of the milk in first method.  I think you get a smoother tasting cup, and don't get little floaty bits on the top. The common argument against the milk in first (MIF) method ("its too milky") doesn't hold with us, and I think most people who disagree with MIF haven't tried it for a few days. We aren't fans of traditional teas such as assam, darjeeling and lapsong.  Nor are we 'proper' tea drinkers, i.e. the tea snobs that think tea + milk is disgusting, and loose leaves are standard.  Sod that. Then there are people that say they like it strong, when in fact they don't like much milk.  Milk and strength are seperate parameters, like sugar. Anyway, I'd like to see tea reviews, and especially including the trend towards fair trade tea. I used to be a tetley man.  Liked me yorkshire tea, could drink PG/Typhoo, but Tetley was the one for me. I even had a tetley mouse mat. And once in a moment of tea driven madness, stole a tetley caffetiere thing from a motorway service station. Oh the shame... :) Being semi-social conscious, I decided to buy some fair trade tea, as I don't think its right that young children are forced to pick leaves so they can eat that day. I bought some clipper and some cafe direct fair trade bags from tezzo's I think.  Clipper was OK, on a par with any mainstream tea.  The cafe direct then came out.  From that first cup I haven't looked back.  The smell, the flavour.  It was like I'd been drinking bland tasteless tea for all those years, and at last I get a sense of what it should taste like. You know where you can tell you've had a good cuppa? You pick up the cup to finish off that last mouthful, and are gutted upon realising its empty? It used to be a rare occurence.  Now its commonplace.
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