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Jeanne Langton	I have just discovered your site today (having read a back issue of the Daily Mail!) and it is now destined for my favourites! When I read the article in the Mail, two biscuits came to mind that were firm favourites of our family when I was a child - Royal Scots and Granny's Cookies. I note on your site that Royal Scots have been discontinued, which I was very sorry to learn. My father, who is French, loved these biscuits. When he came to the UK to live, having married my English mother whilst she was doing a stint as an Au Pair in France, he spoke little English. My maternal grandmother spoke no French and was at pains to find ways of making him welcome. She offered him Royal Scots and he loved them ever afterwards. Each time my grandmother visited, she brought a new stock for him and he guarded them jealously! If only I could find some for him now! The second biscuit, Granny's Cookies, were my favourites. Dark in colour and very crisp, they were marked with a chequer-board pattern with grooved lines. My sister and I liked to break these into tiny squares, along the lines, before we ate them piece by piece. I seem to remember they had a taste of mixed spice or something similar. Have you ever come across these?? Anyway, enough of my waffle! Kind regards, Jeanne Langton
	Nicey replies: No not heard of Granny's cookies, although I can well imagine the whole little square thing. That's a lovely story about your Dad and the international language of biscuits.
Maddalena Feliciello ANZAC biscuit Review	My Dear Nicey & TW   Tempted by your lyrical review on the launch of the Anzac Biscuit I duly hunted them out at Sainsburys' on Sunday.   I am now hopelessly addicted to Golden Syrup and Oats.   This is bad, really bad, I am eating them even without a cup of Yorkshires Finest to hand. I woke up thinking about them today and had three for breakfast. Then made the tea and had two more.   Luckily, unlike other addictive substances currently proscribed by the good law of this land, it is unlikely that I should be tempted to introduce them to others and gain their wide eyed and drooling compliance (could they be bent to my will with Classical Conditioning.....alarm clock -biscuit, alarm clock - biscuit?)    Eve would not offer these to Adam.   They are MINE, all MINE.   should I thank you....hmmnnn?!   Who the hell wants to be a size 6 - 8 anyway?   M :-)
Scott Crowther Bourbon Review	Hi I just wanted your opinion on the glut of cheap imitation biscuits available in your average local corner shop. Take my personal favourite biscuit, the bourbon cream for example. Usually, dimension wise, roughly twice as long as they are wide, with a deep and rich soft filling sandwiched between two crunchy chocolatey biscuits. Perfect for eating 'in the buff', or dunking in tea or coffee (although tea is always my choice), they are, quite simply, perfection. Imagine my horror to be given a packet of 'Essential Bourbon Creams' as a gift from my father, purchased at his local corner shop. Sneakily packaged so that you cannot see the offending product through the wrapping, or even as an image on the outside, I was dismayed and disappointed to find a roughly square item inside, with a pale imitation of the dark brown colouring I was expecting. Having the driest and thinnest layer of filling ever tasted coupled with outer layers roughly twice the thickness of the norm, this 'Bourbon' (if you can call it that) sucks all moisture from your mouth instantly. A truly painful eating experience, even with a good cup of Tetley. Can I suggest that a 'taste off' would be a worthwhile exercise to identify the best brand of biscuit, so that we may never again suffer the pain of eating a food item that dares to call itself a biscuit? Naturally, I would happily volunteer to be a taster guinea pig - in the interests of science you understand. Oh, and thanks to my Dad for the packet. I know it's the thought that counts, but frankly don't bother next time unless you have a 'nicecupoftea' bourbon buyers guide to hand. Scott C
	Nicey replies: Well 61mm by 30mm 10 holes should be the metric to follow. Step outside that at your peril. Anyone else called Scott want to mail us today?
Scott Kaltenbach	Thanks very much for the review and recognition of the 'Dare Maple Leaf Creme Cookie' (although we still call them biscuits, not cookies like the package says). Despite being a house-afire at home, Maple Leaf Creme Cookie would never feel truly successful, appreciated, admired or loved until he had heard that his name had been mentioned by someone (anyone!) in the States. Now to find out that he's been examined and accepted by the U.K., well, this was more than he dared wish for. It's like winning the Stanley Cup for old MLCC! All this time he's just kept his head down, working hard at being the best damn maple flavoured baked-good he could be. Who knew?     So keep enjoying those Maple Cremes and...thanks again, eh!
	Nicey replies: Scott, Glad you liked Pete's review. We still have a couple of Maple Creams in our biscuit tin under a fearsome layer of Morning Coffee.
Jane Rickard	Dear Nicey have you seen Saturday19th July's Guardian page 10 of the national news bit?  'Teacup ban in chamber of horrors'.  "Members of a Worcestershire council have been banned from taking their cups and saucers into the chamber because the sound of clinking china makes it difficult for voters in the public gallery to hear debates.  Pauline Hayward, Conservative chairman of Wyre Forest council...has also banned biscuits".....   I am entirely on the side of councillor Howard Martin who says "Some councillors are at work all day.  They come to a meeting at 6pm and pick up a cup of tea and a biscuit because they won't have anything else till 9.30pm".   Any chance of your website taking this up?  Think of the implications if this banning should spread!   many best wishes   Janexx
	Nicey replies: Yes we did see it, actually online on BBCi. Anyhow, the perceived problem seemed to be due the clinking of spoons and teacups on saucers, which can be very noisy. Now surely rather than a complete ban they should have simply adopted mugs and maybe sugar and stir their tea before bringing it in to the council chamber, problem solved. Next. As for banning biscuits that is just spiteful.
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