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Charlotte Blue Riband Review	Thanks the new review, interesting that it's Blue Riband and Tunnocks that you compare. As a child there were both in the "nice biscuits" biscuit tin on top of the cupboards that my brother and I couldn't reach even when working in (rare) partnership with a kitchen stool. Your description of the Blue Riband reminded me exactly of the taste I remember from childhood and then, I remembered that my Dad always had the Tunnocks saying they weren't as nice as Blue Riband and he was doing us a favour by eating them and not the Blue Riband. I now suspect that might not be completely true. Thanks Charlotte
	Nicey replies: Very glad to hear that my taste descriptions are relevant. I remember Nanny Nicey opening up a mystery parcel when I was little which had been sent to her by my Nan who was on holiday in Cornwall. I must have been about 4 or 5 years old. I can vividly remember looking up at her and asking her what was in the little tin and being told that I wouldn't like clotted cream
Tim Gwynne Tim Tam vs Penguin Review	Nicey, I note that as I reach my half century my enjoyment of many childhood treats is spoiled by modern repackaging. You have rightly complained about the diminution of pleasure from eating a four-fingered Kit-Kat wrapped in plastic. I cannot enjoy a Penguin biscuit similarly clothed. And there is no place on God's Earth for a yellow Penguin. As children my sister and I would only eat a Penguin in a blue, or at a push green, wrapper. I later found out that my Father heroically unwrapped the red Penguins and re-clad them in the blue and green wrappers. This task was made easier by the fact that my sister and I would carefully unwrap a Penguin, remove the biscuit, and reform the wrapper so that it appeared to be a uneaten biscuit, complete with payload. Now you can't do that with a plastic sheath. Regards, Tim
	Nicey replies: Really. I've always considered it a widely known fact that all green foods, green fruit gums in-particular are derived from Fairy washing up liquid. As such the green penguins were the last to go in our house.
Professor elemental	Hello sir, I too am a tea enthusiast, not to mention invetor, animal keeper and exotic dancer. I have created a lovely tea video which has nearly made it to half a million hits on youtube and had a splendid article in the telegraph. The link is below if you fancy featuring it on your site, even better if you'd like to host the mp3, I can send it to you and you can pop it up on your site. do let me know Professor elemental
	Nicey replies: Hello Professor Elemental, Yes we have been made aware of your work, so its very nice to hear from you in person. Its a one of the YMOS's birthday today so we are enjoying extra tea rations today to help wash down all the the birthday cake. Well done on the bonkers numbers of hits on your YouTube stuff. Ours is mostly here Nicey
Ashley Stark Lincoln Review	Nicey, Personally, I've never been a fan of the Lincoln. A bit bland for my tastes. Yet I've often wondered why I have such an aversion to the dotty one. Only yesterday I was talking to my sister about them and she revealed a dark secret that may well account for my dislike. When we were kids, the family used to travel every year to the west country for our summer holidays. En route we'd stopover at our aunties, as you do. Unfortunately, I’ve now discovered that my sister told auntie on the quiet that she loved Lincoln biscuits. As a result, for the next decade or more, we always arrived to a biscuit tin heaving with Lincoln's and absolutely nothing else. What kind of biccie tin is that?! There wasn't even a rogue Rich Tea lurking at the bottom – although that would have been much consolation. I am now mentally scarred and wonder if any other people have stories about how biscuits have been the cause of family rifts. Ash
Lizzie Scammell Lincoln Review	Hullo Nicey, I have only recently read your cuddly paperback book, which I think is an oasis of wonderfulness in an otherwise batty world, and came to page 66 and did indeed worry for a minute and a half about a snappy name for the measurement to denote the amount of biscuit production measured in years, months and days to reach the moon when the biscuits are laid end to end. As I have come to your book so late on, I trawled your lovely website for previous answers to this dilemma, and couldn't find anything about it, so humbly I offer my solution, the BALETE. I was going to do a clever anagram of the whole sentence, but on reaching the end,' Biscuits Are Laid End To End', it jumped out at me and I just felt I should send it to you just as it is. My memory was deeply jangled by the picture and blurb about the Lincoln biccy - my Mum used to bring us a cup of tea first thing, in bed, and ALWAYS the biscuit in the saucer was a Lincoln. I haven't bought them for years - Aldi do scrumptious biscuits and you can fool people that they are homemade.... Warmest wishes, Lizzie Scammell
	Nicey replies: Hullo Lizzie Scammell, You are as far as I'm aware the first person to actually give this matter some/any consideration so well done. It's certainly a good go at a new SI unit for biscuit to moon type measurements. Most SI units seemed to named after pioneers in the field such as the volt or watt, so maybe it should be the tunnock or some thing. As for Lincoln biscuits, biscuit enthusiast Mandy (Mrs B) says that her mum used to bring her a cup of tea in bed with a Lincoln when she was growing up too. So perhaps you two are dopplegangers
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