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Magdoline Oreo Review	Hello! I quite enjoyed the NPR interview, and your ability to be neutral rather than snide. However, I do take a slight offense to the idea that nobody in their right mind could enjoy an Oreo. I will admit that it is not the tastiest cookie (biscuit!) in existence; as a matter of fact, I highly prefer digestive biscuits. But growing up in the US, it is a taste that one acquires as a child, and cookies and milk are a solid part of our foklore. The sogginess after dunking in milk (horror of horrors) is actually part of the appeal. We also dunk other cookies as well. In any case, to each his or her own! I am a fan of many, many things British, but Marmite is not one of them. As I always tell my young daughters when they are afraid of eating something new, it is ok not to like it, but try it first! You may be surprised. Food is one of the ways to explore a culture, and it is always good to be open-minded!
	Nicey replies: I hope I didn't give the impression that nobody would enjoy them as this obviously isn't the case. I know plenty of people in the UK who have tried them and like them a lot. They do seem to be in the minority, however. Nanny Nicey told me just last week about one her friends who enjoys Oreos dipped in peanut butter, which sounds like she has been exploring American culture in a fairly vigourous way. Here at NCOTAASD we like nothing better than exploring other cultures through the medium of biscuits, and over the years we found some truly interesting, tasty and stimulating things to go with our tea. We've also encountered some pretty awful ones too, but as you say keep an open mind you never know.
Annabel Oreo Review	I heard someone from your site interviewed today on National Public Radio, regarding Oreo Cookies. He handled a tricky interview well. It isn't always easy educating Americans about the wider world, even those of a liberal bent with a so called world view. You got the message across gently that they didn't actually invent biscuits and that the rest of the world has varieties vastly superior. That applies to most things, actually. I've lived here a long time. now, tried Oreo Cookies when we arrived, didn't like them. My children didn't like them either. I craved Digestive biscuits and a good cup of tea so badly at first I had care packages sent over. Now, of course, this amazing Internet makes buying them online a snap. You have a delightful, quirky site and I've enjoyed roaming around it for the past couple of hours. No doubt I'll be back and I'm about to send the link to other Ex-pats that I know. Cheers from Annabel in Denver, Colorado - formerly a Lancashire Lass
	Nicey replies: Yes I recorded that interview last night in the BBC studios here in Cambridge. I brought a flask of tea as theirs is a bit grim. Any how the Oreo is very obviously a national treasure in the US so it deserves some sensitive handling as a topic when discussing it face to face. I must admit to keeping my head down though in the supermarket when I bought a pack for sampling during the interview. Although the guy in the till didn't share my embarrassment and the engineer at the studio had never even heard of Oreos.
Stuart Bell	I found your site today and mention of Chiltonian Biscuits but why has nobody mentioned their Swiss Cream biscuits. As a kid in the 60’s and 70’s I can remember pestering my mother to always buy these. The biscuit use to melt in your mouth, was light as a feather with a light sugar coating and pure white fondant filling. Absolutely delightful! Any other biscuit with ‘Swiss’ in the title these days cannot match these – pure heaven.
	Nicey replies: These have been mentioned before, but personally I never encountered them. It seems that Chiltonian biscuits were very special indeed, we always mention them when mourning the passing of proper Gariballdi biscuits. I shall create an entry for them in the MIA database.
Huw Wyn Busgut Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	I have recently discovered you excellent website. I immediately went to your review of my favourite biscuit, namely the Tregoes Toffee Waffle. The plain chocolate version of this is simply the best biscuit in the world. Nothing else comes close. I am surprised that you omitted to mention this fact in your review. I would like, as a point of order, to raise the factual error that you include in your review of the Tregoes waffle. You say that “Two waffles sandwich a layer of lightly cinnamon spiced buttery toffee”. The fact of the matter is that a single waffle is carefully split down the middle following baking, and is then administered its heavenly toffee filling. Such is the genius of the Tregoes waffle. Apart from that you are not doing badly at all. Keep up the good work. Huw Wyn Busgut
	Nicey replies: You are of course right about the splitting down the middle thing, thanks for pointing that out.
Trina Fitzalan-Howard Oreo Review	Well done for standing up for biccies everywhere on the BBC website today. I couldn’t agree with you more. A British biccie has to dunk into tea. Everyone knows that. I’ve never heard of anyone dunking biscuits into their milk at work. Who drinks milk at work? Who drinks milk and dunks biscuits into it. Sounds like some sort of horrendous breakfast replacement meal thingy going on and until polite society adopts it as the norm I shall be steering well clear of such behaviour. So, the Oreo. Not a fan I have to say. The biscuit is like a cinder that should promise chocolately delight but delivers cinders and a distinct lack of chocolate flavour at that. Apparently no one in their right mind in the US has been known to nibble an Oreo. A twist-the-two-discs apart is required, lick off the cream bit and then dunk. They are very crumbly as I recall so the technique has to be nigh on perfect. Well, the cream bit is just a sugar blast. The resulting two disks of cinders are fit for nothing and a soggy Oreo is to be shunned in all but the lowest levels of society. I’m thinking dunking an old Oreo would be like dunking a Jaffa cake. When I visited friends in the US and was offered an Oreo as the high point of biccie evoluation I did smirk inwardly and knew there is something we definitely do better. My export of Hobnobs drew gasps of approval. Far from importing Oreos to us I think British companies should export our finest over there. We should be hobnobbing everywhere!
	Nicey replies: Well Oreos are obviously doing something right, given the amount they sell and the armies of Oreo clones around the globe from other manufacturers. I just think the fact UK market hasn't responded to the Oreo thus far is not because we haven't had a advert telling us how we apparently should be eating them. If anything now that we do have such a 'helpful' advert its just likely to make us more determined when passing them over. Also unless they have revised their pricing significantly then I think they are a bit out of touch there too. Recently on a visit to the Imperial War Museum I read a war time orientation leaflet issued to US servicemen who were being stationed in the UK. It was full of helpful stuff such as how we call gas petrol and bars pubs and so on. Alas it didn't have a page on cookie / biscuit orientation.
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