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Luke Walker
McVities Milk Chocolate Digestive Review |
Dear Mr Nicey,
We have just made a very interesting (Friday afternoon) discovery in the office.
It is physically impossible to eat a chocolate digestive biscuit upside down. (i.e.. the biscuit with the chocolate coated side facing floorwards)
Try it.
It messes with your head.
The brain/tongue immediately posts a message that the biscuit should be returned to it's correct orientation immediately, the texture of the chocolate on the lower teeth is most disturbing.
I am interested in obtaining a grant to investigate this anomaly further, any idea which establishments might be interested in assisting me? I reckon I need around £500K to start with, just to cover my basic expenses etc, mainly tea and biscuits.
Cheers
Luke |
| Nicey replies: I would say you have a strong case there for funding. Of course the nightmare scenario is that some unfriendly foreign power realises that they could build a weapon of terror hat would bring Britain to its knees based on upside down biscuits, a bit like those WWII exploding Tinned Plums a few weeks back. |
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James Reynolds
McVities Taxi Review |
I too redeiscovered taxis recently, and agree with the guy who commented that they were originally in a blue wrapper. It is also my belief that the caramel is a recent addition, as my memory of the old taxi is of a very light wafer - and one which certainly didn't feature caramel.
Whilst I can't hide my disappoint that the re-launched taxi has changed somewhat, this is balanced by the fact that the new taxi is a very tasty biscuit, and achieves a very different taste to the classic Tunnnock wafer. |
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| Simon Dolega-Ossowski |
Both me and my collegue Mr Nadar have long lamented the disappearance of the celebrated Lemon Puff, which I think was a Peak Freans product. The broad perforated rectangular glazed puff sandwich with its delicious lemon cream filling - a corner-stone of 70s and 80s biscuit tins - was a perfect foil to its heavier based chocolate based counterparts such as the Bourbon.
The Lemon Puff has resurfaced recently, as an inferior roundel I fear, reintroduced by the supermarkets, and it's not the same: we may have been duped about the shrinking size of a Wagon Wheel, but Rich Tea doesn't seem to have diminished in size one bit, and we cannot be fooled for a moment about the shape, and more generous proportions of the old rectangular Lemon Puff.
I await its appearence on your otherwise excellent website.
PS - have you any info on Kunzle Cakes?
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| Nicey replies: Indeed as far as I recall the Lemon Puff was a Peek Frean biscuit and so its custodian-ship moved to Jacobs in due course. As I have often said I respected the lemon puff of old, despite not really liking it.. We had a couple attempts at reviewing the modern and inferior round ones but they were too grim.
As for Kunzle Cakes, I never had one but they sound amazing, there is a very good blog devoted to them.
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Gareth and Lisa Roberts
Strawberry Newton Review |
Dear Nicey,
We have been a fan of your website for some time and we are now a resident in the USA where a biscuit is something to be had for breakfast with gravy on it, pretty disgusting. Both me and my husband love fig rolls and miss the Jacobs variety dearly. It is quite true when you say the American Fig Newtons are soft, and are a bit gritty too. We will be back in the UK at xmas and look forward to stocking up before we come back.
Gareth and Lisa Roberts
California, USA
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| Nicey replies: I recently heard that Sainsbury's number one selling biscuit was the fig roll, which caused me to become almost euphoric, although I wasn't entirely sure I knew why. |
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Gareth Brydon
Fig Roll Review |
I might be wrong but they seemed to be completely imperishable; their disdain for bacteria of all descriptions made them a winner in the household structured around a limited economy. I take the point about the space programme but wonder if their impenetrable brilliance didn’t lend itself to a robust war time ration pack.
Dipping them in tea had very little impact but softened them by a miniscule degree that proved to be of wondrous benefit to fig roll lovers with false teeth
My Nana used to buy them in bulk and treated them almost as if they were the biscuit equivalent of gold. I personally would rather have tried to eat solid gold; there was something musty about them that seemed to capture them in a time before vast biscuit choice led to the evolution of the average palate.
I respect them but could never digest them but long may they run
Gareth B’
Hereford |
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