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Mrs Liveinabin Bourbon Review	Hi Nicey, I received a call at work the other day from Mr Liveinabin to say that he had been to the supermarket but had forgotten to buy biscuits! Him and his friend where busy playing on the Atari and there were only three biscuits in the house! So off I went to Sainsburys to see what I could find. All I could see on the whole were lots of signs saying that due to flooding biscuit supplies were low. I had warned Mr Livinabin of this and the lacking of bourbons but he wasn't too worried. What I did find though (and the reason for this long winded e-mail) were plenty of Bourbons, Custard creams and malted milks made by Elkes. Mr Liveinabin was very excited as they were the custard creams he had as a child being a local company to his folks. In fact he tried to convince me that Elkes had invented the custard cream. Just thought you might like to know that all is not lost and this little known company are getting a shot at the big time! Mrs Liveinabin
	Nicey replies: Evening Mrs Liveinabin, Yes I had factored in that Elkes would still be knocking out their various cream filled biscuits. They do however make those wonky 3:2 ratio bourbons and a good few years ago we had a run in with a pack of them which were truly non-standard in all aspects. This has meant that I have afforded Elkes biscuits a wide birth since then. However in the meantime they have become part of Northern Foods who own Fox's, and so there have been quite a few new brooms at work. I may pluck up the courage to re-investigate.
Keith O'Kane	Dear Nicey and the Wife, I am just writing to get your opinion on where waffles fit within the Venn diagram of biscuits.  Not the Tregroes waffles you reviewed some time back but ordinary waffles of the type that Americans pour maple syrup on. Two of my colleagues have given up cakes, biscuits and chocolate for lent, but one of them is claiming that waffles are neither cake nor biscuit and are therefore safe to eat. I would appreciate a swift reply on this matter as one of my colleagues has a brace of waffles hovering over the toaster as I type and I would hate to think that she was committing some sort of Lenten sin. Keith O'Kane
	Nicey replies: Hello Keith, Well they are really not a million miles away from pancakes in their construction, as waffle batter is poured into waffle irons to make them. I would be tempted to treat them in a very similar way to our local Asda which places them in that space between bread and cakes which is occupied by such characters as the Malt loaf, the Lemon and raisin pancake and the Hot cross bun. Mind you on occasion its not unknown for them to leap out into the aisle in a small promotional fixture. Perhaps we need a small circle that overlaps with cakes and bread for things baked on hot surfaces, in which the waffle, crepe, flour tortilla and Welsh cake could all align themselves. I would put the waffle in the bit that overlaps with cakes as it sweet. As waffle scoffing colleague, she is clearly pulling a fast one, if she were truly serious and cared about what people thought she should switch to cream crackers.
Mike Gilmour	Hi nicey, In my world a kettle was a kettle, it boils water just like it says on the box.  That was until I met with the Hinari JS501SS Jug kettle.  Okay it boils water fine...but how can one kettle possibly make that much noise coming up to the boil!!  If World War III broke out whilst I was making tea I'd never ever know.  Our kitchen trannie won't even go loud enough to be heard over the kettle and any quiet conversation escalates in volume to that of a shouting match. It makes me wonder about Hinari's R&D dept., maybe its sited in a really noisy part of the factory and no one ever noticed the kettle was that noisy. I'm waiting for it to break down but knowing sods law it'll go on for ever...arghhhh. Cheers Mike
Fiona Spence Bourbon Review	Thanks NCOTAASD, Woah. When I could only get a small pack of Bourbons in our local Sainsbury's this week, I was a little miffed, but not unduly concerned. Now I pop to your site, as I do from time to time, and find there may be something more serious afoot. What I would like to point out is that in recent weeks, Aldi has stopped stocking bourbons. They used to keep packs of mixed bourbon/custard creams, which were in perfect proportion for my families biscuit preferences. However, they now only stock custard creams. Has the bourbon problem been in the pipeline for some time? Will it be solved before, indeed, crisis point? Yours, Fiona Spence Cumbria
	Nicey replies: I possible explination for the problem lies near to your goodselves with the United Biscuits factory at Carlisle that was damaged by flooding. I'm sure I was once told that Bourbons were made up there. Custard Creams are made at Ashby in the Midlands.
Buzzy Murray Fox's Mint Echo Review	Hello Nicey & Wifey, I've been addicted to your site for quite some time now - it's fab! I work in a very nice office where the attitude to nice cups of tea and sit downs is pretty relaxed.  In particular, the biscuit-providing arrangement is interestingly unregulated: basically, everyone just brings in some biccies whenever the tin looks a bit empty. So far this has proved entirely sustainable, with the only biscuit-drought occurring immediately after New Year when I think everyone felt that they'd overindulged somewhat so ought to give the biccies a brief miss. Anyhoo, the biccy of choice at the moment, courtesy of a "2fer" at some supermarket or other, is the Fox's Echo.  We've had both plain and mint varieties but there's only minty ones left now.  It'd be interesting to know how you felt about these biccies but that's not why I'm writing.  I'm really wanting to see how widespread the incidence of illicit TimTam Slamming was... I was reading Murray James' letter detailing his difficulties with The Slam (you've got to suck it up quick and slam the second the tea hits your tongue, mate) when it occurred to me that the Echo was of a similar construction to the TimTam - biscuit + filiingy bit enclosed in a choccy coating. Being a bit bored now with the minty taste, but still wanting the choccy and biscuit I threw caution to the wind, made sure no-one was looking and proceeded to Slam my Echo.  And you know, even with the minty bit, it really was not bad at all. The choccy at the end that got dunked went very melty so I wouldn't recommend this for younger members of staff (well, not without a suitable amount of plastic sheeting laid out to a 2m radius anyway) but overall it was a good mix of choccy biscuity meltyness. Bit too much mint filling for my taste but I'd spotted that before I started and was ready for it when it came. I really do think you ought to give it a go.  So, I'm now inspired to experiment with other biscuits.  Is this rash? Foolhardy, even? Does anyone else do this? I can't imagine I'm the only person to have spotted this potential in other biscuits.  And, most importantly, would you have any particular recommendations? Yours meltily, Buzzy Murray Edinburgh
	Nicey replies: Yes the Cadbury's Finger comes in for a fair bit of this treatment, so I'm told.
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