In message <628csihjkli9s5lddma3jmatedsmobvt52@4ax.com> at Fri, 9 Feb
2024 12:54:15, Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> writes
>Vicky wrote:
>
>>I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>
>Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>nice?
>
>Chris

Yes, and YANA. (I didn't/don't _dis_like them, but didn't find them
anything special.)
[I think the name comes from the French placename rather than the
English word. Wikipedia probably ... yes,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_biscuit>, though it's a short
article and doesn't confirm, only repeat the allegation.]
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"EARTH is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can." - Fortunes file

On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
> nice?

Yes, but a little bit odd!

--
Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK

Jenny M Benson <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>> nice?
>
> Yes, but a little bit odd!
>

Still, it takes the biscuit, doesn’t it?!

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

Paul Herber <paul@paulherber.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:53:58 +0000, docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) wrote:
>
>> Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still
>> posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept
>> me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google
>> Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>>
>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to
>> get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great
>> big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>
> It's Royal Scot's that I miss.
> Hello Pauline. Welcome back.
>
>

Welcome back Pauline!

Chuck her over some chocolate you lot. :)

Mrs McT

Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>> In message <uq342e$22jlq$1@dont-email.me> at Thu, 8 Feb 2024 17:46:54,
>> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>>> PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my
>>>> roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast"
>>>> in Suffolk.
>>
>> I was idly looking at Google Maps (OK, I was looking at how far
>> something I'd bought on eBay had to come [it's coming from near Glasgow
>> IIRR], and zoomed in on some dot), and was interested to see that GM
>> marked it as "most westerly point in the UK" or something like that. (I
>> think the dot is St. Kilda.)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!
>>>>
>>>> Pauline
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good - the right decision Pauline! 0 >
>> Indeed!
>>
>> P. S. - OnTish! - my spelling checker suggested "Hilda" above!
>
> That is probably where Brian would like to send the cat!
>

It’s Tony’s pigeon now.

Mrs McT

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:

> On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
>> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are
>> still posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has
>> always kept me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked
>> off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start
>> contributing.
>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult
>> to get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here -
>> great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>
> Not Rich Tea Fingers as well? We are still looking for ways around
> the Great Glengettie teabag robbery. (Loose-leaf Glengettie is
> possible to find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone
> without a trace).

Teabags? Surely real umrats, like the denizens of Ambridge, use loose
tea in a teapot? You'll be telling me next that you brew with a teabag
in a mug, adding milk and three sugars before the boiling water!

> The parent company (Typhoo) was sold off to a private equity firm, who
> have done what such firms do.
> I.E. Closed the factory (probably to make a profit by selling off the
> site for housing), and 'outsourced' all the products - though our tea
> bags don't seem to be sourcing from anywhere.

Private Equity Firm being the new buzzphrase for what were once honestly
called asset strippers, or corporate raiders as they were called in the
banking business.

Rosie

Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> writes:

> Vicky wrote:
>
>>I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>
> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
> nice?
>
> Chris

I take the view that, since I seldom buy biscuits (because I know I will
eat them all in short order), when I do buy them they will be no less
than Dark Chocolate Gingers by Border Biscuits of Lanark. Or possible
Lemon Melts by the Island Bakery of Tobermory if I can find them.

Apart from being superior I know I am supporting genuine Scottish
businesses and not a Turkish-based international conglomerate.

Rosie

On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Vicky wrote:
>
>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>
> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
> nice?
>
> Chris

It's not OK, it's mandatory.

john

Chris <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> wrote:
>> J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>>> In message <uq342e$22jlq$1@dont-email.me> at Thu, 8 Feb 2024 17:46:54,
>>> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>>>> PYoung <docary64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I imagine I am the most Easterly one still in UK. I have returned to my
>>>>> roots and now live a few miles from Sizewell and the "Sunrise Coast"
>>>>> in Suffolk.
>>>
>>> I was idly looking at Google Maps (OK, I was looking at how far
>>> something I'd bought on eBay had to come [it's coming from near Glasgow
>>> IIRR], and zoomed in on some dot), and was interested to see that GM
>>> marked it as "most westerly point in the UK" or something like that. (I
>>> think the dot is St. Kilda.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for all your welcoming messages - I think I shall stay!
>>>>>
>>>>> Pauline
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good - the right decision Pauline! 0 >
>>> Indeed!
>>>
>>> P. S. - OnTish! - my spelling checker suggested "Hilda" above!
>>
>> That is probably where Brian would like to send the cat!
>>
>
> It’s Tony’s pigeon now.
>
> Mrs McT
>
>

Cat amongst the pigeons?!

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:35:37 +0000, Jenny M Benson
<NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>> nice?
>
>Yes, but a little bit odd!

They are just skinny shortbread with sugar on top.

On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:30:21 +0000, Rosie Mitchell
<rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:

>Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> writes:
>
>> Vicky wrote:
>>
>>>I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>>as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>>
>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>> nice?
>>
>> Chris
>
>I take the view that, since I seldom buy biscuits (because I know I will
>eat them all in short order), when I do buy them they will be no less
>than Dark Chocolate Gingers by Border Biscuits of Lanark. Or possible
>Lemon Melts by the Island Bakery of Tobermory if I can find them.
>
>Apart from being superior I know I am supporting genuine Scottish
>businesses and not a Turkish-based international conglomerate.
>
>Rosie

I have seen chocolate Bath Olivers somewhere today but I forget where.
That is odd as BOs are savoury and chocolate isn't usually.

On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:38:42 -0000 (UTC), Chris
<chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Paul Herber <paul@paulherber.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:53:58 +0000, docary64@gmail.com (PYoung) wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Rosie. It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are still
>>> posting in this most old fashioned way. Chris McMillan has always kept
>>> me up to date with major events. Now I have been kicked off Google
>>> Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start contributing.
>>>
>>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult to
>>> get Rich Tea Fingers? I cannot find them anywhere around here - great
>>> big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>>
>> It's Royal Scot's that I miss.

Wouldn't shortcake biscuits be quite like Royal Scot'?

>> Hello Pauline. Welcome back.
>>
>>
>
>Welcome back Pauline!
>
>Chuck her over some chocolate you lot. :)
>
>Mrs McT
>
>

On 09-Feb-24 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Vicky wrote:
>
>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>
> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
> nice?

Dunno, but I'm with you on that.
(I've never gotten on with coconut, since it's impossible to swallow the
stuff.)

--
Sam Plusnet

On 08-Feb-24 19:46, BrritSki wrote:
> On 08/02/2024 19:45, BrritSki wrote:
>> On 08/02/2024 19:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
>>>> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are
>>>> still posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has
>>>> always kept me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked
>>>> off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start
>>>> contributing.
>>>>
>>>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult
>>>> to get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here -
>>>> great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>>>
>>> Not Rich Tea Fingers as well?  We are still looking for ways around
>>> the Great Glengettie teabag robbery.  (Loose-leaf Glengettie is
>>> possible to find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone
>>> without a trace).
>>>
>> They appear to be available on Amazon. £16 for 80.
>>
> Ooops, look like that's TWO packs of 80.
>
I was about to say they've gone up by 100% since I looked on Thursday,
but... I assume this is someone's left over stock.

I have produced a makeshift, by weighing out 6.25 gm[1] of the
loose-leaf tea into an infusion 'ball' - but it's all a bit of a faff.

[1] Those packets of 80 tea bags weigh 250gm net, & we use two bags at a
time.

We have tried a few substitutes, but nothing to date fits the bill.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 09-Feb-24 15:43, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>
>> On 08-Feb-24 13:53, PYoung wrote:
>>> Thank you Rosie.  It is always nice to see how many old BBQers are
>>> still posting in this most old fashioned way.  Chris McMillan has
>>> always kept me up to date with major events.  Now I have been kicked
>>> off Google Groups it has prompted me to pull my finger out and start
>>> contributing.
>>> I had been meaning to ask if other Umrats are finding it difficult
>>> to get Rich Tea Fingers?  I cannot find them anywhere around here -
>>> great big round ones, yes, but not the finger type.
>>
>> Not Rich Tea Fingers as well? We are still looking for ways around
>> the Great Glengettie teabag robbery. (Loose-leaf Glengettie is
>> possible to find, if you look hard enough, but the tea bags have gone
>> without a trace).
>
> Teabags? Surely real umrats, like the denizens of Ambridge, use loose
> tea in a teapot? You'll be telling me next that you brew with a teabag
> in a mug, adding milk and three sugars before the boiling water!

We must be demi-real. Loose leaf Glengettie during the day, but
Glengettie tea bags in the Teasmaid first thing in the morning[1].
>
>> The parent company (Typhoo) was sold off to a private equity firm, who
>> have done what such firms do.
>> I.E. Closed the factory (probably to make a profit by selling off the
>> site for housing), and 'outsourced' all the products - though our tea
>> bags don't seem to be sourcing from anywhere.
>
> Private Equity Firm being the new buzzphrase for what were once honestly
> called asset strippers, or corporate raiders as they were called in the
> banking business.

They can be called many things. Some are even printable.

[1] Well, morning-ish.

P.S. Wofe agrees with you on those Dark Chocolate Gingers by Border's.

--
Sam Plusnet

On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 18:34:55 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

>On 09-Feb-24 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>> Vicky wrote:
>>
>>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>>
>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>> nice?
>
>Dunno, but I'm with you on that.
>(I've never gotten on with coconut, since it's impossible to swallow the
>stuff.)
Are they coconut? Will try one later

On 09/02/2024 18:01, Vicky wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:35:37 +0000, Jenny M Benson
> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>>> nice?
>>
>> Yes, but a little bit odd!
>
> They are just skinny shortbread with sugar on top.
>

And desecrated coconut.

john

john ashby <johnashby20@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/2024 18:01, Vicky wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:35:37 +0000, Jenny M Benson
>> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>>>> nice?
>>>
>>> Yes, but a little bit odd!
>>
>> They are just skinny shortbread with sugar on top.
>>
>
> And desecrated coconut.
>
> john
>

Do they speak in a high squeaky voice …. Oh! *Desec(r)ated*… as you were.
--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:04:43 +0000, john ashby <johnashby20@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On 09/02/2024 18:01, Vicky wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:35:37 +0000, Jenny M Benson
>> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/02/2024 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>>>> nice?
>>>
>>> Yes, but a little bit odd!
>>
>> They are just skinny shortbread with sugar on top.
>>
>
>And desecrated coconut.
>
>john
Yes I did try one and just hadn't specially noticed the coconut. It is
slight and I like coconut, which is probably why.

On 09/02/2024 11:42, Vicky wrote:

>
>
> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes. Never had a Bath
> Oliver though. Googling to see what they are.Had heard of them.
>

The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread on
them. I could never understand that.

--
Jane
The Amethyst Artist
BTME

http://www.clothandclay.co.uk/umra/cookbook.htm - Umrats' recipes

On 09/02/2024 18:34, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 09-Feb-24 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>> Vicky wrote:
>>
>>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>>
>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>> nice?
>
> Dunno, but I'm with you on that.
> (I've never gotten on with coconut, since it's impossible to swallow the
> stuff.)
>

YANAOU! I have a lifelong inability to swallow dessicated coconut,
which nobody else until now has ever understood.

Creamed coconut, coconut milk, coconut cream etc are all fine. It's the
texture of the dessicated. I can even manage small amounts of fresh
coconut.

--
Jane
The Amethyst Artist
BTME

http://www.clothandclay.co.uk/umra/cookbook.htm - Umrats' recipes

Jane Vernon wrote:

>The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread on
>them. I could never understand that.

Similarly, I have never understood why some collections of
"Biscuits for Cheese" include digestives.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham
'48/33 M B+ G++ A L(-) I S-- CH0(--)(p) Ar- T+ H0 ?Q
chris@cdixon.me.uk @ChrisJDixon1
Plant amazing Acers.

Jane Vernon <spam@nopotteratthisaddress.co.uk> wrote:
> On 09/02/2024 11:42, Vicky wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes. Never had a Bath
>> Oliver though. Googling to see what they are.Had heard of them.
>>
>
> The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread on
> them. I could never understand that.
>

Suggestive’s with Marmite.

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:45:53 +0000, Jane Vernon
<spam@nopotteratthisaddress.co.uk> wrote:

>On 09/02/2024 18:34, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> On 09-Feb-24 12:54, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>> Vicky wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like rich tea biscuits and always have a packet on the go, as well
>>>> as ginger biscuits, Nice biscuits and shortcakes.
>>>
>>> Is it OK to say that I don't find Nice biscuits particularly
>>> nice?
>>
>> Dunno, but I'm with you on that.
>> (I've never gotten on with coconut, since it's impossible to swallow the
>> stuff.)
>>
>
>YANAOU! I have a lifelong inability to swallow dessicated coconut,
>which nobody else until now has ever understood.
>
>Creamed coconut, coconut milk, coconut cream etc are all fine. It's the
>texture of the dessicated. I can even manage small amounts of fresh
>coconut.
Not keen on Bounty then? In those boxes of various mini choc bars
Bountys and Mars Bars are left by B .And we don't want waste, do we? I
did take a bag of Bountys to the local charity food shop.

On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 10:04:26 +0000, Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk>
wrote:

>Jane Vernon wrote:
>
>>The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread on
>>them. I could never understand that.
>
>Similarly, I have never understood why some collections of
>"Biscuits for Cheese" include digestives.
>
>Chris
Digestives with cream cheese are even nicer than tea biscuits. Ok I
never tried tea biscuits with cheese.