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Agness Shigeko Kaku
Abbey Crunch Review |
How could this be happening?
I thought my local market had stopped stocking Abbey Crunch, and had asked the assistant manager to resume carrying them. I mean, what other explanation was there? I never imagined that any biscuit company would be insane enough to kill off the Best Biscuit Ever Invented. I love that slightly caramelized, oaty taste, the beautiful compact size, the surprising resilience (when was the last time you opened up a pack of Abbey Crunch and found half the biscuits shattered? Never, that's when.). Where am I going to get my fix? I remember once having a Fortnum & Mason's biscuit with a similar flavor when I was very young, but I can't recall its name. No doubt that's long gone too. Perhaps McVities can publish the Abbey Crunch recipe into the public domain if there's no hope of seeing it return to the shelves.
A. S. Kaku
California, USA |
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Adie Smith
Abbey Crunch Review |
Dear Mr. Nicey,
My colleague and I have recently been lamenting the demise of the Abbey Crunch biscuit, for us the quintessential mid afternoon cup of tea accompaniment. It was with much sadness that we learned of their abolition. But it was also with great joy that a google search for this formidable oaty treat led us to your glorious website. Our lamentations have been tempered by the knowledge that there is an internet community rallying around the British pastime of sitting down with a cup of tea and a biscuit. As my colleague stated: "I come to find that all the things in life that I love come to be abolished". First the death penalty, now Abbey Crunch. When will the madness end?
Yrs,
Adie Smith. |
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Suzanne
Abbey Crunch Review |
Just tried to find out McVities web address to add my despair to those already listed here about Abbey Crunch disappearing from the shelves. And found myself on your website as you do when you browse around...... None of the other lookalikes begin to taste the same..so can we be ACES....Abbey Crunch Extinction Society and try and serve one in the direction of United Biscuits!
Suzanne |
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Tim
Abbey Crunch Review |
I am appalled by the whole Abbey Crunch de-listing, and reminds me of the sadness I felt when our local TOPS supermarket in Bangkok stopped selling M&S Bourbons.
But I was wondering if it's not just a result of the UK populations' general nosedive into the development of a very short attention span and the need for re-branding and flashy marketing to make them reach for those bics off the shelf.
So McVities could:
1. rename Abbey Crunch to something like 'abbey' (as in National)
2. Put some random hyrogliphics in - like Abb>y Cr*nch
3. That's it.
As for people complaining they will be devastated by the loss, just think of us out here in Thailand where we have to put up with a slew of mediocre japanese sugary pieces of tat. Use your right to vote by purchasing the biscuits you claim to love! Or just buy them and post them out here :-)
Tim.
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Steve Henly
Abbey Crunch Review |
Hi all I have just rang mcvites giving the lady on the end of the phone all my best complaints about MCVITES delisting Abby crunch . SO WE WILL NEVER HAVE THEM AGAIN ! So could you and all the many who visit your site ring them up and pester them and we will try and get them to start to bake the little buggers again cheers Steve Henly ........
PS we need a big push from everyone!
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Nicey replies: Of course I've already phoned McVities, as have many others.
Your efforts would be better directed at Mr Sainsburys/Tesco/Asda etc. Of course McVities have been baking them for the last few years but they haven't been on the supermarket shelves so were not easy to find and therefore buy. If McVites started to bake them again would that situation magically reverse itself? No. We would simply be where we were two months ago.
If any of the big supermarkets want to be a champion of the biscuit eating public and work with UB to bring back some much loved brands then we would surely do our level best to promote that. There simply has to be an opportunity here.. |
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