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Erin Newby Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review	Dear Nicey and Wifey I turn to you having searched long and fruitlessly for the chief biscuit of my childhood, the Treacle Crunch Cream. It came into my life in the late 80s/early 90s and despite being treacle-based, I recall that the cream was reasonably light in colour and clasped by buttery, rivuleted biscuits, similar in taste if not in texture to the biscuits used in that Bar of Sunday Teatime Glory, the Classic. I believe it eminated from the Kings of Crunch-named biscuits, Fox's. I also recall that in that bastion of 80s film, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, the afore-mentioned kids encountered what looked suspiciously like a Treacle Crunch Cream abandoned in the garden and hurled themselves at it with the wild abandon that would be expected when one encounters a biscuit that is many times the size of oneself. Anyway, do let me know if you've seen my beloved anywhere or have heard tales of its return. Thank you Erin
	Nicey replies: Its not in their current range as far as know, but they are always up to something with their crunch range so maybe it will get another chance one day. BTW They have just done a chocolate crunch which is very reminiscent of a biscuit I used to buy from Sainsbury's when particularly flush in the 1980's. Maybe its a harbinger for the Treacle Crunch. In fact you could come up with quite a convincing mythology around biscuits being harbingers for the coming of other ones. In a three weird sisters form Macbeth sort of way.. "When the chocolate crunch is once more upon the shelves of Sainsbury's and Huntley and Palmers arise fro their long slumber with their Olivers all chocolate covered, then shall ye seek the treacle crunch cream - or not".
Mrs Viscount Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review	Dear Nicey, Wifey and YMoS, I have recently discovered that the office in which I work appears to exist in its own separate pocket of the universe, a pocket in which the usual rules of food decomposition do not apply. I am not sure whether to rejoice or be scared, and so I wanted to consult you on the matter. You see, some time ago my boss bought me two packets of biscuits to have with my office-time cuppa (and you'll agree that this was kind when I tell you that he doesn't really bother with a cuppa, or biscuits, himself). Now as I've been doing my very best lately to get a bit slimmer (the lot of so many a female), I've been watching my intake of all things sweet, biscuits included. Thus I have stretched out the two packets for what I think is something like a month. The extraordinary thing is that despite a whole month passing, the biscuits are lasting really, really well. Incredibly so, given that they are not getting any special preservation treatment; they are not in any kind of Tupperware or tin box, they're just sitting on a shelf. I haven't even been giving them any special folding-the-packet-and-securing-with-a-peg treatment as I've seen my aunty do. Just a very light twisting of the empty part of the packet, which I believe is fairly standard. Despite the lack of preservation efforts, there is barely any softening of the biscuits. One of the packets is Tesco's own-brand Ginger Nuts, and while the one I have just eaten is ever-so-slightly softer than a brand-new one, it is still much harder than a normal biscuit, which is what one comes to expect of a Ginger Nut. Bear in mind that this was the one off the top of the packet! Imagine the ones below! Stranger still is the other packet, which I'd been led to believe from your reviews, is a biscuit that can go stale extremely quickly - Fox's Butter Crunch Crinkle. A month old, and I swear to you, they retain full crunch. What, in the name of all things good, is going on?? I am obviously delighted that I don't have to throw any biscuits out (Heaven forfend!) and that I can still enjoy them after all this time, but I'm a bit confused by it and starting to wonder if I should be freaking out. I'm certainly racking my brain to come up with an explanation. This being Ireland, it goes without saying that the weather is not exactly tropical, and coldness probably helps preservation, but I don't think this explains it, so I hoped you would have some thoughts. Perhaps you know something I don't, e.g. that the biscuit manufacturers are going to town lately on the preservatives? After that, my only thought is that it is something to do with my boss. My biscuits are not the only thing odd in the office - the other is that my boss is actually very nice, which I am fairly sure is quite a unique phenomenon. Not only did he buy me biscuits, he's also prone to saying things like "well it's Friday evening, you might as well scarper home a couple of hours early if you like". Amazing. I'm beginning to suspect that two such odd phenomena, in the one office, must be related - that the utter bizarre-ness of someone's boss being nice has thrown the Universe into confusion, a confusion which has manifested itself in everlasting biscuits. What do you think? Yours in confusion, Mrs Viscount
	Nicey replies: Dear Mrs Viscount, Indeed it is very odd that your Butter Crinkle Crunch are not going all limp. There must be some powerful dehumidifying going on in your office possibly due to over-zealous air conditioning. Normally such dry air is a bit unpleasant as it actually dehydrates the people working in it. As you are in Ireland perhaps the very high tea intake you'll no doubt have and residual Irish weather permeating your attire protects you from this. As for your Boss he probably want's to go home early too. Either that or he is an alien with some strange need for the moisture harvested from Irish people. Its probably the first thing though.
Andrew Maddison Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review	Hi There, Just been perusing your biscuit archive and I thought I ought to throw in my two-penneth worth in favour of Fox's Butter Crinkle Cruch biscuits, in my opinion, if not the best biscuit in the world, then definately in the top 5. The high sugar content makes them the perfect biscuit pick-me-up for the end of a long hard day. As a dinghy sailing instructor who frequently spends all day enjoying the best that the British weather can throw at me, I'd say these biscuits have saved my sense of humour from certain death on more than one occasion, only McVitie's (plain) chocolate digestives have proven the same level of reliability. Well Many thanks for a highly informative website - keep up the good work, Yours - Andrew.
	Nicey replies: As it so happens I had three of them yesterday for elevensees, they are very nice aren't they.
Helen Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review	Hi there In respect of your assessment of Butter Crinkle Crunch I would like to add that this biscuit is fantastically good for dunking, perhaps even better than rich tea. The outside goes soft as you would expect, but the inside goes chewy, which works very well. You have to be careful on timing though - this biscuit is easy to over-dunk and lose. Helen
	Nicey replies: Oh yes if there's one thing a Butter Crunch likes it is to absorb moisture, hot tea being its optimum choice.
The Sugary Topped Bloomers Fox's Butter Crinkle Crunch Review	Our small team of rather under-challenged colleagues spent just over half an hour gathered around a computer lapping up the delights of your website. Thanks for making our coffee break (value tin of Nescafe) so enjoyable.We thought it only right to review the small packet of Foxes Butter Crinkle Crunch we devoured within around 30 seconds:   KP - the yellow package is too bright & cheerful for a work biscuit, but actually when you bite into them they are quite gratifyingly rich...  AND although they're very crunchy they have a melt in the mouth quality. Mmmmmmm - good dunkers. 7/10   RT - package highlights a midrange biscuit, however you are pleasantly surprised with the high standard contents. They are light in colour and taste with delicious buttery aroma. They do not come across as greasy. They work as dunkers - great retention of crunch. They are the Ronseal of the biscuit world - they do exactly what it says on the pack. I would repurchase. 8/10   SP - declined the offer of an FBCC. 0/10   SC - packing is bright & welcoming. Makes me feel I want a biscuit. The taste experience itself - exactly what's expected. 10/10 but I wouldn't buy them!   AH - I did expect them to look like crinkle-cut chips. It was saddening to see a rather regular biscuit within. I am a total sucker for Butter biscuits however - give me another!! 6/10 ( would rather have some Highland Shortcake)   Overall rating 6.2/10, but not bad considering the selection on offer at the local Newsagents (the type of vendors that sell 'Grandson' birthday cards with pictures of trains and boats on).   TTFN Nicey, The Sugary Topped Bloomers
	Nicey replies: Yay, for informal biscuit reviewing circles. Perhaps, it might catch on as a social phenomena, like Karaoke. Amateur biscuit reviewers, up and down the country might dream of appearing in prime time TV shows like 'Biscuits in their packets'.