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Stephen Pearce
Tunnocks Wafer Review |
Dear Nicey,
Like previous contributors to your site I stumbled across it via the 4,000,000 Tunnocks Caramel Wafer biscuit question. Before visiting your site I could never imagine these fine Tea-time accompanyments selling more than just a few but the ratio per Scotsman heory has made me a believer.
Moving on I would like to ask if the DIY or home modified biscuit is a valid addition to your discussions. I remember when I was a small lad a chocolate digestive or any chocolate covered biscuit was a treat and not for the average tea-break. My brother and I using the little brains we had decided to 'spice' up the humble Rich Tea by covering them with Chocolate spread. We graduated onto nutella and Jam thus negating the expensive biscuit ban imposed by our mater. Could you suggest any other spreads that could be used in this manner as I am sure that there are many an ankle biscuit biter out there suffering this type of biscuit embargo.
Thanks for the excellent site.
Stephen Pearce |
Nicey replies: Sounds like a good idea for a poll |
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Mary Croft
Tunnocks Wafer Review |
Dear Nicey
My first time on your site and I read the Tunnock's wafer review with great interest as I believe my
scottish partner Alan must have contributed considerably to the 4,000,000 consummed each week over the years. Every morning before leaving for work he makes the same packed lunch. Two cheese (extra mature cheddar) sandwiches on Warburton wholemeal bread, one banana and two plain chocolate Tunnock wafer biscuits. One for his 10.00 am break and one for his lunch at 1.00 pm. I try to get him to vary his diet - but he he says "You know where you are with a cheese sandwich and a Tunnock biscuit. I can't cope with any hassle first thing in a morning!" |
Nicey replies: You could try him with the occasional pear I suppose. |
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Kathleen McConnachie
Tunnocks Wafer Review |
Gray Dunn Caramel wafers were around in the eighties and early nineties. I know this for sure cos my mum gave my brother one of those away to school with him every year between about oh, lets see...1980-1992? I don't know if they were discontinued or not but they were horrible - they weren't really caramelly, the wafer was too brown, and they distinctly lacked chewiness. The putative "caramel" was in fact a sort of 'orrible caramelly tasting cream. Not nice. Plus they looked deceptively like the Great God of chocolate wafers, the Tunnocks, in the sense that they had sort of reddy-gold retro packaging. Cunning, but evil. To Mike Lewis, I would say if you live in Scotland it is worth going to Henry Healy near the Barras in Glas Vegas where as well as square sliced sausages you can buy bags of naked caramel wafers, devoid of chocolate, which look to have come straight from Tunnocks in Uddingston, perhaps as rejects - lacking the uniformity required for chocolate coating and wrapping....They are so chewy they can silence the average toddler (or pensioner) for upwards of a year and you get enough for a pound to build a log cabin. Although you'd be better using Caramel Logs for that as they are stinking too. Toasted coconut - madness.
Regards,
Kathleen McConnachie |
Nicey replies: You seem to have complex and mixed feelings about wafer biscuits. |
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Patrick Grabham
Tunnocks Wafer Review |
Just a thought Nicey.
If you put all the 4 million odd wafers that Tunnocks produce each week end to end, where exactly would it take you? I know it's Friday afternoon and I really should be doing some work instead of browsing around your wonderful website, but it's got me wondering.
Yours
Patrick, Ealing |
Nicey replies: I make it approximately 230 miles working back from my how many Tunnocks wafers to reach the moon calculations. So yes it potentially would take you 230 miles away from where you are now or nearly twice round the M25. |
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Mark Pennington
Tunnocks Wafer Review |
Dear Nicey,
I recently rediscovered the Tunnocks Wafer. This opens up many a conversation. Is a Tunnocks Wafer a biscuit (in my opinion, yes) and have any other readers rediscovered biscuits that have been long forgotten?
On the packaging of the Tunnocks Wafer is the remarkable statistic that 4,000,000 are made weekly. I left school and moved from Elgin in the NE of Scotland in 1994 and via various countries have found myself in London. I have not had a Tunnocks Wafer since then. Who is getting my share?
By my calculations the population of the country is 60,000,000 and 2,080,000,000 made since I last had one. I have therefore missed out on almost 35 Tunnocks Wafers. Whilst this may not sound a lot, try laying them down end to end and munching through them in one sitting. I did.
Mark
P.S. Love the site. Keep up the good work. |
Nicey replies: Mark,
We have pondered this question several times in the past. We recently heard that you can get Tunnocks wafers in some parts of the Caribbean, which just shows that its not a simple issue about where they all go. I wonder if even Mr Tunnock himself knows. Perhaps they could fit some with satellite tracking, and get one of those big Bond villain maps of the world, with little lights on it. Obviously Scotland would be fairly bright. |
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