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Finnbar Jacob's Orange Club Review	Hi Nicey, Nicholas Bryan writes that the sugar-free Farley's Rusks were delicious. I'm not so sure. Back in 1989 I worked in the Quality Assurance labs at Farley's factory in Plymouth (it is now the site of a Morrisons supermarket). Apart from all the microbiological, chemical and physical (for packaging) testing which was required, one of my tasks was tasting the rusks. I dreaded sugar-free rusks. They were revolting - like eating sawdust. In reverse order, my favourites were sugar-free, original, banana and (yum!) orange. Still, the sugar-free rusks weren't as bad as the Breakfast Timers - a slurry which passed for baby food. Another of my jobs was to empty the contents of the Insectocutors (those blue lamp insect traps). Each set of dead insects was bagged and labelled, then I would go back to the lab and look for any pest organisms (e.g. flour beetles) amongst the corpses, using a binocular microscope. best wishes, Finnbar
	Nicey replies: I used to use one of those binocular microscopes as a student to do insect dissections. I remember a fairly gross incident with a cockroach where its head, which I had been instructed to remove, crawled back into my field of view using its antennae. As I recall I spent the rest of the practical in the tea room dissecting a Jacob's Orange Club biscuit instead. Anyhow sounds like you had a dream job there, although I'm not sure whose dream it was.
Carol Oliver Jacob's Orange Club Review	Dear Nicey and crew Talking of family holidays and what might accompany you in your thermos flasks. My lasting memories of travelling to South Wales in the summertime in the 1960s always conjures up the road side stops, when you pulled into the lay-by (alongside a few other folk travelling to the seaside), opened up the boot, and Mum would produce loads of Tupperware boxes, filled with sandwiches, tomatoes, apples, Club biscuits (generally a bit sticky cos they'd melted), etc.  We generally had a nice bit of Madeira cake too.  It might have been the height of summer, but there was also a thermos or two of soup (one filled with cream of tomato and the other vegetable or minestrone (quite continental for us at the time!)).  Grown ups of course had their thermos of tea - we youngsters had blackcurrant cordial.  Fantastic! Carol PS:   As I recall, our thermos flasks tended to have some kind of tartan pattern on the outside.
	Nicey replies: Yes our flask icon is intended to show some tartan action. Our new flask as seen in the last newsletter is one of those new fangled brushed metal ones but we do like it none the less. Which reminds me we really should write another newsletter.
David Robertson Jacob's Orange Club Review	Can you please tell me the colour of the wrapper on a jacobs club biscuit (plain chocolate variety) , My girlfriend says its green with a golf ball on the front  , while i say its red , who's correct?
	Nicey replies: Sorry I just remember the Golf ball.
Dafydd Pugh Jacob's Orange Club Review	First-Things-First - Nicey, you and your website rock! Sadly Jacob's Club does not. I spent a good five minutes searching the isles of a leading supermarket to buy a pack of Fruit Jacob's Club today. Having searched high and low I finally found a variety "party pack" hidden away so that only a devotee of the Club could find them.  Sadly it did not contain the Fruit one but I thought I'd console myself with the Orange one instead, paid £1.99 and went merrily on my way. I got them back to the office and promptly sent an e-mail round inviting those that "Like a lot of chocolate on their biscuit.. etc." to come and have one (my generosity knows no bounds!).  Anyway courtesy of some barbaric ex-poly industrial design graduate (Git!), I am now the ashamed owner of 20 (after someone tried 1 the rest were shunned!) pathetic excuses for biscuits and am being blamed for shattering the fond memories of dozens of staff in my office.  As a rsult I am having to leave work on Friday under a Cloud now and shall never speak fondly of "Jacob's Club" ever again. How could they (Jacob's/Danone) and the Git get it so wrong? They have ruined an icon of a biscuit. I was so deeply upset by this that I telephoned the Customer Satisfaction line @ the Jacob's Bakery in Liverpool on 08081 449 454 to complain.  The lady on the telephone was very sympathetic and I pointed out that there was an entire office in Bromley that was appalled at the sacrilegious destruction of the King of biscuits.  She said my comments would be passed on to the Marketing Dept (no doubt full of ex-poly graduates thinking up ways to make a Cream Cracker clash with Cheese) and I can only encourage, nay plead with other Club fans to keep up the pressure and make Jacob's see sense. Yours (with a cold cup of tea and 20 manky Club biscuits now). Daf, London
Jo Hayes Jacob's Orange Club Review	At junior school in the early 80s, I swapped from school dinners to sandwiches, said sandwiches actually consisting of 2 sandwiches, 1 piece of fruit, 1 packet of crisps (optional) and 1 chocolate biscuit. There were very few variations on this. Some kids might have had a yoghurt. Anyway, by far the most popular chocolate biscuit was the Club, and I thought I'd add to the comments about things to do with the wrappers. One was to make paper aeroplanes, the other required a bit more skill. You carefully slid the foil-wrapped biscuit out of its paper wrapper, without unsticking the stuck bit. Then you equally carefully eased the biscuit from the foil and ate it or hid it. Having refolded the foil around an imaginary biscuit and slipped it back inside the intact paper wrapper you could pretend you didn't want your 'Club' and offer it to a friend. Hilarious.
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