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Boots Malted Milk Review	Hi, I'd just like to put a word in for the Chocolate Malted Milk. Biscuit to the Gods. The only problem with them though is the wrapping. To open it you have to pull the tab which is at least 5 or 6 biscuits down the pack. This forces one to eat all the biscuits above that line and 4 more below to gain an adequate seal with the wrapping for stowage in my biccie tin. Not that it stays in the tin for long. If they ever make it there at all. Thats reserved for the wifeys 'Lincolns'. A biscuit so dreadful that I find it quite absurd that someone went to all that trouble to make a rubbish biscuit. Thank you for the articles on kettles. Please can you warn people to not heat their cold tea in the microwave. You may, like I did, leave the spoon in. Oh, The horror.... Boots
Graham Nolan Malted Milk Review	Hi Nicey, I came across a new (to me) packet of biscuits in Sainsbury yesterday. Elke's Cow Biscuits. They follow your standard malted milk biscuit formula and are therefore nice in limited quantities. They also have your standard malted milk biscuit drawbacks including the propensity to cling to your molars well after you have finished chewing. What this pack does give us compared to an archetypal malted milk pack is added humour. There are a number of cow-related puns modelled on the biscuits. For example the one I'm eating as I type has a picture of a cow and some bubbles and is subtitled Heifer-vescant. Sure, these aren't going to get you through a gig at the Comedy Store but they do enhance the biscuit-eating bonhomie in the workplace. Plus, the're a good ice-breaker in meetings - 'Want a Cow Biscuit?'.
	Nicey replies: I'm all in favour of innovation, but personally I'm still coming to terms with the cow and milk churn malted milk vs the classic big cow/little cow. I also saw some malted milks recently where the cow was just sketched on as an outline, which almost made me crash the shopping trolly.
Trevor Taylor Malted Milk Review	Nicey On your site you refer to the chocolate covered malted (Sports) biscuit as essentially a biscuit form of the Malteser.  You may not know that malted biscuits were in fact health foods in late Victorian times and indeed the Malteser was such a health food, the chocolate adding sugar as well as taste as a dietary supplement for the avoidance of tuberculosis. Other products which arose at this time include Ovaltine (and later Complan). Before Lucosade was a sport drink it also was a "tonic", an additional form of dietary glucose for the recuperative patient. Perhaps we should consider the role of cakes, biscuits and tea in the development of health care, not least in stress reduction, as a topic on your site. As an aside, for many years my wife called me Ovaltine because, like the malted drink, I was often drunk at bedtime.
	Nicey replies: Well, yes I was aware of most of those. Last week I was looking into Bath Olivers which were invented as food for those visiting Bath in the eighteenth century, containing as they do the wonder remedy of the age, hops.
James Coghlan Malted Milk Review	Sir, Unless I am mistaken I am unable to find a review of the milk chocolate covered version of the ever-popular malted milk biscuit on your site. As a fan of both chocolate digestive (plain mind you) and malted milk, the chocolate version represents the highlight of my morning. Until I introduced him to it, my financial consultant had never even heard of the product (and he's 29). It has changed the way he enjoys his hot beverages. Mind you, Sainsburys are partly to blame too. Their own-label biscuit isle comprises the usual favourites (Morning coffee, digestive, rich tea, nice and malted milk) but the chocolate version is inexplicably situated in the "organic"section some twenty feet away. As a test, when questioned, even a member of staff was unaware of the location or possibly the existence of the chocolate version. A review will surely bring a much deserved promotion to this product and put pressure on Sainsbury's to give this jewel in the biscuit crown the recognition it deserves. They're only 92p, which, granted, is some 20-30p more than their non-choc equivalents, but still comfortably undercuts the brand name chocolate lines.
	Nicey replies: You are of course correct the Chocolate Malted milk is a wonderful biscuit, essentially a Malteaser rendered in the medium of biscuit, I shall try and fit it in its own right. As you point out there are those who are entirely unaware of its existance. Your Sainsburys must have unilaterally lost the plot, ours puts them next to the other halfcovered biscuits.
Helen Rees Malted Milk Review	Dear Nicey - re Katy Rouths note I think I know what she's on about. One of my children is slightly dyslexic and we've tried all kinds of alternative remedy things suggested by teachers that are supposed to stimulate the brain - like foods containing fatty acids (sardines etc), drinking lots of water , listening to Mozart ,balancing exercises etc - So if Katy has discovered that Malted Milk are a brain stimulant then this could be a fantastic educational breakthrough. You can see why one that played Mozart might be even better (but possibly not edible). I will try feeding my daughter Malted Milk biscuits for breakfast tomorrow as she's got a spelling test in school and see if there is any improvement. They will have to be Tesco's though as we had ASDA's last week and my youngest was traumatised by the missing calf. PS Tea Bag bin doing as well as can be expected in office setting so long as someone remembers to empty it daily - Nasty Mould experience last week.
	Nicey replies: Very good, but its not a calf its just one slightly further away (shades of Father Ted here..). Glad to hear the TeaBagBin is gainfully employed.
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