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GDubbs of Gee Cross
Morning Coffee Review |
Nicey, hi.
Just found the site via a Crawfords Morning Coffee search and WOW! I'm home at last. On the subject of the M.C. I can just say it literally keeps me alive. Having to have about a dozen tablets a day and being the world most useless pill taker, I hunted high and low for a biscuit with which to get the suckers down (a search that would have been a lot easier with your FAB site). Eventually I ended up back where I had started... Morning Coffee. This humble biscuit provides the necessary post dunked consistency to hide the nastiest medication. But I must give a word of warning to the M.C. connoisseurs out there. After reading about the stocks of superior Crawford adorning shelves at Morrisons stores I sent a friend out to purchase some for me. Gutted is not in it... She came back with these interlopers (pictured)! Which are more like thin babies rusks and when dunked adopt the structural rigidity of steamed rhubarb. BE WARNED, do not be taken in by these Dutch, I repeat DUTCH impostors.
Keep the faith M.C.Lovers
Yours,
GDubbs of Gee Cross
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Nicey replies: It's not escaped my notice before that the odd Morning Coffee gets made in Holland. I think I have in the past spotted some Sainsbury's own brand biscuits made there. Also Crawfords mother ship United Biscuits bought up Dutch biscuit maker Verkade in 1996 and this is the point of origin of the Cafe Noir biscuit.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if all of these events and circumstances were related.
Actually I looked quite a lot like a Dutch bloke last night as Wifey and I cycled back from the train station in torrential rain, and I was forced to don my brand new bright yellow also made in Holland cycle cape. |
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Ben Murray
Morning Coffee Review |
Hi Nicey
Just read your review of Morning Coffee - it was never a real favourite of mine, but i did use it for one of my more ostentatious biscuit based experiments in the early eighties.
This was to see how many biscuits could be dunked at one time in a standard sized mug of tea, and the dimensions of Morning Coffee proved ideal. I would pile them on top of one another, grab between forefinger and thumb and then dunk - this would then be placed in the mouth whole.
My record was nineteen.
Hope you are well and love the site.
Ben (lifelong biscuit and cake fan) |
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Mollie Timby
Morning Coffee Review |
Hi
This is Mollie from Great Yarmouth, at last I have tasted Morning Coffee Biscuits for the first time in around 18 months. Your tip paid off I went straight to Asda and low and behold they had Morning Coffee biscuits on the shelf, I promptly bought all they had 20 packets in all, went home and ate a whole packet in one go with a cup of coffee made with milk and a drop of rum, ecstasty!. Thanks for info and may I wish everyone through your site a Merry Christmas and Happy Morning Coffee New Year.
Mollie
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Andrew Henderson
Morning Coffee Review |
I was undersatndably worried by the impending extinction of Morning Coffee biccies whern I read it on your site. Imagine my joy and relief at discovering a whole herd of them in Morrisons@leeds
(dodgy) photographic evidence attached.
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Nicey replies: Indeed reason 749 to shop at Morrisons. Nice surveillance work too. I too often want to photograph the biscuit aisle as a useful historic record, but for one reason or another am prevented from doing so. |
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Dr Freemanstein
Morning Coffee Review |
Hi there!
Thank-you for having such a wonderfully cheery website. I was having a thouroughly crappy morning, until I happened upon your site whilst searching for info about Crawfords (don't ask!). Anyway, I came across your previous review re. Morning Coffee biscuits, and also noted the reply sent about that review. I was in the same boat. Being a die-hard Morning Coffee fan, I was dismayed when I could not find them in ANY of my local supermarkets etc.
The closest I could get to any was that my local Somerfield has the space on the shelf for them, but when asked, the informed me of an apparent shortage from certain biscuitiers.
This changed when my nearest Safeway (having been taken over by Morrisons) turned overnight into a full blown Morrisons!
Then, on the occasion of my first visit there, I made a dubious (and slightly pessimistic) scan of their biscuit section.......and there they were!
Needless to say, i was overjoyed and the few packet that I could afford at the time, were gone within 24 hours!
So, if anyone else is struggling to locate this elusive breed, try Morrisons
yours
Dr Freemanstein
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