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NickQ Nabisco Nutter Butter Review	Hi Nicey I absolutely agree, Special Biscuit Correspondent Miura’s sterling research work in The Orient is deserving of her own icon. And the animation is quite splendid. Now to matters of a more pressing nature. I’m fortunate enough to be off to the US on a two week business trip on Saturday. After all this time I don’t think you’ve come up with an icon for the US yet, which suggests there’s nothing to be had of any merit there, or perhaps your book sadly hasn’t crossed The Pond yet? They are a charming and hospitable people but they really don’t get the piping hot tea and crunchy biscuits thing do they? I suspect it may be down to their puritan heritage whereby a cuppa and chocolate digestive was historically probably considered somewhat indulgent. I know the tea will probably be Lipton’s Yellow Label, prepared with water barely exceeding body temperature. I know if I ask for biscuits I’m likely to get some sort of gravy-coated hardened dumpling and I’ve suffered Oreos once too often to know not to go there again. I’m really not fond the soft and chewy cookies which to my palate, always taste rather underbaked. So, I must throw myself upon the mercy of you and your international and esteemed readership. Can anyone perhaps suggest what I might seek out in the cookie aisle of the local Piggly Wiggly. Are there perhaps any local biscuit-like delicacies to be procured in Florida and Colorado where I will be spending my time? I’m open to the idea of novelty biscuits if necessary; I guess in Florida they might be ‘gator shaped and in Colorado, well, I really don’t know….beetles perhaps? And please, nothing that contains Hershey’s chocolate. As ever, best wishes to you and the YMOS. NickQ
	Nicey replies: Hello Nick, Good to hear from you again. By now you will be winging your way to the land of 'not yet achieving and icon'. We often get asked this question by forward thinking travellers such as yourself and so far the biscuit which I found the most plausible is the Graham Cracker. Its very name would be enough to keep most Brits at bay thinking its some kind of aspiring cheese board wanna-be. It is, however, a quite reasonable sweet biscuit and has little creases embedded in it which aid its breaking apart into smaller sections. For this reason alone it punches above its weight, making it one of the must see biscuits for the inquiring biscuit tourist. Strawberry Newtons are notable in as much as there really isn't anything like them in the UK, so its worth just trying them to say you have. Likewise another Nabisco biscuit the NutterButter which having peanut butter in them isn't going to make on our shelves anytime soon, although I did actually find them appealing to my inner child like some sort of new sweet shop treat. To be honest it is as you suspect a much more serious problem getting any sort of sensible cuppa, so I hope you have your teabags packed and access to boiling water over the next fortnight. Nicey
Joan Todd Nabisco Nutter Butter Review	Hi, I love your website. When I left England at the tender age of twelve, I did not realize that America didn't have proper biscuits. Luckily they do import biscuits from England and Canada, so Digestives and other yummies can be found from time to time. Unfortunately, our local blood drives have Oreos and Nutter Butters (a peanut butter flavored sandwich cookie in the shape of a peanut) as the reward for donating blood. To wash these down they provide juice boxes or bottled water. No cups of tea in sight. :-) I do drag my husband back to England every few years - he survives on sausage rolls and Jaffa cakes. He's American. :-) Keep up the good reporting on all things biscuity.
	Nicey replies: It seems only right and proper that if somebody removes a pint of the very lifeblood from an average British person that they should immediately administer tea and biscuits to replace it like with like. I'm sure the same could be said of the Irish. As for the other nations of the world I'm not sure but there is good sport to had coming up with tongue-cheek suggestions.
Michelle Simkins Nabisco Nutter Butter Review	I'm writing in regards to Stuart Mason's e-mail regarding the best biscuit for Die Hard 4. My coworkers and I have had a go at this one and decided that the best dessert item with which to blind one's foes might be some form of biscotti. While I'm not convinced these fall technically within the biscuit range, I'd feel equal to Bruce Willis if I was armed with a biscotti or two, whatever biscuit he was wielding (although being American he'd probably have a cookie; and he'd have plenty of ghastly hard scratchy things to choose from too. Of course I, too, am an American and am therefore guilty of eating cookies AND drinking coffee, but only when I can't get a decent cup of tea). We went on to discuss the possibility of fig bars as protective gear, and carefully stacked nutter butters as impromptu shelters for large-scale battles, so you can imagine it was a lively morning at the office. It got rather outlandish at one point, with someone suggesting something involving jam or custard to create floor slippage. My thanks to Mr. Mason, for generating such a fine distraction! Michelle Oregon, U.S.A.
Marybeth Swiger Nabisco Nutter Butter Review	Whilst reading biccy reviews, I found the above-mentioned biscuit. I think you owe it to other biscuit lovers to let them know that this isn't the only Nutter Butter variety available. Nabisco (no matter how hard they try to convince me of the 'homemade goodness' of their biscuits, I know they're a huge conglomerate) also make Nutter Butter Creme (sic) Patties. Even better than the peanut shaped biscuit, this is a slightly sweet wafer, filled with a smooth peanutty filling. They come as three large slabs in a tray, marked off as pillows - rather like a strip of ravioli. The downside of eating them is the wafer - when very fresh, the wafer shatters easily, and one can become covered with crumbs quite fast. Also, wafers plus dampness equals a less than palatable bite, so these slabs need to be decanted to a tin for ideal storage (like so many North American biscuits, they come wrapped in thin cellophane). These biscuits aren't available here in Canada, but thank goodness for cross-border shopping to the States. A lovely treat, and entirely moreish. MB Swiger Vancouver, BC Canada (an equal opportunity biscuit eater - I've just had three Maryland choc chip and hazelnut rounds with my tea)
	Nicey replies: They sound very closely related to the stuff that finally saw off Elvis.
Neil Fox Nabisco Nutter Butter Review	Happy New Year, I thought you might like to know that your current "Biscuit of the Week", the Nutter Butter, tastes even better if let out of any airtight container, and allowed to go stale for a few days.  This makes the biscuits wonderfully chewy, which seems to compliment the peanut butter filling rather better than a crunchy biscuit.  As an alternative, give them a good dunk. Cheers Neil Fox (No! NOT that one!)