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Huw Wyn Busgut Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	I have recently discovered you excellent website. I immediately went to your review of my favourite biscuit, namely the Tregoes Toffee Waffle. The plain chocolate version of this is simply the best biscuit in the world. Nothing else comes close. I am surprised that you omitted to mention this fact in your review. I would like, as a point of order, to raise the factual error that you include in your review of the Tregoes waffle. You say that “Two waffles sandwich a layer of lightly cinnamon spiced buttery toffee”. The fact of the matter is that a single waffle is carefully split down the middle following baking, and is then administered its heavenly toffee filling. Such is the genius of the Tregoes waffle. Apart from that you are not doing badly at all. Keep up the good work. Huw Wyn Busgut
	Nicey replies: You are of course right about the splitting down the middle thing, thanks for pointing that out.
Keith O'Kane Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	Dear Nicey and the Wife, I read the e-mail from Ian the other day in which he waxed lyrical about the Stroop Waffles he can get now that he lives in Holland. I am fortunate enough to be able to buy these in our local independent food co-operative in Northampton, although an expanding waistline forced me to stop buying them. Unfortunately (for my waistline at least), the local coffee shop where I work started selling the Tregroes waffles yesterday and I had to have some with my coffee this morning just to initiate the other team members into the art of warming them on top of a beverage to soften the caramel prior to consumption. This was very well received and I may have to introduce them to the Tim Tam slam next week as this is also a new concept for them.
	Nicey replies: Keith, You know it was a very similar set of circumstances, that is the initiation of colleagues into various biscuits that led to the setting up of NCOTAASD all those years ago. I'm sure your altruistic virtues will be shining bright too as you clear the supermarket shelves of educational biscuits.
Ian Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	Hello There Fellow Biscuit Appreciaters I am fairly new to your great site, I am sure it is a valuable reference source for all enthusiasts. I am an expat living in Holland and I would like to share information on one of the products that is common here. I may be mistaken but I never encountered anything like this growing up in the UK. The product I speak of may actually not even qualify as a biscuit. The european rulings on categorisation of confectionary I am not 100% familiar with. Here, it seems everything that comes at elevenses with your tea or coffee, be it a pastry based product, biscuit or cake is \"koek\". The clue to its id may lie in its name :\"siroopwafel\" or \"stroopwafel\". The appearance of the item, the criss-cross/square design on the surface certainly lends itself to a waffle identity, but it is further baked to give it a more biscuit texture. However, the 2 waffle discs actually form a sealed sandwich (Breville style) around a layer of firm caramel/syrup, which imparts a chewy texture to the \"biscuit\" upon eating. I liken the texture of it to the chocolate digestives which have been reinforced with a sublayer of caramel. A popular way it is enjoyed here (although it seems to me the ritual is dying out in the younger generation), is that when your tea arrives (most likely coffee here), you place the biscuit like a lid over the top of the mug for a minute or 2 and the heat from the drink subsequently softens the internal caramel layer prior to eating. My guess is that each biscuit contains the daily calorific requirements of the average coalminer, but in practice it is seldom easy to put less than 2 away in any session. I hope the above link works, this is one of the best images I could find to support my email. As you can see from these images, despite being an everyday item, they can also be given as gifts in special packaging and tins. They are often baked on the street in city centres and the smell is fantastic, I have now come to associate this smell with Christmas, as they step up production at that time of year to feed all the Christmas shoppers. I am sending this info because I would be interested in seeing if there is/was an equivalent product and ritual in my home country, and where it\'s status lies as a biscuit or otherwise. Good Luck with the Site Regards, Ian, Holland
	Nicey replies: Hello Ian, Indeed there is a source of authentic Stroop waffles in the UK and we reviewed them a while back. Interesting your comment about coal miners as they are made in South Wales, albeit the South West rather than the valleys. Their site has information about who stocks them and where you can get them.
Alison Linton Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	hello...firstly congratulations on the wonderfulness of ur informative website, it was cleared up many i dilemma for me i.e. the problem of the jaffa cake... and it is so true, sometimes you must just pause and think of cakes.... however i do have one biscuit related query which it would be fabulous if you could give me some guidance on... i am currently living in germany and have, to drink with my specially imported british tea, bought some things called....ALL BUTTER BELGIUM WAFFLES....now...they come in a box but, being called waffles, could these be classed as a biscuits?? i wait with breath that is bated for your reply.... many thanks for your help with this matter ali
	Nicey replies: Alison, Given that you are having to subsist on whatever you can lay your hands on in continental europe to go with your tea it in natural that you should seek to broaden your approach to what can usefully be classed as biscuits. We reviewed a UK built version of the Belgian Waffle as one of our biscuits of the week, so perhaps this is enough of a sanctioning for your purposes. Actually we have just got back from Wales where they are made and where surrounded by them when we visited Caerphilly Castle (they were in the gift shop not up in the battlements).
Charlotte Young Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	Dear Nicey, Firstly, thanks for one of the most interesting and necessary websites I know of. It is often checked and much respected. I am familiar with the Tregroes Waffles, I have enjoyed the regular and chocolate covered varieties, when I could get them from my local Deli in Brighton, UK. Then I was lucky enough to find caramel waffles at Starbucks, which are made by the same company, and delicious. At Christmas a chocolate covered variety and miniature pack are also available in Starbucks' stores. I now live in Amsterdam, and as mentioned in some of the previous comments, this style of waffle is traditional here. At the local market you can see them being made and buy them warm, much in the way you might buy doughnuts at a market in the UK. They are also sold in supermarkets, as large waffles, organic large waffles or mini ones, which are very cute. They are called stroopwaffles in Dutch, literally syrupwaffles. And they are very good value, a bag of 10 large waffles may cost EUR1.99, at current exchange rates that's not so bad, is it? I try not to eat them too often, as they do tend to slip down a little too easily.... Thanks for letting me share my waffle experiences..... A biscuit hungry, tea drinking slightly homesick expat.
	Nicey replies: I once visited that part of Holland and due to bad planning and youthful exuberance found myself sampling mostly raw herrings with bits of onion on them in the markets, rather than stroopwaffels.
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