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Amber Grace	Hello Nicey, Just thought I'd tell you about the tea and sit down facilities at the Glastonbury festival (which I was lucky enough to attend this year). There are many more opportunities at Glastonbury to find a decent cup of tea than at any other festival that I've been to. The best one is the 'Tiny Tea Tent'. For £1.10 & 50p mug deposit you get the choice of 'normal' tea, Earl Grey, Lapsang Souchong etc, with a tea bag each and real milk out of a jug. This is a very busy place, probably due to the high caliber of tea making, but somehow a seat is always available, thus completing the tea break experience. Also, they have a varied collection of mugs - I was lucky enough to get one with a picture of a Volkswagen Beetle on it (my favourite car - spooky). There's nothing quite like a cup of tea and a sit down in the Green Fields of Glastonbury whilst watching a vampire with dreadlocks on stilts chasing a child dressed as a fairy. Wishing you good tea and festival health Amber
	Nicey replies: On Saturday we met the former Tory Defense Minister John Nott, whilst we were guests on Radio 4's Loose Ends. He had just got back from Glastonbury the day before where he had managed to blag his way in. The Portacabin which held his press ticket had been washed away in the flooding, and given that he is 71 the chap on the gate believed his story. It also turns out he had a hand in the introduction of VAT and remembers the classification of the Jaffa Cake as one of the thorny issues they grappled with over thirty years ago.
James Fussell	Nicey, Been out the country for a week and am shocked at the tea heresy on the site.  All things in moderation I say.  Anyway on a more positive note, I have been in Andorra and while over there indulged in a packet of the French equivalent of Jaffa Cakes.  I think they were made by a company called "Lu" but unfortunately an oversight on my part while cleaning the apartment resulted in the empty packet being chucked out.  I must say that they were superb.  Thicker chocolate, jelly out to the edges with an orange tanginess the like of which only dreams are made of.  McVities need to pull their finger out.
	Nicey replies: Jim, That sounds about right. Those Lu blokes are one of the few hopes the French have, indeed they make the Figolu from the Fig Fest. I'm off on a fact finding mission to high altitude France in early February so I'll keep an eye out for them.
Richard Smith	Can you settle an ongoing debate within our department, jaffa cakes - is the orangey filling jelly or jam? We contacted McVities who confessed it was an industrial type jam. However, we are not convinced what is an industrial jam, we maintain it's more jelly than jam. Great web site but strangely a lack of tea related stuff, perhaps you could redeem yourselves by joining us in campaigning for the reinstatement of the PGTips monkeys! More Tea! PG Tips Pyramids of course!
	Nicey replies: Richard, I've always thought of it as Jelly but if McVities say its jam then jam it is. I suppose it comes down to what sort of complex macro-molecules give it its jelly like texture. For Jam its pectin a polysaccharide component of plant cell walls, and for jelly its gelatin a protein found in skin, bone and cartilage. I just checked on a packet of Tesco's Jaffa cakes and the gelling agent is Pectin. So Jam it is. Still industrial jam sounds pretty cool, a step up from recreational jam. I suppose military or weapons grade jam is the next level up. As for tea the wife and I regularly enjoy PG. The chimps lost their way since about 1976, but as yet the motives of the plasticene birds are unclear. I think tea is a very personal thing so I don't tend to get drawn into debates on its components or construction.