Following on from the twenty judges at the Great Taste Awards unanimously agreeing that our Double Butter and Sultana scones have achieved ‘absolute perfection’, subsequently awarding us with a ‘faultless’ two stars, our bakers went a little crazy with success. After all the Great Taste Awards are to speciality food and drink, what Michelin is to fine dining. These are just a few of the things they did in a buttermilk induced haze!
This is Bobby. He’s pretty smart. We’re considering asking his owner Emily if she might consider lending him to CERN to see if he can help out with the whole Higgs Boson thing. I mean if he can choose a Genesis bun over any other, then he must be able to work out the origin of mass in the universe. And if he can’t, then he’s probably just a dog with extremely good taste.
Thanks for sending in your nice email and pic Emily- a delicious gift box will be delivered to you in due course!
With Wimbledon all finished and done with, we’re all back to being obsessed with football and The World Cup in particular.. and who can blame us? With many more people on the screen at one time, there’s much more chance that someone will lose their bap and give us some good old fashioned agro to watch.
So to fly in the face of more regular football commentaries and in an attempt to ’stick to what we know’ (that and we don’t want to be putting Adrian Chiles out of a job), we have chosen to discuss an alternative World Cup. “The World Cup of Tea” is therefore a purely fictional discussion on how various celebrities might or might not take their tea…it’s seriously high-brew stuff!
Milky milky – what sort of a person might drink this insipid slosh? – probably Amanda Holden or someone else from the wrong side of the judging table.
No Milk, No Sugar – the type of drink that only someone with real backbone could stomach – potentially and arguably the finest James Bond in the last 20 years – Daniel Craig?
Golden, White with one Sugar – a well-balanced decent sort of tea for a well-balanced, decent sort of person – definitely the post-ghurka triumphant Joanna Lumley
Builders’ Tea – the sort drunk by only the hardest of hard men– Ross Kemp grrr!
Organic Herbal Alternative – a sensitive drink for a sensitive chap – perhaps David Mitchell relaxing in Stephen Fry’s library after a Sunday afternoon spent escorting a group of elderly ladies around the Tate Modern.
When it comes to packaging, we do tend to get a little carried away sometimes. We write a bit, then we draw a bit, then we scribble some out and do a bit more and then we spread a little graphical magic. It’s fun, but sometimes we’re so busy designing that we forget to include things. Like heating instructions….
You see with pancakes, everyone has their own special way of eating them. Hot, cold, fried, toasted or baked, the list is fairly extensive. But a very nice lady named Sue wrote to us asking what the best way is to heat up our ‘delicious’ (her words not ours!) pancakes.
The bakers suggested “toasting them under a medium grill for about 2 minutes for each side” and what with them being the flippin experts, that’s what we all should do!
We are going to alter our packaging to include this nugget of information, so Thank You Sue!
