On 03/01/2017 07:38 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 02:33:30 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 02/28/2017 07:48 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:44:39 -0000, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/28/2017 4:09 AM, Bod wrote:
A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II.

In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for
President
of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the
revocation of your independence, effective immediately.


---------------
15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with
saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and
cakes;
plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!

I protest. I like my afternoon tea about 2:30 EST or 7:30 GMT

What an absolutely stupid and dangerous idea. Do you realise how
screwed up your stomach must be?


That's what the digestive biscuits are for... Come to think of it, I
haven't seen Peek Freans biscuits for a while. Hopefully when Trump
renegotiates NAFTA Canadian biscuits will be exempt from the tariff.

You have digestives all the way over there?


Peek Freans opened a plant in Canada that produces the traditional
British biscuits:

http://www.snackworks.ca/en/products/peekfreans

I don't know if it was because I grew up relatively close to the
Canadian border, but the brand was common on the supermarket shelves and
I liked the digestives. They may still be around but I haven't lingered
in the cookie aisle in a long time.

I don't think a US firm puts out something they call a digestive. Graham
cracker variations are close. Of course the modern graham cracker is a
long way from what Sylvester Graham, an early 19th century crank, had in
mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Graham

Kellogg was another nutter who probably would not appreciate the current
offerings that are 80% sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg