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Were 300 years of history actually made up? Believe? is a podcast about the world's craziest myths and conspiracy theories... or are they crazy? Each episode comedians Phil Green and David Ferguson invite a guest to pick their favourite myth or conspiracy and then try to prove it, debunk it, or neither as they don't really know anything. In this episode we're joined by comedian and musician Katie Pritchard to discuss theory 3 influential historical figures changed calendar dates to skip forward 300yrs in one of our maddest and most musical episodes ever! Other important topics covered are Gregg's Steak Bakes, the largest Jaffa Cake in the world and the weirdest thing at the British Museum.Come see out London live shows on 15th June tickets hereJoin our patreon for extra episodes every week https://www.patreon.com/believepod. This week's patreon episode is The Pixar Conspiracy.Follow us on Insta @believepodFollow us on TikTok @believepodWatch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjuo0VrCkERhsntEG_IDjNwEmail us believeconspiracypod@gmail.comFollow Katie @katiepritchardsFollow Phil @philgreencomedyFollow David @lovedavidfergusonSee Phil's live shows https://linktr.ee/philgreencomedySee David's live shows https://linktr.ee/lovedavidfergus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Four songs, three shows, two full EdFringe musicals on YouTube, one discussion but not quite yet a partridge in a pear tree.  Instead, Colm and Thos discuss a disturbing trend at the 2024 EdFringe relating to straw men and amoral behaviour, before turning their attention to three rather impressive new musicals - Crispr! The Gene Editing Musical, A Jaffa Cake the Musical and the Wellbrick Centre on Roswell Drive in an episode so delicious, you'll wonder why you don't eat it with a fork!  

Biscuit or Cake? The JAM Pots settle the age-long Jaffa Cake debate while discussing YA Thriller Lie or Die, by A. J. Clack.

DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Scientifically proved - a Jaffa Cake is a CAKE! Space + Cowboys = win/win Van Life with PCBs A Tramp's Den Soul Sonic Force Yo Yo Get Funky A head full of tumbleweed NEXT SHOW'S GAME: Spelunker (Irem / Broderbund 1985) ROM: spelunkr LIVES: 3 (default) ENERGY DECREASE: Slow (default) GET YOUR SCORES IN BY SATURDAY 14th DECEMBER 17:00 UK TIME. TWITTER (X) #10pScore SIDEKICK APP in the Ten Pence Club Section EMAIL: Biscuits@tenpencearcade.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tenpencearcade/ (as a comment on the podcast post) UKVAC on the podcast feed thread NO submissions from consoles or computer compilations, as they may be different. The only exception to this is the Evercade, which uses arcade ROMS. My personal links Shaun: https://linktr.ee/shaunholley Al's Arcade YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@Alsarcade Shaun's Arcade YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ShaunsArcade Victor's latest Substacks https://virtvicstinkerings.substack.com/p/retrospective-retro https://virtvicstinkerings.substack.com/p/how-can-i-play-my-sooooper-tv-boy Podcast List 01-199 https://www.tenpencearcade.com/p/old-podcasts-list/ Forgotten Worlds Game Shop Glasgow https://www.facebook.com/groups/3235031479917376/?locale=en_GB Thunder Blaster - Irem https://youtu.be/j_mw9y4PUr8?si=dmbJRpdzDiNz3Iw6 Amazing Donkey Kong remake for un-modded ZX Spectrum https://youtu.be/azNUWPUSvQk?si=N5JGTdu6CebN6j3T Demon Front Strategy - lot's of great stuff here https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=71560 Salt and Shake crisps are potato crisps that come with a separate packet of salt so you can adjust the saltiness to your taste. https://museumofcrisps.com/2020/07/31/first-commercial-crisp-salt-n-shake/ @RR_Arcade is Retro Replay Games In Norwich https://www.retro-replay.games/ Wing Chun, here's a list of clubs here http://kwokwingchun.com/clubs/map/ IGS PGM PCBs https://igspgm.com/fluffys/index.htm

Send us a textWe're back, so grab a cup of tea, coffee or your favourite beverage and be prepared to listen to two guys put the world of biscuits to rights in this epicode of Smack Talk City.We have it all, Pink Wafers, Cookies and crack open the one question that keeps coming round, is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit or a cake?Also what would win in a dunk showdown, the hobnob or party ring?Listen if you want, don't if you don't, we give zero fucks #smacktalkcity

Meet Will, who has worked in the industry since before the Hob Nob was invented. In fact, he almost vetoed the name 'Hob Nob' before it was released. In this episode you will discover who writes the joke on a Penguin bar, Joe's very strange way of eating a chocolate digesting, and a phenomenal story including a lawsuit and a two-foot Jaffa Cake. There is also a major break through, as 'Things People Dunk' is born... Come and see us live at The Clapham Grand on 3rd December! Tickets here: https://dice.fm/event/533vok-joe-marler-presents-things-people-did-3rd-dec-the-clapham-grand-london-tickets To get in touch with us, email joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk If you would like to be a guest on the show, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rfSo3PVJgtBRZHCCAZndem-iyy2EdvGcEYDqycsM2aQ/viewform To get ad-free and longer episodes on Apple, hit the 'grow the show' button or click: https://apple.co/3sAX0xR On Spotify you can subscribe for £1 a week by clicking this link: https://anchor.fm/thingspeopledo To become an official sponsor, go to Patreon.com/thingspeopledo To grow the show on socials, look for @thingspeoplepod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok If you'd like to enquire about commercial partnerships with our podcast, email Ryan Bailey ryanb@crowdnetwork.co.uk Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weedgate latest on Cushag / Ragwort / St John's wort, this evening's Summerland Fire 51st Anniversary vigil, Odin's Raven arrives in 1979 & the many flavours of Jaffa cake. It's Mannin Line with Andy Wint #iom #manninline #manxradio

The paranormal comedy podcast where we probe George Wheeler's 1976 sighting of something in the sky. What? It's not entirely clear on first analysis actually. On second analysis, it was a flying saucer. On third, a Jaffa Cake. On fourth, the moon. Nobody can be sure until we pop the lid off this one and see what's going on with that dangly bit… All that and more on this episode.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram/Threads @ ButItWasAliens Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers

Dan, Tim, Sam and Billie discuss everything about Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace, including the goals from Heung Min Son, Cristian Romero and Timo Werner.Tim also tries a Jaffa Cake for the first time...

Mark is joined by Journalist and Author Susie Boniface, along with Elliot Steel, as he tries to make sense of the UK nuclear test veterans' campaign for justice and the disastrous "Willy Wonka Experience" in Glasgow George Galloway is in full flow at a debate in St George's Church, Liz Truss teaches us how to boil an egg properly and again we're delighted to have an extract from the post-Brexit diaries of Britain's most patriotic man, Nigel Boulevard If you want to get extended interviews, ad free episodes, extra sketches and an opportunity to ask Mark what the f*** is going on?? then sign up to our patreon for as little as £2 a month  https://www.patreon.com/wtfisgoingonpod   Follow What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel on Twitter @wtfisgoingonpod   Follow Susie on twitter/x @fleetstreetfox AND To get involved with the Susie's Jaffa Cake challenge all information can be found here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/jaffa-cake-challenge   Follow Elliot Steel @elliotsteelcom and his podcast @BtecPhilosoph   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

3, 2, 1 lift off! Have you ever wondered if animals could travel into space… or maybe you're interested in learning about the world's biggest Jaffa Cake? Well take a seat and come listen to Nazareth Studios where Krish and Aiden chat about some weird and wacky stories.

"I'm not American but I've got ears Clayton!". Clayton from 'Men Who Like Men Who Like Movies' podcast to discuss the book and film adaptation of Red, White and Royal Blue (2023). Warning: Please be aware that this podcast contains discussions of adult themes, including sexuality and depictions of intimacy on-screen. Discussion Points: -Sean introduces the "WTF America" and "Oh Dear Me England" segments. -Issues with book-to-film adaptations. -Uma Thurman commits. -Clayton is delighted by Sean's attempt to keep the discussion politically neutral. -Clayton thinks that the screen-writers for the film didn't understand the book. -The cutting of June as a character and the depiction of Bea in the film. -The differences between the rating of the film in America as opposed to the United Kingdom. -Cornetto's, crumpets and beans on toast. -Clayton doesn't know what Jaffa Cakes are and Sean struggles to describe them. -Sean tries to explain why we love The Great British Bake Off. -Clayton asks Sean about the Royal Family. -All cookies are biscuits, but not all biscuits are cookies. Raised Questions: -Why are loads of podcasts reviewing this film? -Why is Shawn (Clayton's co-host) sat in the dark? -Who does the worst Texas accent, Sean or Uma Thurman? -Why did they keep the parents together in the film, rather than divorced like in the book? -Is the film too 'cute'? -Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? -What was kind of pie did Clayton's parents have? -What's the deal with Maypoles? -Will this film become outdated very, very quickly? -Was Queen Victoria amused? -Did you know Renee Zellweger was Texan? Thanks for Listening! Apologies for some of the sound quality on Sean's side, he was struggling with a heavy cold during recording. Trailer: FilmFloggers www.filmfloggers.com Review It Yourself now has a Patreon! Find us here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/review_it_yourself21 Twitter: @YourselfReview Instagram: reviewityourselfpodcast2021

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2022 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the first digital benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends July 31st 2023. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.  Show references:  https://www.alnwickgarden.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianjmcallister/https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-05-24/worlds-biggest-play-park-set-to-open Ian McAllister is the Strategic Head of Marketing and Communications at The Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei.  His route into attraction marketing wasn't an obvious one – from not joining the RAF (based mainly on eyesight and petulance) he dabbled in recruitment ( based mainly on proximity to his flat) then television (based mainly on flatmate work envy).  He manages a team of marketers who deliver all marketing, PR and communications to these two attractions based in Northumberland. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip The Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode I speak with Ian McAllister, Strategic Head of Marketing and Communications at The Alnwick Garden.Ian shares with us the magical story behind Lilidorei, logistics of creating a play structure over 26 meters tall, snot ice cream, free Fridays and the impact this will have on the local area and children. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Kelly Molson: Ian, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast today. Thank you for coming to join me. Ian McAllister: No problem. Kelly Molson: Let's start with some icebreakers, shall we? Ian and I, we had a little pre podcast chat a few weeks ago and we established that we're both from sunny old Essex. This could end up quite messy, really, couldn't it? Because I tend to whenever I'm speaking to my Essex kinfolk, my accent goes, very Essex. This might get messy. Ian McAllister: The good thing is, living up here, people don't know my real accent, but once they hear that, I'm sure that it'll come out. Kelly Molson: They will after this, Ian. Right, okay, icebreakers. I want to know, topical, what's the worst Essex nightclub that you've ever been in? Ian McAllister: Tots, Southend. But it was so bad that I used to go every Friday. It was bad for the sticky floors and for the people that were there and for the music they played and everything about it was terrible. But every Friday I would still go up there. I don't know why.Kelly Molson: So bad. It's so good. I can remember driving there from my part of Essex and going out Tots. Someone broke my big toe into Tots. Literally, like, stamped on my big toe and broke it. Ian McAllister: Do you remember? There was a place called Ritzes, which I think was in Romford, and went there one night, and this was back in the day, where people thought if you were wearing trainers, you were going to cause trouble, so you weren't allowed to wear trainers. And a mate of mine, Paul Mayo. I had two good friends in Essex, Paul Mayo and Ross Gherkin, so they were the three of us. But Paul Mayo went up to the club and they wouldn't let me say trainers. So he left the queue and went around the corner, took his shoes off and took his black socks off, put his trainers back on and his black socks over his trainers, and they just let him straight in. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: Yeah. Which made Moonwalking brilliant, because he had a really good sock that he could moonwalk across the dance floor. Kelly Molson: That is ridiculous. That's ridiculous. So sorry, we just need to go back to your friend's names as well. Mayo and Gherkin. Are you joking? Ian McAllister: Mayo and Gherkin? No. So, I mean, I was always Mac. So I was always Ian Mac. Then there was Mayo and Gherkin. So they were the three of us that used to kick around together in Essex. Kelly Molson: That is chaos already. Ian McAllister: There you go. Opening question. Kelly Molson: This is an ethics thing as well, right? Everybody has nicknames, don't they? You know the Gavin and Stacy thing, where you got Smithy and what? Chinese Allen. That's the thing. That is so Essex, it's ridiculous. Ian McAllister: My nickname for ages was I wasn't a good looking chap growing up. And I had a brace, a demi wave, and I had these big reactor like glasses and I don't know if you've ever seen the National Lampoons European vacation, but the sun was called Rusty Grizzwald. So my friend Gary decided that I was just called Rusty, so he still calls me it to this day. So I'm still just Rusty. Kelly Molson: Oh, God, that's so weird, because my next question was going to be, if you ever been told you look like someone famous, who was it? Ian McAllister: Yeah, but that's not a positive thing. Kelly Molson: No. I wasn't expecting Rusty from National Lampoons to come up. Ian McAllister: I mean, lots of people to try and compare themselves to you, like some Brad Pitt and George Clooney, whereas I'm going for 15 year old Rusty Grizzled. Kelly Molson: Humble. I think that's quite humble, isn't it? Right, final one. I feel like the ice is well and truly broken, melted. What is your best scar story? Ian McAllister: My best scar story is a very recent one. Last year on New Year's Day, I took the kids for a lovely walk to our local woods with the dog. And me being me, I challenged them both to climb a tree. And it was a tree that was like one of these trees that's too good not to climb, do you know what I mean? It was really big branches and big trunk. So I've got twins, 14 year old twins, a boy and a girl. So my daughter was like a whippet and she went up the tree and then my son, with a bit of encouragement, went up the tree and he got his foot wedged in, like the V of the branch, about seven and a half, eight foot up, so he couldn't get out. Ian McAllister: So I climbed up behind him and I held onto a branch either side of him. I said, "Right, all you got to do is just wiggle your foot a little bit". So he obviously didn't hear a word I said. He yanked his foot out, so we both fell out the tree. So I grabbed onto him and he landed on me. And as he landed, I heard ankle snap. So I'm at the top of a woods, probably a mile into the woods. So the kids that week before have been at Scouts and they learned about what three words. So we had to phone an ambulance and they did the what three words and this, that and the other. Ian McAllister: So the ambulance had to then he couldn't drive, so you had to push the stretcher for a mile, pretty much up an incline to get to me. Had to take a breather because it was so far up, put me on the stretcher, but then the ambulance had to drop, so it's just me and the kids that live here with the dog. So the ambulance then had to drop the dog and my kids at my house before they took me to hospital. So turned out I completely broken my ankle, so I had to go for an operation. And I had a metal plate pulse, ligament and wiring all around my ankle. Ian McAllister: So I've got a treat of a scar on my ankle that they also cut through two nerves, so I also can't feel from a nerve down from the little toe, from a knee down to the little toe at the minute. Kelly Molson: I feel like we're going to have to put a warning on this podcast episode, if anyone's like a slightly queasy disposition. Wow. I was not expecting that. Ian McAllister: Yeah, it's a lovely story, isn't it? I think I've learned the lesson. I made a blue plaque on photoshop about Ian fell here and I went back to the tree afterwards and pinned it on the tree. Kelly Molson: It's a special moment. Ian McAllister: That tree will always be in my memory. Kelly Molson: But well done, your children, on learning the skills to get you out of a very tricky situation. Ian McAllister: Yeah, it was great, but they loved it because they got riding an ambulance, so their Snapchat stories were filled up that day with pictures of them and the dog in an ambulance on a muddy New Year's Day. Kelly Molson: Great story. Thank you for sharing. I feel like we've started the podcast on high. Ian McAllister: We can't really go any lower than this, can we? Kelly Molson: Not really, no. Your unpopular opinion, Ian. I dread to think what this might be. Ian McAllister: Had a few and I was trying to think which one would upset the least people. So I had a few. I was trying to think which one upset the least people. So this one's cake. And I hate cake. And I've always hated cake, really dislike cake. And I think people say to me, "what is it you don't like about cake?". And I think I've narrowed it down to the taste, the texture, the smell and the look. Because just everything about a cake, I don't like. So when it comes to birthdays, the kids obviously get me a birthday cake because they can eat it themselves, but I just don't like cake. I've got a bit of a funny not so much now, but I had a funny food thing. I'm sorry in advance. I didn't eat yellow food for about six months. Ian McAllister: It was anything yellow, even to the point where if I got a packet of M&Ms, I wouldn't eat the yellow ones. Kelly Molson: Can I just ask what age you were? Was this 30? Ian McAllister: Probably worse than that? It's about 35. Like my late 30s. Genuinely, genuinely developed an aversion to yellow food. So my friend Steven, who's head of HR at work, he went through a phase of thinking to try and reeducate me. So every Friday he'd go through Steven's adventures in food. It was all the food that I probably should have eaten by the time I was, like, 40 years and hadn't. So things like sushi or porridge. Every Friday he'd bring in something and it would be a chart, like a reward chart. And he'd put a little sticker on if I liked it or didn't like it. Just because people don't know I'm a 47 year old man with two children. Kelly Molson: Oh, God. And have you eaten a banana since? That's what I need to know. Ian McAllister: Yeah, since I started re eating yellow food, I'm all over it. I like a banana, like a bit of pineapple. Cheese is great. We just have the argument because people would say to me, and this was my bugbear, and they get really irritated with this. It's a what about chips? Chips aren't yellow. They're like a beige. So chips were allowed. Kelly Molson: Okay. And pasta as well. They're all in the beige category rather than yellow. Okay. Ian McAllister: Yeah. So can you imagine presenting me with a yellow cake? Yellow cake? That'd be my idea of h***. Kelly Molson: That's your worst nightmare, isn't it? Jaffa Cake. How do you sit about that? Is that a cake or a biscuit? Ian McAllister: But food of choice would always be a chocolate hobnob. No question. Kelly Molson: Great biscuit. Yeah. In the fridge. Ian McAllister: Great biscuit. Crunch. Good for the dunk. Always in the fridge, yeah. Chocolate. What do you think about this chocolate? Does it live in your cupboard or in your fridge? Kelly Molson: Fridge. I like a crunch. I like it to go crunch and then I like that it then melts in your mouth. It's like two different sensations in one. People will argue about this. This is not an unpopular popular opinion, by the way, but people will not be happy about this at all. Ian McAllister: No, but I mean, the people that aren't happy with it are wrong. Kelly Molson: They are. Agreed. Oh, my goodness, what a start for this podcast. Okay, how did an Essex boy end up in Northumberland? Tell me a little bit about your background, because you're not from attractions background at all, are you? You come from a completely different sector. Ian McAllister: Yeah, when I got married, which since divorced, but when I got married, my best man suggested it was witness protection. That's what kind of brought me 350 miles north. But the fact was I was working, I'm from Essex, as we've previously mentioned, and I then went to university in Surrey. I went to Kingston and I was working just locally, really, just in pubs and clubs. And I went downstairs to my flat and it was a redeployment, so I thought, it's time to get a proper job. And it was literally under my flat and I ended up working there, mainly because it was under my flat and it took about 10 seconds to commute to it. So I spent a bit of time in recruitment and at the time I was living with two flatmates weirdly, both called Marcus. Ian McAllister: So Marcus One and Marcus Two both worked in TV. One worked, I think Channel Five and One was a BBC or ITV. And I kept telling how good their jobs were and how great their life was, and I thought, "Well, you know what, can't beat them, got to join them". So I did actually beat them. So I wrote to MTV with a really cocky letter saying how much it be their big mistake if they didn't recruit me and this and the other. So I went in for my interview and the guy said, I've got you in because you're either really good or really cocky. And I don't know which one it is. So eventually they gave me a job. So I worked in media in London and I think I was there for two years. Ian McAllister: I just got sick of the rat race and it was just the commute to London. It was an hour each way and I was fed up of it, and I was fed up with the people and I was fed up of the busyness. And I met my then wife, who is from up here, but she had a flat in Edinburgh. I just thought, "You know what, I've got no real commitments down here". I don't have any kids or pets or any of that sort of stuff. So I just chose to order and we moved to Edinburgh and I kind of flipped around in recruitment and odds and ends, moved to the north and set up a property company. So were renting properties to students. Ian McAllister: Then I went to work for a marketing company and then I ended up working where I do now, The Alnwick Garden part time doing marketing and then just kind of worked my way up from there. I couldn't remember what the question was. Was it your background? Kelly Molson: Yeah, you answered it well. Yeah. Well done. Ian McAllister: Thanks. Definitely didn't come from tourism, but I kind of came from marketing kind of sales. And I think I've always been one of these people that might be clear by now that could just talk. Kelly Molson: That's coming across. Definitely getting that on this episode. But I like that you sound like someone who makes their own opportunities in life, which I like. You just go out and get what you want and what's going to fit for you. Tell us a little bit about Alnwick Garden because we're going to talk a little bit about something attached to Alnwick Garden. But Alnwick Gardens itself is quite spectacular. Think it dates back is it 1996? It dates back to is that when. Ian McAllister: It was originally about 1890s. We can date it back to. So it was the original garden kitchen garden for the Alnwick Castle. So it was throughout the two World Wars, it was what fed all the local farmers and the local community and this, that and the other. So come the 90s is when the Duchess of Northumberland, who lives in the castle, was married to the Duke. That's when she took it on as a bit of a project. And she got in some designers from, I think Belgium called Vertz Design. So it's a Vertz design garden and she took it over as a garden and she always wanted it to be she always said it was going to be a stage for people to do whatever they want in, so we can put on events. Ian McAllister: We've had random things, like we've had mixed martial arts in the garden and then we've had Peppa Pig characters coming in. So it's a real variety of things that we do in the garden. But, yeah, so it's been open for 20 odd years now. We're a charity, so we're just about celebrating the 20th year of becoming a charity. So, yeah, the Alnwick Garden itself is a garden, as you'd expect. It's got world's largest Taihaku cherry orchard outside of Japan, got Poison Garden, it's got the world's largest treehouse, which is a restaurant. It's got all these kind of unusual things that you wouldn't necessarily put in, like an RHS garden or a queue garden type place. And it's a great big open space that we market, people come and we do weird events in. Kelly Molson: So it's quite special in its own right, isn't it? But then, about twelve years ago, Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, she had another idea, didn't she? And that's what we're going to talk about today. Do you all get a little bit worried when she says, "I've got this idea?". Because this one's been a pretty mental one, hasn't it? Spectacularly mental one. Ian McAllister: Yeah. It's kind of that first glimmer of, "Oh, God, what's it going to be now with the backup of the thing is that when she has an idea, she sees it through". And I say this, I know a lot of people chuck this phrase around loosely, and I don't mean it this at all. She's a visionary, because she has these completely off the wall ideas, but has then got the determination and the team behind her to actually see them through. So the new project being the biggie, which has been years in the making and years in the planning, and I'm sure do you want to introduce it or do you want me to say what it is? Kelly Molson: Well, what do you do it. The world's biggest children's play park. Ian McAllister: Yeah. So it's called Lilidorei, which every single thing in it is from her head. And she's got this really creative outlook on life, and she's then pulls in the right people to kind of bring them to life. So she imagined this place where kids could just be away from technology, where they could play and actually play like we used to when were little. And we'd go out making dens and kind of making up our own stories. And it's called Lilidorei,. So the concept of the place is that it's a Lilidorei, village and there's nine clans that live in this village and all of the clans worship Christmas. So you've got good clans and you've got bad clans. Ian McAllister: And it's weird talking about this in a normal way now, and I've seen construction staff talk about this, and it feels weird to be saying things like the elves and the fairies and the pixies. But it got to the point when were building where you'd see the big construction workers and the joiners fags in their mouth, talking about pixies houses and fairies and elves. But the concept is that some of the clans are really good, like the fairies and the pixies, and then some are a bit more troublesome, like the goblins and the hobgoblins and the trolls. But at Christmas time, they all come together to worship Christmas. So whilst it's Christmas themed, it's not Christmas all year, apart from the gift shop, which is fully Christmas at every time. Ian McAllister: They can buy a ball tomorrow if you want, but we've also got the world's largest play structure. So the place structure was built by a company called MONSTROM, who are based in Denmark. And it's one of these things that's got to be seen to believed, which makes marketing it quite tricky because you can't really feel it until you stood underneath it. But local landmark, the angel of the north, is always a good point of reference. So our play structure is 6 meters taller than the angel of the north. And there's a slide from the top, so it's a 26 meters high structure and there's a slide that comes from 20 meters up. Ian McAllister: But to get to this slide, you go around this really convoluted system of walkways and corridors and climbing up uncomfortable spaces and squeezing through things and climbing up nets, and that's just part of it. The rest of it is all these clan houses. So it's a really fascinating place. Kelly Molson: It's amazing, isn't it, that all of this came out of her head? So I watched the ITV, did a publication on your launch, which was it was only a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, that it opened? The presenter of the snippet, he went up the slide and came down it and he was talking it through and he was saying, 26 meters. And I was like, "Yeah, that's quite high, isn't it?". But you can't really grasp when someone says that. To me, I couldn't really kind of grasp what the height of 26 meters actually looked like. So when you said that comparison that you've just given about the angel of the north, that's really big. Ian McAllister: But there's no point. It's all enclosed. So, like, you've got open netting and this and other but there's nowhere that kids can actually fall off, if you like. So I think kids, it tests their bravery. It's handy for us from an insurance point of view, health and safety, certainly, but kids like, test themselves. So you'll see them start the session and they'll just be on the little swings at the bottom or on the little spinny mushrooms, and then by the end of the session, you see them at the top running around like it's no one's business, just testing bravery. I think that's the big thing. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I love the idea that it opens your imagination. You can be any part of that story. You've got that underlying story of the clans and that they worship Christmas, but then you make your own part of that story to go with it, and based on where you interact and where you go and where you climb or what houses you go into and all of those kind of things. It is pure magic, isn't it? Ian McAllister: It is. And we've got a team of people that work. They're called secret keepers. So they're sitting in their outfits and costumes, but they're really extravagantly dressed with feathers in their hats and all sorts. Their job is almost to facilitate the play. So it was almost a marketer's dream when I started off because we couldn't really talk about what it was because people didn't understand until it was built, couldn't see it. So I came up with a concept, which is the most lazy marketing you'll ever think of and the whole tagline which is carried through is, what's your story? So really what we're doing is we're encouraging people to make their own narrative and to make their own story, which saves me the job for a start, but also we don't want to dictate that. Ian McAllister: Well, that clan looks like this because you can't see the clans, you can see the houses and you can imagine how they are, but you can't actually see anything. So when you get there, it's all brought together by this immersive sound we've got. It's like a million quids worth of sound system for each clan. House has got its own immersive sound system that kind of gives you implications or ideas as to what that clan might be up to or what's happening inside the house. So you can look into their house window and you can see how it's all set up. So it kind of starts to build this picture and then the secret keepers are there to encourage that with the kids and, "What do you think they look like? And could you hear that sort of noise?". Ian McAllister: And it gives this underlying narrative for every kid that comes, is obviously going to leave with a different picture of what a particular clan or a particular circumstance is like. Kelly Molson: That's amazing. So you don't have the characters. They never see what the goblins look like, for instance. They have to make all of that upload in their own minds. Ian McAllister: Yeah, I mean, we've got this sort of narrative in the background. We've got an idea of what Duchess has imagined the Clans to look like or the Clans to do, or the Clans to kind of be like. But we never tell the kids this. It's all about provoking thought and provoking story. There was books that I used to read when I was a kid, and they would choose your own adventure books, and it was kind of you make your own adventure. So every even if one kid came to Lilidorei, five times, they might have a completely different experience each time just because of their imagination and the sort of stuff that the secret keepers have fed them, if you like. Kelly Molson: I love that. While we're talking about secret keepers, you've got ahead of Play, haven't you, Nathan? I don't know any other organisations or attractions that have got ahead of Play. How did that kind of come about? Ian McAllister: So to give me his full name, it's Nathan Bonk.Kelly Molson: Excellent name. Ian McAllister: Nathan Bonk, he's come over from America specifically to organise the play and the secret keepers and this. So that's his kind of creation, if you like, in conjunction with the Duchess. So he was meeting with the duchess virtually daily to make sure he's on the right lines, and she was happy with what he was doing, but to kind of put an extra element of weirdness into the story, which in case we haven't had enough weirdness in the podcast already in the Garden going back two or three years, I'm friends with a guy called Stewart who's the reigning Mr. Gay World, and he's only reigning because they disbanded the competition after he finished it. So he kept title. He's kept that. So he got in touch to say that he wanted somewhere to host Mr. Gay England, which is like a pride initiative. Ian McAllister: And it's not just a catwalk, it's education and it's exams, and then the winner of it ends up representing the gay community to go to Parliament and lobby Parliament and speak in schools and this and the other. So I said, well, the best place, really, if you think of the most sort of unusual place that you could think of in a really rural town where there aren't many people of any persuasion, would be Alnwick. So we put it in the middle of the garden. The cat walks right down the middle of the garden, and we've rebranded that entire day, which we're doing again this year, Gay Day. So what we do is we have Gay Day, and it's everything. We've got market traders, LBTQ+ friendly market traders and face painters, and we do trails and all sorts of things. Ian McAllister: So anyway, last year we had Mr. Gay Europe and Nathan's friends with Stewart. So Nathan came over to help with the competition. Mr. Norway had COVID, so couldn't turn up. So there were one person short. So Nathan ended up weirdly representing America in the Mr. Gay Europe competition. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: If you get to know Nathan, as you'd understand, he's always got an outfit of two just stashed away just in case. So he came out with like, the short camouflage shorts and the face paint and waving the USA flag. Anyway, after Gay Day, he went home and he'd fallen in love with Alnwick. And it was just it wasn't New York. He lived like a six minute walk to Central Park. So it's totally different. But he fell in love with the place. And he sent me an email, a bit of a video explaining why love Alnwick and if there's any opportunities that came up, and this, that, and the other. And the only thing that popped in them ahead as soon as I saw his video was the head of play, and I just knew that he would be the person for this role. Kelly Molson: But was it a role that you were looking for or did you create. Ian McAllister: It for the role we discussed? We always discussed that we needed someone. It was going to be it's almost like a head of operations for Lillidorei, but that sounds far too boring. So we always knew there was going to be a role for somebody. I don't think we quite realised to the extent of how influential this role would be in creating the entire story and the entire visit. So Nathan, with his ideas, he's opened theme parks before. He's been in stunt performances in various theme parks. He opened, like, the Harry Potter experiences in Orlando. So he's done all this stuff already. But I remember he Zoom called me one morning. He said, you're never going to believe it. I've got an interview with the Duchess at lunchtime. Brilliant. So I gave him a few bit of background and what were working towards. Ian McAllister: About 2 hours later, he zoomed me back. He said, you're never going to believe it. I've got the job. They sort me out a house. I'm flying over next week, and I've got a tea at the castle with the Duchess. It's like every American film you've seen where they tried to represent England in a completely fictional way. He was living it. Kelly Molson: What a life. Wow. Ian McAllister: And that was it. And he's been here since. And he loves it. He's absolutely settled. He's incredible. He's got this team of amazing people who do things like juggling with Diablos and teaching kids that go on balance boards and hula hoops. Their job is to interact with everybody that comes in and just create the atmosphere. Kelly Molson: And that's what makes the place so special, isn't it? It's that interaction from the people and the encouragement of the ideas that the children have to explore them that makes it a magical place. Ian McAllister: It is. It's incredible to sit as a construction site. All of a sudden. And now to see 600, 700 kids running around each session screaming and laughing and coming out with ruddy faces and wet trousers, it's everything we wanted it to be come to life, a Kelly Molson: It sounds magic. And I've seen those faces, I've seen the kids faces on the ITV clip, which we'll put in the show notes, actually, so you can have a look at it if you haven't had a chance to go up there yet. I want to talk a little bit about, because you've said a few times now, Alnwick want to talk a little bit about, because you've said a few times now, Alnwick, it's relatively rural, a small community, there's not a huge amount going on there other than this spectacular Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei that's just launched. You offer Free Fridays. And I saw the Duchess talk about this. It's for local children, school children, to come for free on a Friday so they can experience what's happening there. What impact do you think that Lilidorei is going to have on the local community and the children there? Ian McAllister: I think so. Two elements to that, really, then, the creation of the attraction itself. We've always estimated roughly, or looking quite accurately, based on recent figures, that it's going to bring an extra 200,000 people a year into the area. And that's going to benefit, obviously, it's going to benefit us, it's going to benefit the Alnwick Garden Trust, it's going to benefit the Alnwick Castle, which is another attraction up the road. All the local restaurants, pubs, hotels, everyone's going to benefit because what we're hoping to do is turn AlnwickAll the local restaurants, pubs, hotels, everyone's going to benefit because what we're hoping to do is turn Alnwick into a multi day destination, so people won't just come for one of the things and go back to Newcastle, back to Edinburgh. They'll do it as a day trip. So we're hoping that it will really kind of drive the local economy. Ian McAllister: So in terms of local economic benefit, I think that's kind of nailed, really. The figures are already quite obvious. In terms of the Free Fridays, then you don't have to go that far out of Alnwick, particularly if you went to South Northumberland and there's quite a lot of people that are in all sorts of various situations. There's schools in different areas, there's kids that just would not be able to afford to come otherwise because it's comparable to other attractions. But it's still not a cheap day out, it's not three quid to go to the local soft play. So there's a lot of kids that the Duchess particularly just didn't think it was fair, wouldn't be able to experience it, hence Free Fridays. Ian McAllister: So the idea of Free Friday is that every school child in Northumberland, and then eventually, when we've kind of been running for a bit, we'll widen it to Tyne and Wear into Newcastle. But at the minute, every child in Northumberland should be able to experience Lillidorei without having to pay. So we've opened up this application process where local schools can apply to come to one of the sessions and that's for any Friday throughout the year. So already the mini uptake has been phenomenal and there's schools that you see that you think, you know, I know exactly what area that school is in and without making too many judgments, you know, that they just would not be able to afford to come, so we're giving them the opportunity to come. Ian McAllister: So that's part one of Free Fridays, which is well underway at the minute, and I think we're almost booked up for the rest of the next twelve months with Fridays. Kelly Molson: That's amazing. Ian McAllister: But the next part is that the Duchess is to now do other initiatives to try and put money into a ring fenced account. So then eventually when that account builds up, we'll also be able to start to subsidise travel. So if you've got a school that's an hour's journey away, hopefully this pot of money, they can apply to it to pay for their hiring of a school coach or a minibus or whatever it's going to be to actually bring the kids up. So it's an entirely free day and there's different things like she's doing private tours, we're doing packages where you can have a nice meal at the treehouse and then come into Lilidorei afterwards. So like I say, that's all going to be ring fence specifically for transport from Free Fridays. Kelly Molson: That's incredible. What an opportunity. And like you say, for the kids that just would not have that opportunity to be able to go and experience it. It's just such a wonderful thing to be able to do. Ian McAllister: It is, it's incredible. And I think a lot of the feedback we saw before we opened, because again, as I say, it was quite hard to explain the concept of it and what you actually got for your 15 quid entry fee. So a lot of people say you've outpriced us and we can't afford it and this, that and the other. And that's why it was really good to then say, "Look, if you want to bring your kids, just tell your kids to speak to their teacher and get the teacher to speak to us and we can facilitate them for free". So it's making a difference already. It's incredible. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I guess then it's about selling what that 15 pounds gets you the benefits of that 15 pounds. Yes, it's a relatively higher price point, but you start to break it down about the experience that they get there and the magic that can actually happen that they can't get anywhere else, and then it starts to become slightly more appealing purchase.  You can stay there for quite a long time, right? You've got that dwell time as well. So when you work it out, cost per hour, it actually seemed quite reasonable. Ian McAllister: And I think having two kids myself, I think what am I going to compare this to? So you can't compare it to going to local council run park because it's nowhere near the same, it's not just a climbing frame. And then I think, "Well, what else would I do for the kids for that time period on a Saturday if we're bored?" Probably get the cinema. So the cinema is going to be 1520 quid to get in. And then, sweetness, you got 2 hours of sitting in silence watching a film and then you come out, go home and that's done. Ian McAllister: So to compare it to that, to Lilidorei, you've got a three hour session where you can come in, whole family can interact and it's running free and it's fresh air, I mean, it's not fumbling, it's always fresh air and by fresh I mean probably freezing most of the time. But you've got this it's a completely different experience and I think where people were just looking at it as it's a climbing frame, well, I could just go up the park. So it's trying to explain to people that it is different and yeah, it doesn't work out a really cheap day if you've got two parents and three kids, for example. But what we have done, we've introduced, and we're going to look at this after some holidays, we introduced the founder Lilidorei membership. Ian McAllister: My idea with this is always it's got to be for the child focused. So it's the child that has the membership. So little Johnny could have a membership for him and an adult, or him and two adults, and that means they could bring in mum and dad or they could bring in Nanny Granddad or they could bring in whoever they want. But it's always for me been the child that dictates this whole thing. So we always say that well behaved adults can come in with a responsible child. So we've kind of flipped the narrative a little bit there. And in terms of the membership itself, I used to read the Beano when I was a kid and the only thing I ever wanted grown up was Dennis the Menace fan club membership. Ian McAllister: And with that it cut a wallet, a membership card and a badge. And so for me, Lilidorei membership, you get a wallet, a card and a badge. So all these founder lidorians walk around proudly displaying their badge because there was a limited number of to be the very first people to be these members. But it's empowering the kids. The adults are allowed to come if the kid says they can come. I almost wanted to wake up on a Saturday morning and the child go, "Right, mom, you've been good, you can come with me. Dad, you got to wash the car and do the dishes". Kelly Molson: I love that. I love that giving them the choice of who they take and to take Granny as well. Yeah, it's a really good point about the memberships, isn't it? Because it is generally tied to the adult and the children that they have. But I love that you've empowered the kids to make that choice. Yeah. So you've got to be the kid. The parents have to be good all week. Ian McAllister: Exactly. That's to end the story points.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Well, we're going back to your food eating and your little sticker chart, aren't we? That's what you need. There you go. Sell that in the shop for the adults to buy their sticker reward chart, whether they get to come back or not on the next visit. Ian McAllister: That's a great idea, talking to the shop, actually, just briefly, because you may. Kelly Molson: Segue listen, I'm on fire today, Ian. Segue into the shop. Ian McAllister: My good friend Matthew Henderson, who anyone who listens to podcast will have heard him before. He has been incredible. He's been absolutely amazing. It was him that put you and I in touch in the first place. We bought him in to get the shop ready. And to say it's shop ready is the biggest understatement of the century, because I've never seen anything like it. The people that work in retail, a retail manager, Tracy, to coin a phrase, and not sound corny, it's like all the Christmases have come at once, because she's always wanted this shop that she's proud of, that she's selling things that she believes in. It's all been sourced specifically for her. And Matt has done just what a job. It's incredible. Kelly Molson: He is such a great guy, Matt. So Matthew came on our podcast. It was only a few episodes away, actually, ago, actually, and Matt used to work at Beamish and now he's out on his own. He's a consultant now and helps lots of attractions work out their special offering, the uniqueness when it comes to products. And I have seen a photograph of the shop and, oh, my God, it looks like an attraction in itself. It looks like something you'd pay to go visit in itself, like a Santa's Grotte or say. It's just incredible. Ian McAllister: It's phenomenal. And he was also fundamental in helping us with all the food and stuff that we're doing across site, but mainly in there. You know about the ice creams? Kelly Molson: I know about the ice cream. Tell us. Ian McAllister: So there's three flavours. I mean, you've got a vanilla, but then you've got the other obvious choices. You've got Troll Snot ice cream and you've got fairy dust ice cream. So fairy dust is like a raspberry ripple with popping candy. And Troll Snot is pure bright green, but it's sour apple, which sounds vile, but it's actually really nice. But I've got pictures of him with a hair net at the ice cream facility, which I keep telling him should be his next Tinder profile. He's got so involved in it, he's been instrumental in the whole thing. I don't think we'd be anywhere near where we are now without Matthew. Kelly Molson: Oh, wow. Well, that is a massive compliment to Matthew in itself, isn't it? No, he's a great guy. And I think it's something that sometimes gets a bit overlooked when it comes to shop. And you often go to places and you see the same things. Exit through the gift shop, you see the same things, and it genuinely just feels like, and I can only say this from the photos, but it just feels like you're stepping into such a magical world as an extension of the magical world that you've just come out of. Ian McAllister: It really is. It's surreal because on Press Day, we had a launch day a couple of weeks ago, it was so hot. It was a beautiful day. I clearly have the sunglasses on all day, caught a nice tan. Apart from the work stuff, it was a really nice day. But then you do, you exit into the shop and it's like you've already sudden fast forwarded six months and you're in the middle of Christmas. There's Christmas trees and candy canes and balls, not to mention the ridiculous amount of old fashioned sweet jars with trolls fingers and different fudges. And it is surreal because then you've had this 20 minutes Christmas experience in the shop and then you're back into 24 degree heat again. It's bizarre. Kelly Molson: You opened on was it the 25th of May? Is that your opening day? Ian McAllister: Yeah. So a couple of days before half term, were supposed to have a lot more testing than we had, but because of construction issues, we ended up with two testing days. We were supposed to have at least a month or two months testing, but we had to literally do it all in two days. So we opened a VIP date and then we opened for the public on the Thursday. We would never have predicted this, the Thursday Friday, and then the full half term, every single slot was sold out to the point where after a couple of days, we made a judgment call to up capacity and then we upped it again. And it's been full, absolutely full. Kelly Molson: And have you kept that capacity as well? Ian McAllister: Because I think we didn't want the risk of opening, saying, right, we're going to get 800 kids in per session, and then all of a sudden there's 800 people trying to go down a slide. So we didn't want to ruin the visitors experience with queues and with too many people and crowds and this and the other. So we opened with 300 capacity, which was, I mean, once 300 people are on the play structure, you kind of see it. It's like you can't hear them, you can't see them, they've just vanished like ants. So we upped it to five and we're looking at up in it again to, I think, 750. We're going to maybe try and push it up to for some holidays. Kelly Molson: Gosh, that's incredible. So safe to say that it's been a successful launch, then. Ian McAllister: You know what, we couldn't have asked for more. We've had the weather, we've had the publicity. Everything has been going so well. It's been a really positive experience. It was touch and go for a bit where we're all sort of walking around a few days before launch. S***, there's a bump there. There's a thing here. And the construction team, I've never seen anyone react like it like the lighting team would pretty much work until 04:00 in the morning. So they'd work all day. But then they'd want to test their lights so they'd have to wait until it got dark. But then they'd work all night till 04:00 the next morning, go home for a few hours kip and then come back again. Ian McAllister: And we've got a big thank you party tonight at Lilidorei to thank all of the staff, volunteers and construction team for everything they've done to a few hundred people coming tonight. And it's been overwhelming how everybody's got involved, even contractors that might be there for a week doing something. It's been almost like a pride project for them. Kelly Molson: It's amazing. Well, but that shines through in what you've created, right? Everybody that's touched it has taken some kind of ownership of it. What a lovely thing to do. Just throw the party as well to say thank you. It's June now. The story behind Lilidorei obviously involves Christmas. I'm really intrigued as to what you might have planned for Christmas. Are you allowed to talk about any of that yet or is it embargoed? Ian McAllister: I can talk about it a little bit because I've seen it. So we had a sneak peek. So for the last two years, we've been followed around by MGM who have been filming the documentary for Channel Four. So Channel Four documentary goes out, I think, August. So there's a six part Saturday night documentary going out all about the Duchess. It's called The Duchess, but it's all about her leading up to this project. So their last filming day was VIP press day. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: About three days before that, we had a preview one night at 10:00. We would like to go onto site to get a preview of Christmas. I don't even think I can come up with the words. And I'm quite good with words. I can't even put together a sentence that explains quite how magical it is. It's just the lights, the sounds, the atmosphere. And this was a summer's night at 10:00, so I can't even think what it would be like when it is actually Christmas. And we've got three Santa's grottos. To talk, you kind of back a little bit.  Ian McAllister: You've probably seen the picture of the big Lilidorei entrance gate. So when you get to the gate, you've got sounds. You've got a troll talking to a pixie and who wants pixie, wants to let us in and the troll won't let her. So you stand there and you can hear this immersive sound and they won't open the gate. So what you have to do is kind of find a way around and go through a hidden tunnel. At Christmas, those gates will open and it's like, all of a sudden, Christmas is there. So you come in, every Christmas tree is going to be lit, and bear in mind, we've got 1400 Christmas trees. Every Christmas trees got fairy lights in. The atmosphere was just phenomenal. It sounds like a cop out, but it's got to be seen to believed. Kelly Molson: Well, I look forward to that, because that sounds right up my street. Ian McAllister: You know, you're welcome. You're more than welcome. I'll even treat you to some troll snot ice cream. Kelly Molson: How could I possibly say no to that? Ian McAllister: It's the Essex charm, isn't it? Kelly Molson: Just wins me over every time Ian, thank you for coming on. So we always ask our guests to recommend a book at the end of a podcast. What have you got for us today? Ian McAllister: And it was post, COVID I read it and someone had recommended it. So I went and bought a copy and it's got to the point now where I've probably funded about 90% of the book sales because I'll keep buying copies and saying to someone, you love this, I've given them a copy and it's The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Have you read it? Kelly Molson: Yeah. Great book. Ian McAllister: For me, I think I am where I am now and my career path, my life path, everything was based on decisions and sometimes it's easy to sit and think, that's a bad decision. If I hadn't made that decision, I'd be much happier now. And The Midnight Library, for anyone who hasn't read it, is all about going back and retrospectively looking at your decisions that you've made in life and you get a glimpse of where that decision took you. And I think for me, what it did was instead of me constantly going back, not depressed or anything, but you kind of sit and dwell sometimes instead of thinking well. Ian McAllister: So, for example, I nearly joined the RAF when I was 17 and I wanted to be military police, but because I've got terrible eyesight, they said, well, we can't give you a gun because you probably shoot the wrong person. So they offered me dentistry. So, looking at the time, I was typical Essex. Toys were out, the pram, I'm not doing this, I don't want to do it. So I went to uni and did all that stuff. But I often think back, I think, you know what? If I'd have gone in the RFN and had paid to train me as a dentist and I've done the service, I could have come out and sat me in dental practice and this, that and the other.Ian McAllister: And I often think, would I be happier had I done that and done that as a career path and been a professional, if you like, because I still don't consider myself a professional. But then this book almost made me reframe that a little bit and think, you know what, I might not have done that. I might have hated it or something else would have changed and I wouldn't have had my beautiful children, I'm a stupid dog, or wouldn't have any of that sort of stuff now if I'd have taken that career path. So in a nutshell, for me, The Midnight Library is a really good read. It's quite an easy read, I found, because I was really invested in it, but it made me reframe a little bit. Kelly Molson: Yeah, it's a great book. I've read it a couple of times now and similar to you, it's made me look back at not so much choices but events that have happened to us. Me and my partner, we've had a load of people this is quite public knowledge, we've had a load of trouble having children and we lost quite a few along the way and multiple rounds of IVF and all of that malarkey. And I think that book made me reflect on some of those things that had happened because you start to question, am I a bad person here? Or like, why are these things happening to us? We're good people, what's wrong? Kelly Molson: But some of those things that have happened regardless, despite them being really difficult and quite awful, they've led you to other things that are magic and they've given you gifts of something really tragic happened. Has been able to give us the gift of being able to talk about it openly, which has then gone on and helped other people be able to talk about it or share how they are or just given someone found them, someone that they can talk to. And I think you have to just kind of look back at those things and I don't know, it's a long winded way of saying I completely agree with you and it's a really good book. If you're feeling a bit reflective about your life, it's definitely one to go and have a read of. So yeah, good read. Ian McAllister: I think it may me kind of start to think about the ways I've handled things and how I sort of shape things moving forward so that my best friend died when were at college and my nephew died when he was eight. And all these things in your life that at the time are the worst thing that could ever possibly happen and you could either go one way or the other and it almost explained or kind of put into context a little bit. I think that these things happen not necessarily for a reason, but the way that you cope with it and deal with it and move on after it. That's almost like the learning that you take from it. But this is a different podcast altogether. This is like a griefcast, so we'll do another one. Kelly Molson: This has ended on a complete opposite spectrum than it started, Ian. Anyway, listeners, if you want to win a copy of that book, I'd highly recommend you go and do this. So go over to this podcast announcement and retweet it with the words I want Ian's book. And you will be put into the draw to win a copy of The Midnight Garden. Kelly Molson: Midnight Garden? Midnight Library. Midnight Garden is a whole different book, kids book Midnight Library.Kelly Molson: Ian, thanks for coming on today. It's been brilliant to chat to you. We will put all of the information about Lilidorei and Alnwick Gardens into the show notes so you can have a little look for yourself. But those tickets for Christmas are going to sell out quickly, people, so get yourself on the mailing list. That's all I'm going to say. Ian McAllister: Thank you, Kelly. It's been so nice to talk to you. Living this far north, it's nice to establish my roots with an Essex person again. Kelly Molson: Well, always welcome. Six months check in, right?Ian McAllister: Thanks, Kelly.  Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

REMASTERED & OPTIMIZED - Series 1 Episode 11 (Feb. 9, 2002) of The Ricky Gervais Show on XFM, the tin pot radio station we all know and love. Our brilliant trio together again! Ricky "Of a Saturday" Gervais; Stephen "can I have a Jaffa Cake, cos I just found a lump" Merchant; and the eminent, Karl "Don't Chinese people like tall people or something" Pilkington. THIS TRACK HAS BEEN OPTIMIZED FOR AUDIO.

With the coronation around the corner Giles considers the merits of republicanism…but not for long. In a stark example of modern day classism King Charles decides what he would like named after him while others are not even called my their own name.Seeking to better themselves Giles and Esther ponder how one properly navigates flatulence whilst receiving a knighthood? And why on earth would anyone want to dunk any biscuit more than once?If you like the podcast, please subscribe. If you do, we might give you a free Jaffa Cake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What are the best biscuits for dunking? Researchers dunked 17 of the most popular biscuits into a mug of hot water. Coming in first was the Jaffa Cake which withstood 116 dunks before breaking. The worst was the digestive with 6 dunks. Henry McKean has been looking into this...

Danielle gets asked the serious question during an interview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What are the best biscuits for dunking? Researchers dunked 17 of the most popular biscuits into a mug of hot water. Coming in first was the Jaffa Cake which withstood 116 dunks before breaking. The worst was the digestive with 6 dunks. Henry McKean has been looking into this...

This week Gemma is joined by Andy, we discuss all things chocolate. Gemma has a confession and apology to make, along with tw@t tax & agreed semi-codswallop. Regularly Codswallop of course, a weird thoughts brings a fun discussion about the Patron Saints as we learn more about Georgie, Dave, Paddy & Drew. This episodes goes to places that neither member recording thought they would, so download today to join in the fun and laughter.  Talking Codswallop can be found on ALL social media: @CodswallopPod and we are on YOUTUBE too!!! :) 

The full band is back together! Alison is on the mend, Mere is rockin and rolling, and yup... you still have Sheldon around. And we have started with the "new" series on Netflix in the US - Bake Off - The Professionals. This is actually season 6 of the series, and this was filmed in 2021... but it's new for us. We kick off with some catching up with the team. Sheldon took on a classic feared dessert - the Souffle! He made a chocolate variety and it came out prettttty good! We start with our assessments overall on the show as this is a whole new situation with new judges for us altogether and hosts we've only see in other contexts. Sheldon has a little different first assessment that is largely focused on familiarity and the "learning" aspect of the show. Cherish and Benoit are the hosts... and they are definitely a different flavor than Paul and Prue. Alison and Mere surmise it may be that the different "level" of judging is driving some of this? We had six pars of contestants. Each with their own interesting pedigrees. Jamie and Andrea - The "young guns"; Andrew and Michael - Michael is a returning baker; Julien and Elise - they like to go a bit "extra"; Sherrezade and Merryn - unique flavors; Kevin and Maria Vittoria - England meets Italy; and Stacy and Alex - The culinary instructors. Each one brought an interesting take. Some were great... some were not. The first challenge combines a "sugnature and technical like dish: "Make a unique take on a Jaffa Cake", and "make a traditional classic Italian le tarte pietmontaise (hazelnut tart). Two teams nailed the Jaffa Cake but only did "ok" with the tarte... one went "off brief" sand it cost them. A couple of teams just struggled overall, but two had a REAL rough go of it... just making some rookie mistakes. Going into the Showpiece they were asked to take something "simple" - strawberries and cream - but make it "wow". A number of them did some really amazing elements... some had disasters. It almost felt like nobody truly "nailed it" though. It was almost the instructions were TOO simple...like a bit more direction would have delivered a better result.

Starmer says he'd probably block the Scottish Gender Recognition Bill too. Is he a Red Tory? or is it all part of his plan? Why is this the latest in a stream of occasions he's failed to oppose the Govt? Enjoying the show? Oi, could you do me a favour…  Either join Patreon or Share Me With A Friend (/enemy)  With Patreon… it's a site that deducts £3 a month (price of a coffee) from you, to support the show. I'm having a lot of fun making this shit but it does cost money to host and time (neglecting my children) to make. Honestly: I just work really hard to make it LOOK disorganised and punk-rock

In Episode 5, Andy explains to Rob the mysterious concept of Equal Temperament. Musicians, composers, scientists and instrument makers in the West, worked for hundreds of years to manipulate sound to make our concept of tonality different from all other music. How and why did they do this and why is this linked to a Jaffa Cake? See the recipe on https://www.coffeecakeandculture.com.au/ Music featured in this Episode is:1. Shakuhachi playing by a grand master2. Mozart - Requiem – Dies Irea. Abbado3. The Pythagorean Comma. Det Springend Punkt4. Chinese Music featuring a flute, banjo, citar and erhu 5. Street music from XIII to XVI centuries - Ensemble Anonymous and Strada6. Graduel a' Alienor de Bretagne Orbis Factor7. Dunstable - Veni Sancto spiritus. Pomerium8. Josquin – Veni Sancto Spiritus. Hilliard Ensemble9. Krebs – Dr David Pitches.Hammerwood Park organ10. Couperin – Saraband in G minor. Moraitis (meantone)11. Couperin – Saraband in G Minor (not meantone)12. Bach – Prelude in C major13. Bach – Prelude in Ab Major14. Flute quartet in C – Mozart – Marc Zuili playing a 1789 Flute (original instruments)15. Flute quartet in C- Mozart – modern instruments Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon Pryde, Nick Barnes and Marco Gabbiadini hear from Tony Mowbray about the return of Ross Stewart and Dan Ballard, as well as Alex Pritchard's views on the World Cup and the vexing question of whether the 'Gaffer's Jaffa Cake' is a cake or a biscuit.

Cola mit Zimtgeschmack und Jaffa Cake mit Lebkuchengewürz? Diese weihnachtlichen Besonderheiten sind nicht jedermanns Geschmack. Wie sehen Thies und Bernd das? Aber hört selbst! Mehr Infos auf Instagram: @glueckaufundhalleluja

Welcome to The Conduit's podcast series, Service Please. This series will be focusing on ethical and sustainable hospitality, engaging with a diverse range of industry experts and a variety of individuals across different sectors, disciplines, roles and levels. From supply chains to sourcing, waste management to wellbeing and welfare – what problems need tackling and what does the future of hospitality look like? In this episode, we are joined by Robin Sheppard. Robin has been an hotelier for over 40 years, winning multiple awards and significant recognition for his work in the industry.  In 2000 Robin co-founded Bespoke Hotels which has grown into the UK's largest independent hotel group with over 200 properties. He has already won the Hotel Catey and then the Oxford Brookes award for Outstanding Contribution to the Hospitality Industry and most recently he won the AA Lifetime Achievement Award to the Industry. He is also the Government's Hospitality Sector Champion for Disabled People. Despite all of these accolades, Robin's greatest achievement has been to fight back from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a completely paralysing illness. His slow recovery inspired him to launch the Blue Badge Access Awards to encourage better design and empathy from architects, interior designers and hospitality professionals alike. Quick Fire Round: What does hospitality mean to you? It means anticipation and preparing for any guest's arrival to be made to feel special, recognised, valued and cherished.  Desert Island Dish My death row dish would be a picnic in the hope that we might be able to have it outside and I could run away… But probably a delicious spaghetti Bolognese, I love Italian cooking. I'm told by Heston Blumenthal that by putting a little star anise into your Bolognese makes all of the difference.  Favourite season Spring, I love spring, flowers come into bloom, there's a sense of hope. Newsagent confectionary of choice I'm very fond of Picnics… I did go through a terrible period of Jaffa Cake addiction, but I did get that under control. Favourite restaurant Bibendum, for the beauty of the light and the stained glass.  The Hilton, Park Lane, for the views across London. Dins by Santi Toura, Majorca, for his incredible food.  Three words to describe the future of hospitality Expanding, levelling, joyful. 

Jim-Jim brought in a jaffa cake with a difference this morning for Nobby to try!! You'll be wanting one as soon as your hear him talk about it! Jim-Jim also had a story on age gaps!! If you're a fan of Cameron Diaz then you're in for a treat - she's coming out of retirement! More on dish the dirt !! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MOXIE - Enter promo code MOXIE for 83% off and 3 extra months free!) T-shirt for Ukraine, all proceeds and matching donation to Ukraine Red Cross at yourbrainonfacts.com/merch Who you gonna believe -- me or your lying eyes?  Today we look at court cases where people try to avoid taxes by arguing that things aren't the things that they clearly are. 00:50 Tomato 08:18 Jaffa Cakes 17:48 Hydrox vs Oreo 37:40 X-Men Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   We like labels, as humans we like labeling things.  Taxonomy is the branch of science concerned with classification and there used to be several inconsistent and sometimes conflicting systems of classification in use.  Then came Carl Linneaus and his influential “Systema Naturae” in 1735, laying down the system we use to this day.  Linnaeus was the first taxonomist to list humans as a primate, though he did classify whales as fish. Years later, a New York court agreed with him.  My name's… D&D Stats Explained With Tomatoes Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.   TOMATOES So that's more clear, but it raises a rather mad –and for some, maddening– question: Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?  Well, yes, it's both, but actually no.  Botanically, it's a fruit. But legally, it's not.  A fruit is technically the seed-bearing structure of a plant whereas a vegetable can be virtually any part of the plant we eat.     Things must have been slow in March of 1893, because this definition was set by the Supreme Court.  The issue at hand was tariffs, specifically a 10% tariff on the import of vegetables into the United States.  Just veggies.  Imported fruits were not.  This was of particular interest to John Nix of Manhattan.  He ran a produce wholesale business along with his four sons and found himself the proud owner of an enormous tax bill on a shipment of Caribbean tomatoes.  John Nix & Co. were one of the largest sellers of produce in New York City at the time, and one of the first companies to bring the Empire state produce from such far-flung places as Florida and Bermuda.  Nix disputed the tax on the grounds that tomatoes were scientifically-supportably fruit.  Full of seeds, ain't they?  That's the part that seems to turn grown adults into fussy toddlers when their burger has a tomato despite their very clear instructions.  Worse than the anti-pickle crowd.  Anyway, Nix filed a suit against Edward L. Hedden, Collector of the Port of New York, to get back the tax money he'd been forced to pay under protest.    The crux of Nix's case was the opening of an uninspired speech -  counsel read the definitions of the words "fruit," "vegetables," and tomato from Webster's Dictionary, Worcester's Dictionary, and the Imperial Dictionary.  Judgment for the plaintiff, case closed!  But wait, there's more.  Not to be outdone, defendant's counsel then read into evidence the Webster's definitions of the words pea, eggplant, cucumber, squash, and pepper.  Oh, it's on now! Countering this, the plaintiff then read in the definitions of potato, turnip, parsnip, cauliflower, cabbage, carrot and bean.  That's when, I assume, all hell broke loose in the courtroom and perhaps a giant musical number broke out.  Just trying to jazz it up a bit.  Nix's side called two witnesses, not botanists or linguists, but men with a lot of years in the fruit & veg business, to say whether these words had "any special meaning in trade or commerce, different from those read."   The supreme court decided to look more practically and less pedantically at the situation and ruled that it's how a tomato is used that makes it a vegetable, not the official scientific definition.  If people cook and eat them like vegetables, then vegetables they must be, and so they were subject to the tariff.  “Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas,” wrote Justice Horace Gray in his 1893 opinion. “But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables.”     What was really important about Nix's case was the timing.  We're talking late Victorian, after the age of sail had been obviated by the steam power of the industrial revolution.  You might have heard about it, it was in all the papers.  Ships could now cross the Atlantic in 1-2 weeks, rather than the 6-12 weeks it took in a century prior.  Foods from the tropics could now reach New England in a week or less, making their import a viable option.  This was when bananas went from being expensive oddity to must-have trend to staple of every grocery store, though that was the Gros Michelle banana, the one our fake banana flavor is based on, not the Cavendish banana we eat today, but that's a topic for another show.  To service the evolving tastes of urban population, a new class of national wholesalers, such as the Nixes, were born.   The tomato's identity crisis was far from settled, though.  In 1937, the League of Nations, precursor to the UN, sought to classify various goods for the purpose of tariffs and they too labeled tomatoes a veggie, putting them under the heading of “vegetables / edible plants / roots and tubers.”  Not to be left out, the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed, citing 1890s Nix v. Hedden case.    But there are always exceptions, hold-outs, outliers, and just plain contrarians.  Tennessee and Ohio made the tomato their state fruit.  If you think that's silly, you might want to swallow your coffee before I tell you the state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.  I did not care to look into their reasoning.  The European Union went a step further with a directive in December 2001 classifying tomatoes as fruit — along with rhubarb, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and melons.  It's bad enough all prepackaged fruit bowls have some form of melon in them (which causes me instantaneous reverse peristalsis), but it you gave me a fruit salad and it had cucumbers in it, I have a parking lot and I'll fight you in it.   But I think I'll give the last word to George Ball of the Burpee's seed and plant company: “Are [tomatoes] fruits? Of course,” he said. “Are they vegetables? You bet.”  Though Burpee's does put “vegetable” on the seed packet, so maybe it's not settled after all. JAFFA CAKES Maybe things that grow are too ephemeral for man's taxonomy.  Things are a lot of simpler when we're talking about man-made goods, things that don't grow on trees, and it is only a tragedy that you can't plant an entire orchard of Jaffa cake trees.  For those whose life has not yet contained this job, a Jaffa cake it a little round of dense yellow cake –sponge, as they say in the home counties– with a disc of orange jelly on top enrobed in chocolate.  It.  Is.  So. Good.  You can sometimes find them in big grocery stores like Kroger and Publix if they have a large enough “International” aisle stock Branston pickle along with pad thai sauce and Tajin.   This issue here it again taxes, but this time VAT.  For those that don't speak British, VAT or  Value-Added Tax is “A type of consumption tax that is placed on a product whenever value is added at a stage of production and at final sale.”  Basically sales tax cranked to 11.  VAT is a tax that is paid by everyone involved with the manufacture of a given object or foodstuff, as well as the consumer.  As I go to air, the VAT rate in the UK is 20%.  If you're a UK-based widget-maker, you pay VAT on the price of the raw materials.  When you sell the widgets wholesale to a store, the retailer pays VAT on that sale.  Then, when someone comes into the shop to buy one of your cutting-edge widgets, they pay VAT too.       As with most areas of life, there are exceptions –  a number of things are subjected to a reduced 5% rate and some things are exempt altogether.  The exceptions are for the really necessary things, like mobility aids, menstrual hygiene products, stamps, end of life care, and most food, including cake.  That's some grade A foreshadowing right there.  But some foods are just so wonderful, they absolutely must be taxed and taxed fully.  Such luxury items include alcohol, mineral water, confectioneries and, with the specificity that all governments seem to love, chocolate-covered biscuits.  Regular biscuits are apparently basic essentials.  No, American listeners, not like buttermilk biscuits, because even I'd have to think twice about covering one of those in chocolate.  Whereupon I would do it.  I could make that work.  You're talking to the chick that made a startling good roasted garlic and parmesan ice cream.  No, British biscuits are cookies.  And British listeners, don't at me on soc meds with the definition of biscuit, because you know you're not consistent with it.  The only word that's more confusing is pudding.  Is that a dessert course, a sausage made of 80% blood, a flambeed Christmas dessert, or a suet dough stuffed with beef and veggies and steamed for eight hours?  While I'm on British language, Cockney rhyming slang has got to be the worst thing…   The McVities company had a notion otherwise.  They appealed, prompting a Customs and Exchange VAT tribunal.  Jaffa cakes, they said, shouldn't be taxed at the “most food” 20% rate, but at the 5% rate of chocolate-covered biscuits.  It takes a lot of brass to make that claim when you yourself named the product Jaffa *cakes. [tiktok] origin story] According to the website for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the court first had to establish a legal definition of what made a cake a cake and what makes a biscuit a biscuit, before determining which column Jaffa Cakes belonged in.  Jaffa Cakes were assessed using the following criteria: The product name, ingredients, texture, structure of the product, the size, how the product is sold, and how the product is marketed.   Towards this end, the main arguments on behalf of the office of Customs and Excise were that Jaffa Cakes are the approximate size and shape of biscuits, are stocked on the shelves with the biscuits, and, owing in no small part to McVities' own marketing, people eat them in the sort of contexts biscuit are eaten.    McVities countered by stating that Jaffa Cakes are baked in the manner of cake and of the same base ingredients.  Their master stroke was staleness – cakes go hard as they stale and biscuits go soft.  When Jaffa cakes go stale, and it's hard to imagine them sitting there long enough, they go hard.  McVities actually let a bunch of them out to go stale and brouhght them into court as evidence.  And in a legal tactic I'd like to see more often, McVities baked a big ol' 12-inch version of a Jaffa Cake, to show that if you blew it up to the size of a normal cake, it would just be a cake.    If I were on the other side of it, I might make a big deal over the name, but the judge presiding over the case, Mr D.C Potter, ruled that to be of “no serious relevance” because a product's name often has little to do with its actual function.  In the end, the court decided the Jaffa Cake was, in fact, a cake, and the Irish Revenue Commissioners agreed, though their ruling was based on the Jaffa Cakes' moisture content being greater than 12%.  So no VAT on Jaffa cakes, which means we can buy more of them, hooray!   HYDROX VS OREO In 1882, the entrepreneur Jacob Loose bought a biscuit and candy company that would eventually be known as Sunshine Biscuits, the company that would eventually give us Cheez-its, which my ex-husband went through at least a box of a week, dipping in port wine cheese spread.  About as close as he ever got to a balanced diet.  In 1908, launched the cream-filled chocolate sandwich biscuit known as Hydrox.  The name, he thought, would be reminiscent of sparkling sunlight and evoked an impression of cleanliness (probably because it sounds like a disinfectant).  This was after all only a few years after the Pure Food and Drug Act, before which your canned veggies might be full of borax and your milk be a watered down concoction of chalk dust and cow brains, and you wouldn't know.  Some tellings have it that Hydrox is a portmanteau of hydrogen and oxygen, the elements that make up water, the gold standard of purity.  Meanings aside, the fact that there actually was a Hydrox Chemical Company in business at the time, one that sold hydrogen peroxide and was caught up in a trademark lawsuit at the time over the use of the word “hydrox,” should have given them a hint to maybe go back to committee.  Hydrox chemicals lawsuit, btw, pointed out that the word “hydrox” was already in use for such disparate things as coolers, soda, and ice cream, so maybe Jacob Loose figured the word is out there, might as well use it.   For four years, Hydrox cookies with their lovely embossed flower design made cash registers ring for Sunshine Biscuits.  Then, 90 years almost to the day of this episode dropping, the National Biscuit Company came along –you probably know them by their shortened name, Nabisco– with the launch of three different cookies, the Mother Goose biscuit, the Veronese biscuit, both now lost to history, and the Oreo.  The cookies were very similar, with Oreos even being embossed by the same time of production machine, but Hydrox have a sweeter filling and less-sweet cookie.  Like VHS vs beta, which you can learn more about in the book and audiobook, the newcomer soon came to dominate the landscape, and there's no clear reason why.  Any chocolate sandwich biscuit is offhandedly called an Oreo, no matter how cheap a replica it may be.  It's literally the best-selling cookie in the world now, with $3.28 billion in sales in the U.S. alone.  They sell 92 million cookies per day throughout 100-plus countries under the parent brand Mondelez International.  That ubiquity has led a lot of people to erroneously assume that Oreo is the original and Hydrox is the Mr. Pibb to their Dr. Pepper.  Hydrox did manage to hold onto a cadre of die-hards, especially in areas with significant Jewish populations, because Hydrox were always kosher.  Oreo cream used to be made with lard from pigs and Nabisco would later have to invest a lot of resources into replacing the lard with shortening in the 90's.     Sunshine Biscuits was purchased by Keebler in 1996, who replaced Hydrox with a reformulated product called "Droxies," which 100% sounds like drug slang for a veterinary tranquilizer.  Keebler was acquired by Kellogg's in 2001, and Kellogg's yanked Droxies from the shelves before adding a similar chocolate sandwich cookie to the Famous Amos brand, then discontinued them.  In August 2008, on the cookie's 100th anniversary, Kellogg's resumed distribution of Hydrox under the Sunshine label, a limited distribution, one and done.  Hydrox-heads besieged Kellogg's with phone calls and an online petition, asking that Hydrox be brought back for good, but all for naught.  Less than a year later Kellogg's had removed Hydrox from their website.  “This is a dark time in cookie history,” one Hydrox partisan, Gary Nadeau, wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. “And for those of you who say, ‘Get over it, it's only a cookie,‘ you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.”  As of the time of writing, I've never had one myself, but I'll see if I can't lay my hands on some before going to air.   Getting my hands on some may be a touch trickier than it should be.  They exist; that's not the issue.  In 2015, entrepreneur Ellia Kassoff, a lover of Hydrox who knew the trick to getting a trademark someone else had allowed to lapse, was able to pick up Hydrox for his own company, Leaf Brands—itself a dormant brand that Kassoff had revived.  Hip to the time, Leaf Brands made Hydrox available on Amazon, so anyone anywhere could get them whenever they wanted (plus two days for delivery).  These new Hydrox weren't going to bow gracefully to the dominant Oreo.  Their website points out that they use real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, and no hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, and GMOs, and warn consumers, "don't eat a knock-off!"  Hydrox are also made in the USA while Mondelez International was laying off U.S. workers.  Sales of Hydrox grew by 2,406 percent from 2016 to 2017, amassing more than $492,000 in sales — clearly, still light-years away from Oreo's overwhelming dominance in the market, but impressive progress nonetheless.   If you ask Leaf Brands, they'd be doing a lot better if not for Mondelez – not out-competing them, deliberately sabotaging them.  This is the hard-to-find bit I alluded to.  In August 2018, Leaf Brands filed a lawsuit against Mondelez International, seeking $800 million in damages because of "lost sales and reputation.”  The charges claimed that Mondelez was using its massive industry muscle "to place their own products in favorable locations in stores and move competitors in less desirable positions on store shelves."  On their Facebook page, you can see pictures of grocery stores where Hydrox cookies are hidden behind other displays, scooted to the back of shelves, and even turned sideways so the short end is facing out.  If you've never worked grocery retail, your instinct may be to blame the store staff, but a lot of brands are actually stocked by the manufacturer.  Ever pass a guy in a Pepsi polo shirt with hand-truck loaded with soda?  That, but with cookies.  And it's not just their own products.  Mondelez is what's called a “category captain,” meaning they get to determine much of the layout for the whole cookie aisle.  Leaf alleges that Mondelez employees and agents are deliberately making Hydrox harder to find while making Oreos pert near impossible to miss.   This is far from the first lawsuit over Oreos.  A class action lawsuit was filed claiming the cookies misled buyers by stating that the product contains real cocoa.  The judge dismissed the case.  And they were sued for Fudge Covered Mint Oreos not containing any actual fudge.  The plaintiffs claim that these cookies don't contain any milkfat from dairy, a key component of fudge, but rather cheaper palm and palm kernel oil.  As so often happens, there are eleventy-hundred articles from the week the case was filed and nothing on the outcome.  That's what happened with the main point of this article.  I was dead sure I remembered Hydrox and Oreo going to court over the basic infringement question, and Hydrox losing, but I couldn't turn up anything on that because of the sabotage lawsuit sucking up all the search results.   X-MEN It's not all foodie fact fun today.  I'm going to risk a copyright strike to play 15 seconds of a song that will make everyone near me in age go “aw yeah!” [sfx Xmen theme]  For the young or those who had social lives in high school, that's the theme song to the 90's Xmen cartoon, and it slaps, as they kids used to say.  For the truly uninitiated, and c'mon even my mom knows who the Xmen are, the story centers on a group of superheroes who get their powers from genetic mutations…and government experiments, time travel, by dint of being aliens – it's a comic book, what do you want.   Ever since their introduction to the Marvel Universe in 1963, the X-Men have always had to deal with questions about their humanity.  While their enemies will stop at nothing to cast them as monsters, the team continues to fight for a world where they are treated just like humans.  That's in-universe.  In the broader reality, it's actually in the X-Men's best interest not to be considered humans.  Well, Marvel comics financial bottom line, anyway, and they went to court over it.   In 1993, international trade lawyers Sherry Singer and Indie Singh found an interesting provision in a book of federal tariff classifications – “dolls” are taxed at 12% on import while “toys” are only taxed 6.8%.  The devil is in the details, or in this case, the definition.  A “toy” can be any shape, representing any thing, but a "doll" can only be a representation of a human being, like Barbie or GI Joe.  [tik tok Joe's thumbnail]  Singer and Singh knew this distinction could be a sizable financial benefit for their client, Marvel Entertainment, who had an ownership stake in ToyBiz at the time.  For years, Marvel had been importing action figures that were taxed as dolls, despite their wide panoply of brightly colored characters often being anything but human.  Taking a direct approach, the two lawyers gathered up a literal bag full of action figures and went to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, D.C. to try and convince them that Marvel wasn't importing humanlike “dolls,” but instead very non-human “toys.”   The Customs staff's reaction to the bag of toys is not recorded, but their official response was that the “non-human characteristics” of the X-Men and other action figures “fall far short of transforming [these figures] into something other than the human beings which they represent.”  Singer and Singh were locked onto this tactic and pursued it for a decade.  A judge considered various figures from Marvel's whole line to decide whether or not individual characters were human or not.  Rippling pecs, long claws, blue skin, red eyes, all were scrutinized, as lawyers on both sides expostulated on the philosophical ramifications of what it means to be human.  How can these action figures be human if they have "tentacles, claws, wings, or robotic limbs?"     I'd loved to have been there to hear people with expensive educations in tailored suits, stand before a learned jurist in a wood-paneled courtroom and say things like,  "The figure of 'Kingpin' resembles a man in a suit carrying a staff. Nothing in the storyline indicates that Kingpin possesses superhuman powers.  Yet, Kingpin is known to have exceedingly great strength (however 'naturally' achieved) and the figure itself has a large and stout body with a disproportionately small head and disproportionately large hands. Even though 'dolls' can be caricatures of human beings, the court is of the opinion that the freakishness of the figure's appearance coupled with the fabled 'Spider-Man' storyline to which it belongs does not warrant a finding that the figure represents a human being."   In 2003, Judge Judith Barzilay ruled that Marvel characters aren't quite human enough to taxed as dolls.  “They are more than (or different than) humans. These fabulous characters use their extraordinary and unnatural physical and psychic powers on the side of either good or evil. The figures' shapes and features, as well as their costumes and accessories, are designed to communicate such powers."   Yay, a victory for the giant multimillion dollar corporation!  But a slap in the face for diehard X-Men fans.  Chuck Austen, one of the writers for Uncanny X-Men at the time, said his whole goal in the story was to show the team's humanity.  The nerds grew restless and Marvel had to issue a statement that read, "Don't fret, Marvel fans, our heroes are living, breathing human beings—but humans who have extraordinary abilities ... A decision that the X-Men figures indeed do have 'nonhuman' characteristics further proves our characters have special, out-of-this world powers." And that's… To protect the public from contaminated oil, New York State law required that all fish oil be gauged, inspected and branded, with a penalty of $25 per barrel on those who failed to comply.  Samuel Judd purchased three barrels of whale oil that had not been inspected, and James Maurice, a fish oil inspector, sought to collect the penalty from him.  Judd pleaded that the barrels contained whale oil, not fish oil, and so were not subject to the fish oil legislation. At trial, one side said the term "fish oil" was commonly understood to include whale oil, and the other side plead the obvious science that whales are mammals.  The jury deliberated for 15 minutes and returned a verdict in favor of the fish oil inspector.    Mr. Judd, dissatisfied with the verdict, moved for a new trial. By then, the Legislature was in session and the Recorder, knowing that a new fish oil bill was pending, delayed his decision on the motion. The new enactment limited the inspection to fish liver oil, and the Recorder took the view that this implicitly confirmed that the earlier legislation covered whale oil. Accordingly, he refused to grant Judd's motion for a new trial.   James Maurice resigned his position as fish oil inspector because he considered that the position under the new law had too little value or importance.     Sources: https://www.constantpodcast.com/episodes/are-whales-fish https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/26/256586055/when-the-supreme-court-decided-tomatoes-were-vegetables https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/18/the-obscure-supreme-court-case-that-decided-tomatoes-are-vegetables/ https://www.insider.com/interesting-facts-about-oreo-2018-7#oreo-first-appeared-on-the-market-in-1912-1 https://www.mashed.com/223360/the-strange-history-of-the-oreo-and-hydrox-cookie-rivalry/ https://www.mashed.com/702384/why-this-snack-food-giant-is-being-sued-over-an-oreo-flavor/?utm_campaign=clip http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/time-company-baked-giant-cake-win-court-case/  https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/read-this/is-a-jaffa-cake-a-cake-or-a-biscuit-heres-the-definitive-answer-as-decided-by-a-court-1379222 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/92007/why-us-federal-court-ruled-marvels-x-men-arent-humans https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/9/12/20862474/x-men-series-toys-human-legal-issue-marvel-comics https://observer.com/2007/12/thar-she-blows-19thcentury-court-case-harpoons-a-whale-of-a-story/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpJFEBcKoE

Chris & Jill celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the very popular Jaffa Cake.  Join us for the history and science behind this delicious chocolate orange spongy treat.Click here to shop at the Cookie Lab StoreJoin our FB Group for free access to the Cookie Recipe!https://www.facebook.com/groups/429934808628615Follow us on TikTok to see how we make the cookieswrite to us at cookielabpod@gmail.com

I chat with Tori, who is from the United States, to discuss what it's like to interact with people who speak the same language but use different words and have a different accent. We discuss hot topics like how the UK does not stock enough different types of peanut butter, The Great Jaffa Cake debate, why British people need x's on their text messages, and ponder the question: why do you sit IN a car, but ride ON a bus or train??Transcript coming soon.Words and phrases that might be new for you:Jaffa Cake: a biscuit with chocolate on top and an orange fillingto consume: can mean to eat, can also mean to enjoy media, whether that's watching or readinghalls: dormitories/dorms - a place where students stay whilst at universityto go blank: to suddenly not know what to say in a situationto be on you: to be your faultvariation: differencecolleague: work mateIntro music is 'Just Relax' by Lesfm via Pixabay.

Author and illustrator Jen Carney wrote the B.U.G. series to celebrate diverse - and perhaps slightly bonkers - families. In this episode, she talks with Nikki Gamble about the importance of adopted and fostered children being visible in books for children and introduces us to the world of B.U.G.About B.U.G seriesMeet Billie Upton Green and her VERY accidental diary - and don't you DARE call her B.U.G! Billie has taken the new girl at school under her wing. She'll teach her the important stuff - Biscuit Laws, Mrs Patterson and of course where to sneakily eat a Jaffa Cake. She might even get invited to the EVENT OF THE YEAR (Billie's mums' are getting married).But then suspicion sets in. The new girl seems VERY close to Billie's best friend Layla. And she knows a LOT about the big school heist - the theft of Mrs Robinson's purse.But, Billie is on to her. Well, as long as Patrick doesn't catch her eating biscuits first

Hope you're hungry, because The Substantial Meal is BACK! Gorge yourself on Martin Angolo, Justine Stafford, and Dermot Ward, as they discuss the difference between a season and a series, whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or not, and the best time to use a gift card.

Join Matt Davies Adams, Adrian Clarke, Sam Parkin, and Jobi McAnuff for a look back on the EFL action from the weekend. Today: who's got a touch of the Brereton Diaz about them? What's West Brom's plan b? And who used the poo emoji to great effect? All very important questions plus we discuss Hull's back to back wins, ask why Johnnie Jackson hasn't got the Charlton job yet, and look back on some of the best man of the match prizes down the years RUNNING ORDER PART 1a - Hellos (01.00) PART 2a - Derby 3-2 Bournemouth (02.00) PART 2b - Fulham 4-1 Barnsley (06.00) PART 2c - Huddersfield 1-0 WBA (12.00)  PART 2d - Hull 2-0 Birmingham (17.00) PART 2e - The Odds with Paddy Power (21.00) PART 3a - Charlton 2-0 Plymouth (24.00) PART 3b - Sunderland 2-0 Ipswich (29.00) PART 3c - Fleetwood 1-2 Morecambe (33.30) PART 3d - Bristol Rovers 2-1 Northampton (36.00) PART 3e - The Odds with Paddy Power (39.00) PART 4a - Leyton Orient 4-1 Sutton (40.00) PART 4b - Oldham 3-2 Port Vale (45.00) PART 4c The Odds with Paddy Power (49.00) PART 5 - Moments of Mirth (51.00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlotte Jessop - teacher, mother, author and all round queen behind Looking After Your Pennies talks with me about V.A.T. a tax on consumption that we all pay on our everyday purchases and hardly ever notice. We explore the weird and quirky rules that determine how much VAT you pay on food, clothes and personal care items. We put to rest important debates on whether a Jaffa Cake is a cake or biscuit, what the average size of a 14 year old child is and the ultimate question: is a Pringle a potato crisp? To find out more about Looking After Your Pennies look here: https://lookingafteryourpennies.comFollow Rethink Tax on social media on Twitter and on Instagram to find out more about how tax works and why tax matters. DISCLAIMER:  content provided is for education purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Tax laws are subject to change and therefore anyone interested in what is discussed in the podcast should do their own research before taking action. 

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore speaks with Henry Taylor, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Taylor's work examines the interaction between cognitive science and philosophy, with a particular focus on consciousness, perception, and attention. After explaining that his interest in philosophy stretches back to his youth, Taylor describes his current work in psychophysics, or the study of the relationship between physical and psychological events (:50 – 5:40). Taylor then provides an in-depth explanation of his work into attention and summarize some of the key concepts and experiments of the field, including “inattentional blindness,” “blindsight,” and the G.Y. case, one of the field's foundational studies. In addition, Taylor explains the importance of being able to test philosophical hypotheses in a lab (5:45 – 23:30). Taylor then expands on the concept of attention itself, providing different possible definitions of the concept and how scientists approach these definitions. (23:35 – 34:20). Livermore compares the difficulty with settling on one definition of a concept to the debates that occur when a given term must be defined for legal purposes, and Taylor then relates how similar debates occur in the scientific world (34:25 – 42:44). The conversation then shifts focus to consider the concept of consciousness, with Taylor summarizing both the concept and his work into the concept. Taylor touches on ideas such as subliminal messaging, the relationship between sight and perception, and the films Demolition Man and Minority Report. Taylor and Livermore point out the inherent vagueness of language, with Taylor using the famous Jaffa Cake tax tribunal case (43:00 – 54:25). This leads to a discussion of vagueness in relation to artificial intelligence, where Taylor explains that, in fact, vagueness can be a useful tool in understanding the world, because the world itself is often vague (54:30 – 1:04:46). The conversation winds up with Taylor contrasting differing views of how the world is constructed and conceived of (1:04:51 – 1:10:58). Professor Michael Livermore is the Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also the Director of the Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE), an interdisciplinary program based at UVA Law that examines the intersection of legal, environmental, and social concerns.

This week join us for a trip to Frinton-on-Sea, Kanye vs Drake chat and startling revelations about the word Paralympics! We're also talking R&B Podcasts, prison dilemmas and the almighty Jaffa Cake! Drink it in!

Nailed a loose fence pailing back in. Lots of repotting of plants. Was nice and relaxing. Listened to Supergrass a lot. So good. Saw gran for a sec. She was in fine fiddle, which is always good to see. She and I remembered the magnetic fish tank glass cleaner thing that she had in her tank about - oh, 30-sommin years ago! Those were the days. Cooked a quick pumpkin soup, and it turned out really delicious. Tried my first Jaffa Cake. J'approve! Yet again, the team I was rooting for in the football lost. A bit of pro bono and a project completed and sent off. Beauty! Couple of well earned cold beers in the evening. M: 7. E: 7. L: 0.

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In this week's episode, journalist and food critic - Jay Rayner - joins Jackie to answer life's big unanswered questions. Stuff like...      Scones - jam or cream first? If God sneezed, what would you say? Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit?   ---     

Frank Skinner's on Absolute Radio every Saturday morning and you can enjoy the show's podcast right here. Radio Academy Award winning Frank, Emily and Alun bring you a show which is like joining your mates for a coffee... So, put the kettle on, sit down and enjoy UK commercial radio's most popular podcast. This week Frank has been on The One Show and done a webinar. The team also discuss the Brits, the new Jaffa Cake donut and posh personality traits.

Half way through Season 1. It's been a blast so far, hasn't it? We have some exciting news to share right here in the description (that doesn't appear in the show) - we've started a Patreon! You heard right! Alongside our regular content, we now have two platforms that you can financially support the show - Ko-Fi and Patreon. For those that don't know about the two: Ko-Fi is a creator friendly system where you can donate the price of a coffee (or more) to your chosen creators and they receive 100% of that donation. So this is where we would love support for those who don't want extra content but just want to support us as we begin to expand. Patreon is slightly different as it is a monthly subscription-based platform. We have three tiers set at different prices and they each have different perks. Our tiers are called: Editor Fuel, Retirement Fund and The Greatest of These. They are set relatively low, so if you want to continue to support us in expanding as we search to pay for an editor, run more giveaways and provide more regular content, go on over and check it out. ENOUGH OF THAT, LET'S GET INTO THE SHOW! This week we discuss a great British trial - the biscuit. No, not cookie - the biscuit. There was some divisive choices made among the boys but at least we can settle on one thing, a Jaffa Cake is not a biscuit. We also start a new mini-series today on the Pod beginning with The Valley - a short devotional thought brought by the Beard, Joey. We hope you enjoy this edition of Another Christian Podcast, remember you can find our socials here. https://linktr.ee/AnotherChristianPodcast

Harry and Dan are here to bring you into the weekend! In this week's show the guys speak to Jude, Dev and Theo from Restless Youth, a debate is had over Jaffa Cakes and Dan struggles to get to grips with being stuck on a desert island.

Du bist nicht deutsch, wenn du nicht angrillst! Toralf zitiert wahllos Songtexte, JP sorgt sich um unsere Zukunft und was haben Marshmallows und Yogurette gemeinsam? Wie dem auch sei, diese Episode geht runter wie ein Jaffa Cake!

Welcome to the podcast all about plant-based food! We thought we'd start the way the best things do - with cake. Baking whizzes Gretchen Price, Kate Emmett and Katie White share their top tips and trade secrets to successful plant-based baking. And we learn why you should go suck on a kale leaf. No, really! Hosted by Jake Yapp.  As we're starting out, it'd be GREAT if you'd subscribe, share, rate and review the podcast to allow it to grow - spread the word! And find out more over at www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-podcast Kate Emmett's recipe for: Vegan Jaffa Cakes https://www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-jaffa-cakes/ Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Tart from Gretchen Price https://www.veganlifemag.com/no-bake-chocolate-raspberry-ganache-tart/ Delicious Vegan Turkish Delight Cake by Katie White https://www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-turkish-delight-cake/

Welcome to the podcast all about plant-based food! We thought we'd start the way the best things do - with cake. Baking whizzes Gretchen Price, Kate Emmett and Katie White share their top tips and trade secrets to successful plant-based baking. And we learn why you should go suck on a kale leaf. No, really! Hosted by Jake Yapp.  As we're starting out, it'd be GREAT if you'd subscribe, share, rate and review the podcast to allow it to grow - spread the word! And find out more over at www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-podcast Kate Emmett's recipe for: Vegan Jaffa Cakes https://www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-jaffa-cakes/ Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Tart from Gretchen Price https://www.veganlifemag.com/no-bake-chocolate-raspberry-ganache-tart/ Delicious Vegan Turkish Delight Cake by Katie White https://www.veganlifemag.com/vegan-turkish-delight-cake/

Habakkuk responds to God's mighty and impending judgement in a prayerful song.Sarah started this episode by dropping the Jaffa cake bomb into the biscuit debate. For those in America, this decidedly cake-like, delicious treat has snuck into the biscuit aisles of supermarkets all over the UK, but there are many who reject it's biscuit claim! Alongside biscuit things, we announced that there will an ‘Ask Us Anything' episode in a couple weeks, so please do wing your questions to us via email/ instagram/ Facebook (details below).Habakkuk conversations were anchored in chapter three this week, as we considered our mighty, awesome God and the terrifying judgement He brings. It is a song, or a poem, and the language and imagery is powerful. It - rightly - makes us tremble at the thought of God in his power. Habakkuk prays that God would make his actions known, both in wrath and mercy. Wonderfully, in v12-13, we get a picture of ‘threshing' judgement and merciful deliverance of God's people through the deliverance of His king. This side of the cross, we know that salvation through Jesus, and so we can long for God to come and deal with injustice. We will be brought through the necessary judgement, and are safe in Christ. And so we can wait, with Habakkuk, for God to act on that final day of calamity.Our hearts were challenged as to whether we really do want justice to come, and whether we echo Habakkuk in his genuine concern and cry. Often we feel more like the Babylonians than Habakkuk, and we were reminded of the unchanging reality of who we are in Christ as we seek to wait well on God. Habakkuk models enduring faith, as he waits on God, and so we watch him, hear what he is hearing and want to wait in the same way. And wonderfully we wait without fear because of Jesus.Useful Resources- Felicity found this podcast of Nancy Guthrie speaking with David Helm about Habakkuk really helpful. The whole series, in which she speaks to different bible teachers about different books, is excellent.- This sermon series from Andrew Sach is also helpful, and definitely thought provoking as Andrew presents a NT perspective on Habakkuk and his waiting.Tea and Biscuit Footnotes• Sarah was eating a Jaffa Cake, Felicity was eating a homemade chocolate biscuit and both were sipping hot beverages.In Other News…Connect with us on Facebook or InstagramSarah blogs here: https://sarahdargue.orgFelicity blogs here: https://boysbooksandthehomeofthebrave.blog/ Email us: podcastingsisters@gmail.comSponsorship DetailsThis podcast is sponsored by 10ofthose.com. 10ofthose.com hand pick the best Christian books that point to Jesus and sell them at discounted prices. The more you buy the cheaper they get! Check them out at 10ofthose.com. 10ofThose operates in both the UK and USA.

***Tinestamps***00:05 - Intro02:40 - On This Day07:45 - News of The Week25:20 - Caging The Beast31:25 - Romantic Horror Stories1:00:30 - Personal With The Podcast.Welcome to the first full length LIVE episode of the podcast..This week love is in the air and the guys discuss some stories of horror dates, wholesome love stories and some down right weird valentines day encounters..There is now 520 possible ways to eat a Jaffa Cake. Oh you haven't heard? The news will take care of that. Along with an overly sexual cow picture and Louis Vitton being mad again..There's the reviews from Nick Cage's latest and of course some weather discussion..The show concludes with the guys planning their weeks and regaling listeners with their exciting lives in the week just past.

In this episode, Jenni Field, Business Communications Strategist and Founder of Redefining Communications shares her findings about trends for business and communications in 2021. Jenni carried out some research where she asked her network from the UK and USA what their specific views where on trends for 2021. 4 key themes stood out; Listening, Wellbeing and Community, Hybrid Working and AI Automation. Totally unrelated to the research, you'll also find out if a Jaffa Cake is a biscuit or a cake.Twitter: twitter.com/mrsjennifieldLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifieldWebsite: redefiningcomms.com

Paul and Clare have decided to do something a little different to mark the final episode of 2020 and it is our Christmas episode after all. So welcome to the first Big Little Business Awards. We are honoured each week to welcome some amazing guests onto the show who have all shared some valuable knowledge that can help small businesses to learn and grow in what has been for many a most challenging year. However we are not awarding people for their skills or business acumen, we're acknowledging something far more important. What we discussed on the show  When we interview our guests we always end the interview with the same set of questions which were inspired by a great US show called 'Inside the Actor's Studio'. These questions have produced some brilliant answers and have often lead to some comments from listeners. Like the time we found out that the Jaffa Cake is not a biscuit!   For each question we have carefully selected the best answers and picked one winner overall. The acceptance speeches from our winners are priceless - to find out more listen to this special episode which was a lot of fun to do!   As this is our last show of the year we'd like to wish you a safe, peaceful and above all fun Christmas and bigger and better things for 2021. Click here to see our special Christmas video.   Next year we have some great guests already lined up and a few new questions to hit our experts with too.   The Big Little Business Club  We decided that giving you all this expert advice each week isn't enough. What if there was a place where you could connect with all the experts we have on the show, learn more from them, ask questions and strike up conversations? So that's what we've done.   We've gathered all of our previous guests from around the globe to help you for free. Every single guest who has appeared on our show will now be available in one place to share more of their invaluable knowledge and answer your questions so that you can survive this second lockdown and thrive in the future.   You can join the Big Little Business Club for free right now. Just click here.  

There has been a LOT of debate about Jaffa Cakes in the past. Firstly, are they a biscuit or a cake? That one ended up in the courts, and yes, they are cakes. Recently, they revealed that you're supposed to eat them chocolate facing down but in Dave's World, the lads disagreed on whether or not that actually makes a difference or if the Jaffa Cake people have it all wrong. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/11/11134123/DW_1111.mp3"][/audio]

Jumbo Ep:172 - 02.11.20 - I Love A PrankHow do you eat yours?Support me on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/Jumbo or at https://ko-fi.com/jumbopodcastOfficial Website: www.jumbopodcast.com You can listen on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker and many others.Email: Jumbopodcast@gmail.comFacebook: /TonyJamesComedy Twitter: @TonyJamesComedy Instagram: @TonyJamesComedy

The wild weekends of Premier League action just keep on coming and Rebecca & Alex have another bumper episode to try and break down yet more chaos in the Barclays. We start with Aston Villa's 7-2 win over Liverpool (no, we actually didn't all dream it). We chat about how good Villa's performance was, Liverpool's issues in the midfield and the defensive high line, what Klopp can learn from this defeat, whether Virgil van Dijk is truly a leader, and Adrian being made the scapegoat yet again. We got another crazy result as Tottenham destroyed Man Utd 6-1, with Jose Mourinho finally getting his revenge on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - condescending head pat and all. We chat about Spurs' improvements, Lamela's sh*thousery, Man Utd's shambolic defending, Solskjaer continuing to get an easy ride from the media, and Patrice Evra's epic meltdown on Sky. We also dig into a good weekend for Rebecca and Chelsea finally, a great debut for Ben Chilwell, goalkeeping improvements, and whether Chelsea's forwards quite fit. There's also chat about Pep vs Bielsa, why Man City keep dropping off after 20 minutes, unbeaten Everton, Pickford's issues, whether Brighton are clinical enough, Arsenal's fascinating transfer window, Burnley actually being relegation candidates, and the David Moyes work from home revolution continues. Plus, the backup keeper dilemma, 'Match of the Day Boo', Eric Dier and Jose Mourinho's toilet conversations, thirsting over Calvert-Lewin, Lucas Digne as Lee from Steps, posting season reviews to Barcelona fans, Ozil as Gunnersaurus, Man Utd fan fiction, Solskjaer's stinky bin, believing in the dress, the Jaffa Cake debate, 'fool of a Took', and Rebecca's pasta machine story. **Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, as it makes it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!**

10 high impact financial tips for junior doctors (and some Jaffa Cake tax trivia).  All the 10 tips are summarised in our free ebook here https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/ebook/ From the Medics Money podcast studio ;-)  me and Ed relive our youth and reminisce about our F1 years. Tip 1 - Use ESR to keep your payslips, P60 and the ESSENTIAL pension document all doctors need. Tip 2 - Got student debt? Use pay yourself first to ease the pain of repaying it. Tip 3 - Get a HMRC Personal Tax account. Its free and essential to managing your tax codes, tax rebates etc. Download the guide here https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/free-guide/ Tip 4 - Are you spending £139,000 on hospital food? (you probably are) Tip 5 - Check your tax code and correct it yourself online.  Tip 6 - Understand your pay and contract and the BMA may be useful for this. Interlude for tax trivia - Jaffa Cakes - the most tax efficient "biscuit" ever? Tip 7 - Claim a tax rebate on GMC/BMA/Royal college/exam fees to save up to 40% https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/free-guide/ Tip 8 - I don't insure my phone, my washing machine or my beloved bikes, BUT I do insure this. Tip 9 - Who needs an accountant and when? Tip 10 - Unless you want to work as a doctor until state retirement age(68 for me)  then you need a backup plan and investing may be that backup plan. Thanks guys for listening and sharing.  Want top stay up to date with the latest financial information for doctors? Join 21,000 doctors receiving free financial CPD via email by downloading our free ebook here https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/ebook/ Follow us on Twitter  https://twitter.com/medicsmoney Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/medicsmoney  

Chrono Cross, Jaffa Cake, and England oh my! This week I interviewed my good buddy Tyler! We discuss what it was like growing up overseas and why England is way superior to any other place in the world. We then delve deep into our mutual obsession with all things video games! Join two outcasts who self-isolated before the mandates.

Weird episode this week with awful sound quality as we podcast over the phone! Thanks to contributors Jaffacake, Eleven, Samantha, CodysSean and Multi Platform Man!

Weird episode this week with awful sound quality as we podcast over the phone! Thanks to contributors Jaffacake, Eleven, Samantha, CodysSean and Multi Platform Man!

This week we talk about zombies, James explosions Borderlands poorly and Alex gets excited about sea men. Thanks to contributors Eleven, Samantha and Jaffacake!

This week we talk about zombies, James explosions Borderlands poorly and Alex gets excited about sea men. Thanks to contributors Eleven, Samantha and Jaffacake!

*Theme Music: Chartsmasher – Dial Up* chartsmasher.bandcamp.com/releases specialdudescomix.bigcartel.com/ [Go to Little Heroes Comics & Fair Spark Books: Bring a massive smile to comic’s creativity today] littleheroescomics.co.uk/ fairsparkbooks.co.uk/ “TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME” HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! We are starting our 2020 off with anabsolute belter of an interview with the on and only Samuel C Williams (@samuelcwilliams) of Good Comics (www.goodcomics.co.uk @Good_Comics) Sam and Tom sat down to work through some questions that Tom had written down. Only thing is, after a while of chatting they realised they had been having too much fun and didn’t ask any. Made up for it at the end with the ‘still or sparkling?’ ‘Jaffa Cake’ and many more questions This was incredibly fun and Sam is such a great person to speak to. Don’t take our words for it, listen and find out for yourself. Some topics include… Baseball, Music, Influences growing up and how that effects your kid and so much more. This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast to steal home plate… That Comic Smell! Follow us on Twitter & Instagram @thatcomicsmell Get us on… Soundcloud: tinyurl.com/y8vzeh3c Spotify: tinyurl.com/y2qtu2cs YouTube: tinyurl.com/yajnxcno Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/hwbqxab Podbean: tinyurl.com/yxvecykj and most places you find podcasts. Don’t forget to Like, Share, Subscribe, Rate & Review. Thanks again for listening and supporting the podcast

This week we discuss PlayStation, Christmas games and, of course, pooping. Thanks to Eleven, BrewPounder, PSN_ElectricDC, Solm67, Jaffacake, EdwinTSnow & Samantha!

This week we discuss PlayStation, Christmas games and, of course, pooping. Thanks to Eleven, BrewPounder, PSN_ElectricDC, Solm67, Jaffacake, EdwinTSnow & Samantha!

This week we talk about space police, glow in the dark screwdrivers and Kratos cosplaying as Mario. Thanks to contributors MP Man, Jaffacake, Mike, RedxMaude, Samantha, Link Legend, Tsakura and Eleven.

This week we talk about space police, glow in the dark screwdrivers and Kratos cosplaying as Mario. Thanks to contributors MP Man, Jaffacake, Mike, RedxMaude, Samantha, Link Legend, Tsakura and Eleven.

This week we introduce our new host, chat about weaponised dildos and wait for Nick to respond... Thanks to contributors Noka, Brad Carney, Eleven, Jaffacake and Samantha!

This week we introduce our new host, chat about weaponised dildos and wait for Nick to respond... Thanks to contributors Noka, Brad Carney, Eleven, Jaffacake and Samantha!

It's episode 100! We are celebrating with a special from Berlin in a few weeks. Meanwhile... this time we talk about the Jaffa Cake dessert, and Jazz 625 on the TV. There's more store closures. We talk to Luke about his visit to Stoke Bruerne, and find out about Gaelic Football. It's all here!

It's episode 100! We are celebrating with a special from Berlin in a few weeks. Meanwhile... this time we talk about the Jaffa Cake dessert, and Jazz 625 on the TV. There's more store closures. We talk to Luke about his visit to Stoke Bruerne, and find out about Gaelic Football. It's all here!

Bobbie is introduced to two larger than life characters at Survivor Series 1994 as The Undertaker and Yokozuna go head to head in a Casket Match. Does The Undertaker’s breath smell? Do you get to see more of Yokozuna in this match than he intended? Does Iain really dislike Love Island? Will Bobbie ever enjoy one of Iain’s Chuck Norris jokes?

THE JASMINE MINKS & I AM A ROCKETSHIP [THE MAGIC BISCUIT TIN] The Jasmine Minks, Jim, Tom, Wattie & Martin, the Tunnock's Tea Cake, Dark Choccy Digestive, Tunnock's Tea Cake and the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer, repectively & ... I Am A Rocketship, Eric Weissinger, the Jaffa Cake ... and L E Kippner and the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie  [INTRO] https://www.patreon.com/nearperfectpitch   [COVER ME ONCE] 30 Century Man - #CatherineWheel #ScottWalker #CoverVersion [NEW RELEASE HATTRICK] [NR] Friends Who Lose Control - #NeonWaltz    neonwaltz.com [NR] Patience - #TameImpala    official.tameimpala.com [NR] Rose - #Slowness    slowness.bandcamp.com The Fall - #RiverBecomesOcean riverbecomesocean.com [NR] Headlights - #GaffaTapeSandy gaffatapesandy.bandcamp.com [COOL KULA BRACE] Once Upon A Time In America - #TheJeevas Mystical Machine Gun (Single Version) - #KulaShaker [NR] Tutti Shruti - #FuturePilotAKA & #RobertWyatt #SushilDade #GlassModernRecords glassmodern.bandcamp.com [ALFIE BRACE] Alfie - #KiDD    kidd.bandcamp.com You Make No Bones - #Alfie Here - #TheDreamAcademy [ESSENTIAL WAX]  Brought To You By ... everythingindieover40.com TELEVISION PERSONALITIES PRIVILEGE - 1989 televisionpersonalities.bandcamp.com Salvador Dali's Garden Party - #TelevisonPersonalities    only single off the LP All My Dreams Are Dead - #TelevisonPersonalities Big Ship - #GoKartMozart #Lawrence #CherryRedRecords [T'INTERWEB TIME] Weekly Heaping Of Digital Fodder & Ephemera 'Out Of The Darkness' ... compilation is dedicated to Christopher Casey theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/va-out-of-the-darkness Come On Home - #EverythingButTheGirl Bedlam - #GallonDrunk [NR] Wanna Fly - #ViVii soundcloud.com/viviiofficial Sitting Room - #AnneClark [LOSING ONE'S SHIT]  Roll Back The Years, Draw The Curtains ...  And Go Chicken Oriental With Reckless Abandon! Birth, School, Work, Death (Extended Mix) - #TheGodfathers Like Dreamers Do - #Tremendous     soundcloud.com/itstremendous [NR] THIS IS CHAI - #Chai [INTERVIEW FEATURE 1] Jasmine Minks - Jim Shepherd jasmineminks.bandcamp.com [NR] Step By Step - #JasmineMinks     [NR] Gravity - #JasmineMinks      The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs - #WyeOak [COVER ME TWICE] [NR] Vapour Trail - #Nothing #Ride #CoverVersion Merry England - #SarahNixey Goodbye - #TheSundays [OBLIGATORY FALL-AH] Blood Outta Stone - #TheFall #MarkESmith [WEEKLY PEEL] 23 MARCH 1986 Five Words - #TheGoBetweens #PeelSession #JohnPeel [INTERVIEW FEATURE 2] I Am A Rocketship - Eric Weissinger and L E Kippner iamarocketship.com Kick - #IAmARocketship          Hot In Here - #IAmARocketship          [TARA]   https://www.patreon.com/nearperfectpitch  

With wedding bells banging around we talk about love, horse-penis's (penii?) and more. Thanks to Ulana, Jaffacake, Eleven, Multi-Platform Man, BatDan and Brad Carney for your great Questions for Idiots

With wedding bells banging around we talk about love, horse-penis's (penii?) and more. Thanks to Ulana, Jaffacake, Eleven, Multi-Platform Man, BatDan and Brad Carney for your great Questions for Idiots

The five nerd crew talk Extreme Rules 2018, New Japan, and Jaffa Cakes...

George has a 'light switch off' incident... Robin went shopping and kept getting asked the same question...BUT WHY THO!!... someone fell for a scam dumber than the Nigerian Prince scam... what would happen if the Loch Ness monster was actually caught?!!... the new ice cream with secret ingredients... Boring Mehrez calls and George stupidly asks him a question... weird news about the number 25... crazy behaviour in job interviews... the guys don't believe Oprah... how many 3 letter 'M' words can they think of... George's 5:30am behaviour in the office... the Big Muscat Daily story with a celeb Robin has never heard of... how to get your boss to allow you to dress more casually... Arianna Grande has something to say to Millie Bobbi Brown... Robin's special day... the Trump administration has some 'bittersweet' news about ducks... Stormi Jenner has a MASSIVE shoe collection... Starbucks are in trouble again... the Hala guys are ridiculously chilled out... the latest prank to freak people out... if you made it to the end, go get yourself a biscuit, no that's not the name of a "bit", it SERIOUSLY is all for this week so get lost... and get us a Jaffa Cake???

While staying in Ireland for a few weeks we were not sure what to expect for grocery shopping. We ended up enjoying our trips to the local grocery store: SuperVau. I describe why here. Of course JaffaCake donuts helped! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kathleen-smith/message

Man United are out of Europe but according to Jose Mourinho it’s happened before and it’ll happen again so it’s fine, Lionel Messi gives Chelsea the run around in Spain and down the road Leicester watch on with interest ahead of their FA Cup quarter final. Alongside this we learn about the logistical requirements of Marcus’ plan for England’s massive World Cup squad, he also predicts a round of cupsets that will make his aunt even giddier and we discover more about the frightening power of the Jaffa Cake lobby.This show is sponsored by bet365Search ‘Football Ramble’ on social media to find us, and email us here: show@thefootballramble.comFurther reading:Roy Keane on Man United:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/manchester-united-latest-news-champions-league-roy-keane-itv-paul-pogba-a8256766.htmlMark Hughes to the rescue at Southampton:https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/mar/15/mark-hughes-southampton-gamble-paul-wilsonSpurs’ unfortunate survey:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43397583 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first #ManxFootyPod of 2018 features #RushenUnited duo Grant Dawson and Steve Burns. The pair discuss goalkeeper Dawson's recent return to the club, look ahead to Saturday's #FPIFACup [Prelim Round tie with Old Firm rivals Peel](http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=37914&headline=Old%20Firm%20clash%20pick%20of%20round§ionIs=SPORT&searchyear=2018 "FA Cup preview") and whether a #JaffaCake is a biscuit or a cake. We also look ahead to the weekend's other nine FA Cup ties, answer your Twitter questions and find out what a #Geep is. #Manxfootball, #isleofman #iom #nonleague #podcast #sports #football #manx

News and analysis from Sky News Radio #labourconference2017 #Brexit #Corrie #LizDawn #Jaffacake #Raqqa

I promise, you’ll want to take this episode for a………….. spin. This Week: Fidget Spinners Prey Jaffa Cake Rum/Vodka ASMR Swallowing The “Phoenix Wright” Anime The Philly Fade Movies Ancient Games

On this week's show, host Daniel Caw is joined by rangersnewsfeed.com's Kyran Wallace as well as talkingbaws.com writer Tony Caw. They talk two eventful Scottish Cup semi-finals, Neil Lennon's bold claims that Hibs are the second best team in Scotland, preview this weekend's games and answer your questions - including one about the status of a Jaffa Cake. Also available on iTunes!

Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? A tough question for Matthew Sweet and the drinkers at The Philosopher's Arms, a pub offering both beer and philosophy. Among those helping him resolve this important conundrum are a Cambridge professor of philosophy and a former winner of the Great British Bake Off, who will be turning up in the pub with a very large, and possibly quite tasty, Jaffa Cake. Producer: David Edmonds.

Chris, Pip and Tom discuss Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, Sniper Elite 4, For Honor, and many, many grudges. Plus: good and bad sound-based puzzles, the correct way to eat a Jaffa Cake, and long pauses. Pip’s been uncovering Sherlock Holmes’ colon Crimes and/or Punishments. Tom has been wrestling with the bollock-popping complexity of Sniper [...]

Hey and howdy, welcome to the first episode of Tea & Biscuits for 2017! This episode, Sherryl and Jan recap on an eventful 2016 complete with more crappy impressions. The ladies then go on to discuss everything from the Golden Globes through to Mimi Gee Gee’s outlandish comments that lead to the termination of her appearing on BKChat LDN! Yep, it’s another juicy one!

We're here! Kat and Mim discuss the first fortnight in the Bake Off marquee, with round-ups from Jed, and social media chat about the #GBBO hashtag from Emily. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What a week at Capital! A new Jaffa Cake leader, Dog Hoodies and some Derulo remixing!

It's been a Jaffa Cake-filled week! Scott Gibson failed, Garry Spence failed, David Mundie claims he did it...have a listen and decide! Plus much, much more!

It's the last day of 2015, so an end-of year wrap-up seems appropriate. It's the Homies awards, as is normal for Paul and Al at this time of year, and we're awarding all sorts of gongs and other glittering prizes to the comics, creators and stories that most impressed us this year, including totting up the results of our listener vote. Hark! as they lay a potentially surprising amount of praise at DC's door. Herald! as they try to work out what exactly is Gwenpool. Sing! as they let our central conceit slide with remarkable frequency. There's no news, reviews or Official Handbook this time round, but they've got mince pies and hot chocolate, so you never know who might come carolling. All this plus a human Jaffa Cake, Halley's clockwork comet, Jeff Lemire's Blue Tooth and Monty Python's Secret Wars.

EP 67……..INVENTOR SPESH PT 2 ………Rick is away….again, so inventor to the stars Mark Champkins takes over. We have all the usual features inc Ivors Question Suggestion so what else do you need? What Faisal Shake aka Jaffa Cake….youve got it! Inventions dealt with again…..Push the button…A’aswan and Shablish x

På den tredje dagen i temaveckan smäller vi i oss varsin Jaffa Cake som vi inhandlat på The English Shop i Stockholm.

No one is safe from this man's tongue - Steve Allen takes to the airwaves on weekday mornings from 4 - 6.30am on LBC. Hear all of Steve's show with the news, travel and breaks taken out.

poodcast@googlemail.com Sam tries to shotgun a Jaffa Cake. He fails.