Crumbs! Food for thought
“Well, I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea and some biscuits, nice ones mind you. Oh, and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely.”
By Agencies |
LONDON: “Well, I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea and some biscuits, nice ones mind you. Oh, and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely.”
The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when it decided that a Website with this mission statement should be archived among those that may be of social significance, stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture.
www.nicecupofteaandasitdown. com — “a conduit for pent-up biscuit interest in the general public”, according to its author, Nicey — regularly receives more than 60,000 views a week and is one of 800 sites chosen in two years by the library as of possible interest to future scholars, at www.webarchive.org.uk.
“The site is quintessentially British — at least it plays on an idea of Britishness that we all recognise,” said Nicola Johnson, Web archivist at the library. Through the medium of biscuits, she said, the site offers a “nicely-observed subtle string of social commentary”.
Besides an uncomfortable acronym, NCOTAASD offers reviews and polls on tea-and-biscuit habits worldwide, and occasionally fierce debate about the merits or otherwise of teabag-squeezing, organic fare, when to dunk, Lapsang Souchong tea (“words can’t describe how nasty it is”) and global economics.
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