Tea cakes

30th January 2005
I realised that there was a strange thing happening to me the other day. I popped down to the local Iceland on byres Rd and bought 20 Tunnock's Tea-Cakes. That was yesterday, I have one left. The problem is that i have moved into a flat with these two guys, and they have a TV (+licence) when I moved in, now I can't get enough of neighbours, and a cup of tea. It then occurred to me that a Tea-cake would be nice.
I bought two single Tea-Cakes from the local student union, and found that there are lots of different ways of eating them. For people that don't know what they look like, well they can be described as looking like the helmet of Darth Vader, a little chocolate Darth Vader helmet, with a little mallow filling for the brain, sitting on a bed of biscuit. They are made in a factory in Uddingston in Scotland, Pure Braw!! (scots for fantastic) Ways of eating them, only a few suggestions
One way is to cut the base of the dome, just above the soft biscuit, and lift off the shell leaving the mallow bit on the biscuit, one thinks back to return of the Jedi, when Luke removes his father's helmet and there is this white squidgy ball underneath (the head of Darth Vader).
Or remove the shell with the mallow in it and place the circular biscuit over your teeth, like a gum shield, then take a drink of tea. heh heh, Class! Or just bite into it on the side, though this has often resulted in the shell flying off and the mallow bit reaching my nose. blergh!
The enjoyment in biscuits, or little Tea-Cakes, is in the dissecting of them during the "consumption phase".
Tea-Cakes can be messy so it is always advised that care be taken upon the first time they are attempted.
Allie
Ps I included a link that explains further, the phenomenon that is Tea-Cakes, for anyone who is at a loss having read my own interpretation, it has been known.