How to eat a Penguin Biscuit

1. Bite a corner off of each end of the biscuit
2. Dunk one end into a cup of tea
3. Suck
4. When tea reaches your mouth, this means it is at optimum gooeyness - consume immediately.

You have to be careful, mind, because timing is everything. Leave it in the tea too long, or suck up too much tea, and you are in danger of being left with a biscuit devoid of structural integrity. This is not good. It also means it could collapse into your cup of tea, thereby ruining both your hot beverage and your biscuit.

During our Sundays at R*han, Mike and I have been involved in an in-depth study into the merits tea and chocolate biscuit schlurping. This has mainly involved experimenting with different chocolate biscuits to see if there is anything to rival the Penguin (and I know that any Australians reading this will have very strong views - get over it! we can't get those biscuits in this country, but I will do my best to further my research during my forthcoming trip to Australia). Anyway, we have so far experimented with Chunky Kit-Kats, Time Out Bars and Fox's Classics. The winner by far has to be the Fox's Classics - controversial this, but I think they even surpass the Penguin experience.

R*han management can take comfort in the fact that Sunday sales may be down, but this is a small price to pay for the breakthrough in our chocolate biscuit-dunking research. Future generations of tea and chocolate biscuit addicts will pay homage to the hallowed ground of our little shop on Trinity street where this great discovery was made. And, who knows, they may even by some of our high-waisted trousers while they're there!