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Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down is a website which mainly discusses tea and biscuits, with content including news and reviews of biscuit brands. It is owned and maintained by Stuart Payne and his wife Jenny Payne, who live in Cambridge, England, and spawned a spin-off book of the same name.
The website's creators, marital partners Stuart and Jenny Payne, are best known under their pseudonyms "Nicey" and "Wifey". As the website increased in popularity, Stuart Payne was interviewed in the mainstream press and became "one of the world's most sought-after biscuit critics", with biscuit manufacturers sending him free samples in the hope of a favourable review.[1] Payne's views were sought by the BBC on the launch of the leading American Oreo cookie into the UK.[2] The favourite biscuit of Stuart Payne has been reported as the "groundbreaking" Abbey Crunch.[3][4][5]
The website takes a humorous look at quintessentially British topics. The most common topics are tea, biscuits, cake and "sit downs". The website has been featured on the BBC website and their weekly technology TV programme Click,[6][7] The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers, as well as the Richard & Judy chatshow.[8] In September 2006, the British Library proposed that Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down should be archived along with other socially significant websites.[9]
As a spinoff from the website the couple authored a book on the subject, Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. It has the following sections:
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