The Highlands had been aggressively Scottish
Scott and Chris returned from a weekend in the Scottish Highlands saying they had rarely experienced anything which felt more Scottish.
The landscape, food, accents and atmosphere had delivered exactly the version of the Highlands they hoped for.
Chris’s mood had one major complication.
Watford were bottom of the Premier League after defeats to Brighton and Everton.
Scott attempted football analysis with the confidence of somebody who had spent enough time around Chris to remember a few names.
The accuracy was mixed.
Chris appreciated the effort less than Scott expected.
Somebody was replacing display photographs with himself
Scott had also spotted an online story about a man who visited furniture shops and replaced the generic photographs inside display frames with pictures of himself.
The joke appealed immediately.
Scott and Chris wanted listeners to do the same with photographs of them.
A pub.
A furniture showroom.
A relative’s house.
Anywhere a frame could plausibly be changed without causing actual damage.
Scott loved the idea of somebody eventually noticing that two Radio 1 presenters had quietly appeared among their family photographs.
Twenty-pence train fares sounded impossible
The programme also heard about people in the north buying train tickets for around 20p.
Scott reacted as somebody accustomed to much more expensive journeys into and around London.
The tiny fare became another regional detail he could barely believe was real.
Ask Me Anything met the boss of biscuits
The day’s guest was Stuart Winter, chairman of the Biscuit Appreciation Society.
Scott immediately promoted him to the boss of biscuits.
Stuart talked about appreciating rather than simply consuming them and discussed the arguments people could have over whether something such as a Jaffa Cake truly counted as a biscuit.
He had even received biscuits as part of payment before, although he made clear they could not replace actual money.
The Tim Tam Slam needed coffee
Stuart then introduced Scott and Chris to the Tim Tam Slam, a technique he had learned from Australia.
Take a Tim Tam, a chocolate biscuit similar to a Penguin.
Bite off opposite corners.
Use the biscuit like a straw.
Suck hot coffee through it.
Then eat the softened biscuit before the whole thing collapses.
Scott loved the combination of snack and technique.
Stuart had another idea involving several Jaffa Cakes on a kebab stick dipped into coffee.
The conversation became far more technical than either presenter had expected from biscuit appreciation.
Biscuits had their own expert culture
Scott and Chris were most amused by how seriously Stuart could discuss structure, soaking and the correct moment to eat.
For Stuart, this was not mindless snacking.
It was appreciation.
The programme had invited Olympic athletes, inventors and unusual professionals onto Ask Me Anything.
The chairman of the Biscuit Appreciation Society fitted more naturally than anybody expected.
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