I used to be guaranteed to get comments (good ones!) when I had Nice Custard Cream on the go, that really was such a great liquid and up there with Doughnut King (I think that was a Chef's one originally before the brand series?) You would swear you could taste the airy dough on the inside and the sugar coating on the outside. Using the current shortfill I think I'm pretty close to getting a couple of those things back the same way that made Doughnut King so good but when it comes to the actual bread part that's where I won't know where to go. I loved Nice Custard Cream but it's just so dry now, the vanilla is barely there and it's more like a soggy digestive, it certainly doesn't get better even after 6 or 7 weeks that's for sure.
I do wonder if many people have memories of Grant's that even the real thing wouldn't live up to, it was very nice but for me that seemed more because it had been steeped properly. I think it just wasn't sweet enough for me, I'd love to get some and fire in some Sweet Cream or even the tiniest bit of strawberry,