To celebrate the airing of a prime-time documentary on national television hosted by Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey revealing the epic journey of one of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives, McVitie’s has published the top 10 interesting facts about what is one of the nation’s favourite biscuits.
UTC deemed some of these insufficiently interesting and has exerted some editorial control, trimming the list down to a Top Five. [That’s my job, not yours. – Ed]
Here goes…
- According to McVitie’s, the chocolate side of Chocolate Digestives is the bottom of the biscuit.
- As original McVitie’s Digestives were made with baking soda, it was thought that they would help with digestion, hence the name.
- It takes seven minutes to perfectly bake a Digestive biscuit.
- Victorians disapproved of public biscuit dipping, as they believed it should only be done in the privacy of one’s own home.
- Biscuits were the first item of food to reach the South Pole with the explorer Roald Amundsen in 1911.
