Talk:Digestive biscuit
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FYI Cracker (biscuit) has been changed to Cracker (food) to help begin the untangling of biscuit, scone, cookie, and cracker.THB 17:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
So is a digestive biscuit somehow like a graham cracker? Why the see also? And what is wholemeal -wheat, corn, oats? Rmhermen 22:09, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)
Digestives are made with wheat wholemeal. Can't answer about the relationship to graham crackers as I've never seen one but since there's a See Also in each article, I would guess that they are similar. -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:42, 2004 Jul 31 (UTC)
I've added a picture. As you can see, they look nothing like graham crackers. They are not particularly flavourful. Compared to American food, the taste is (in my estimation) somewhere between Teddy Grahams (but not nearly so sweet) and animal crackers. The texture is somewhat graham cracker–like, but digestives are thicker than American crackers. —Caesura(t) 19:47, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Presumably, the connection is there because both were originally created to be somehow healthy, but have long since become simply snack foods. 69.140.17.250 20:28, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- So, if I live in the US and need digestive biscuits for making a Banoffee Pie what kind of biscuits can I substitute? Some have said that they are similar to Social Tea biscuits but I don't know for sure. Anyone ... help ... help ...help ...hydnjo talk 01:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Ha Ha Ha, sodden part falls off, consumer unaware, this is so true. Happens all the time.
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[edit] Cookie?
Cookies are soft and chewy, the digestive is neither.
[edit] Health benefit?
I found the following passage to leave out vital information.
"The name 'digestive' comes from a belief that the biscuits had antacid properties due to the use of bicarbonate of soda when they were first conceived."
This sentence is not 100% clear on the health benefits (or lack thereof) of digestives. The reader is meant to assume that the old notion of the biscuits having health benefits has since been debunked, however, the passage does not state this. So which is it; good for the stomach, bad for the stomach, or neutral?
[edit] Origin?
What's the origin of these biscuits; where (and by whom) were they first produced? It's mentioned that McVitie's produced the first chocolate digestive in 1925, so presumably the plain digestive dates back earlier than this (Victorian era perhaps?) 217.155.20.163 00:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Math
Both standard & chocolate-covered digestives are reported to be sold in quantities of 71 million packets every year, however this is equated to 51 per second on the first instance & 52 per second on the second instance. Even though these are just approximations, surely the same number of packets should equate to the same number per second?
