McVities Milk Chocolate and Orange Digestives

Description: McVities Milk Chocolate & Orange Digestives 300g

Newest Review: ... to the milk chocolate ones. That said, I'm a big fan of citrus fruits, so when I first laid eyes on these new biscuits, I ... more

... just had to give them a try. Surprisingly for a biscuit, there's a whiff of orange, although you do need to have your nose pretty close to the biscuit to find it. But, let's face it; no-one buys a packet of biscuits just to sniff them, do they? If you are the kind of person that does that, and research has shown that you can get the same emotional lift from smelling chocolate as from eating it, let the biscuits get a little warm, as the orange flavour is strongest at room temperature, rather than at pantry temperature. ...more

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McVities Milk Chocolate and Orange Digestives: They're Not McVitie's...They're Mine! (955 words)
by IainWear - written on 02/11/05 (Very useful, 207 readings)
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The digestive biscuit. First invented in 1839, and so named because the recipe contained bicarbonate of soda and it was supposed to help the digestive system, it was still going strong in 2004 when it was voted the UK's favourite biscuit in the McVitie's "Dunk for Britain" poll. The chocolate digestive was first baked in 1925 and little has changed since. Immediately popular, it has stayed that way for eighty years, and there were apparently more than 70 million packs of chocolate digestives sold in the UK in 2004, suggesting that every member of the population has eaten a chocolate digestive at some point in the last twelve months. The ...

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