Woohoo! You read Allyson's book and came to find us? FANTASTIC!

And do not malign the humble chocolate digestive, my love - it is the Ultimate British Biscuit, with its lovely salt-sweet-solidity and scrumptiousy wholesome taste, and then that little thrill of wickedness from the layer of milk chocolate decadently poured atop in delicate ripples....mmmm, biccies! You could choose no finer biscuit, imho! I salute you!

Ahem. Okay, possibly I've been away from home too long, but now you've got me all nostalgic for McVities Chocolate Digestives. May have to go shopping for them...

I always get McVitties chocolate biscuits when I'm in London.

McVities is available at my local supermarket, though I'll generally just get a packet of chocolate wheatens when I'm in that kind of mood. They're my current snack of choice for D&D games.

I've always imagined digestive biscuits as being a bit like Graham crackers. How wrong am I?

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I don't really know what graham crackers are like. Except that you say 'graham' with one syllable. But we use digestives to make a biscuit crumb base for a cheesecake, and I think you guys use graham crackers, right?

Digestives are sort of oatmealy. They're lovely with cheese. (Er - not the chocolate-coated ones, though.)

What are digestives made out of?

Graham Crackers were invented as some sort of perfect food during the American Transcendentalist movement (i.e., the New England people that the Alcotts hung around with). And are perfect with chocolate and toasted marshmallows. (Wikipedia says that he invented them to be an antidote to masturbation and they're meant to be made with unrefined flour - apparently fiber was believed to inhibit sexutal appetite). From Wikipedia:

Technically, crackers are not really graham crackers unless they are made with graham flour, which is a hard whole-wheat flour in which the constituent bran, germ, and endosperm have been ground separately, the first two coarsely and the third finely. Cinnamon, not considered a true ingredient of graham crackers, was added for those who did not enjoy the cardboard taste of graham crackers, although it is argued by some connoisseurs that cinnamon has become standard-issue.

The ones I'm most familiar with are cinnaon flavored.

When I think digestive, I think Arrowroot. I don't know if I am mistaken there or not.

Wikipedia knows all: digestives are basically sweetened whole wheat. [link]

I like them plain and with chocolate, and I loooove chocolate Hobnobs ("one nibble and you're nobbled!")

I've always imagined digestive biscuits as being a bit like Graham crackers. How wrong am I?

Similar flavor, different texture. Digestives have a bit more "oomph" to them.

Digestives are a sweet/savoury biscuit - good with chocolate and good with cheese. I like them with jam too.

I've never heard of Graham Crackers, we used to have a breakfast cereal called Golden Grahams which might have been made of the same stuff.

re breakfast cereals, I'm pretty sure Corn Flakes were invented to curb masturbation too. Wierd!