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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!

If anything I'd think simple breakfasts would encourage masturabation.

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.

If it's the same as the Golden Grahams we have hear, then it's basically little tiny thin Graham crackers with a ton of cinnamon and sugar added.

I think that the brand of Graham crackers that we usually got when I was a kid came in choice of plain, honey, or cinnamon flavor.

Graham crackers and corn flakes both came out of late nineteenth century weird food movements. There were a lot of them back then, advocating various odd diets that would cure everything. One thing the all had in common was very little meat and lots of fiber -- from the late nineteenth century up until the thirties or so, there was a widely accepted theory that if you allowed waste to sit in your bowels, it would become toxic and sicken your whole body and mind. If you look at health textbooks for kids and teenagers from that time, they're very insistent that, in addition to exercise and clean air, you MUST "clean your bowel" at least daily.

you MUST "clean your bowel" at least daily.

Thus the popularity of cod liver oil at the time, which I remember most vividly from Clara's disgust over her required dosage in Heidi.

Poking my head to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Benno's birthday.

I can't help but see Benno as the first b.org baby, even though posters obviously have children older than him, because he was the first baby who was born while his parent was posting (um, almost literally in his case, but thankfully only almost).

Happy birthday, Benno, you big boy! With lots of wishes for your mom, your younger sister, and all your family!