McVitie´s Digestives

It didn't have "new" on it and it was not a buy one get one free so why did I pop a pack of McVitie Digestive biscuits into my trolley? Because I am a greedy pig? well yes but to be honest I just fancied a plain old pack of biscuits from a brand I knew and respected and not being on one of my many diets thought I would treat myself.. ~ ~ ~History ~ ~ ~ Mr Alexander Grant created these over 100 years ago. Cleaver little chap, decided that adding ...
...hence the name Digestive biscuits. Mr Grant worked for McVitie & Price and when they merged in 1948 with McFarlane Lang became United Biscuits. Today over 71 million packets are sold ever year thats 52 biscuits per second. All this and more can be found at the United Biscuits website. ~ ~ ~ Packaging ~ ~ ~ Tried and tested is how I would describe these. Nothing funky but the distinctive bright red foil packaging is I think, one of the most recognisable ...

manunas22 30.05.2003 · Read full review
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When I was a young lad, the idea of chilling out with a cup of herbal tea and a digestive completely appalled me. Drinking was all about various types of pop whilst if a biscuit wasn't covered in either icing or chocolate then what, to be frank, was the point!? My tastes have now however changed somewhat and, much to the potential embarassment of my inner child I'm sure, digestives have become my favourite biscuits and, of these, I like no brand ...
...Unless you live on another planet (in which case - Hello!!) then you will know that McVities produce just about the most famous digestives around but did you know that they actually invented them? Well, a young employee of theirs called Alexander Grant came up with the recipe and they were named Digestives in honour of their high baking soda content which was thought to aid digestion. Now, one hundred years later they are the biggest selling regular ...

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Have you ever gone through a phase where you find yourself munching biscuits everyday? Or maybe you find you cannot go through a day without that pack of crisps? I am going through that phase right now. Not with crisps, mind you, but my weakness is for that pack of McVities digestives. "Why, of all failures, does it have to be those biscuits? They look so plain and wholesome?" You ask? "Well," I replied, "I just love them." The packaging, I admit, ...
...wrapper that cries out to you while you walk past it in the shopping aisle. Bright, yes, in reddish orange with the words "McV" for McVities, The Original Digestive in large bold words. While unwrapping them, a couple will fall out, in their eager to leave their neighbours in the tightly rolled packed of biscuits. They do not look all that appetizing. Round and brown, with the words "McVitie's, the original" branded on the surface of it, not as ...

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I buy the boxed 400g biscuits and apart from dunking them in my tea, I also use them for: The crumbed base of Lemon Meringues. Layer them between chocolate moose. Place strawberries and meringue on top. They are also tasty as a savoury dish with any type of cheese and a slice of cucumber. Pipe melted chocolate on them creating faces and name places for children's parties. So much fun... These biscuits are about 3 inches across in size. The colour ...
...McVities the Original) They are carefully packaged in a white plastic covering and then boxed. A rich red box with their blue/white logo. The boxed version does help to protect them as I always find the packets always have broken biscuits at the top and bottom. They are of a smooth texture but not too hard and not too soft. They have just the right consistency that you can gently halve them ready to eat or dunk. (Count one, two, three, because after ...

TeresaTunaley 27.05.2003 (28.05.2003) · Read full review
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"A drink's too wet without one!" Or so thought Alexander Grant of United Biscuits as he was having his tea-break and nibbling on a Rich Tea biscuit....but that's another story. Of course United Biscuits wasn't called UB 100 years ago, it was called Mcvyties & Price. But it wasn't until lunch-time that he came up with the idea of adding lashings of baking soda to a biscuit to aid digestion, and after a thrillingly heated brainstorming session, the ...
...done Eck! MCVYTIES DIGESTIVE come wrapped in a bright, red foil package that I really don't need to describe any further as anyone who hasn't seen these must walk around with a bag on their head.....(I'm NOT implying that any members of Ciao should wear a bag over their head.....well, not a plastic one, anyway. That's dangerous). The package is where you'll find all the nutritional info, ingredients etc. Not here. Bottom line: 70-odd kcal per biscuit. ...

proxam 15.10.2003 · Read full review
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If you were to say to me the word ‘biscuit’ the first thing that would pop into my mind would be the McVities’ Digestive biscuit. For some reason this just seem to be to be the ultimate biscuit. Throughout my childhood it was virtually omnipresent (apart from a brief period where the Hovis digestive resided in our biscuit tin); there would nearly always be a packet in our biscuit tin. I think it would be fair to say that there can hardly be a person ...
...digestive. You can buy McVities digestives in every supermarket and most smaller convenience stores; the true mark of a popular product. They are found in the biscuit aisle and are instantly recognisable with their predominantly red package. On the left side of the packet there is a large blue arrow with a white ‘McV’ inside it. Above the arrow is another blue box with ‘McVities’ in smaller letters. Underneath the arrow the following is found: ‘the ...

jammy_banana 05.09.2004 · Read full review
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So here I was last night and finally got a message from Ciao which let me get back into my account and by the time I had found the email and the new password, I only managed to rate one days works. So here I am this morning rating now from the 16th February and stacked up with coffee on tap, I thought I wonder if I have any nibbles and in the back of the cupboard there was a packet of McVities Digestive Biscuits. I have not had these for ages and ...
...I am not a biscuity sort of person but today is going to be a long day, so hey ho and here we go. I bought these on special offer at Spar the other day and you paid 99p for a 250g Milk Chocolate Digestive and also got a 250g Original Digestive Biscuit with it as well, so I thought well that is not bad for them, so off it jumped into my basket. Now the packaging is bright red and it has the McV logo on the front on a blue background together with ...

BUBBLES171 28.02.2004 · Read full review
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There is, I find, a hierarchy of excitement in the biscuit world. Up at the top of the tree we have the specialist, luxury biscuits: Boasters, Toffee Pops, Jestives, the real celebrities of the biscuit milieu. A bit further down the Jammie Dodgers and chocolate chip cookies form a bourgeois middle-class of biscuit. Below them come the resolutely bog standard bourbons, custard creams and Rich Tea. And lurking right at the bottom of the pile, comes ...
...a dirty studio flat somewhere in Newark, spending most of its time making lacklustre and largely unsuccessful attempts to make friends on Internet chatrooms. That’s right: it’s the digestive. Not a bad biscuit, morally speaking, but a biscuit so devoid of anything even beginning to approach liveliness that it almost eclipses its own biscuithood and becomes something akin to, well, don’t know… bread maybe. Even the very thought of a digestive sends ...

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As a kid I used to spend all my spare time at my nana’s, nana was an amazing cook and used to make the best pie’s, curries biscuits and the most amazing tatty hash. However she was never more content than when she sat down with a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit. I used to be horror struck if I was offered one, too me they represented the most boring biscuit going. Oh how wrong I was. Mcvities digestives have been around longer than I care too ...
...a base for cheesecake, with butter for cheese or jam, an essential ingredient of chocolate biscuit cake, or just as themselves dunked in a hot cuppa tea. Packaging The packet is a red base colour, with an actual picture of several biscuits on the end, and a blue square edged with yellow at the other end with Mcvities in small white writing and a large m small c large V in white writing. On the bottom is written the original digestive in white on ...

paulwaz 10.12.2003 · Read full review
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I was feeling biscuity, needed something sweet no biscuits in the cupboard but I was going to the corner shop the only biscuits they sold that I fancied were Mcvities digestive. These biscuits cost 54p for 500g pack in Tesco’s, bother I did not check price in corner shop and can not find receipt however they were probably a penny or two more things usually cost a bit more in corner shops. So I made myself a cup of tea and opened the pack, I ...
...biscuits successfully. These biscuits are round about 3 inches 70 cm in diameter. They are a golden brown colour and have MC VITIES THE ORIGINAL printed across the biscuit with the ear of wheat logo imprinted into the biscuit. I take a bite it is hard, crisp once in your mouth it crumbles. The taste is slightly sweet and wheat it is a warming taste satisfying. Some might find it a little plain and boring, but when you want just a plain biscuit ...

mumsymary 05.12.2005 · Read full review
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Digestives are without a doubt superior to all other biscuits, cookies and cakes for dunking in the perfect cup of tea. Ok, they do go a bit soggy sometimes and you sometimes find them when you get to the bottom, but the end is worth the means. It is, therefore, imperative that with the perfect cup of tea comes the perfect digestive, as tea is one of the few areas in which the British excel, and as far as digestives go, McVities are the best. Not ...
...than some other (very slightly cheaper) brands, they are also slightly darker around the edges, which seems to have made them crunchier (therefore less likely to fall into your tea) and somehow gives them a little more of that Digestive taste, without them being too sweet, therefore they are also very good with a nice bit of cheese... ...

minimunchkin 06.08.2008 · Read full review
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The best biscuit by far but not for opening and trying to get one out of the packet as guaranteed the top six to eight biscuits are broken every time and it leaves a huge mess everywhere, in our office we all love a milk chocolate digestive but we are slowing changing our mind due to the mess they leave, pleast find alternative packaging for these delicious biscuits so that no mess is made thank you ...

breakeable 20.02.2008
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Used to really love these biscuits. Dry but with that little bit extra - a real favourite. So what happened. Always a brand supporter I bought a packet last week. Mid day break - sat down to dunk and - refastened the packet. Decided there was something not quite right and needed a second opinion. My chidren confirmed it, my husband confirmed it - something had changed. Renouned for its crumbly texture and 'gritty' texture there was nothing. In fact ...
...a replacement pack the next day and found them the same. So has the recipe changed. My family have now chosen a cheaper brand and decided that the lost flavour was back - so goodbye to Mcvities - although I can think of worse things than sampling their other products. ...

cornishcoast 03.03.2008 · Read full review
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I know about Digestive's because I see them in the shops all the time. McVitie's Digestive's sell really well but are they the one that takes the biscuit? WHAT ARE DIGESTIVE'S? Digestive's are a biscuit, the type of Digestive's I'm reviewing are the McVitie's type. TASTE I find that when I take a bite out of a Digestive, I find it dry, you can really taste the wheat. I think it should be less dry. SMELL The biscuit smells wheaty and oaty, I ...
...much. VALUE FOR MONEY You can buy McVitie's Digestive's from some leading supermarkets, and these are the prices you have to pay if you want a packet. Sainsbury's: 84p - 500g - Too much to pay! Asda: 81p - 500g - Too much to pay! Tesco: 82p - 500g - Too much to pay! Ocado: 82p - 500g - Too much to pay! I think this is too expensive! OVERALL In my opinion, the Digestive is too dry and too expensive. Hope this helped, AlexanderBanks ...

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These biscuits are the best digestives I’ve eaten so far in a lifetime spent looking for the perfect digestive. Other makes I’ve tried have either been to dry and hard or too salty. These are just right. moist enough to eat by themselves and soft, but not too crumbly. Enough strength to withstand being smothered in butter cheese. Good flavour and overall a great biscuit. Now can we just find an easier less stressful way to get them out the packaging? ...
...the wrapping! Who was the sadist who invented that “pull here” little yellow tab? Pulling, wrenching, clawing with fingernails.. it’s all futile. And when you do get the tab to pull it always seems to go sideways and stick half way. I’d recommend the biscuits in an instant, but warn buyers to come prepared with a sharp knife to cut into the packet to get them out. ...

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