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What do digestives do?

In fact, almost nothing.

Cookies-digestive (digestive biscuit) was invented by the McVithies company - more precisely, one of its young employees Alexander Grant - in 1892 in Edinburgh.

The product was advertised as "digestive" (a euphemism for "reducing gas") due to its high soda content and dark, coarse flour. No one has scientifically confirmed this statement - therefore, it is illegal to sell this product under the name "digestive" in the USA. The American equivalent is "graham cracker".

McVithies Original Digestive continues to be Britain's ninth most important biscuit brand, with annual sales of £20m.

McVithies' bestseller and number two in Britain is the chocolate digestif produced since 1925. The largest brand in this sector of production was and remains "Kit-Kat".

Annual sales of chocolate digestifs exceed 35 million pounds sterling - and this is 71 million packs, or 52 cookies per second. Despite recent, rather dubious, mint, orange, and caramel variants, the digestif has always been chocolate first and foremost. The famous American writer and traveler Bill Bryson called it "a British masterpiece".

Biscuits are one of the oldest human foodstuffs. In Switzerland, for example, they found cookies baked six thousand years ago. Cookies were eaten in Egypt and baked in ancient Rome as early as the XNUMXnd century AD. e.

Translated from French, biscuit (cookie) means "twice-baked", but the English term goes directly to the Latin biscoctum partem, "twice-baked bread", and until the middle of the XNUMXth century it was spelled absolutely correctly - bisket.

The adoption of the French spelling biscuit (but without the French pronunciation) was not only nonsensical and pretentious, but essentially wrong. In French, un biscuit means just not a cookie, but a cake - or a biscuit, to be very precise. Cookies in the English sense of the word are called by the French a little differently: un biscuit sec.

In North America, the word biscuits means rather British scones - wheat or barley cakes made from yeast dough. What the British call biscuits, the Americans call cookies or crackers. The American word cookie comes from the Dutch koekje, which means "cake", "cake".

Previously, cookies were baked several times to make them last longer than bread, but this practice is almost never used these days. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, biscuits (that is, biscuits) intended for long-distance sea voyages were usually baked four times.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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