There are some foods that you can very obviously eat ‘wrong’. Biting into a pomegranate like an apple would be one example, or chomping a Babybel without removing the red wax first.
But did you know you’ve probably been eating Chocolate Digestive biscuits incorrectly your entire life?
You’re not alone in this though, as apparently it’s been happening for the last 100 years.
According to the experts over at McVities, who have been producing the iconic biscuit since 1925, the snack is supposed to be eaten with the biscuit side facing up and the chocolate side down, so that it’s on your tongue.
Speaking to the BBC, Anthony Coulson, the general manager of the company’s biscuits factory, explained that this is the way the product was originally designed to be eaten.
This is because the chocolate side has always been considered the ‘bottom’ of the biscuit.
While some will probably think it’s nonsense to worry about which way a biscuit is shoved into their gob, it turns out this ‘chocolate goes on the bottom’ rule doesn’t just apply to Digestives, but but Hobnobs and even Jaffa Cakes too.
A McVities spokesperson previously told Metro: ‘When we make our McVitie’s chocolate biscuits – whether that be Chocolate Hobnobs, Chocolate Digestives, or Jaffa Cakes – they go through a reservoir of chocolate on the production line.
‘This essentially “enrobes” the bottom in chocolate – so we can confirm that the chocolate is officially on the bottom of the biscuits.’
Which way do you eat Chocolate Digestives?
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Couldn’t care less where the chocolate is, it still tastes great
And if this revelation has blown your mind, it might also shock you to learn that you’ve probably been dunking your biscuits wrong as well.
McVities previously worked with scientist Dr Helen Pilcher to discover what the ‘optimal’ dunking conditions were for their most popular products, and she revealed that the average biscuit should absorb 20% of its original weight in liquid for the best dunk.
And this happens much faster than you might realise, according to the expert. So you really don’t need to dunk for long.
When it comes to Chocolate Digestives, Dr Pilcher says the optimal dunking time is 3.6 seconds, and you’ll be in the dunking ‘danger zone’ if you get close to 12 seconds.
She also advised dunking the chocolate biscuits in Earl Grey tea instead of an English Breakfast.
‘Taken with Earl Grey tea the chocolate mixes beautifully with the bergamot, to make a liquid chocolate orange flavour.’
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