Biscuits

[Steve the Pocket]

I'll have to add "digestive biscuit" to my list of odd British foods. It sounds like it means basically a cookie with little or no sugar in it, eaten like we'd eat Ritz crackers. I don't think such a thing exists in the States.

[Bocaj Claw]

When I went to Ayer's rock I thought I'd buy a mango biscuit but my friends told me that I really shouldn't risk it. "Biscuit mangoes, yes but mango biscuits, that's a con" but I set in my heels and set off to prove them wrong.

Et cetera... but what I thought were mango biscuits were nothing more than custard creams.

[Rooster]

I'll have to add "digestive biscuit" to my list of odd British foods. It sounds like it means basically a cookie with little or no sugar in it, eaten like we'd eat Ritz crackers. I don't think such a thing exists in the States.

Odd British foods? ODD BRITISH FOODS!?!!!

Sir, I put to you that as God made the Universe for the British, that it is in fact YOU with the odd foodstuffs.

Seriously though, digestives are NOTHING to the might of the custard cream!

[Tom Flapwell]

Yes, "digestive" suggests to me that it serves a nutritional or medicinal purpose, not something you'd eat just for pleasure. It might even be like a solid bicarbonate of soda.

[baloki]

I'll have to add "digestive biscuit" to my list of odd British foods. It sounds like it means basically a cookie with little or no sugar in it, eaten like we'd eat Ritz crackers. I don't think such a thing exists in the States.

Odd British foods? ODD BRITISH FOODS!?!!!

Sir, I put to you that as God made the Universe for the British, that it is in fact YOU with the odd foodstuffs.

Seriously though, digestives are NOTHING to the might of the custard cream!

I see your cream and raise you a borbon good sir!

[Bocaj Claw]

I'll have to add "digestive biscuit" to my list of odd British foods. It sounds like it means basically a cookie with little or no sugar in it, eaten like we'd eat Ritz crackers. I don't think such a thing exists in the States.

Odd British foods? ODD BRITISH FOODS!?!!!

Sir, I put to you that as God made the Universe for the British, that it is in fact YOU with the odd foodstuffs.

Seriously though, digestives are NOTHING to the might of the custard cream!

I find it interesting how wildly the British and American cultures have diverged. For example, I'm reading an English to American dictionary right now.