digestive biscuit
Britishnoun
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From the Dahl legacy, chocolate and bile and personality sloshing messily in all directions, he molds a digestive biscuit.
From New York Times
It’s a heady mix of bourbon, apple juice, amaretto, cannelle syrup and digestive biscuit.
From The Guardian
It would take pages and pages to describe what it was like for a young and unsophisticated feminist journalist to land her first job at Ms. — there’s Steinem, laughing with you about whether a McVitie’s digestive biscuit counts as a whole cookie, or Abzug, inches away and moving through a crowd like a steamroller in a terrific hat; here are typewritten pieces by Flo Kennedy and Robin Morgan — so I won’t even try.
From Los Angeles Times
Prepare the breadcrumbs: heat a little olive oil in a pan and add the crumbs, along with a pinch of salt, pushing them around so they are toasted and smell like a digestive biscuit.
From The Guardian
Meanwhile Chelsea defended with all the resistance of an overly dunked digestive biscuit, three of the four Ajax goals scored from the kind of spaces that speak to some kind of systems failure, a shutdown, a category mistake.
From The Guardian
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