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The boss of the biscuits factory where McVitie's chocolate digestives have been made for the last 100 years reckons people have always eaten them incorrectly.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025

The British brand McVitie’s even has a dunking expert, Stuart Farrimond, and he claims that dunking digestives in a milky drink releases more flavor than you’d get from a dry one.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

Historically, digestives were made with wholemeal, a combination of fine bran and white flour.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

A cushion of whipped vanilla cream lies under a landslide of shattered digestives with a few berries in mourning.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2014

The harmful practice of the lean and the fleshy sufferers of resorting to daily medicines—cathartics, digestives and tonics—has been commented upon.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)