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BBC News, Manchester
Getty ImagesThe boss of the biscuits manufacturing unit the place McVitie’s chocolate digestives had been made for the final 100 years reckons other folks have at all times eaten them incorrectly.
Anthony Coulson, normal supervisor on the corporate’s chocolate refinery and bakery in Stockport, stated the teatime staple used to be firstly intended to be eaten with the chocolate-covered aspect dealing with down.
“It’s the world’s most incredible debate, whether you have the chocolate on the top or the chocolate on the bottom,” mused Mr Coulson, who admitted he used to be a chocolate-on-top guy.
The manufacturing unit opened in 1917, with the chocolate digestive introduced 8 years later.
About 80 million packets are made once a year, with all the chocolate made in Greater Manchester.
Mr Coulson informed BBC Radio Manchester: “One of the very first things I learnt when I got to join McVitie’s was chocolate side down to eat the digestive.
“Now up till then I’d at all times eaten it the opposite direction spherical…You can do it precisely how you wish to have to do it.”
Mr Coulson said the theory was “it begins to soften, you begin to get the flavor and away you cross”, adding: “It is smart, proper?”
The chocolate digestive was launched about a quarter of a century after the plain variety, whose name was inspired by the belief that the baking powder in the recipe would help with digestion.
Its creation came two years before one of the food manufacturer’s famous creations, the Jaffa Cake, which itself has become something of a confectionery conundrum.
And although people might think of the chocolate digestive as being topped with chocolate, the company has said that as the plain biscuits pass through a “chocolate reservoir”, the chocolate actually coats the underside of it.
Lynn Loftus, who has worked at the factory for 36 years, called the biscuit “undying”, adding that she thought it would be around for many years to come.
Craig Leech, who has worked at McVitie’s for 21 years, started off in the factory by putting the chocolate on top of the biscuits.
“I simply are available in with a favorable perspective. I do know the folk and the goods within out,” said Mr Leech, who is now a planning manager for the refinery.
Alix Knagg, who has been working there for six months, said the chocolate digestive was “nonetheless a perfect product 100 years on”.
