People Are Just Realising The 'Correct' Way To Eat Chocolate Digestives, And We're All Doing It Wrong

First, I learn that I’ve been brushing my teeth wrong. 

Then, I find out that I haven’t been applying sunscreen correctly. 

And now, it turns out I can’t even eat a biscuit right (at this point, I’m starting to wonder if I’m even breathing correctly). 

Speaking to BBC Radio Manchester, Anthony Coulson, general manager of the Stockport McVitie’s factory which has made chocolate biscuits for the last 100 years, said: “It’s the world’s most incredible debate, whether you have the chocolate on the top or the chocolate on the bottom.” 

I, for one, am not pleased with his choice. 

The expert eats the biccies chocolate-side down

“One of the very first things I learnt when I got to join McVitie’s was chocolate side down to eat the digestive,” the reprobate biscuit boss told the BBC. 

“Now, up until then, I’d always eaten it the other way round,” he added.

But while he explains that this way, the chocolate “starts to melt, you start to get the flavour and away you go”, he at least had the decency to add: “You can do it exactly how you want to do it.”

To his credit, the biscuits are actually made “upside-down” ― that is to say they’re dipped into an industrial “chocolate river,” rather than being topped with chocolate. 

“It makes sense” that we’d eat it that way too, Coulson said (to a robot, maybe, but not to me!).

People were... displeased 

Though the biscuit may be named “digestive,” people found this particular news hard to stomach (sorry).

In a Reddit post shared to r/CasualUK about the news, people had *intense* feelings about the topic.

“This denies the importance of visual stimulation in eating food. I want to see the rippled chocolate layer going into my mouth,” u/MMATH_101 wrote. 

“It’s part of the experience.” 

“I’d be very surprised if the manufacturing process was more to do with how they thought people should eat them than making sure their branding was still visible, or just ease of mass-production,” u/Flebberflep commented.

Still, one user said they’d converted to the method. 

“It’s the way they are manufactured and there is a definite bigger hit of chocolate taste on your tongue,” u/TheShakyHandsMan opined.

“The side effect of getting chocolate on your thumb is easily solved with a quick lick.”