Although I'm not British, I am of British ancestry. A digestive is simply a plain type of cookie (or biscuit as they would say in the UK), usually taken with a cup of tea. Sometimes they are plain and other times they are coated on one side with chocolate. Reminds me of visiting my granny.
Stephen Gallagher P.S. There is no such thing as an English citizen. People from the UK are British citizens (not British Subjects, by the way), as are people from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: November 26, 2001 19:22 Subject: [USMA:16403] More metric items > Picked up the following items at a Stop & Shop in Middletown, New York. > They had a large selection of foods imported from England, most with no > colloquial units on them. I only bought a representative sample. > (Categories per USMA consumer page.) > > beans Batchelors Curried Beans (UK) 400 g > > other sauces HP Curry Sauce 250 g > > ketchup Chef Tomato Ketchup 340 g > (Nestle, Switzerland) > > onions Haywards Traditional Onions 270 g > (bottled, UK) > > cookies McVitie's Shortcake (UK) 200 g > > Jacob's Chocolate Digestive 150 g > (UK) > > candy Yorkie Chocolate Bar 70 g > (Nestle, Ireland) > > > The "Digestive" appears to be a type of cookie. Can one of our English > members tell me what "Digestive" means to English citizens? Sounds like a > medicine to me. > > Jim Elwell >
