I just used this phrase, as a humorous substitute for "that's how the cookie crumbles". I did a quick check of the internet and nobody else seems to have used it. I hereby claim it.
If you don't know, digestives are a plain biscuit (cookie). Barely worth eating unless they have chocolate on one side (but pretty good in that case).
Seriously, who eats plain biscuits? Plain digestives, Rich Tea (the worst of the worst), ginger nuts, Lincoln greens, Nice...the sort of biscuits that you might eat if they're available, sure, but who goes into a shop and buys them?
In recent years, I've been gluten free by choice (to coin a phrase), so there haven't been a whole lot of biscuits in my life anyway. But I don't miss any of the above.
(A nice Scottish shortbread is the exception, I'll allow.)
McVites digestives *used to be* worth eating, even when without chocolate, but have been all-but ruined by a change in recipe - and now aren't worth eating even in the milk choc version.
ReplyDelete100% agree that Rich Tea are the worst of the worst! - at least among major biscuits*. I always associate them with visits to old ladies who would offer a cuppa and open the biscuit barrel, which contained nothing but a few prehistoric, stale and rubbery, Rich Teas. I can't imagine why anyone would choose to buy RT's for themselves to eat, given any choice in the matter.
*When I shared a flat at college, one of the other blokes went to a wholesalers and spent our pooled funds to buy a large cardboard box (probably 2ft cubed) packed with a hundred or so packets of absolutely plain, then, powdery, tasteless biscuits. Since we had paid for them we "had to" eat them - or at least *try* to eat them. In fact they were so dry and insubstantial that I found it was impossible except by smearing each with butter, and stacking them in a four or five layered "sandwich". One of these could take the edge off my insatiable young man's hunger, but provided no pleasure at all.
Nobody can say that you've had it easy!
DeleteRich Teas...it occurs to me that maybe old ladies buy them out of a passion for self-denial? Many old ladies seem to suffer from such an affliction and positively seek out the worst of everything...