A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland, and is popular worldwide. The digestive was first developed in 1839 by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion.
A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland, and is popular worldwide. The digestive was first developed in 1839 by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion.
The term "digestive" is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties due to the use of sodium bicarbonate when they were first developed. Historically, some producers used diastatic malt extract to "digest" some of the starch that existed in flour prior to baking.
First manufactured in 1892, McVitie's digestive is the best-selling biscuit in the UK. The digestive is ranked the fourth most popular biscuit for "dunking" into tea among the British public, with the chocolate digestive coming in at number one. A YouGov poll saw McVitie's chocolate digestive ranked the third most popular and seventh most famous confectionery in the UK.
In 1839, digestives were developed in the United Kingdom by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion. Digestives featured in advertisements for the Berkshire-based biscuit company Huntley & Palmers in 1876, with a recipe being given in Cassell's "New Universal Cookery Book" of 1894. In 1851 an issue of The Lancet London's advertising section offered brown meal digestive biscuits.
At the time, it was asserted grain millers knew only of bran and endosperm. After 10% of the whole grain's coarser outer-bran coat was removed, and because the innermost 70% of pure endosperm was reserved for other uses, brown meal, representing only 20% of the whole grain, remained, consisting of about 15% fine bran and 85% white flour.
By 1912 it was more widely known that brown meal included the germ, which lent a characteristic sweetness. In 1889, John Montgomerie of Scotland filed a U.S. patent application, which was granted in 1890. This patent asserted a prior patent existed in England dated 1886.
The U.S. patent, titled "Making Malted Bread", included instructions for the manufacture of digestive biscuits. Montgomerie claimed this saccharification process would make "nourishing food for people of weak digestion".
Despite rumours that it is illegal for them to be sold under their usual name in the United States, they are, in fact, widely available in imported food sections of grocery stores and by mail order.
The typical digestive biscuit contains coarse brown wheat flour (which gives it its distinctive texture and flavour), sugar, malt extract, vegetable oil, wholemeal, raising agents (usually sodium bicarbonate, tartaric acid and malic acid) and salt. Dried whey, oatmeal, cultured skimmed milk and emulsifiers such as DATEM may also be added in some varieties.
A digestive biscuit averages around 70 calories, although this sometimes varies according to the factors involved in its production. Digestive biscuits are frequently eaten with tea or coffee. Sometimes, the biscuit is dunked into the tea and eaten quickly due to the biscuit's tendency to disintegrate when wet.
Digestive biscuits are one of the top 10 biscuits in the United Kingdom for dunking in tea. The digestive biscuit is also used as a cracker with cheeses, and is often included in "cracker selection" packets.
In the UK, McVitie's digestive is the best selling biscuit, with 80 million packs sold annually. Digestives are also popular in food preparation for making into bases for cheesecakes and similar desserts.
Digestive biscuits are also available, coated on the underside with milk, dark or white chocolate. Originally produced by McVitie's in 1925 in the UK as the Chocolate Homewheat Digestive, other varieties include the basic biscuit with chocolate shavings throughout (chocolate "chips" in the biscuit mix), or a layer of caramel, mint chocolate, orange-flavoured chocolate, or plain chocolate.
American travel writer Bill Bryson described the chocolate digestive as "a British masterpiece". The McVitie's chocolate digestive is the most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea.
McVitie's digestive biscuits have become known among fans of the rock group The Beatles because they were the cause of an argument between George Harrison and John Lennon during a recording session for the group's 1969 album Abbey Road.
The incident was recounted by recording engineer Geoff Emerick in his book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles.
According to Emerick, Lennon's wife Yoko Ono was in the recording studio and at one point helped herself to Harrison's box of McVitie's while the Beatles were in the control room listening to a playback of the song they'd just recorded. Harrison got angry at Ono, and his subsequent outburst caused Lennon to lose his temper in response.
Chocolate digestives were the technical challenge to the bakers in series 3, episode 8 of The Great British Bake Off. They were also the technical challenge to the bakers in episode 2, season 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show.
In the ITV television show Doc Martin, the character Louisa Glasson (played by Caroline Catz) likes to eat Chocolate digestives. Her boyfriend/husband Martin Ellingham (played by Martin Clunes) tries to give her dietary advice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit
The straw that broke the camels back was not a creative difference or even jealousy caused by a girlfriend - but because of the humble digestive biscuit. The Beatles tore themselves apart in the late 1970s - with the help of a biscuit.
For decades music fans have pointed the finger of blame at one woman for apparently destroying The Beatles - Yoko Ono. But it would seem the wife of the late John Lennon had an accomplice in allegedly breaking up one of the greatest bands of all time. A biscuit.
For now, five decades after the Fab Four decided to throw in the towel and stop performing as a group, the humble digestive has been uncovered as the key catalyst in the She Loves You singers suffering an irreparable fall out.
The humbled Digestive Biscuit has been dragged into the decades long argument of what caused The Beatles to split. While many have often accused 86-year-old legend Yoko as the reason for the band splitting up (some fans feel the Japanese-Ameircan beauty created a wedge between John and Paul McCartney), the band ultimately tore themselves apart.
However, in a new interview with sound engineer Geoff Emerick to mark 50 years since the release of final The Beatles album the boys all worked together on, Abbey Road, the digestive has been accused of being the final straw in a bubbling argument that intensified across the creation of the album.
Casting his mind back to the recording of the album, Geoff recalls how things began to get heated when Yoko had a bed delivered to the recording studio. Abbey Road was the last time George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon worked on music together in the same room.
“Jaws dropping, we watched as it was brought in and carefully positioned by the stairs… More men appeared with sheets and pillows and sombrely made up the bed. Then Yoko climbed in,” he recounts to the Express.
“Out of the corner of my eye I could see that Paul, Ringo and George were as gobsmacked as I was. For the next month Yoko lived in that bed,” he continued.
He then recalled how Yoko would give feedback on the music the Beatles were making - and got the band’s heckles up when she referred to them as “Beatles”, not “The Beatles” - with the sound engineer saying he remembered Paul saying: “Actually it’s The Beatles, luv,” with Geoff adding: “But she persistently ignored him.”
Tensions continued to mount with Paul and John apparently refusing to allow each other to sing on certain parts of certain tracks - and refusing to give credit to each others’ work.
But things turned irrevocably sour when George Harrison furiously branded Yoko a “B***h” when “he spied her stealing one of the digestive biscuits he’d hidden on top of his Leslie cabinet.”
Geoff recalls: “By this stage, whenever the four of them were together it was like a tinderbox and anything could set them off – even something as dumb as a digestive biscuit!”
The band famously split up following the creation of the album - with John going on to enjoy chart success with his wife. While Abbey Road was the final album the band worked on together as a four - the album Let It Be was released the following year, but had been recorded mostly before.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sound-engineer-reveals-biscuit-really-18953273
George Harrison had very little good to say about Yoko Ono. What were the incidents that led to this? Yoko was initially thrust on the Beatles when they first went in to record the White Album. There were tremendous good feelings among the band during the rehearsal process and her presence was a disruption.
The Beatles’ policy regarding visitors wasn’t really no one or no wives and girlfriends as they have sometimes stated - it was really about no one gawking and being disruptive.
Brian Epstein, whom the Beatles loved, was not permitted in the studio because he had nothing to add and tried, once, to use it as an opportunity to impress a friend.
Paul had invited someone who camped out in front of his house and claimed to be Jesus during the recording of Sgt. Pepper as long as he promised to be quiet and unobtrusive, which he did. If Yoko had sat in and quietly watched and let the band work, her presence would not have been an issue.
She wasn’t just pushy and she didn’t just interject her uninformed opinions, she was outright rude to the people who worked at Abbey Road and she even got John to take part in talking down to people.
This is remarkable, because Lennon had been particularly vocal about the way the British were treating the people in the Bahamas during the filming of Help. Lennon had been a voice for the downtrodden working class, but now was perfectly happy to revel in Yoko’s aristocratic disdain and disregard for “inferiors”.
Barry Miles in the Zapple Diaries discusses Tony Bramwell and Derek Taylor’s observation of this. “the real reason people disliked Yoko (wasn’t racism but) because she ordered them about and sent them on errands in a particularly rude way; she was brought up with servants and that’s how she treated the staff of Apple.
Goerge found it particularly galling that she never gave the Beatles their definite article. He told me, ‘She would say, “Beatles do that” and “Beatles do that”, and we would say, “Uh, it’s ‘The’ Beatles actually, love.”
Not only did this attitude turn George off, he did not respect her as an artist. George was the first of the Beatles to have real issues with her. When Harrison was in NY and spent time with Dylan and The Band, they apparently told him what they knew about Yoko and it wasn’t good.
In “Lennon Remembers”, he told Rolling Stone magazine, “And George, shit, insulted her right to her face in the Apple office at the beginning; just being ‘straight forward’ you know, that game of ‘Well, I’m going to be upfront because this is what we’ve heard and Dylan and a few people said she’s got a lousy name in New York, and you gave off bad vibes.’ That’s what George said to her and we both sat through it, and I didn’t hit him. I don’t know why.”
It should be noted that George had grown very attached to John after they had their first LSD experience together and Yoko created a wedge, but it would be wrong to conclude that jealousy was the driving force.
Yoko went out of her way to make herself unlikable and she was possessive of John in such a way that her insecurities required John be isolated from all of his friends and family including his son.
Things got so bad during the Let it Be sessions that John had stopped talking and let Yoko speak for him. This meant that George, who had been the #3 person in the band, was now #4 behind Yoko, so he quit. This is documented in Doug Sulpy’s excellent, “Drugs, Divorce, and a Slipping Image.”
During the Abbey Road sessions, John and Yoko were away during part of the recording because John crashed his car and they had to be hospitalized. When John returned, he had a bed placed in the studio for Yoko who claimed she was still recuperating.
The often told story about Yoko getting up to take George’s biscuits that he kept on his amp and George erupting in anger, was not about her taking his biscuit, but that it was clear evidence that she was not really bedridden and having a bed in the studio was just her being manipulative and demanding.
The issue about her introducing John to heroin was a complaint that was raised by Paul. I have not read George address this. Yoko claims that she did not push this on John, but that he asked her how it was and she said it was nice.
Was John capable of making his own decision and not forced to try heroin? Yes. Would he have tried heroin if he hadn’t met Yoko? Maybe - maybe not. It is hard to say, but keep in mind that John’s great love was for Alma Cogan who died 2 weeks before he met Yoko, and Cogan certainly wouldn’t have introduced Lennon to heroin.
Keep in mind, Yoko has free well as well. If Paul had emphatically insisted that Linda be included in Beatles promo photos, Linda would have dug in her heels and adamantly refused. Yoko either accepted John’s invitation or insisted she be included in photos, which understandably did not please George (or Paul or Ringo).
This is a little gossipy. We don't know these people and sometimes people just don't like each other and there is no specific incident that caused it. They may not even dislike each other as much as it appears to us.
However there is an interview with Yoko where she says something to the effect of- I got John off his crippling LSD addiction by giving him heroin… I didn't offer it to him he insisted that we share the same drug habit and … George seems to blame me for it. (I'm sorry that this isn't better sourced, it's what I remember)
My impression was always that George didn't want Yoko in the studio with them. Thought that her joining the group was ridiculous, that her art was ridiculous, and that she was bad for John. She and John made some very dismissive comments about his intelligence. Yoko- George is fashion smart (As a summery of his intelligence)
To my ears these two people simply didn't respect one another. It's worth noting though that they knew each other for decades in the end and mostly got along. According to Paul one of the last things George asked of him was to bury the hatchet with Yoko and try to get along.
In principle I believe George felt that resenting Yoko wasn't worth it. He forgave the past even if he didn't respect or like her. (And what do we know, maybe at sometime he did)
George simply didn’t like her demeanor. She butted in on Beatle discussions in the studio, would sit next to John at recording sessions. She was rude, self imposing and bent John’s ear.
None of other Beatles or their producer George Martin liked her in the studio. John didn’t even introduce her to people beforehand. One day, there she was sitting next to John in the studio during the White Album sessions.
The Beatles were a tight knit group of “guys” and sticklers for “no girlfriends or wives” in the studio as they were there to work. John broke that rule without even asking permission. And to top it all off she was just butting in to band discussions like she was part of the group. That pissed George off a lot.
There was also an incident where George asked John to appear at the ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ and John said he would do it, then called back and said he’d only do it now if Yoko was allowed to be on stage with him.
George knew that was Yoko annoying John about not being invited and he refused. John hung up on him. Nothing more annoying than someone’s wife making your long time friend be a wimp around you.
He probably resented her from the very first time he met her. He felt threatened by her perhaps as well. Harrison couldn’t adapt probably to the new change in the personalities of the other 2 Beatles’ guitarists. John Lennon of course, softened his macho views on the women being allowed to enter their workplace.
Before that, the recording studio was no place for a “lady” to be. Yoko insisted that they change and at least listen to what she had to say, and one must have been to at least allow one woman in so that she could see and hear the workings of their magic.
Later on Paul then allowed Linda to go in and record some music with him. George was married to Patti but wasn’t really getting along too well, as their marriage was beginning to slowly disintegrate.
Nonetheless, Patti still began sneaking in there too after awhile. Then she began flirting around with whomever. I think her and Ringo had an affair. So that’s a given. George resented Yoko because she started this new organization in feminism within the Beatles inner circle.
Plus, for all the other petty reasons too, like her eating his biscuits without asking according to him, and Yoko having a bed brought into the studio after she and John were in a bad car accident in Scotland. There was mostly ill will over much of it some of it may have had to do with racism as well. But, who really knows for certain?
George disliked Yoko. That is a known fact. As to why, exactly, one can only speculate, and I speculate that he disliked her for the same reasons that I dislike her.
She was pushy and demanding, she expected The Beatles to treat her like a musical equal even though she had no musical talent at that time, she interrupted their studio work, she made disparaging comments about their songs, she dominated Lennon’s time, and she turned him onto heroin.
She also evidenced no respect toward the group, she behaved like a free-loader, and she generally brought the mood down wherever she went. Even worse, she treated Julian and Cynthia abominably.
Even one of those reasons would be justification enough for Harrison to feel as he did, but taken all together, how could he NOT dislike her? It was for many of the reasons folks already mentioned.
Butting in on sessions when it was a true “no girls” environment. The “biscuits”. Dylan bad-mouthing her. Her general “demeanor”. Her occupying John’s attention.
Remember Japan didnt have a generally great reputation with the Brits as there were severe atrocities commited by the Japanese Empire vs British soldiers in SE Asia during the war. Many people think McCartney’s Admiral Halsey as a very subtle dig at Yoko.
Also, the Beatles (particularly George, Paul and Ringo) came from poor families. The Ono family is one of the richest familial legacies in the empire….serving as the bankers to the empirial crown. There was a sense that Yoko’s financial resources gave her an advantage in the art world that was not earned.
I think as time went by, there was a thaw in the relationship. Though they were never likely great friends, they were at least on friendly terms. Consider that Olivia Harrison and Yoko are reasonably friendly and frequently sit next to each other at Beatle events (Circ de solei “Love” performances, Ringo or Paul concerts, etc…).
When Paul had his last visit with George before his death, Harrison told him to try to forgive Yoko, telling McCartney “you don’t want to carry that around the rest of your life”.
In a scene torn from history, all of George’s anger and resentment about Yoko finally culminated into her theft of his biscuit supply. He lost his composure and called her a bitch I believe.
We should all remember “birds of a feather flock together,” and there are parallels between John and Yoko and Kurt and Courtney and Sid and Nancy and many, many others—the same narcissistic dynamic, an intense honeymoon period followed by an impossible need to control.
We “choose” the romantic other because they hide the same things behind their unconscious “screens.” It’s amazing how complicated people are and how failed is the human dilemma. That a man of John’s stature and success could devolve into Yoko’s passive slave is all the proof we need.
I find acceptance is useful in such situations, rather than blame. Two people made a conscious choice to be with each other and allow and tolerate the behavioral fallout, just as the Beatles enabled it by allowing her to be in the studio. That was a choice they made, don’t forget.
It’s quite perplexing to normal people when the basic way a person is and moves through the world consistently does not add up or make coherent sense. But inside their inner world, everything not only adds up, it is both rational and logical. That they are massively incongruent often never occurs to them, as their insight is impaired.
Most people it seems want to blame the partners of the musician for their downfall, but nothing could be further from the truth. Their dance is a game, and if it’s a sick one, everyone else gets to suffer.
This can't be the only reason (I hope), but at one point while they were in the recording studio, Yoko absentmindedly ate a biscuit that George considered his.
I doubt she knew it was his--and I'm not a Yoko fan, far from it--but the Beatles were well known for not sharing their food in the studio and at the same time considered all food within their sight as fair game.
George turned to the others, who were in the control booth, and exploded, “That bitch!” I assume he had already put up with a lot at her hands, but that was the first time he gave voice to those feelings.
When they closed their Apple store, they had a night before closing, when friends were invited to come in and pick up items they liked at good prices. Yoko sent a truck to get all kinds of items, which did not further endear her to the others.
In response to another person, who answered that Yoko did not have musical talent ‘at that time', I would suggest she NEVER had any talent, still doesn't, and her master plan included using John to become a superstar on her own, which even with his total support did not happen.
There's a clip of the two on the Dick Cavett Show, when she tried to sing. Nothing I've ever heard sounds more like nails on a chalkboard than that. It's a scream. Literally.
While Yoko was probably a bit abrasive, it's more what Yoko represented, and became the catalyst for, that made George so irritated with her. When Yoko showed up, George had just been working very hard on his songwriting skills as well as his overall musicianship.
At the time of the White Album sessions, he had a backlog of music. He really wanted John and Paul to give it a listen and help him develop it. As I mentioned in another post, each of the Beatles’ characters had defects that were sho...Brrrr.
The air has suddenly grown rather chilly. I have no particular bias - some people didn’t have nice things to say about George. But if you want to see just how cold and uncharismatic a person she is watch her performance at Glastonbury 2014, it is a masterclass in how to disperse a large crowd.
I would like to think it was because he didn’t consider her to be an equal artist. She was manipulative, demanding and self deserving. It would have and did stifle the bands creativity. Her presence was the beginning of the end. If you had to pinpoint one reason which lead to the end of the Beatles I think that would be it.
Reedit: I have discovered quite a lot more in the last year, she worked at Warhol’s infamous Studio 59 (the factory) and was fired because he said she had no talent.
She supposedly withheld inheritance from John Lennon’s children. And also stole George Harrison’s biscuits in a which lead to the end of the Beatles - for that she should never be forgiven. George’s business partner ripped him off and left Greorge in dire financial straights at a vulnerable time in his life. Paul, Ringo and Yoko got together and authorized reissues of the band’s catalogue in the Anthology and BBC releases to generate sufficient revenue to make him right again.
Yoko didn’t have to do this. But she agreed because, while she and the others may have benefited from it too, they felt it was an honorable way to help George that he wouldn’t mistake for charity.
That is the action of kind and compassionate friends. Yoko is vilified but, to paraphrase Paul, the Beatles were already breaking up; Yoko just happened to be there while it took place.
YOKO STOLE GEORGE’S COOKIES. yoko had a bad back and so took up heroin which she later gave to john. due to her bad back yoko had a bed brought into Abbey Road Studios and camped out while the Beatles worked.
George left his cookies in the studio and went upstairs to hear playback and yoko uninvited mind you…ate all of georgie boy’s cookies. they had other issues too but that cookie theft broke the sitar players back.
Someone commented on all the fabs growing beards and moustaches at the same time……&…..either george or ringo said….yes -even yoko’s growing one. all this from geoff emerick’s superb book on the studio life of the Beatles—-read it! please.
George Harrison had very little good to say about Yoko Ono. What were the incidents that led to this? Others have given some valid reasons, but the root cause of the discord is far more basic - Yoko Ono is thoroughly obnoxious.
She has no musical or artistic talent but insisted on interfering in the music of the Beatles and John allowed it to keep her happy. She was – and is – a gold digger who was after John’s fame and fortune and nothing else. She is a perfect example of someone to avoid at all costs.
I think it can be summed up best by George’s famous quote about Yoko when she started coming around in the studio: “I honestly don’t remember ever being introduced to her, she just started showing up and wouldn’t go away.”
I don’t blame George for his statement and his feelings were completely justified. She was an usurper and distraction in the studio and totally threw off the Beatles’ chemistry. Yes I know she is not the sole reason the Beatles broke up but she sure as hell didn’t do anything to help keep them together either!
One incident I remember is when he went off on her for eating the last of his biscuits he left on his amp. “It became stifling, so that although this new album was supposed to break away from that type of recording (we were going back to playing live) it was still very much that kind of situation where he already had in his mind what he wanted.
Paul wanted nobody to play on his songs until he decided how it should go. For me it was like: 'What am I doing here? This is painful!' Then superimposed on top of that was Yoko, and there were negative vibes at that time. John and Yoko were out on a limb.
I don't think he wanted much to be hanging out with us, and I think Yoko was pushing him out of the band, and as much as she didn't want him hanging out with us.” - George Harrison
I believe that George resented the inclusion of Yoko’s input into the band's musical production. John had her ever present in the band's recording sessions. I don't know if it was personal, I tend to think it was a problem with outside intrusion into the production process.
It's very distracting to play music in practice, or recording with people's interjection who are unqualified, and not invited by all the members. John used poor judgment allowing the imposition on the other members of his band.
George has made it clear the leadership vacuum created by Brian Epsteins death caused problems with their production model. George was a young man and like many young men then and now he was a tad misogynist and maybe unconsciously racist.
Yoke was his friend’s partner and he should have accepted that from the start. To his credit, he did later. He was probably also jealous that his friend was moving on and leaving the old gang behind. John was the first to realize the Beatles as an entity was done. If they had all realized that together they could maybe have kept the band together in a new way.
https://www.quora.com/George-Harrison-had-very-little-good-to-say-about-Yoko-Ono-What-were-the-incidents-that-led-to-this
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