English food revisited

[Brian]

 > bboyminn:

 > Not that I actually know, but isn't a 'Digestive' a little
more like a cracker? Not sure what the Brits call a soup
cracker. A 'Digestive' is a little drier and less sweet,
though likely with a better texture than a common soup
cracker.

DEFINITELY NOT.
A Digestive is thicker and if anything, probably sweeter than other 
plain biscuits, with a slightly malty(?) flavour, certainly not dry.
I'm in Argentina and a friend who is visiting the UK has a "English 
shopping list" of things I miss which she is going to try to bring back 
for me.
The half-coated with chocolate variety "McVities Milk Chocolate 
Digestive" is high on that list, as the king of British Bikkies.
Also on the list - real HP sauce (the nearest I can get here is the 
American A1 which is expensive, similar in taste to HP, but even their 
thick variety is watery by comparison), and salt and vinegar, prawn 
cocktail and bovril crisps (US = chips) .  (The crisps here come in very 
few flavours and the flavours aren't very strong either.)  Oh, and 
Scampi fries (I think that's what they're called - it's been a long time.)
Funny the things you miss when you're thousands of miles away from where 
you were born and brought up.

Brian