Which side of a chocolate biscuit is the bottom

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 01:24AM

prinz wrote: »

Notice how you can't see the logo printed on the underide of the biscuity base..

That's because they want you to see the pink fluffy tasty bit, so as to entice you to buy them. They only show the top when there is nothing on the bottom worth looking at

CrazyRabbit · 27-05-2011 01:34AM

The edge is both top and bottom, so I'm going to sit on the fence and choose that.

Kevin Duffy · 27-05-2011 10:04AM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

The edge is both top and bottom, so I'm going to sit on the fence and choose that.

There is no sitting on the fence on this, you are either of big-endian or a little-endian.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Yes.

The top of a biscuit is the ALWAYS the part with name ingrained.

Take a Custard Cream (ah go on, ya will) for example, are you trying to tell me that the two parts of that biscuit that are stuck to the creams are the tops??

That's silly talk.

A Custard Cream is a sandwhich biscuit and is not comparable to the Chocolate-TOPPED biscuit at the heart of this discussion.

pickarooney · 27-05-2011 10:57AM

Digestive biscuits are stored vertically, perpendicular to the length of the package which sits on the shelf. Moreover, the writing is designed to be read with the biscuit facing the reader. Clearly, the notion of top and bottom is erroneous and we should be discussing the front and back of the biscuit. I posit that the chocolate side is the back of the biscuit and the plain side the front.

Hopefully someone will make a cogent argument for the chocolate/plain sides being the left and right faces of the horizontally oriented cylinder.

Krusader · 27-05-2011 10:59AM

Chocolate side is the bottom, unless it's a Toffypot then it's the top

Guill · 27-05-2011 11:00AM

Depends what way you have them facing i suppose.

Top refers to the up side of the biscuit. Therefore it can be either - depending on how you look at it, literally.

prinz · 27-05-2011 11:02AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Digestive biscuits are stored vertically, perpendicular to the length of the package which sits on the shelf. Moreover, the writing is designed to be read with the biscuit facing the reader. Clearly, the notion of top and bottom is erroneous and we should be discussing the front and back of the biscuit. I posit that the chocolate side is the back of the biscuit and the plain side the front..

Your semantic wordplay won't fool this biscuit eater, everyone knows the "back of the biscuit" is code for the bottom. No sirry! I'll not stand for it begob.

Kevin Duffy · 27-05-2011 11:12AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Digestive biscuits are stored vertically, perpendicular to the length of the package which sits on the shelf. Moreover, the writing is designed to be read with the biscuit facing the reader. Clearly, the notion of top and bottom is erroneous and we should be discussing the front and back of the biscuit. I posit that the chocolate side is the back of the biscuit and the plain side the front.

Hopefully someone will make a cogent argument for the chocolate/plain sides being the left and right faces of the horizontally oriented cylinder.

Storage schmorage, biscuits are for eating not looking at and you eat them horiziontally (more or less), not vertically. Unless you are an Amazonian tribesman sticking one in your bottom lip for the laugh. Of course, when they do this, they have the good sense to keep the top, chocolate, side up.

Mint Sauce · 27-05-2011 11:21AM

What about the fancy chocolate digestives that have chocolate on both sides?

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 11:22AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

A Custard Cream is a sandwhich biscuit and is not comparable ..

Sorry, but you are missing the point. It matters not that it is a sandwich biscuit, the fact is that it is made with two biscuits. You want to exclude sandwich biscuits because you realise that it proves my point and that the TOP of the biscuit is the LOGO side, always was and always will be.

Chocolate is on the BASE/BOTTOM.

Also, I think it is a bit rich (tea) to be telling me that I can't use sandwich biscuits to prove a point, coming from the guy who brought fcuking Jaffa CAKES into the debate, that aren't even a God damned biscuit for heavens sake. A post which I reported by the way, but no action seems to have been taken as of yet, lucky for you.

prinz · 27-05-2011 11:26AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

...the TOP of the biscuit is the LOGO side, always was and always will be..

Then why would the top of a toffee pop be the chocolatey side?

Ficheall · 27-05-2011 11:51AM

By the time I started eating chocolate biscuits I had spent years looking up at my parents and other adults eating them, chocolate side-up, and the McVitie's logo had been deeply rooted in my mind. And the logo on my shoes is on the sole.

Martyn1989 · 27-05-2011 12:21PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

The logo is on TOP, the chocolate is on the BASE/BOTTOM.

by that logic you'd football players names on the front of their jerseys

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 02:25PM

.. \:p/

Kevin Duffy · 27-05-2011 03:14PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Sorry, but you are missing the point. It matters not that it is a sandwich biscuit, the fact is that it is made with two biscuits. You want to exclude sandwich biscuits because you realise that it proves my point and that the TOP of the biscuit is the LOGO side, always was and always will be.

Chocolate is on the BASE/BOTTOM.

Also, I think it is a bit rich (tea) to be telling me that I can't use sandwich biscuits to prove a point, coming from the guy who brought fcuking Jaffa CAKES into the debate, that aren't even a God damned biscuit for heavens sake. A post which I reported by the way, but no action seems to have been taken as of yet, lucky for you.

I am not missing the point, I merely disagree with you and I do not accept that the Custard Cream as proof of your point.

I stand over my bringing Jaffa Cakes into the debate as I refuse to recognise the authority of British courts in general and therefore cannot accept their decision on this issue.

I also see the response from McVities on the matter. Again, I refuse to recognise them as an authority as they are the same people who took the action to the courts on the Jaffa Cakes issue. They did that for tax reasons only, thereby surrendering all moral authority to take a position on biscuit TOPPINGS.

phill106 · 27-05-2011 03:35PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

.. \:p/

That looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 03:37PM

phill106 wrote: »

That looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

Sussed, yup .. I bought it in a shop.

prinz · 27-05-2011 03:38PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

.. \:p/

Damn you Pete I was actually thinking of sending someone an email like that

Bruthal · 27-05-2011 03:40PM

nicol wrote: »

This is food related post but not really high-brow enough for Food and Drink I think.

Someone please resolve an argument myself and the OH are having. I'm eating a chocolate digestive and I reckon the chocolate side is the bottom, while she maintains that it's the top.

What do people reckon?? Don't reply unless you agree with my opinion though, as I'm right!!:D

Looks like its You v OH and AH

pickarooney · 27-05-2011 03:43PM

robbie7730 wrote: »

Looks like its You v OH and AH

The OP and OP against OH and AH

Kevin Duffy · 27-05-2011 03:44PM

From their own website, keywords in bold. I rest my case.

For the serious chocolate lovers, the best of both worlds have come together to provide you with a delicious wheat biscuit covered in a layer of milk chocolate. The crunch of the biscuit combined with the melting of the rich chocolate make this a perfect, if slightly more indulgent, treat.
First sold in the United Kingdom in 1925, today over 75 million packets of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives are eaten each year, an amazing 52 biscuits per second. Mind you, for those who already know the yummy taste of McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives that figure comes as no surprise!

McVitie’s Dark Chocolate Digestive

For all those chocolate addicts, McVitie’s perfected the ultimate biscuit; the McVitie’s Dark Chocolate Digestive. The mouth-watering combination of strong, almost bitter cocoa flavour of dark chocolate with the sweet crumble of the Digestive and the simplicity of the topping makes it an ideal treat.
Contains no artificial flavours or colours, and no hydrogenated fat.

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 03:51PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

drivel

You highlighted the word "covered", nobody denies that one side of the biscuit is "covered" - so that was time wasted.

Secondly, you highlighted the word "topping" :rolleyes:

Sure a fecking iced donut has a "topping", are you going tell the class that you believe a ring donet has a TOP and a BOTTOM and they put the icing where they did because that was the TOP??

Mr. Presentable · 27-05-2011 03:53PM

The side with the hair on it.........

MoodeRator · 27-05-2011 03:59PM

Shows how the recession has really hit home now! People no longer boast of second homes or this years BMW, oh no!
Now it is down to bragging in threads about having posh Chocolate digestives instead of plain digestives!:(
OP your OH does not deserve you!

Kevin Duffy · 27-05-2011 03:59PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

You highlighted the word "covered", nobody denies that one side of the biscuit is "covered" - so that was time wasted.

Secondly, you highlighted the word "topping" :rolleyes:

Sure a fecking iced donut has a "topping", are you going tell the class that you believe a ring donet has a TOP and a BOTTOM and they put the icing where they did because that was the TOP??

Covered in this context clearly indicates topside covering. You would cover, for example, a bed, not throw the duvet under it.

Topping....TOPping....the clue is in there somewhere. In the donut example, or the biscuit, it matters not where the top and bottom are prior to the covering being applied, as the top clearly becomes the top once it is covered. Are you saying you would take your Krispy Creme donut with sprinkles etc and lay it down on a surface, plain side up, topping sticking to the surface? Come sir, do not dissemble with me.

R P McMurphy · 27-05-2011 04:03PM

Chocolate on the Bottom

NothingMan · 27-05-2011 04:04PM

You're all a bunch of lunatics!!! Yes, the chocolate is a "topping", no I wouldn't put a biscuit chocolate side down on a table, but the chocolate part is still the BOTTOM!!! The curved edging and logo is on top same as a regular digestive (for example). And when you put it in your mouth you obviously, unless you're a sexual deviant, put the chocolate side DOWN onto your tongue making it the bottom of the biscuit.

When I read the OP I thought "his OH is an eejit it's obviously the bottom" and was shocked and appalled that the usual intelligent *cough* folk of After hours were so unanimous in agreeing with his clearly mistaken, and probably base born wench of an, other half to think so utterly backwards!

OutlawPete · 27-05-2011 04:06PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Topping....TOPping....the clue is in there somewhere.

You are making the same error over and over again.

ON-TOP does not equal THE TOP!

For instance, if I take a Top-Hat, turn it upside down and place a peanut on TOP of the brim, does that brim suddenly become the TOP of the hat??

No.

prinz · 27-05-2011 04:07PM

NothingMan wrote: »

And when you put it in your mouth you obviously, unless you're a sexual deviant, put the chocolate side DOWN onto your tongue making it the bottom of the biscuit.

<---- sexual deviant. Always biscuit side onto tongue. The whole thing comes down to eating technique. Maybe we'll have to do some taste testing.

username_eh? · 27-05-2011 04:08PM

why is there not a poll yet to show clearly that the chocolate side is the top?? :mad:

Which side of a chocolate biscuit is the bottom

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