My wife slices the pack of digestives in the middle in two equal parts! LTB

[Jonboygoodnight]

Why! Why would you do that?

Cutting biscuit packets to open them, who knew? Why not just use the tab on the packet that’s designed to open it and put the biscuits in a nice tin?

Years ago they didn't have a tab so you had to slice through with a knife. But not in the middle!

That's just cavalier. I couldn't live with such an approach. It's a LTB from me.

It's ticker to use a knife than faff with the seal - but even then you do this at the top -not the middle

Tear the tab. Eat the broken biscuits standing at the kitchen counter. Take out another 3 biscuits. Start to put the biscuits in the cupboard. Pause. Take out another 2 biscuits. Put biscuits back in cupboard. Don't worry about sealing them up. They won't live to be stale.

Who the fuck eats digestives out of choice? Surely they are only eaten by people who are on strict diets and are not allowed any other kind of biscuit?

Let her do what she likes with her crappy almost biscuits and buy some smothered in chocolate!

Ooooh I couldn't be doing with that Op and I don't like the sound of putting digestives in a plastic bag - who does that? You definitely need to invest in a biscuit tin and just empty them all into the tin in all their digestivy gorgousness.

Deviant

No no no. McVitie Digestive is the Daddy of all biscuits.

I'm overtired and Boswelled out though in my defence.

That MUST become a new esoteric MN-ism - officially in use from this moment on until the end of time

"Did you cancel the cheque, Balonz? I paid that tiny Korean lady in good faith to supply me with some penguin bollards, but she turned out to be a CF and ran off to Maui instead - I don't want to end up skint with nothing to show for it."

"Sorry, I'll make sure I go to the bank tomorrow - I've just been sooooooo Boswelled out today."

Dark chocolate mcvities don't hang around long enough to need sealing up.

No no no. McVitie Digestive is the Daddy of all biscuits.

Ummmmmm - I think a certain Victor McDaid esq. would vehemently disagree with you on that, whilst he passive-aggressively smooths out his Tunnocks wrapper to form a perfect flat square

Actually, slicing the individual biscuits in half can indeed prove to be an effective method of portion control, especially if you're watching your weight.

You'll probably need a couple of them, though....

WeBuilt

Just buy a really nice biscuit tin of the right size to accommodate a whole pack. A nice extra Christmas present. But fill it with chocolate biccies.

Plastic bags, twists, biscuit barrels...

...why, when there’s a perfectly good natural storage space?🤷🏻‍♀️

(Some fool on here called it his ‘tummy’...but stomach for most of us.) ‍

I think the drip feed is coming...he scoffs his half and then starts on hers, and when she goes to have a few, he's eaten them all already

That's just wrong. It's almost sub-patio worthy. You slice between the 1st and 2nd biscuit, then for two people you extract 6 biscuits. 3 each is the ideal per person portion with a nice cup of tea. Then you do the twist and twirl thing to seal in the rest. I thought everybody knew this? Well, except DH (he's American) before he was introduced to the concept of real biscuits by moi and even he knows it now.

Chocolate Digestives (formerly known as Homewheat) you can slice anywhere you like because there ain't gonna be any left to be be twisted and twirled in, obviously. The goal is to cram as many as you can into your mouth as fast as you can before DH anyone knows they are in the house otherwise you won't get any.

You need some sort of biscuit tin.

Just put all the biscuits in that once the packet is opened, and problem solved!

Extra Christmas present?

I thought you meant lengthways, like making each digestive a semi-circle.

crumbly.

Don’t the two halves go stale on the ends? Surely the correct way is to open the packet at one end and fold it back in on itself.

Digestives are horrible, you should leave each other immediately.

I think you need one of those Christmas tree biscuit barrels from M&S. There was an op on here the other day complaining she’d been given one. Perhaps you could do a search and ask her to send it to you and it was naff.

Well that last sentence made sense!

I'm 45 years old with 3 Kids and I have never ever used a knife open a biscuit pack.