This is about the feel of the term and the images it inspires – which is why I object to “Digestive”. I’m not disputing that the biscuits are Digestible, or even possibly and aid to digestion. I don’t like that the label implies that the virtue of these biscuits is that they’re digestible, which is something I assume as a given with biscuits that I’m purchasing. Does it imply that other biscuits are indigestible?
Stop being so damned literal. I don’t care what the proper definition of “health food” is any more than I care what the proper definition of “digestives” is. It’s what the name immediately suggests that’s important.
“Aid to digestion” is a stronger claim than “digestible”. And a different one.
Just going to leave that there…
It should only suggest mere “healthy food” if you’re a complete naïf unaware of the health food industry, the history of health food, the organic food, paleo and vegan movements, etc.
A bit of a hijack, but I am sorry I’ll never get the opportunity to be disappointed (or delighted) by the Savoy Truffle. You may recognize it as the title from the song on “The Beatles” (White Album):
The song was written by George Harrison and inspired by his friend Eric Clapton’s fondness for chocolate. The lyrics list the various flavours offered in Mackintosh’s Good News chocolates and serve as a warning to Clapton about the detrimental effect that his gorging would have on his teeth.
“You’ll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle,” them being “your teeth.”
Yep. I’m kind of the same way about it, and fairly disappointed because I would have thought that the whole fantasy milieu would have at least as many tropes and things to celebrate and/or lampoon like Futurama did for science fiction. But alas, it wasn’t to be.
Another one that I was sure I’d like was Breaking Bad. I didn’t catch it in the first season or two, and didn’t get Netflix until 2011-ish, so I had heard for literal years about how awesome it was, from both friends and acquaintances as well as the media in general.
Didn’t work for me. The first season was pretty interesting seeing Walt’s heel turn, but after that, it was mostly just dark and hard to watch, and I ended up quitting about 4-5 episodes into season 2.
My ex-husband gave up at that point, also - too unrelentingly grim. I almost did, but stuck it out, and found it got better. I can certainly understand giving up at that point. I quit Ozark for the same reason.
We’ve (UK) got oatmeal cookies. They’re nice. One of my favourite things. But those are not Hobnobs. Similar, but Hobnobs have a somewhat unique taste and I’d not have called them oatmeal cookies. Perhaps a very nice type of oatmeal cookie. Addictive like Pringles were when you first had them.
Linzer cookies look similar but strike me as more shortbread type of biscuits. So similar but not the same.
I once spent 4 weekends in a drug study place to earn $500 for a beautiful Les Paul. I don’t remember the model- some sort of Limited Edition I think. Black with gold everything. Probably be worth a fortune now. I ended up selling it for what I paid. It was just too precious to leave sitting out for dinking around purposes, which my battered SG excelled at. And it was so fucking heavy.
Yeah, I kind of feel like with my limited recreational time, I want something utterly mindless, or where the good guys ultimately win. I’m not into the idea of spending my recreational time being bummed out by a story that’s grim, dark and relentless.
There’s plenty of awful stuff in the world already; I don’t need to deliberately consume more of it, especially not in the name of enjoyment.
I figured someone would come by to debate this. I’ve had all these cookies/biscuits and they are much more similar than different. That said, though, they are different enough that I can see why Hobnobs and Digestives are popular in Britain, but not here. Different tastes for one thing - American cookies in general tend to be sweeter, for example, and we aren’t much into dunking cookies into tea, which seems to be a common thing to do with those two biscuits in particular. Cookies and milk are a more common pairing here, and biscotti with coffee.
I’ve never seen Firefly to the deep consternation of a friend who insists I see it. I lord it over her by saying I could experience it for the first time ever any time I wanted. And that might be more valuable than actually watching it at this point!
(is there river sex in Firefly? Just asking for a friend)