Trouble over Bridgwater

[venta]

Imagine, if you will, that you are eating a half-coated chocolate biscuit. Maybe it's a digestive, maybe it's a hobnob. Maybe it's a vegan, gluten-free biccie with carob coating if that sounds more like your thing. Anyway, imagine you are eating a biscuit with some form of chocolate-esque coating on exactly one side.

You're thinking of it?

OK.

[Poll #1966494]

Thank you. This poll brought to you following a traumatic outbreak of biscuit-eating-related horror in my household.

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I see 'top' as the canonical way, and bottom as the superior way, given the higher concentration of tastebuds on the tongue.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Interesting. My boyfriend's defence of his upside-down biscuit eating was that by eating chocolate-side-down you drop fewer crumbs.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

That boy has his priorities all wrong! :-P

[taimatsu]

My view is that the non-chocolate side is the one which often (e.g. with digestives) has writing on it, and it is therefore the top, and it should continue to be at the top when you eat it. I didn't realise other people did it THE WRONG WAY.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Choco Leibniz, which are my personal favourite chocolate biscuits, have writing on both sides.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, now you mention it, I am ambivalent to the way up of Choco Leibniz. Which, you're right, are awesome.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Just realised (though I've never articulated this to myself before) that additional reason is that I slightly dislike getting chocolate on my teeth, and if I eat biscuits chocolate-side-down, only the non-chocolately bit has to touch my teeth, as my tongue can provide the pressure needed from the bottom side to break the biscuit.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I am torn. On the one hand, this is clearly an utterly unimportant issue, it's your biscuit and you can eat it however you want. Plus you have perfectly sound arguments for the chocolate-down approach.

On the other hand you're eating it upside down!

(I should comment that should I witness you eating a chocolate-down biscuit I wouldn't dream of mentioning it. I only took it up with the boyfriend in revenge for his equally ridiculous complaints when I drank Coca Cola out of a mug ;)