What were digestives originally made for?

A couple of Mc Vities digestives and a nice cup of tea to dunk them in.

They work as fattening for me.

"So children wouldn't ... so much sugar."? Maybe there should be the verb "eat" there?

They work as heartburn relief for me.

Aradlaw, They work as anti depressants for me.

literally one of my favorite snacks

Digestive, as used in this question is totally foreign to me.

looks like a shortbread cookie to me, but us yanks don't have a digestive termed biscuit.

Bigkev, if Im going to eat a cookie/biscuit, Im having a delicious one! Those hard bland thing arent it. Just bought Girl Scout cookies Samoas and peanut creme ones. At the grocery I like those square ones with chocolate cake centers, covered in thin marshmallow then a semi hard chocolate icing that is very thin and crispy! I dont eat many snacks of sweets. When I do I get yummy ones! And a biscuit is a large round flakey thing made of flour that you slice in half and put other things in. Butter, jam, or white cream gravy!

I love the kittens in the digestives commercials.

I used to love them, unfortunately I was diagnosed with coeliacs disease 12 years ago, so no wheat for me

Rover277, I fell in love with them during my first visit to London a couple of years ago.

Just bought some today. McVities 😂

Bigkev, Made with coarse brown wheatflour.

Procrastus, best without palm oil

Best without palm oil