- This is chaos.
This is utter chaos.
That's just changed my life.
Wow.
Oh my God.
The best flavor of McVitie's Digestive is.
(upbeat music)
Hi, my name is Tom.
And today I'm gonna be trying every flavor
of McVitie's Digestive
and figuring out which is the best so you don't have to.
How many flavors of McVitie's Digestives are there?
I hear you ask.
Well, there are nine.
I know, I think that's quite surprising,
like nine types of digestives.
Like, I can think of like, Original.
For me I just like don't know how many iterations
of digestives there can actually be.
So I've had a look at the list
of all the digestives we've got here
and I'm gonna write down the one
that I think will be the best.
And then once we've tried them all,
we'll reveal it and see if anything's changed.
(upbeat music)
I said no peeking.
So without further ado,
let's get trying.
Okay, so I'm not being funny,
but a challenge of this description
does require a cup of tea,
so cheers.
The first digestive we're gonna be trying
is Strawberry Cheesecake.
I know, I can't believe it either.
Strawberry cheesecake flavor wheat meal biscuits
covered in milk chocolate.
I had assumed if they were gonna be flavored
it would be the chocolate that was flavored, but maybe not.
Let's have a look.
To look at,
it just looks like a regular digestive.
It also just smells like a regular digestive.
It doesn't smell like,
I can't really smell any obvious strawberry smell.
It smells good though, my mouth is literally salivating.
(laughs)
Whoa.
I'm gonna have to eat this whole thing and get back to you.
I'm literally shook.
I thought it was gonna be like a layer
of strawberry cheesecake or something,
or like jam and cream between the chocolate and the biscuit
or something, but it isn't.
It's basically just like,
the biscuit has been like subtly flavored
to taste like strawberry cheesecake and it is unreal.
I've eaten two full biscuits
and I'm only on to flavor number one.
So pray for Tom.
This is great.
We have opened up very strong.
Let's try the next one.
Next up, we have Lemon Drizzle flavor.
For some reason I can't imagine Lemon Drizzle
working as well in a chocolate biscuit situation.
I was completely wrong about the strawberry cheesecake one.
So this might also be amazing.
Oh wow, well, right off the bat,
it's a much stronger smell.
Wow, that's so weird.
I can't believe these have existed.
Like, how long have these existed for?
Like, has these been in the shops the whole time?
Like, did you know?
It kind of smells like the sort of lemony,
like lavendery,
like bags of herbs
that you put in like your underwear drawer
to make it smell nice.
Do you know what I mean?
And I know that sounds like a read,
but it isn't, like, these genuinely smell good.
Let's go.
Wow.
Oh my God.
It's a lot more flavorsome than the strawberry one was
and I will argue
not quite the success that the strawberry one was.
It's a lemony biscuit.
All we can hope is that this isn't a series
of unfortunate events.
All right, let's try the next one.
Next, we have Milk Chocolate.
This is one that we all know and love,
I'm sure of it.
What is there to say?
What is there to be said about a Milk Chocolate digestive.
In my head, it's like, the sort of, like, default biscuit.
And I go as far as to say that it's iconic.
Oh, whilst I'm here.
McVitie's has sent me over some digestive facts.
- [Computer Voice] Digestives fact.
- Okay, I've just learned something absolutely insane.
You are not going to believe this.
The chocolate side of a chocolate digestive,
it's supposed to be on the bottom.
I'm sorry.
It's just, I feel like everything that I knew
about biscuits today is being turned completely upside down.
Literally.
Let's try it, Milk Chocolate.
Let's go.
The chocolate being on the bottom of the biscuit
rather than the top actually kind of changes the experience
as well.
Because if you imagine the biting sensation you get
it's a lot smoother.
It's like (munching sound).
Do you know what I mean?
And I'm going to be totally honest with you.
I prefer it.
There's nothing else I can say.
Let's try the next one.
Next digestive on the list is Dark Chocolate.
It's the same as the Milk Chocolate,
but it's darker.
I have never had a Dark Chocolate digestive.
Yeah, like it's ridiculous that it's been this long
for me to try one.
But today's the day,
bottoms up
or biscuits up.
I don't know.
Okay, that is delicious.
That is so good.
I thought because it's dark chocolate
it might be slightly in congruous to the biscuit.
I think this would go really, really well with a coffee
because coffee has that bitterness to it,
the dark chocolate also has,
like I think if you had like a cappuccino
and a dark chocolate digestive, you wouldn't be sad.
You'd be having a great day.
I've got tea and I'm still having a great day.
Let's try the next one.
The Original.
Spoiler alert,
you probably know what this is going to be like.
Oh, so nice looking aren't they?
So mild mannered.
I think this is a good time
to crack out some more McVitie's digestive facts, don't you?
- [Computer Voice] Digestives fact.
- The original McVitie's digestives recipe
is still used today after it was originally created in 1892.
So that's like 100,
110,
119 years.
Here we go.
Original digestive.
It's actually so good.
Like, I don't know how to describe what biscuits do to me
but it's like,
cause it's so dry.
You like salivate a lot to compensate.
I don't know where I'm going with that.
No matter where you stand on this issue
this is where it all began.
And these fancy biscuits owe a lot
to the regular old digestive over here.
Let's see what's next.
Next flavor is,
Oh my God.
Next flavor is Luscious Blood Orange.
This is chaos.
This is utter chaos.
A blood orange flavored digestive.
So we've moved on to now what is called the V-I-B
which I suppose stands for Very Important Biscuits.
And I'm not going to contest that.
If you want to make a blood orange flavored digestive,
I'd argue that is important.
I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy this.
It sounds insane.
Calm down.
Not only is this Luscious Blood Orange flavor,
but it's also caramel.
They're smaller.
I like the way the layer of caramel
keeps the biscuit together.
The caramel acts as a sort of biscuit cement,
if you very much will.
It's a bit too aromatic or like perfumey,
maybe like the smell of like one of those
like smelly gel pens.
Let's try the next biscuit.
Next up on the list is Classic Caramel Bliss.
This is another entry in the VIBs range.
I'm starting to think that the VIBs are the caramel ones.
That's what seems to be going on here.
These are like the blood orange ones
but without the blood orange flavor.
Which I think might be a significant improvement.
This to me is like, if the milk chocolate was a step up,
a caramel milk chocolate digestive is like three steps up.
Like this is like the deluxe deluxe version.
Oh, that's good.
Unlike some of the other flavors that we've tried
where it kind of just uses the digestive as a vehicle
to get a crazy flavor into your mouth,
this caramel milk chocolate digestive
allows the biscuit to speak for itself,
which is already really good.
And I think that is definitely a plus.
However, I do think the caramel is kind of a lot.
Like these are pretty small biscuits.
And if I was having like a cup of tea and a biscuit
this one would be like enough.
Which may be just fine.
Maybe that's like what normal people do.
But I swear most people
when they're having like a cup of tea and a biscuit,
they're really having like four biscuits.
And there's no way I could eat four of these.
This scenario is slightly different,
'cause I'm literally eating like 10 in a row,
but this is for science.
Next.
Heavenly Chocolate Hazelnut.
(belches)
So sorry.
This is the third iteration of our VIBs.
I don't really like chocolate hazelnut.
And I'm sorry to anyone that felt connected to me
and now doesn't because of what I just said.
I don't really like Kinder Buenos.
I don't massively like Nutella.
Miss me with Ferrara Raches genuinely.
Like I'm not interested.
Now, I know I just rugged on chocolate hazelnut flavor,
thanks so much,
but can we talk about how gorgeous this packaging is?
It's like in deep purple,
and that's just lovely.
I'm not sure if I'm really getting hazelnut.
No, I'm sorry, I don't like that at all.
It tastes like pencils.
Next.
The final digestive is The Fully Coated One
In Milk Chocolate.
I mean, we were playing tennis before now,
but honey, it's badminton.
It's balls.
You know, it's Bach tree bowl.
This is a whole different ball game.
It's in completely different packaging.
I can feel this has like a plastic tray
that doubled the saturated fat.
Rich.
So inside the pocket, you get this plastic tray
and in that you get six biscuits,
14, 15.
So you've got 15 biscuits on average in a regular pack,
in here, you've got six.
So I'm hoping they'll be three times better
but like they weren't lying.
They are completely and entirely covered.
Cheers.
Wow.
I'm not going to mess about,
I'm not gonna mince words.
That's amazing.
To me it doesn't feel like a digestive at all.
It's it's a biscuit novelty to the Nth degree.
Let's just say that.
I like it.
It's deluxe.
It's a bit of fun.
For me personally, it's too much.
(sighs)
Woo.
Yeah, feeling a little nauseous.
So I've gathered you all here today to judge,
analyze, scrutinize.
And you'll be glad to know that I have come up
with an answer.
And I'm happy to let you know
that the best flavor of McVitie's Digestive is
(drum rolls)
Dark Chocolate.
These were amazing.
The biscuit that I thought at the beginning of all this
would be the best was,
Strawberry Cheesecake.
If you're at all interested
try the Strawberry Cheesecake ones.
'cause they're very interesting.
But at the end of the day
the Dark Chocolate digestives were so good
that I am going to probably purchase them again and again.
Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me.
If you think of anything or anywhere
where I should try every flavor, every item, every product
please let me know in the comments.
'Cause I do read them
and love reading your suggestions.
Until next time,
see you in the next one.
Tara.
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