{"id":2229,"date":"2022-05-29T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:04:10","slug":"national-biscuit-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/05\/29\/national-biscuit-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Biscuit Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Today is the day: National Biscuit Day<\/h2>\n<p>Since 2014, we have been honouring May 29<sup>th<\/sup> as National Biscuit day<\/p>\n<p>Biscuits can be dated back as long as there were baked goods, dating all the way back to Ancient Egypt but perhaps they would have been seen as more dried breads. The sugar trade in the eighteenth century changed and by the nineteenth century, we were seeing McVities, Crawford and Carr began setting up (daysoftheyear.com)<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, we consumed the most biscuits of any other country (<a href=\"https:\/\/foodanddrink.scotsman.com\/food\/national-biscuit-day-2020-things-you-might-not-know-about-mcvities\/\">ScotsmanFoodandDrink<\/a>). In fact, Brits eat roughly 52 biscuits per second! Now that\u2019s a lot of biscuits. And now we all want to know what biscuit reigns supreme, the to go, the absolute fave. Well, it\u2019s of course the humble yet delicious chocolate digestive. A third of the British population rank chocolate digestives as their favourites (ScotsmanFoodandDrink). This is followed by the chocolate hobnob then the Jammie Dodger, fourth favourite is the custard cr\u00e8me and in finishing off the top five is shortbread. Do you agree with the top five biscuit list or disagree, what\u2019s your favourite biscuit. And most controversial is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit or a cake? So many questions to ponder about this national biscuit, mull them over with your favourite biscuit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about biscuits through <a href=\"https:\/\/napier.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/44NAP_INST\/n96pef\/alma9923434719002111\">Librarysearch.napier.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Maya Green<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day: National Biscuit Day Since 2014, we have been honouring May 29th as National Biscuit day Biscuits can be dated back as long as there were baked goods, dating all the way back to Ancient Egypt but perhaps they would have been seen as more dried breads. 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