Editing Digestive biscuit (section)

== Chocolate digestives ==
[[File:McVitie's chocolate digestive biscuit.jpg|thumb|upright|The coated side of a [[McVitie's]] [[milk chocolate]] digestive biscuit]]
Digestive biscuits with a chocolate coating on one side are also available. The coating can consist of [[dark chocolate|dark]], [[white chocolate|white]], or [[milk chocolate|milk]] chocolate, although white chocolate digestives are quite rare. The chocolate digestive was originally produced by McVitie's in 1925 as the Chocolate Homewheat Digestive. Other varieties include the basic biscuit with chocolate shavings throughout (chocolate "chips" in the biscuit mix) or a layer of [[caramel candy|caramel]], [[Mentha|mint]] chocolate, orange-flavoured chocolate,<ref>EnglishTeaStore.com: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080105151850/http://www.englishteastore.com/mcormichdi30.html McVities Milk Chocolate & Orange Digestives 300g] Accessed 5 January 2008</ref> or plain chocolate. They are manufactured at McVitie's [[Harlesden]] factory in London.<ref>{{cite news |title=See how chocolate digestives are made at a London biscuit factory |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/news/see-how-chocolate-digestives-are-made-at-a-london-biscuit-factory-061118 |access-date=16 August 2022 |work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]}}</ref> American travel writer [[Bill Bryson]] described the chocolate digestive as "a British masterpiece".<ref>Bryson, Bill. (1996). ''[[Notes from a Small Island]]''; William Morrow, {{ISBN|0-688-14725-9}}</ref>

In 2009, the McVitie's chocolate digestive was named as the most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea.<ref name="Telegraph">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/4927255/Chocolate-digestive-is-nations-favourite-dunking-biscuit.html "Chocolate digestive is nation's favourite dunking biscuit"]. ''The Telegraph''. 2 May 2009</ref> The chocolate variant from McVitie's is routinely ranked the UK's favourite snack.<ref name="Wales Online"/><ref name="Mirror"/><ref name="YouGov"/> A [[YouGov]] poll saw [[Cadbury]]’s digestive ranked the second most popular biscuit in the UK after McVitie's.<ref name="YouGov"/>