Home Food Restaurant Reviews Recipes Drink Distilleries Whisky Gin Craft Beer Locations Scran Podcast It's National Biscuit Day this month, but how much do you know about one of our favourite sweet treats? The team at McVitie’s have shared 28 surprising and entertaining facts about biscuits and the brand in honour of National Biscuit Day. National Biscuit Day falls on the 29 May and is a celebration of the history of the humble biscuit. With this in mind McVitie's have shared these facts that you might not know about the brand plus some surprising numbers about our love of biscuits.
Biscuit facts As studies show a rise in elevenses and tea-time occasions as a result of being in lockdown with friends and family, 40 per cent of Brits have said they’ve been enjoying more biscuits during this time. British biscuit consumption is the highest in the world, higher than all major European countries and even 35 per cent higher than the US. Biscuits are bought by 27 million households and eaten on 6 billion occasions a year.
61 per cent of the UK have a biscuit tin, with the city of Norwich the biggest fans of biscuit tins. Biscuits were the first food to reach the South Pole with the explorer Roald Amundsen in 1911. If you laid all the Jaffa Cakes eaten each year in a line, they would stretch from the UK to Australia and back.
McVitie’s through the ages McVitie’s has been at the cornerstone of British life for over 180 years. Here are some interesting facts about the brand and.