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You’ll soon get seven fewer Digestive biscuits in a packet

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You'll soon get seven fewer Digestive biscuits in a packet
Farewell, sweet prince. (Picture: REX/metro.co.uk)

It’s a sad day.

McVitie’s has announced that in answer to rising costs of production and a dip in the value of the pound, they’ll be reducing the size of their packets of Digestives – also known as the nation’s favourite biscuit.

A packet of Digestive biscuits will be shrunk by 20%, going from 500g to 400g. That’s the equivalent of removing seven biscuits. That’s a move from 34 biscuits in a pack down to 27.

Imagine, friends, if when you were down to the last seven biscuits in a pack they were snatched away. What would you dunk in your tea? How would you go on?

It’s truly miserable.

But this news gets worse. The shrinkage will not just affect Digestives. McVitie’s has said that more than 10% of its 700 products will be shrunk down to deal with rising costs, too.

They haven’t confirmed which products will be affected, which leaves us filled with concerns.

You'll soon get seven fewer Digestive biscuits in a packet
Will Chocolate Digestives be next? (Picture: Shutterstock)

What’ll be next? Chocolate Digestives? HobNobs? Will we no longer be able to p-p-pick up a Penguin because they’ve shrunk down so much that we can’t spot them in the biscuit tin?

Now, to be fair to McVities, shrinking packs of biscuits has been chosen rather than altering the recipe – which, as we’ve seen from the backlash to Irn-Bru, would likely have prompted outrage.

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Better fewer biscuits than entirely different biscuits, we suppose.

We’ll take this change hard, as we do with all biscuit-related alterations, but we’re sure that after a few months we’ll be merrily buying Digestives and hardly missing those seven dunking opportunities.

After all, we’re definitely not still bitter about the change in the shape of a Toblerone… right?

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