Digestive Biscuit

Japanese people have a reputation for eating lots of fish, living a really long time, and having generally small sized bodies. My friends in America and I agree: that sounds pretty healthy. So folks back home are often surprised at the amount of fried food and startchy rice that people eat here. Hamburgers are much more common lunch than sushi for the average Tokyo-ite. How do they do it?

I may have stumbled on the secret:


Milk Chocolate Digestive Biscuits


Mmmm.. Choco-Digestion

No, it's not a biscuit that digests you.. it's a chocolate coated dietary supplement. Literally. One side is dessert, the other side is wholesome fiber goodness. One Japanese friend told me that the key to being skinny, to put it politely, is being productive. In the gastro-intestinal respect. And actually, that makes a lot of sense--the less time the food has in your body to get absorbed, the less energy you'll get from it. (OK, so maybe the timings involved don't really work that way, but let's agree that fiber is good for you.)

But.. as I post this information, I wonder if the idea of Digestive Biscuits came from somewhere else--an imported concept like so many other things in Japan. The word "biscuit" seems British.. Can anyone confirm? Any regular British readers out there?