The accolade came just days after McVitie’s chocolate-coated treat was also revealed as the boardroom biscuit of choice for businessmen.

Second in the latest poll was another McVitie’s variety, the Chocolate HobNob. Old-fashioned Walkers shortbread completed the top three.

Other classics also fared well, with custard creams coming in at number five and Jammy Dodgers taking ninth place.

The survey of 5,000 people by online market research company onepoll.com saw chocolate varieties dominate the top 10, with chocolate chip cookies, bourbon creams and Chocolate Fingers all scoring highly.

Fans voted the rich tea biscuit as their favourite dunking variety.

The poll also proved that once we have chosen our favourites we tend to stick with them – more than 16 per cent have been buying the same brand of biscuits for 20 years.

McVitie’s original plain digestive was developed in 1839 by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion. Chocolate was added in 1925 and it instantly became a best-seller.

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CHECK ON THE PACKET

14.06.08, 9:52pm

Surprisingly, although they are sweet, digestive biscuits contain quite a lot of salt...

• Posted by: gwilymt • Report Comment

DICTATOR GORMLESS BROWN TAKES THE BISCUIT

14.06.08, 7:54pm

EVERY TIME.

• Posted by: ReubenMohawali • Report Comment

THE EU HAS ITS EYE ON THEM

14.06.08, 7:00pm

IN the interest of fair play no biscuit should be more popular than another.So from midnight all chocolate digestives well be with drawn to allow the jammy dodger to catch up.

• Posted by: retiredmale • Report Comment

CHOCOLATE BISCUITS

14.06.08, 4:07pm

wow thanks Daily Express . Giving us this heavy weight topic to discuss , this is almost as bad as the mail where they only print the most vacuous and braindead of comments.
OK, maddy ending up costing you big time but can we move on to something else more stimulating soon.

• Posted by: Nikk_blakk • Report Comment

CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVE IS BEST BISCUIT

14.06.08, 12:57pm

I love them! Whenever I'm in London I take some packets home and hoard them.

• Posted by: Sabine • Report Comment

TOP MARKS TO REUBENMOHAWALI

14.06.08, 11:08am

for managing to fit a political rant into a story about biscuits!

• Posted by: jacklemmon • Report Comment

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