DID YOU KNOW…?

  • Two packets of McVitie’s biscuits are eaten every second
  • 50% of Brits classify themselves as ‘biscuit lovers’
  • 250,000 McVitie’s Ginger Nuts are made every hour
  • If you laid the amount of McVitie’s biscuits made in a year next to each other, they would circle the world twice
  • Brits eat more biscuits than anywhere else in the world
  • Biscuits have holes in them to ensure they don’t crack, and remain the same shape and size when baked
  • Holes are not put into McVitie’s Ginger Nuts to encourage one of the biscuit’s key features – a cracked surface
  • Ginger Nuts are traditionally known as a great cure for morning sickness and nausea
  • The McVitie’s Carlisle factory is the oldest and one of the biggest biscuit factories in the world, opening in 1831
  • Many of Britain’s best loved biscuits are produced in the Carlisle factory including - McVitie’s Ginger Nuts and Bourbon Creams