We’re eating our choccie biccies all wrong!

EVER wondered what all those professors in all those grand universities do with all their time? Well, obviously, they do lots of utterly impenetrable things like trying to discover where the universe ends and what it’s actually in. And why.

Or maybe they’re trying to find a way of fusing atoms together so we can have nuclear power without all that nasty radioactive waste — free energy and no global warming.

You know the sort of thing. The greatest minds of our time have been working on them for ever without actually finding the answers.

But here’s a chap who set himself a truly formidable task and has completed it. And if it doesn’t win him a Nobel Prize then my name’s not Einstein.

He is Charles Spence and he’s a food scientist at Oxford no less. He has discovered the right way to eat a chocolate biscuit. He’s discovered the wrong way, too.

I won’t bore you with all the technical stuff, but if you enjoy your biscuit with the chocolate side facing upwards then you’d better start thinking again.

It’s absolutely fine to bring the digestive up to your mouth with the chocolate on top because that creates visual anticipation of the taste to follow.

But then — and I hope you’re concentrating — you must flip it over before you take your first bite because most tastebuds are on the surface of the tongue.

Thus the full taste can be picked up by direct contact with the chocolate and the sensation of chocolate melting on the tongue adds another dimension.

So far so good. But. Isn’t there always a ‘but’ when new horizons are crossed? The professor says it may taste better if the first bite is taken without closing your mouth. That’s how you get the full benefit of the crunch and texture.

I have just one question. How exactly can you take a bite without closing your mouth? I await the Prof’s call.