Struggled with the Times crossword this week:
Plain type of biscuit (4,6): B _ T _ O _ I _E _
Had to Google it and got the answer. It's Bath Oliver, which apparently is a "well-known" biscuit that was invented by Dr William Oliver of Bath. Dr O was a physician who wanted to come up with a healthy snack for his patients, (much like Mr Kellogg, the wealthy land owner who decided to develop a healthy breakfast for his staff, to keep them healthy and happy in their work). You wouldn't get that nowadays, would you? Your family GP wouldn't spend his spare time working to develop health foods - he'd leave that sort of quackery to that awful hunchback scot off the telly, who claims to be a doctor but is in fact simply a nutritionist with a 'qualification' which she obtained by post. And could you imagine a wealthy land owner - Lord Bath, for instance - devising a nutritious and tasty snack to keep his plebs in order? No. He's too busy auctioning off his family's centuries-old collection of fine art so that he can continue to drive round in vintage sports cars and not get his hair cut.
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