In 2011, PepsiCo India launched a new salty biscuit product called Lehar Iron Chusti™, which it rolled out across Andhra Pradesh in 2 rupee packets, alongside a major education campaign on iron deficiency for women and teenagers.
And everyone nods in agreement – salty, cheesy, crunchy biscuits are the business.
Put odd ends of biscuits, salty crackers, granola, cereal, nuts, dried fruit etc - around 300g – to a clean plastic bag.
Specific food choices were discussed and participants were advised on choosing wholegrain and higher fibre foods, reducing fatty and processed meats and high fat dairy products and increasing oily fish and limiting foods such as cakes, biscuits, salty snacks and takeaway meals.
In an age of increasingly global flavours, a taste for tangy, tomatoey tinned beans – and salty Marmite or sawdusty rich tea biscuits – marks you out as an unmistakable product of the British Isles.
For an even smaller bite on the beach, buy a pack of Globos -- light, puffed O-shaped biscuits that come sweet or salty.
I say far-reaching because (for example) you can queue for a biscuit as big as your fist at Biscuit Head, filled with regionally appropriate salty country ham buffered by a fried green tomato, some cheese, a runny egg and one of seven gravies.
He compliments Cora's biscuits, which his wife pronounces "too salty".
Ms. Grace's crisp and sweet razor clams casino, her salty, picnic-ready buttermilk fried chicken and the biscuits that went with it -- they ought to be in the Biscuit Museum, these biscuits -- made me wonder why.
Thin, rough slices of salty Tennessee ham resemble prosciutto, layered on a biscuit with soft-poached egg.
