Meanings
- A rye-based crispbread.
A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't.
1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier2 more examples
He covered everything in mustard, including a slice of Ryvita, then propped up a copy of the Property Investment Review against the radio, and read and ate.
1977, Margaret Drabble, The Ice AgeThe sky rumbled like a model's stomach that's survived all day on Diet Coke and is looking forward to a slice of Ryvita topped with a dessert spoonful of low fat cottage cheese, garnished with two wafer thin slices of cucumber.
2007, Maria Mann, Verity Red's Diary: A Story of Surviving M. E., page 374
Origin
Trade name, presumably from rye and vitality or similar.
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