LONDON -- British people feel very strongly about their biscuits.

Anyone who's ever mis-timed a dunked Digestive will know the pain of losing a biscuit -- but what about if you lost a whole packetof the things?

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Hugh Osborn, a student at the University of Warwick, recently stumbled across just such a tragedy.

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Yep. The fallen packet of digestives had actually been made into a shrine, complete with a candle and a note reading, "Sorry for your loss".

Things escalated quickly from there.

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Then, came a twist. Another group, who claimed to be the creators of the original shrine, tweeted a solemn prayer group around the disaster. 

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Finally, though, the shrine went the same way as the digestives.

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Still, we'll always have the memories.

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