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depending on your hemisphere, either a fluffy cloud or a thing you dunk till it dies
means A small baked good, hard and crisp in British usage (what Americans call a cookie or cracker) or soft and fluffy in American usage (akin to a savory scone).
from From Old French 'bescuit,' itself from Latin 'bis coctus' — 'twice cooked.' The original biscuit was bread baked twice to drive out all moisture, making it hard enough to survive long sea voyages and military campaigns without spoiling. The spelling drifted around for centuries (you'll find 'bisket' in older English) before settling on the French-flavored 'biscuit.'
- name origin
- Latin for twice-cooked, the original meal prep
- hardtack history
- sailors ate biscuits hard enough to break teeth
- dunking science
- there's a physics-backed perfect dunk time
- british slang
- takes the biscuit means ultimate audacity
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