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Thursday, July 10. 2008What's a biscuit?
This, although accurate, does not do the biscuit justice. The effect a packet of biscuits can have on a group of people can be dramatic. Here at Bracknell Forest Standard Towers the rustle of a pack of biscuits will prompt our crew of scandal hungry newshounds to put down whatever hard-hitting story we are chewing on and sit back and reflect for a moment. For a minute we stop chasing injustice and take a break from fighting for the common man to enjoy a biscuit and, if the fast moving world of news allows us, even a cup of tea. For this reason, and many others, I have taken it upon myself delve deep into the world of the biscuit and explore what it During this investigation (some may even call it a quest) I will at times ask for help. Now is one of those times. To help me get started I need to define what a biscuit is. The dictionary definition is, at best, basic. Things like Digestives, Bourbons and Rich Teas are obviously biscuits. But then there are more controversial snacks. Is a teacake a biscuit? What about Viscount biscuits? One of my colleagues even suggested a Kit-Kat might be a biscuit. I would like to start the debate by saying that a Jaffa Cake, despite the name, is not a cake. It is a biscuit. Just because it has cake in its name does not make it so. If that was the case Hob Nobs would be significantly less popular. Trackbacks
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Rubbish.
it's in the name.. Jaffa CAKE. Not Jaffa BISCUIT. Jaffa CRACKER. Jaffa ICED BISCUIT. No!
TC, if that is your real name, you make a point made by many in the past. As I state in my blog, the name of biscuits can be misleading - Garibaldis are not Italian military leaders, they are curranty biscuits. Ginger nuts are not nuts. Rich Teas are not tea.
Jaffa Cakes are not cakes. If I were to stick a candle in a Jaffa Cake and give it to you on your birthday, would you be impressed?
ok.. I will make my point simple.
On a packet of Munchies (77p by the way! what!??) the crunchy bit is called biscuit. A jaffa cake is soft. Therefore it is not a biscuit!
A blog on biscuits? - What a load of crumbs.
I like 'NICE' biscuits myself - can you inform me about how they got their name, does it have anything to do with that south-west town in France?
Hi KK! Good question.
Apparently they have nothing to do with the sunny French town. Australian biscuit firm Arnotts Biscuit holdings, one of a number of Nice Biscuit producers worldwide,say they are named after another word for pleasant: Nice. Given that, I find the name strangely ironic because Nice bicuits are actually distinctly average. Maybe they didn't have room on the bicuit to call them 'Mediocre'.
A jaffa cake is a cake!
if you leave a biscuit out it will go soggy after a time... a cake, however will go hard!
Boss of everything that is biscuit,
Can you please tell me why Chocolate Tea Cakes - which contain a layer of biscuit, amongst other things, is classed as a cake, and not, ahem, a biscuit? I'm confused!
Another good question Ken.
A court ruled earlier this year that a teacake is a cake. The courts got involved because on biscuits we consumers have to pay VAT but on cakes we don't. For years M&S were told they had to charge VAT on their teacakes as they were biscuits. Marks and Sparks challenged this and in April Europe's highest court ruled that they are actually cakes and now we don't have to pay VAT on them. In principle the ruling meant that the treasury owes £3.5 million to M&S. I'm not sure wif this is going to be or has been paid.
That just about takes the biscuit....or should it be the cake?
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The Oxford dictionary defines a biscuit as: “a small unleavened cake, usually flat and crisp and often sweet.”
is that makes them so good. I will endeavour to taste as many biscuits as I can and hand down my advice. Which biscuits are good, which are average (because surely there can be no such thing as a bad biscuit…can there?), which are good value, which are expensive treats? Could I even find the world’s best biscuit?
