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Kirbstone wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:36 pm Over here in Ireland, biscuits are mostly produced by large UK-based firms...
A lot of the biscuits and cereals sold in England are made by American firms using the trade marks of British companies that they bought-out.
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Also I like(LOVE) biscuits fresh out of the oven, light and fluffy,
split open, with plenty of butter and/or honey on top :D

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Ray wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:43 pm Jaffa: a cake, not a biscuit….
Indeed -- it's legally a cake in the UK for VAT purposes, following a court ruling in 1991:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
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Uncle Al wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:31 am Also I like(LOVE) biscuits fresh out of the oven, light and fluffy,
split open, with plenty of butter and/or honey on top :D

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Deep fried biscuit.

YES!

Used to get those when I was a kid... deep fried biscuit with a little honey in it... mmmmmmmmmm...
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geron wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:21 am
Ray wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:43 pm Jaffa: a cake, not a biscuit….
Indeed -- it's legally a cake in the UK for VAT purposes, following a court ruling in 1991:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
Tribunal no 6344. I remember it well. McVities even made a big supersized version to prove the point…
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moonshadow wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:37 am <snip>Deep fried biscuit.

YES!

Used to get those when I was a kid... deep fried biscuit with a little honey in it... mmmmmmmmmm...
What you've described, for me, is a Sopapilla. Tri-angle shaped, deep fried, puffed out,
coated in granulated sugar. Slice into it and pour in the honey :cheers: :bounce:
YUMMY :!: :!: :!: :!:

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A cookie or a cracker. An alternative to a dowell for jointing timber.
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Jaffa: small round, orange candy coated chocolate sweet found in New Zealand.

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Apart from food, the term for the first firing of clay items in a kiln.
Food wise, Rich Tea and Digestives, the staples of my childhood.
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To answer the question more fully, in the UK I would expect it to mean an unleavened baked wheatflour comestible which is less than 4mm thick and of hardish brittle or crumbly consistency.  Circular varieties from 25 to 60mm in diameter are the most basic, but rectangular and other shapes are common nowadays.  The term is also use for a combination of two biscuit 'wafers' making a sandwich with a sugar or jam filling; sometimes the upper wafer has openings or a pattern through which the filling can be seen.  Both savoury and sweet varieties exist, but there is a much wider range of the sweet variety.

The unleavened hardness of a biscuit is what distinguishes it from other similar biscuit-like products, which range from light and fluffy to dense and chewey, but are not considered to be biscuits.
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Stu wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 6:29 pm [...]
Of course, we weren't referring to the edible kind of biscuit, but to a horse they kept at the stable who was known for being extremely temperamental and inclined to throw, kick and trample on riders. The horse's name was Biscuit.
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