"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spamcomcastnet> wrote:
> > The term widely used in the US is 'cookie cutter', if you search using
> > that,
> > you'll find a lot of them
>
> Yeah, why do they always say biscuit in the UK?
> Biscuits are something you pour white sausage gravy over.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy

Because neither is right, historically speaking.
Not even the modern usage of the original French term "biscuit" is.

Historically, "biscuit" was (as the literal translation suggests) "double-baked"
bread - an extra dry bread created by pre-slicing and baking it a second time,
to conserve it for long ship travels; in other words: Rusk.

Seems like only the Dutch still got it right.

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