Image-Dump Thread 30

[nemonowan]

'Biscuit' descends from Latin, and comes from 'biscoctus', which means 'twice cooked'. This is because the biscuit originally was cooked/baked at a relatively high temperature, and then later baked again at a low temperature for a longer period of time to drive out all the moisture. This made for a hard, durable product.

The triscuit's naming origin is uncertain, but it's either from 'electricity' and 'biscuit' (because the original developer of the company used electrical ovens to bake the things), or because of the three ingredients (wheat, oil, and salt).

The monscuit already exists, it's any cookie that is baked once.

The quadriscuit, if it was indeed meant to be baked four times, can probably be ground into a weapon. Or is a pile of charcoal after spending too much time in too hot an oven.

Actually, hardtack meant for very long sea voyages WAS baked four times to make sure it lasted.