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unusual facts about biscuit


Biscuit Step

Biscuits were an important part of the expedition's rations (Australasian colloquialism "tucker"), and a small cache of them was left near the step for the return down the glacier by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, which named the feature.


Acıbadem

Acıbadem kurabiyesi, Turkish biscuit made of almonds, sugar and egg whites

Annex Press

The Annex magazine edited by Julian Kabza appeared under varying titles; Terraplane, Biscuit, Writing, Annexes (single author pamphlets include: Veinstein's "From A Reader's Notebook, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), and Flora Danica.

Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke

Brooke was the son of Bertram, Tuan Muda of Sarawak and Gladys Palmer, daughter of Sir Walter Palmer, and heiress to part of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit fortune.

Arnott's Biscuits

Monte Carlo: a raspberry and cream fondant sandwiched between two golden syrup, honey and coconut biscuits.

Arnotts

Arnott's Biscuits, an Australian biscuit and salted snack food company

Ball and Biscuit

"Ball and Biscuit" is the eighth track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes.

Bob Godfrey

He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974-2006), Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976-77) and Henry's Cat (1983-95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s.

Borneo Orangutan Survival

Willie Smits appeared in Dying for a Biscuit, a 2010 BBC Panorama investigation which looked into the causes of deforestation, focusing particularly on illegal logging and the palm oil industry.

Boulevard Shopping Feira de Santana

With approximately 193 / 194 stores, has nine anchor stores ( Hyper Bompreço, C & A, Le Biscuit, Lojas Americanas, Centauro, Lojas Renner, Lojas Riachuelo, Marisa and Orient Cinemas ) and 4 mega-stores ( Game-Over, Sleek, Atlantic Books and Leader ).

Britannia Industries

Kerala businessman Rajan Pillai secured control of the group in the late 1980s, becoming known in India as the 'Biscuit King'.

Buxton Watermill

Flour for household use was also produced and biscuit flour was milled using electrically powered roller milling machines.

Cream cracker

Manufacturers in South Asia include Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited (Sri Lanka) and Britannia Industries (India).

Dick Smith Foods

The issue was a trademark dispute over DSF's Temptin brand of chocolate biscuits, which Arnott's alleged had diluted their trademark as a similar biscuit (the Tim Tam), in similarly-designed packaging.

George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke

Luke was the second son of John Lawson Johnston, a beef manufacturer and the founder of Bovril Ltd and Elizabeth, daughter of George Lawson, biscuit manufacturer of Edinburgh.

Ginger nut

Leading biscuit manufacturer Griffin's estimates 60 million of them are produced each year.

Glynn Nicholas

In one episode, the real Patsy Biscoe was seen presenting the Big Gig show with Bongo, having tied Patẻ Biscuit up.

Off air he developed a character called Patẻ Biscuit a parody of another presenter on the program Patsy Biscoe.

Gonna Fly Now

In the Philippines, the song was used in the commercial for Tiger Energy Biscuits which shows the Tiger mascot eating the said biscuit brand before jogging in the streets of Manila.

Győri Keksz

In addition to these, in 1912, the company bought the licence of the Albert keksz (Albert biscuit – probably named after the husband of Queen Victoria) from the British T&T Vicars Company.

Koestlin had already had a biscuit factory in Bregenz, Austria but the competition was so stiff there that he moved to Hungary and brought all his equipment for biscuit-production with him in 6 stock-cars.

Happy face

Happy Faces, a brand of British biscuit made by Jacob's Bakery

Heartless Crew Presents Crisp Biscuit Vol 1

Heartless Crew Presents Crisp Biscuit Vol 1 is a compilation album by the Heartless Crew, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) featuring the MC members of Heartless Crew toasting on several of the tracks.

John Birmingham

Birmingham was first published in Semper Floreat, the student newspaper at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, writing a series of stories featuring a fictional character named Commander Harrison Biscuit.

Joséphine-Charlotte metro station

In late 2008 the original "Pavimento Pirelli" black rubber flooring on the platforms was replaced with new biscuit-coloured terrazzo floor tiles.

King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas

King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas is the third live album from American rock band Kansas, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

King Biscuit Time

Levon Helm, drummer for The Band, has credited King Biscuit Time, and in particular James Peck Curtis, for inspiring his musical career.

Krumiri

Krumiri are a kind of biscuit which is regarded as the particular delicacy of Casale Monferrato, the city in north-west Italy where they were invented in 1878 by the confectioner Domenico Rossi.

Leibniz-Keks

At the time when the biscuit was first made there was a fashion of naming food products after historical celebrities (compare Mozartkugel).

Manderston

The house contains the world's largest collection of Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins, dating back to 1868.

Milk-Bone

It was created in 1908 by the F. H. Bennett Biscuit Company, which operated a bakery on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Parle-G

Parle-G or Parle Glucose is a brand of biscuits manufactured by Parle Products in India.

Patsy Biscoe

During the early 1990s, Biscoe was parodied by Adelaide comedian Glynn Nicholas who played Paté Biscuit on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television comedy show, The Big Gig.

Sea Wife

Biscuit is brusquely shouldered aside by a determined older man (later nicknamed Bulldog) (Basil Sydney), who insists the ship's black purser ("Number Four") (Cy Grant) evict the people from the cabin he has reserved.

Sri Lankan place name etymology

The 'Maliban' biscuit brand gets its name from the Maliban Hotel, which AG Hinni Appuhamy started at Maliban St, Pettah (now AG Hinniappuhamy Mawatha) - originally Maliebaan Straat, named for Maliebaan, the Pall Mall alley in Utrecht.

Texan schooner Invincible

Pocket had been en route from Matamoros to Santa Anna's army in Texas with a contraband cargo of flour, rice, lard, biscuit, and 300 kegs of powder.

Thank You, My Twilight

The song "Biscuit Hammer" contains a reference to The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's first film to employ spoken dialog.

The Court of the Crimson King

The song was covered by King Crimson members Ian McDonald and John Wetton with Steve Hackett on Hackett's Tokyo Tapes and by Greg Lake featuring Gary Moore on Lake's Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1981 live album released by King Biscuit Records in 1996.

The Mag

Over the years, other Newcastle United fanzines followed - The Number Nine, Talk of the Tyne, Half Mag Half Biscuit and Toon Army News to name just some.

United Biscuits

In his 2009 book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton chronicles his tour and brief experiences with employees of United Biscuits as they launched the "Moments" biscuit line.

Victualling Commissioners

The Victualling Board built breweries, slaughterhouses, and bakeries near to Navy Yards to provide beer, salted meat and ship's biscuit, and modern research has shown that during the period of the Napoleonic Wars only about 1% of supplies were actually condemned as unfit to eat.

Walter Palmer

Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet (1858–1910), British biscuit manufacturer and Conservative politician


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