why are there holes in biscuits?

[TdC]

Actually I'd vote that it is a desert as it should contain milk and ice cream. Chocolate milk would be a drink. I'm still waiting for my chocolate milk tap to be installed.

that was their argument as well. that and the calorie thing.

 

[Brynn]

but what about kitkats


biscuit or confectionary?


thats the real issue

confectionary

 

[Tom]

It depends entirely on the consitency of the drink, and not how many calories are contained within it. A proper milkshake is really a dessert, because when served its impossible to upend the glass and drink it.

 

[TdC]

hmm, I'm still not convinced. I don't see people eating milkshakes with a spoon, I see them drinking them through a straw (usually). If I got an ice cream sorbet, waited till it was fully melted and then drank it I'd still think it was a desert, because it was originally ice cream. I suppose a milkshake is a grey area somewhere between drink and desert, and it's a blend of both ice cream and milk (unless you get a maccyd's which are said to be lard and milk).

 

[Tom]

Going from the calories argument, a hot toddy is a dessert!

 

[mank!]

Biscuits are generally round and relatively flat.
Cakes are large and generally slices.

Therefore Jaffa Cakes aren't really cakes at all.

But what about kit-kats indeed?

 

[Stimpy]

What does that make a pancake then?

 

[mank!]

A pancake is neither. It's a pancake.

 

[Pakman]

Jaffa Cakes are cakes, it has always been my opinion that whilst being baked if something "rises" it is a cake, if it doesn't it's a biscuit (this of course excludes pastries and bread). Since a Jaffa Cake includes sponge it has "risen" and is therefore a cake Q.E.D.

 

[mank!]

But it's shaped like a biscuit. Could it be a biscake?

 

[nath]

No.

 

[Stimpy]

If you take Jaffa Cakes out of their wrapper and place them in a biscuit tin with other biscuits they will go hard, just like you would expect a cake to go - case solved.

 

[JBP|]

If you take Jaffa Cakes out of their wrapper and place them in a biscuit tin with other biscuits they will go hard, just like you would expect a cake to go - case solved.

where as if you leave your biscuits out and not in an air tight container they well go soft


(kitkats will stay the same though (unless its hot then they melt))


the plot thickens

 

[mank!]

I've got in over my head here.

 

[Lazarus]

biscuit.
cake.

who gives a feck if they are tasty

 

[dysfunction]

hmm, I'm still not convinced. I don't see people eating milkshakes with a spoon, I see them drinking them through a straw (usually). If I got an ice cream sorbet, waited till it was fully melted and then drank it I'd still think it was a desert, because it was originally ice cream. I suppose a milkshake is a grey area somewhere between drink and desert, and it's a blend of both ice cream and milk (unless you get a maccyd's which are said to be lard and milk).

Clearly you have not had a proper milkshake yet.


EDIT:

Its really simple...
If something has the word "cake" in it its a cake.

eg:

Jaffa cake
Chocolate cake
Cheese cake

 

[Tom]

Right then, what about nubcaeks?

 

[tris-]

biscuits have holes so you can tell it apart from a cake. to avoid the confusions such as is a jaffa cake a biscuit? no because there is no holes.

 

[JBP|]

but what about oatcakes and the humble flapjack?


oatcakes certainly are not cakes

and i dunno what the hell a flapjack is really

 

[mank!]

Flapjacks are basically oats, sugar, golden syrup and butter mixed together. I'd say they're biscuits.

 

[JBP|]

maybe but surly the dimensions of a flapjack are to big to be able to class it as a biscuit?

 

[mank!]

By my earlier logic, yes.

 

[JBP|]

so what is it?

 

[mank!]

I don't know. It's tasty.

 

[Danya]

Here's a site with much biscuit info (including biscuits vs cakes): http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

 

[Danya]

BTW reason for holes in biscuits here: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ca...rdata/ipp/docs/PSC%20July%201994%20Report.doc (see item 4).

 

[Wij]

Biscuits can get quite soggy.

 

[Stimpy]

Biscuits can get quite soggy.

Where you stick them yeah

 

[Tom]

Its all fibre though.

 

[Bodhi]

Clearly you have not had a proper milkshake yet.


EDIT:

Its really simple...
If something has the word "cake" in it its a cake.

eg:

Jaffa cake
Chocolate cake
Cheese cake

eq, Shortcake. Oh no that's a biscuit.