Not much fibre in biscuits - they're mostly made with white flour.Tom said:Its all fibre though.
Not much fibre in biscuits - they're mostly made with white flour.Tom said:Its all fibre though.
Bodhi said:eq, Shortcake. Oh no that's a biscuit.
Stimpy said:Shortbread is a cookie.
Stimpy said:Shortbread is a cookie.
JBP| said:tbh shortbread/cake is nothing like stale bread, the consistancy is all wrong for starts
Sir Frizz said:
dysfunction said:Shortcake is not the same as shortbread.
Shortcake:
http://www.barbecue-online.co.uk/ba...tcake_with_chocolate_whipped_cream_recipe.htm
Shortbread:
http://www.walkersshortbread.com/walkers.htm
I thought a cookie was a type of biscuit.Pakman said:There is no such thing as a "cookie" next you will start talking about sidewalks and other myths.
Bodhi said:Never said it was - they do taste very similar tho. Shortcake is the bit round the jam in a Jammy Dodger (best biscuits evar), shortbread is that lovely stuff we jocks like to eat on Hogmanay. Shortbread is just a bit harder and a bit sweeter.
Wikipedia said:Under UK law, no VAT is charged on biscuits and cakes - they are 'zero rated'. (Note that in British English, a 'biscuit' is roughly equivalent to a US 'cookie' or 'cracker'). Chocolate covered biscuits, however, are classed as luxury items and are subject to VAT at 17.5%. McVitie's classed its Jaffa Cakes as cakes, but in 1991 this was challenged in court. This may have been because their Jaffa Cakes are about the same size and shape as some types of biscuit. The question which had to be answered was what criteria should be used to class something as a cake or biscuit. McVitie's defended the classification of Jaffa Cakes as a cake by producing a giant jaffa cake to illustrate that their jaffa cakes were simply mini cakes. They also argued that the distinction between cakes and biscuits is simply that cakes go hard when stale, whereas biscuits go soft. It was demonstrated that Jaffa Cakes become hard when stale and McVitie's won the case.
ReActor said:I was once told that the only reason McDonalds put slices of gherkin in their burgers is to prevent them being technically classed as cakes - based on the sugar content.
I like this idea, but suspect that it may be a myth dreamt up by those anti-gherkins-in-McDonalds-burgers fools.
Ormorof said:so... mcdonalds burgers go hard when stale?
not that i eat them anyway, KFC tower burgers > McD :worthy:
Surely the slab of meat* disqualifies it as a cake...ReActor said:I was once told that the only reason McDonalds put slices of gherkin in their burgers is to prevent them being technically classed as cakes - based on the sugar content.
I like this idea, but suspect that it may be a myth dreamt up by those anti-gherkins-in-McDonalds-burgers fools.