Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/26/the-secret-of-triscuits-reveal.html
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but it does assert that the Tri is not a reference to “triple” or other three-related terms.
Unlike Biscuits, where the Bi is a clear reference to “double” and other two-related terms.
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“Electric Biscuit”.
Saved you a read.
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It’s called a Tri-scuit cause it’s baked with 3-phase electricity.
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thank you. i don’t mind a good long read, but i really have no interest in twittering.
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as in, the oven is electric, or the raw materials are galvanized in some way? like Mr Wizard cooking a hot dog with a wall socket?
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So what exactly are they? I thought that in the US, biscuits were baked things, kind of like scones.
But these seem to be savoury crackers? Are they like cream crackers? @beschizza - can you translate for us?
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Shredded wheat in a cracker form-factor
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You’ll find other archaic American uses of “biscuit” in what is now considered the European sense. For example, the “Nabisco” brand name is short for “National Biscuit Company,” but they always made what we in the US would now call cookies and crackers.
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Try the rosemary and olive oil version of Triscuits. Surprisingly good.
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But salty! Who doesn’t love salt?
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Slugs. But I try not to take much culinary advice from them.
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they’re generally thought of as crackers, they’re sold in the cracker aisle, and yes they’re savory but not creamy, though I’m unfamiliar with the term “cream crackers.”
they have a unique texture, the grain is fibrous and has a woven quality and a wafer sort of appearance. a goodly amount of salt. very tasty.
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Incorrect. The base unit is a scuit.
1 scuit = uniscuit
2 scuits = biscuit
3 scuits = triscuit
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Those lightning bolts…hmm.
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It was snails that introduced me to the delights of garlic butter, so I try to keep an open mind.
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“Electricity biscuit” sounds like a phrase that would have been heard at a rave, circa 1996.
Was that intended to be irony? Because yeah, it is, actually. “Biscuit” comes from the Latin for “twice baked” (bread). " Biscuits" are literally the English version of the Italian “biscotti.”
(panis) bis coctus [Latin] => biscoctum [Mediaeval Latin] => biscotto [Old Italian] => bescuit [Old French] => biscuit [English]
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