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What petty hill will you die on? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by thrawn21@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[-] colournoun@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

TIL: "The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven."

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. So, many cookies are in fact biscuits, as they're dried out to give them a longer shelf life.

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