A biscuit is a small baked bread. The exact meaning varies markedly in different parts of the world, sometimes leading to confusion. The origin of the word 'biscuit' is from Latin via Middle French and means 'twice cooked'. Some of the original biscuits were British naval hard tack. That was passed down to American culture, and hard tack (biscuits) was made through the 19th century. British digestive biscuitsA biscuit is a hard baked product like a small flat cake which in North America may be called a 'cookie' or 'cracker'. The term biscuit also applies to sandwich type biscuits, where a layer of 'cream' or icing is sandwiched between two biscuits. It should be noted, however, that it has become increasingly more common within the UK for 'cookie' to be used to differentiate between the softer, more chewy 'cookie' and the harder, more brittle 'biscuit.' In this respect the British usage of the word biscuit was defined in the defense of a tax judgement found in favor of McVitie's and their product Jaffa Cakes which the Inland Revenue claimed was a biscuit and was therefore liable to value added tax. The successful defense rested on the fact that 'biscuits go soft when stale, whereas cakes go hard when stale.' In Britain, the digestive biscuit has a strong cultural identity as the traditional accompaniment to a cup of tea, and is regularly eaten as such. Many tea drinkers �dunk� their biscuit into their tea, allowing it to absorb liquid and soften slightly before consumption. Although there are many regional varieties, both sweet and savory, 'biscuit' is generally used t
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A day (symbol: d) is a unit of time equivalent to 24 hours. It is not an SI unit but it is accepted for use with SI. The SI unit of time is the second. The term comes from the Old English dg, with similar terms common in all other Indo-European languages, such as dies in Latin and dive in Sanskrit. Contents 1 Definitions 1.1 International System of Units (SI) 1.2 Astronomy 1.3 Colloquial 2 Introduction 3 Civil day 4 Leap seconds 5 Astronomy 6 Boundaries of the day 7 Metaphorical days
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