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Wednesday, 20 January 2010
biscuit
As the old saying goes, once is never enough. If you want something done right, you have to do it twice, hence bes-cuit, literally “twice cooked” in Old French. That really takes the biscuit. Or it might be the way the cookie crumbles.
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