Nice to have a full exposure of what is a biscuit for English native people.
For cultural difference in France a biscuit is restricted to sweet backed products, mostly of sponge with (biscuit irlandais) or with less (biscuit genoise) or without butter (biscuit Savoie) . Still the meaning is extended to some more dry and less sponge small cakes usually with no or few garniture. Not used for bars (Twix, mars…)
Mars isn’t a biscuit in England either, it’s a chocolate bar.
A biscuit needs to actually contain the “biscuit”, the, uh, crumbly dough stuff.
Then again, I consider pink wafers a biscuit, and they don’t seem to have any dough… I actually have no idea what they’re made of.
On the topic of sponge, my feeling is that sponge is contrary to the idea of a biscuit in English. This is one reason why a classification of a jaffa cake as a biscuit is controversial.
Going back to cookies, I see there as being two types of cookie: the soft full-sized cookie and the hard mini cookie, and I only consider the latter as biscuits.
for a DIY of wafers, the “biscuit” part is accessible, but the “garniture” a bit complex (sugar cooking, white of eggs is my guess+aroma (strawberry?). Maybe you can use premade stuff for covering cakes you buy in a shop for backeries
Thank you, this is very interesting. It seems like your ‘biscuits’ are a wider group than what we would call biscuit (or Guetzli) in Switzerland.
The Swiss cooking terminology is similar to the French, put aside the specialities of each country
not… quite… American biscuits are significantly less sweet than scones, and have a bit more in common with bread rolls. You wouldn’t put gravy on a scone, and I’d imagine an american wouldn’t typically think of such either, but you would on an american biscuit.
I just learnt ffrom this video that what I said about jaffa cakes was wrong: VAT (currently 20%) is levied, in the UK, on chocolate-covered biscuits but not cakes, rather than the other way around (which would seem more intuitive.)
So the classification of jaffa cakes as cakes was, in fact, a legal victory for the corporation.
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About infinity, I loved this novel:
Guess I gotta read it then…
I was watching Toy Story 4.
Would Goban&Stones(&Bowls?) be part of the toy gang?
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Here’s a great Veritasium video about this:
I saw that in my recommendeds, but figured it was probably just about Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem and looked up a video on microtonality instead. 
I recommend watching it, it gives a pretty nice overview of the history of this area of mathematics, does one of the best explanations of the first incompleteness theorem (I think I may steal this if I ever have to teach it) and additionally treats Turing’s halting problem.
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LOL. Clickbait thread 
Would you call it orange juice, if it were made from green oranges?
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If you like these kind of important philosophical qyestions, there is a thread with lots of more of these.
Well, orange originally referred to the fruit, which gave its name to the colour.
The Old English word was ġeolurēad (yellow-red).
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