Posted on 09/08/2009 9:53:34 AM PDT by Wardenclyffe
Oh crumbs – it seems up to half of all Britons have been injured... by a humble biscuit.
Flying fragments and daredevil dunking in scalding tea have all led to millions suffering at the hands of their favourite snack, according to fun research.
Among the more unusual – and daft – injuries are a man who poked himself in the eye with a biscuit and people who have fallen off chairs while reaching for a tea-time treat.
One biscuit in particular was ruled more dangerous than the rest – the custard cream, which received a risk rating of 5.63 by research company Mindlab using the newly invented Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation (Bite).
This compares with just 1.16 for the safe Jaffa Cake.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
What do you expect? You take away their guns and what do they use next? Biscuits!
I wouldn’t say that cookie=biscuit, but that a “biscuit” (in English) is a certain type of “cookie” (in American).
In an American grocery store, you will find “tea biscuits”—that’s more like what the Brits mean by “biscuit.”
I don’t think, even in England, that anyone would call a big, soft, gooey chocolate chip cookie a “biscuit.”
Are these the same Brits that survived the bombing of London, won the Battle of Briton, and defeated Hitler?
Now they can’t handled a.....biscuit?
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