On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:08:06 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 2:55:01 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 9/4/2016 8:28 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 1:32:18 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > >> On 9/4/2016 7:09 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > >> .
> > >>>
> > >>> Obviously, you know what scones and biscuits are. I make biscuits but I'd rather be eating scones.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I'd rather have a good Philadelphia style cinnamon bun or other pastry.
> > >> Never had a biscuit I really liked and scones are just a tad better, IMO.
> > >
> > > Lots of things are better than a biscuit but of these things have not sustained men when times were hard or dangerous as the lowly biscuit. It fully deserves our respect.
> > >
> >
> > You respectfully get them with a bucket of KFC. Out of respect though,
> > I don't eat them.
>
> People that grew up with biscuits tend to consider them in high regard. Biscuits were a staple of sailors and armies for centuries. They were the original MREs.

Ship's biscuit was nothing like American biscuits. Google "hardtack".
The stuff had to be soaked before it was edible.

Cindy Hamilton