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A biscuit ( /ˈbɪskɨt/) is a baked, edible, and commonly flour-based food-product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations.
The modern-day confusion in the English language around the word "biscuit" is created by its etymology.
The Middle French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.
This term was then adapted into English in the 14th century during the Middle Ages, in the Middle English word bisquite, to represent a hard, twice-baked product.
However, the Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the word koekje, a language diminutive of cake, to have a similar meaning for a similar hard, baked product. This may be related[citation needed] to the Russian or Ukrainian translation, where "biscuit" has come to mean "sponge cake".
Biscuits for breakfast, cup of tea for the man
4 more years of this shit and i'll be on 16 grand
pushing the trolley, doing the rounds
4 more years of this shit and i'll be one of these clowns
in my office
on the fifth floor
cuits for breakfast
cuits for breakfast
cuits for breakfast, cup of tea for the man
4 years on in this game and i'm on 16 grand
i want chocolate, gimme some cake
gimme so much more than i think i can take
in my office
on the fifth floor
cuits for breakfast
cuits for breakfast
over a barrel, or over my trolley
over the desk it's all the same
pushing the message don't hate the player hate the game
s'all the same
in my office
on the fifth floor
i can see the world go round beneath me
cuits for breakfast
i can see my world pan out before me
i can see my world pan out before me
i can see my world pan out before me
i can see my world pan out before me