In return for Vanuatu's lifting of the biscuit ban on 25 October, the Fijian government announced on 7 December that it was lifting its kava ban for the sake of freer trade among the members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group ( MSG ).

At one point Shackleton gave his one biscuit allotted for the day to the ailing Frank Wild, who wrote in his diary: " All the money that was ever minted would not have bought that biscuit and the remembrance of that sacrifice will never leave me ".

This particular design was introduced by the Dopyeras ' new company, in competition to the already patented tricone and biscuit designs owned and produced by the National String Instrument Corporation.

This was a cake, not a biscuit, and there were no mixing instructions.

A recipe for " Anzac Biscuits " appeared in the War Chest Cookery Book ( Sydney, 1917 ) but was for a different biscuit altogether.

During the English Civil War, the palace was used as a biscuit factory and prisoner-of-war camp.

The composition of the Gennett biscuit ( record material ) was of insufficient hardness to withstand the increased wear that resulted when the new recordings with their greatly increased frequency range were played on obsolete phonographs with mica diaphragm reproducers.

At this time the company also introduced an improved record biscuit which was adequate to the demands imposed by the electric recording process.

Their main food was dried peas or beans, sea biscuit and salt pork.

On the other side of Boomerang Street stood another notable Milton landmark, the Arnotts biscuit factory, which was demolished in the 1990s after Arnotts moved their Brisbane operations to Geebung.

For next five years in the USA Pupin worked as a manual laborer ( most notably, at the biscuit factory on Cortlandt Street in Manhattan ) and meanwhile he was learning English, Greek and Latin.

Seabiscuit was named for his father, as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors.

The European court ruled that the Teacake was not, in fact, a biscuit but a cake and as such Marks and Spencer have begun a legal battle in the UK to retrieve the taxes paid which could amount to as much as 3. 5 million UK pounds sterling ($ 5. 6 million ).

It was first introduced in India in March 2011 under Cadbury, a major chocolate brand recently acquired by Kraft, with the tag line, it is the world's No. 1 biscuit.

The UNEEDA biscuit looked promising, but Green had to make sure it got to customers fresh and tasty, so it was the first to use the In-Er Seal package in 1898.

In 2009 ( after over 110 years ), Nabisco discontinued the Uneeda biscuit out of concern that the product was not as profitable as others.

His father, Gordon Tatchell, was a lathe operator in an engineering factory while his mother, Mardi, was a housewife and later worked in a biscuit factory.

Hence, for both sustenance and avoidance of illness, a daily consumption of a biscuit was considered good for health.

The more refined captain's biscuit was made with finer flour.

At the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the daily allowance on board a Royal Navy ship was one pound of biscuit plus one gallon of beer.

He was a tall straight man, the hair of his head black, long behind, only short before, none on his face at all ; he asked some beer, but we gave him strong water and biscuit, and butter, and cheese, and pudding, and a piece of mallard, all which he liked well, and had been acquainted with such amongst the English.

Hence, for sustenance and health, eating a biscuit daily was considered good for one's health.

The more refined Captain's biscuit was made with finer flour.

* A biscuit consisting of a biscuit base with jam, marshmallow and coconut on top, originally made by Jacob's biscuit company in Ireland

A digestive biscuit ( originally known as a Wheaten ), sometimes referred to as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit originated in the United Kingdom and popular worldwide.

The Bourbon was introduced in 1910 ( originally under the name Creola ) by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans, of London, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit.

The town has, historically, produced some significant food products, including the most popular recipe for Simnel cake and Shrewsbury Biscuits ( or Shrewsbury Cakes ), an often lemon flavoured biscuit, which were originally produced in a bakery in the centre of the town.

The biscuits were originally called faite à Nice ( the French for " Made In Nice ") but this was harder to print onto the biscuit so the " faite à " was dropped and the " Nice " part remained.

The museum's site was originally occupied by a house known as East Thorpe, designed in 1880 by Alfred Waterhouse for Alfred Palmer ( of the Reading biscuit manufacturers Huntley & Palmers ).

Huntley & Palmers was a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire.

They are almost always white but can often have a light to dark brown tint ( known as " biscuit "), usually around the tips of ears.

While graham crackers started out as a mild food, unsweetened or mildly sweetened, they are more commonly known as a sugar and / or honey sweetened baked good that approaches a cookie ( or the British English term biscuit ).

The term biscuit also applies to sandwich-type biscuits, wherein a layer of " creme " or icing is sandwiched between two biscuits, such as the custard cream, or a layer of jam ( as in biscuits which, in the United Kingdom, are known as " Jammy Dodgers ")

The exception to savoury biscuits is the sweetmeal digestive known as the " Hovis biscuit ", which, although slightly sweet, is still classified as a cheese biscuit.

It is known by other names such as pilot bread ( as rations for ship's pilots ), ship's biscuit, shipbiscuit, sea biscuit, sea bread ( as rations for sailors ) or pejoratively " dog biscuits ", " tooth dullers ", " sheet iron ", " worm castles " or " molar breakers ".

The opening is protected by a manhole cover, also known as a " biscuit ", a plug designed to prevent accidental or unauthorized access to the manhole.

The Duck ( also known as a bear claw, a duder ,, a biscuit, a bow tie, or a useless ) is thrown with a similar grip to the Overhand, except it is the backward version of it.

* Bypass flow-through style ( bypass – also known as " biscuit style " or many other, similar variant names ): A pipe brings water directly to an electrically-controlled valve at the top of the humidifier.

In North America, where " biscuit " has taken on other meanings, twice-baked cookies are known as biscotti ( singular biscotto ).

With the outbreak of World War I it was renamed to Empire biscuit, except in Northern Ireland where it remains known as the German Biscuit and is commonly found with a jam and coconut topping.

It is also known as the " Belgian biscuit ", due to being topped in a similar way to a Belgian bun made of pastry or dough.

Apple cobbler ( also known as apple slump, apple grunt, and apple pandowdy ) is an old recipe in which the baked apples are topped with a crust formed of batter, pie crust or baking powder biscuit dough.

Among the local food products, better known are cheese and biscochos de Cayambe ( a crumbly biscuit ).

The Australian biscuit maker Arnott's claims that the biscuit is named after the French city ( known as Nizza prior to 1860, when it was ceded to France, and Niça norm or Nissa in the native Niçard Occitan ).

The Palmers were notable local figures in Reading who generously gave money and land to Reading, including Palmer Park and the town was often known as " biscuit town ".

Reading football team were also known as the " biscuit men ".