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Fun fact, might be off on the details, but Triscuits were called that because they were marketed as being cooked by “elecTric” ovens which meant uniform heating

• pmalynin 4y ago
  Neat, I guess similar to Panko? But that was more of a military time necessity
  • QuercusMax 4y ago
    I assume that the tricuits were cooked by a fairly conventional electric oven, not like panko, which was cooked by putting electrodes into the dough.
    • NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
      "was"? Has something changed that they do not use this process anymore?
      • torstenvl 4y ago
        Yes. They're done. Triscuits and panko both refer to the finished products. For the set of all Triscuits, there does not exist any element which will ever again be baked. Ditto for panko.
        • NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
          In English, we use the habitual aspect for things that have been, and are still, done on a regular basis. If you wish to speak about a currently-implemented process for making food, for instance, you say "panko is baked by passing an electrical current through it". If you have a small bag of panko on the counter, you may point to it and say "an electrical current was passed through this panko to bake it", but you could also construct the former sentence and be completely correct. But your use of the past tense in a general statement about panko implies that it is no longer made by that process, which leads those of us who speak English to incorrect conclusions. This confusion can be further compounded by the fact that we were discussing events of many decades past, so Triscuits, for example, may no longer be baked in electric ovens, although they certainly could still be. https://twitter.com/sageboggs/status/1242968548949004288/photo/2 https://twitter.com/sageboggs/status/1242968548949004288/pho... Thanks.
          • torstenvl 4y ago
            > your use of the past tense in a general statement It wasn't my use or my statement. > implies that it is no longer made by that process No. That's a possible interpretation, but it is by no means implied. > leads those of us who speak English to incorrect conclusions I'm a native Standard American English speaker. I did not jump to that conclusion. In Standard American English, there is a specific construction for expressing that idea: "panko, which used to be cooked by putting electrodes into the dough" That construction was not used here.
            • NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
              If you'll refresh your memory about the context of this comment thread, you will see several posters using past-tense to refer to historical situations and that is the context into which you interjected your thing about panko. I assumed that you knew that panko had once been made that way and was no longer. Others may have assumed that as well, given the established context and the way you wrote the sentence. So I hope this clears it up for everyone. Thanks.
              • QuercusMax 4y ago
                I have no idea about how either triscuits or panko are made nowadays. Thus, I referred to them in the past tense talking about how they were made when they were originally created.
              • torstenvl 4y ago
                > I assumed that you knew that panko had once been made that way and was no longer...the way you wrote the sentence. Again, I was not the one who made the comment. Please stop with the inappropriate behavior. > Thanks. Don't do this, please.
                • NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
                  You're welcome.
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• sgustard 4y ago
  Heh, I always assumed Triscuit was named to be one better than a Biscuit. Which itself is one better than the mythical Uniscuit.
  • sircastor 4y ago
    I am now on a quest to create the long lost Uniscuit...
    • __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
      Much like its more popular relative, unicorn, uniwheat didn't make it onto Noah's ark. Perhaps you can find some that is still viable, frozen in the permafrost.
  • swimfar 4y ago
    Uniscuit would be bread. Biscuit translates to "twice cooked" in French. This is similar to biscotti which translates to the same thing in Italian. Fun fact that many French and Italians don't even realize.
    • ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
      > Biscuit translates to "twice cooked" in French. One letter too many: bi-cuit.
      • sph 4y ago
        Languages evolve over time and add random letters between words. Also bis = twice in Latin.