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Interesting thought (lemmy.zip)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In France, websites have biscuits. However, the cloud has gâteaux, because it's larger, of course.

So that you didn't waste your time reading this, biscuit comes from bis (twice) cuit (baked), as some recipes called for a second baking to dry them (so they were crunchy).