As researchers reveal new insights into how creme-filled sandwich biscuits split apart, Feedback also ponders a new ruling on the cakey-ness of flapjacks, and Dutch cannibalism in the 19th century
is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and moreFew topics excite Feedback more than those that sit at the confluence of science and biscuits.
“Scientifically, sandwich cookies present a paradigmatic model of parallel plate rheometry in which a fluid sample, the cream, is held between two parallel plates, the wafers,” we read in their paper‘”, a statement from which we do not presume to demur. Their answer to the central question can best be summarised in the immortal words of hip hop mavens Run-DMC: “It’s like that, and that’s the way it is.” They do find, however, that the filling of biscuits stored in conditions of higher temperature and humidity is more likely to split evenly between the two sides. This may explain the way the cookie crumbles in our stationery cupboard lair, and why there are crumbs everywhere.
The UK judiciary has long been at the cutting edge of objective definitions of cake, owing to UK tax law treating biscuits as sweets, and therefore luxury items to be taxed at normal rates, but cake – quite rightly – as an essential foodstuff that is zero-rated for tax purposes.
, is 127 quadrillion, which also merits an entry in our burgeoning pile of mystifying size comparisons. Peeps small, Grand Canyon large, we think is the general idea. Good luck to anyone intent on verifying that one., “The researchers wanted to find out more about the diets of the women and children in this village, which mainly consisted of dairy farmers at this time”. “Eye-opening feature on Dutch cannibalism,” she observes. Our own eyes briefly pop, and then narrow again.
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