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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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).