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The New Zealand Parliament has a biscuit tin, bought in the 1980s, from which numbered counters are drawn out to randomly introduce new member's bills. As a result, the member's bill ballot and the wider member's bill process is often referred to as "the biscuit tin" or "democracy by biscuit tin". [7] [8]
The Griffin's Foods Company is a New Zealand food company currently headquartered in Auckland and established by John Griffin as a flour and cocoa mill in the city of Nelson in 1864. [1] The company started biscuit manufacturing in 1890. [1] Products commercialised by Griffin's include cookies, chocolate confection, crackers, cereal bars, and ...
An early Weet-Bix tin from the 1930s. Weet-Bix was developed by Bennison Osborne in Sydney, Australia, in the mid-1910s.Osborne set out to make a product more palatable than Granose, a biscuit that was marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company at that time.
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The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...
Huntley & Palmers is a British company of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. [1] Formed by Joseph Huntley in 1822, the company became one of the world's first global brands (chiefly led by George Palmer who joined in 1841) and ran what was once the world's largest biscuit factory.
The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water and optionally desiccated coconut. [2] [3] Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. [4]
The original Arnott's logo depicted a multi-coloured parrot sitting atop a T-shaped perch, eating a cracker biscuit. During a radio interview on ABC, William Arnott's great-great-great-grandson stated that the logo represents the proverb "Honesty is the best policy" where the phrase was constructed from "On his T, is the best pol' (polly) I see".