Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
The season thing irks me, there’s only four seasons and they’re nothing to do with Frankie Valli either. I sometimes picture myself behind the counter or bar when someone says ‘Can I get?’, I’d love to reply ‘Course you can, it’s over there’. My daughter in law said to my granddaughter the other day, ‘Ask Bampy if he wants a cookie’, I didn’t hang about to see if it was a biscuit she was on about, mind you isn’t biscuit French?
Biscuit is from French
Cookie is from a Germanic route. (The German word for cake is 'Kuchen')
Quiche is an interesting word as it's a French bastardisation of 'Kuchen'.