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  Garibaldi biscuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Garibaldi biscuit was first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861.
Garibaldi biscuits are also known by the dysphemically-inclined as dead fly biscuits or squashed fly biscuits, because the squashed fruit were said to resemble dead flies.
Garibaldi biscuits were named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and leader of the fight to unify Italy, who made a popular visit to England.
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 Giuseppe Garibaldi Promptory @ TellyBabies.com (Telly Babies)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garibaldi's progress was met with more celebration than resistance, and on September 7th he entered the capital city of Naples.
It is said that the Garibaldi biscuit is named for the famous commander, who gave it to his men.
Garibaldi is known to have stayed in Tynemouth House, Tynemouth, in the north east of England, now part of The King's School, Tynemouth.
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 Garibaldi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Michael Garibaldi is a character in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
Garibaldi (fish) is a fish native to the Pacific Ocean.
A Garibaldi biscuit is a crisp, semi-sweet rectangular biscuit, usually supplied as a bar of five joined together.
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 Giuseppe Garibaldi -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Image:Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866).jpg Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento.
Garibaldi's family was involved in coastal trade, and he was reared to a life on the sea.
Garibaldi was appointed major general, and formed a volunteer unit named the Hunters of the Alps.
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 Giuseppe Garibaldi - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento.
A special day for Garibaldi came on a visit to Taganrog in April 1833, as his schooner Clorinda charged with a shipment of oranges was moored for ten days in the Taganrog seaport.
Anita Garibaldi born in Brazil into a poor, dark-skinned family of herdsmen and fishermen in Morrinhos in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina a year prior to that country's independence from Portugal.
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 Garibaldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian revolutionary, and Anita Garibaldi, his wife;
Michael Garibaldi, a fictional character in the television series Babylon 5;
Garibaldi (city), Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil;
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 Garibaldi biscuit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garibaldi biscuits are also known by the dysphemically dysphemism quick summary:
Garibaldi biscuits were named after Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi quick summary:
Giuseppe garibaldi (july 4, 1807 - june 2, 1882) was an italian nationalist and soldier of the risorgimento....
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 Garibaldi, Giuseppe on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GARIBALDI, GIUSEPPE [Garibaldi, Giuseppe], 1807-82, Italian patriot and soldier, a leading figure in the Risorgimento.
Garibaldi was born at Nice and as a youth entered the Sardinian navy.
Garibaldi was elected to the Italian parliament in 1874, but his political career was undistinguished.
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Who can be sure why Garibaldi biscuits are called that, but as we point out in our book it's probably got something to do with Giuseppe Garibaldi, the brilliant 19th century military tactician and unifier of the city states form the modern Italy, rather than the bald policeman in Babylon 5.
She also added that her research on the subject shows that Garibaldi biscuits are mostly unknown in Europe outside of the UK and certainly not in Italy.
Although the crowd that these biscuits drew was smaller than that of the hobnob, I believe that this can be attributed to the fact that the biscuits were a) stale, and b) dispersed in a less duck friendly area of the pond.
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Garibaldi was an Italian general and had been a prime mover in the unification of Italy in 1861 - before then it had been for centuries a series of Nation States (Lombardy, Tuscany, Piedmont etc).
Garibaldi himself had the reputation of being a daring and imaginative military tactician, winning many battles with swift movements of his army from one location to another.
Garibaldi instructed his cook to devise a lightweight, high energy foodstuff that his men could eat whilst on the march.
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 Giuseppe Garibaldi: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garibaldi returned to Italy in the tumult of the revolutions of 1848 The Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian States quick summary:
During the italian risorgimento, the volunteers that followed garibaldi in southern italy were called redshirts (camicie rosse) because of the colour of their...
The garibaldi or garibaldi damselfish (hypsypops rubicundus) is a fish of the damselfish family that is native to the northern subtropical parts of...
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 Biscuit of the Week
A complete one off, the Garibaldi biscuit is unlike any other, and as such commands a unique position in the biscuit world.
The undisputed king of the large diameter biscuits, this is truly an iconic biscuit.
I have seen girls slip a sheet of kitchen roll in the bottom of their biscuit tins, when opening a new packet of digestives, and although this is completely unnecessary, it is strangely alluring.
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 Biscuit Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You would have to have a fairly sick tongue to really believe that this biscuit in any way compliments a cuppa but nonetheless, this is really is one baddass addictive mother of a biscuit.
The Montgomery Biscuits are a minor league team who play at the Riverwalk Stadium.
A traditional Southern U.S. biscuit originating in the 19th century, made by beating the dough with a wooden mallet for a half hour or more.
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 Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit FOR USA AUDIENCE A bunch of years ago I was looking for one of my favorite cookies on the grocery shelves -- Sunshine Raisin Biscuits (Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits) and couldn't find any; even during my travels to many states.
The Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits was a flat, thin, dry segmented sheet of raisin filled cookie/biscuit dough.
The cookie is distributed by the United Biscuits in Middlesex, United Kingdom.
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 Local News - Peterborough Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Before she became a star, four-year-old Biscuit could not find a place to call home and was being passed from owner to owner in Yorkshire.
The ceremony at the Savoy Hotel, London was strictly owners only, but Biscuit, who got her name because she resembles a Garibaldi biscuit, was quick to let her house mates know that the engraved glass trophy was hers.
Biscuit is definitely happy with her new home and her award – she thinks everything is purr-fect.
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 Funny news: spoof news, satire, and journalism humour from Idiotica comedy magazine
Spacemen from the United States are united in a state of bored stiffdom about the blandness of the biscuits provided by NASA for their intergalactic tea parties, up in space.
The ideal biscuit had to be brittle and not so hard that, when snapped in zero gravity, it would send the spaceman flying off in the other direction.
After a gruelling battle beating off on strong contenders Jammy Dodgers, Digestives and Custard Creams, it was the Garibaldi biscuit that finally took the biscuit, with its firm yet chewy consistency, large square size and big shape, and resilience in hot water.
idiotica.co.uk /archive/funny_news/science/spacebiscuits.shtml   (397 words)

  
 Garibaldi - TheBestLinks.com - Babylon 5, Pacific Ocean, Volcano, Giuseppe Garibaldi, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garibaldi - TheBestLinks.com - Babylon 5, Pacific Ocean, Volcano, Giuseppe Garibaldi,...
Garibaldi, Babylon 5, Pacific Ocean, Volcano, Giuseppe Garibaldi...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Usenews2 - Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits / Garibaldi Biscuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Biscuits) and couldn't find any; even during my travels to many states.
The cookie is distributed by the United Biscuits in Middlesex, United
Biscuit -- but that would probably take a massive write-in campaign.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Garibaldi Museum is chartered to enhance the maritime heritage of the Pacific Northwest by collecting information concerning Captain Robert Gray and Captain Robert Gray's historical vessels, the...
Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) The foremost military figure and popular hero of the age of Italian unification known as the Risorgimento with Cavour and...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. is a Canadian TSX Venture Junior Mining Company involved in mining exploration and production in Canada and Mexico.
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 BBC - Cambridgeshire E-break - Join us for a tea break and a biscuit test   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The most important thing to remember when planning your tea break, is that not just any biscuit will do, and you can't just munch it willy-nilly.
For a start they’ve got loads of little holes, which is a sign that you’re going to get a really crisp biscuit, because those little holes let the steam out - they’re called 'dockers'.
You can find out much more about biscuits and all things tea-related on Stuart's website, nicecupofteaandasitdown.com.
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 Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuit - Garibaldi Biscuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Sunshine Golden Fruit Raisin Biscuits was a flat, thin,
The cookie is distributed by the United Biscuits in
biscuit covering it is made from whole grain.
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 Garibaldi Biscuits
If the biscuit was invented in 1861, it would have been at the height
Garibaldi had made a visit to England and was well received.
The Garibaldi biscuit, or squashed fly biscuit as it has been known
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 All seeing iyers: Manna from Heaven....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The garibaldi biscuit - a personal fave and probably the only biscuit named after a revolutionary hero(unless they do Che Guevara jammy dodgers in Cuba or something).
Named after Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian liberator, champion of nineteenth-century liberal nationalism and key figure in reunification of Italy and supposedly invented to commemorate a vist to Britain.
The irony of course is that Garibaldi was born in Nice, which is a completely different biscuit altogether!
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Biscuit Lu was first established in Nantes in 1846.
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 Garibaldi Biscuits
Garibaldi himself had the reputation of being a
Lincoln biscuit is a kind of shortbread, but I would never have needed
Garibaldi biscuits are also known by the dysphemically-inclined as squashed
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 Cake Tea And Biscuits | MetaFilter
It's also worth pointing out that the "digestive" part of the biscuit name refers to the stoneground wholewheat flour that is used, and the resulting cookie or biscuit is pretty much cognate with the North American "Graham" cracker.
Oh, and regarding biscuits - the ascetic, self-denying pleasures of a Rich Tea can't be beat.
An everyday mug of tea with a biscuit is a small pleasure.
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The dancer's feet cross, and "chase" each other while he/she is in the air, which is not long, though it can seem so when an expert leaper is at work.
Not in honor of the nineteenth-century Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82), but to relish the mythos attending this shortbread British cookie, enclosing a layer of currants, ample reason for its being called squashed-fly biscuit or, as the Scots have it, fly's graveyard.
General Garibaldi also survives in the loose high-necked blouse fashioned after the red shirts of him and his followers, the vogue among Italian women in the mid-nineteenth century.
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 Biscuit, - bokstavskex.framtid.nu - automatic biscuit image creator
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