Electric Biscuits! Try Triscuits!
Edit: since people like my fun fact here’s the Twitter thread where a guy talks about it.
https://twitter.com/sageboggs/status/1242968530250870786?s=4...
One letter too many: bi-cuit.
Triscuits and panko both refer to the finished products. For the set of all Triscuits, there does not exist any element which will ever again be baked. Ditto for panko.
If you have a small bag of panko on the counter, you may point to it and say "an electrical current was passed through this panko to bake it", but you could also construct the former sentence and be completely correct. But your use of the past tense in a general statement about panko implies that it is no longer made by that process, which leads those of us who speak English to incorrect conclusions. This confusion can be further compounded by the fact that we were discussing events of many decades past, so Triscuits, for example, may no longer be baked in electric ovens, although they certainly could still be.
https://twitter.com/sageboggs/status/1242968548949004288/pho... Thanks.
It wasn't my use or my statement.
> implies that it is no longer made by that process
No. That's a possible interpretation, but it is by no means implied.
> leads those of us who speak English to incorrect conclusions
I'm a native Standard American English speaker. I did not jump to that conclusion. In Standard American English, there is a specific construction for expressing that idea: "panko, which used to be cooked by putting electrodes into the dough"
That construction was not used here.
So I hope this clears it up for everyone.
Thanks.
Again, I was not the one who made the comment. Please stop with the inappropriate behavior.
> Thanks.
Don't do this, please.
Except that is how "was" was used by the two people you were responding to.