I just saw a Hardee’s commercial in which a woman is bragging about her skill as a biscuit maker. She lifts a sheet of biscuit dough off the biscuits she’s cut. There is about a half-biscuit’s diameter of dough left between each hole where the biscuits were cut.
No one would last in a restaurant with that much waste, and everyone knows re-rolled biscuit dough scraps doesn’t make biscuits as good as the first-cut ones.
On the other hand, I chuckled since it reminded me of a certain Green Acres episode.
That commercial was the first one I ever saw on the SEC (Southern Football) Network. I paid attention because Southern biscuits are straight from Heaven, but then they tacked on at the end a promo for their fried baloney and Velveeta biscuit sandwich, and I had to laugh. Yeah, theat’s the SEC.
Note for those from outside the U.S.: “biscuits” in this thread are similar to scones (but less sweet), and not cookies or crackers (“biscuits” in the British sense of the word).
What’s odd about the commercial (if I remember correctly) is that when they show her cutting the biscuits, they are close together like you’d expect. But then when they show her lifting the excess dough off, the biscuits are suddenly farther apart.
Speaking of unrealistic commercials, who the fuck thinks that Coors Light is harvested in remote mountain ranges by ice climbers, who then transport specific customer orders through a “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”-like portal? Impossible!!
Clearly if the biscuits were all cut side by side there’d be nothing left but those little concave sided diamond shapes and they couldn’t be lifted in a sheet. Doesn’t matter because I’m not eating anything from Hardee’s. I don’t even know where one is if I wanted to.
That’s what I would imagine a Hardee’s biscuit maker would do. When my Mom made Christmas cookies as a kid, the dough outside the cut out shapes got reballed/reflattened until there wasn’t enough dough left to make a cookie.
Don’t know where one of those is around here either. I did go to Carl’s Jr. in CA back when. They weren’t bad for fast food. I liked their burger with barbecue sauce and an onion ring, the Great Western Burger or something like that.
I was a Hardee’s biscuit maker 20-some odd years ago. Sixteen year old kids were a lot cheaper to acquire and maintain than machinery, and I don’t imagine that’s changed much since then.
