However, the Attfields realised that he responded to quieter noises, such as the opening of a biscuit tin.
"I'd put my winning ticket inside a biscuit tin and then in the safe too, so as not to take any chances, " she added.
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Wang Wanping, 21, a scrawny biscuit of a girl, plucks her heavy electric guitar in a moldy air-raid shelter, trying to find the right touch by repeatedly playing Joy Division songs.
When he had finished, he wiped his hands on the seat of his shorts, and there was a little biscuit man with separate fingers, a hat on, and even walking stick.
Poached eggs crown a halved, housemade biscuit with a slab of Hudson Valley foie gras.
Styled like a Faberge Easter egg, the crafted dessert is layered with champagne jelly and a light biscuit joconde.
In the annals of self-inflicted defeats, Jacques Chirac's decision to call legislative elections last summer takes a big biscuit.
In that case, I'd like a chicken biscuit.
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The fines reduce the amount of milk produced, there is now a shortage of milk and butter and you need to lift the import restrictions so that the citizenry can have a butter biscuit at Christmas time.
But it was a perfect little biscuit man, and, as a matter of fact, it reminded Frankie of John Henry himself.
So as guests left the affair, they were handed an unusual favor: A Milk-Bone dog biscuit, actually a cookie in the shape of the dog snack, made by a Beverly Hills bakery.
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Berenice was kneading a lump of biscuit dough, and she dropped it on the flour-dusted table.
The shutters are painted a darker shade of biscuit than the rest of the room (beige gets a lot better when the tones take on the names of good things to eat).
Walk into any gold shop, at any time of the year, and you are bound to find customers choosing a gold bracelet or biscuit.
Some brands are being transplanted into adjacent markets: the new Hovis Breakfast Bake is a whole-grain biscuit that Premier hopes will take some of the growing market for on-the-go breakfasts.
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The loudest voice of the movement would be that of professional game enthusiast Total Biscuit, a YouTube star with a huge following, and I count myself among his fans.
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You can find Eastman's dry biscuit mix, a formula he concocted for camping, and the recipe he perfected for his favorite food.
The Daily Mail reported customer complaints over what critics deemed a blander, more brittle biscuit - however, the company claims it hasn't changed the recipe for more than two years.
These almond biscuit treats come in a rainbow of flavours, from salt caramel to a very jammy raspberry.
The cobbler however, which to be clear, is a dish in which a fruit filling is topped with spoonfuls of a loose scone-like or biscuit topping and baked so that the top resembles golden cobblestones, was born right here on American shores.
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Up until early 2005 AFV was known as Dogs International and planned a chain of "bed and biscuit" upscale kennels. (It still owned one in Flagler Beach, Fla. as of its most recent sec filing in November.) Dogs International turned green after Jeffrey Groscost, former speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, took over as chief executive.
Down in Knoxville, Tennessee, the International Biscuit Festival (May 15-18) this year also features a big food writing conference along with its famed Miss and Mr. Biscuit pageant.
Allow plenty of room between each biscuit, about 4 to a row.
"Normally we would expect to be able to grow our biscuit sales - albeit in a pretty flat market - but we have come under some pressure, " said chief executive Jo Stewart.
When Berenice brought the biscuit man from the oven, they saw that it looked exactly like any biscuit man ever made by a child it had swelled so that all the work of John Henry had been cooked out, the fingers were run together, and the walking stick resembled a sort of tail.
Wally Covington, a forest ecologist at Northern Arizona University, says it's crucial not to make too much of the Biscuit findings, in part because this study only covers a few years.
The King Biscuit Blues Festival, founded in 1986 and named after a local brand of flour, attracts six-figure crowds over four days.
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Since the mill produced more flour than the biscuit factory needed, they moved into instant noodles, a popular fast-food item in Nepal, procuring know-how from a Thai firm (hence the name Wai Wai).
The study began in 2003 when a team of researchers from Oregon State University entered what they called the Biscuit burn zone.
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