I Just Realised What 'Bourbon' Biscuits Actually Stands For, And It Makes Sense

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We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about why Hobnobs, Twix, and Quality Street are called what they are. 

But what about Bourbons, the unofficial fourth-best biccies of the nation?

It turns out that the name wasn’t always what it is now ― and that the name it ended up with is associated with the whisky via a royal lineage.

The biscuit has a long history

The biscuit was invented in 1910 by Peek Frean & Co, the Bermondsey company behind the Garibaldi and Twiglets.