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This was when Compact Disc (CD) was still the popular file storage media for all your digital files. I found this CD-CD cracker from a stall in the Commercial Center of Tacloban City's downtown last summer of 2010.
CD-CD - /si-di si-dì/ (Waray [eastern Leyte] biscuit) [n.]
cracker biscuit shaped like a CD (compact disc) or DVD (digital video disc) disc.
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After kneading the dough of mixed flour, baking powder, salt, and water, it is flattened into a thin sheet and a punch cutter is used to get those disc-shaped cutouts with donut holes.
The cutouts are placed in a baking tray and placed in the oven to become biscuits. Towards the end of baking, each disc is sprinkled with grains of brown or coarse white sugar that melted slightly and stuck on the surface of the CD-CD biscuit.
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Packs of CD-CD biscuits on display for sale in the Commercial Center, downtown of Tacloban City last summer 2010.
CD-CD biscuits can be eaten as is or paired with a cup of hot coffee, or with a bottle of cold softdrink (soda).
Before, when CD (compact disc) was not yet invented, this biscuit was a small-sized disc and used to be called galyeta by the Warays of eastern Leyte. Yeah, it was the size of a mini-disc of those erstwhile applications or software file installers. And yeah, it already had its donut hole then. The bakers eventually enlarged the size to match and make it look like the bigger CD of the 1990s until the early decades of 2000s.
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