Taking The Biscuit

The phrase 'taking the biscuit' originates from a naval expression said to date back to the 18th Century - if you were on a long voyage and having a hard time, with all food gone except for the ship's biscuit then the last misfortune was to run out of it, or lose it through spoilage. If the biscuit had already been taken, then things were desperate.
Ship's biscuits were made of stone ground flour, water and salt and typically baked in a hot oven for 30 minutes and then left to harden and dry and were an important part of a sailor's diet before the introduction of canned foods, as they wouldn't go mouldy on a long sea voyage.
However, they were often infested with weevils and sailors had to tap out the bugs before soaking them to make them soft enough to eat. Delicious!
Today's image is my blip equivalent of taking the biscuit as I only took this nocturnal shot of a biscuit tin (mercifully containing shortbread and not ship's biscuits) as an act of desperation to test out the high ISO noise reduction setting on my camera and had used up all other opportunities of capturing anything else as it was far too late in the day - at least there was no sign of any weevils! :-)