Unexpectedly, the baked dough is loose and crisp and tastes delicious. To commemorate this escape, the crew baked cookies in the same way after returning to England, and named these cookies "Bis Bay" after the bay. This is the origin of today's English name biscuit. Cookies are also a lucky thing in the local area.

One day in the 1950s, in Biscay, France, a strong wind stranded an English sailboat and the crew escaped to a desert island. After the wind stopped, people went back to the boat to look for food, but the flour, sugar and cream on the boat were soaked, so they had to take the soaked batter back to the island, knead it into small balls and bake it to eat.