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cathead biscuit

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Meaning
A large Southern biscuit, roughly “cat head” sized.
Type
Regionalism
Used in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Source: Garden & Gun

What does “cathead biscuit” mean

A cathead biscuit is the big, tender biscuit whose name comes from scale: it is supposed to be about as large as a cat’s head. For Dialectly, the Mississippi angle is Hattiesburg baker Robert St. John’s local recipe tradition.

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