Hard
Both words in one sentence
- The owner of jaffa cakes got around it by making an appeal that it is a cake instead of a chocolate covered biscuit by saying that cake goes hard when gone stale and biscuits go soft.
Source: Lets Play / Let's Drown Out -
The hard, dry, inedible ones that surface-dwellers hoard are stale and tasteless, hence without value.
Source: Worthless Yellow Rocks -
Frenchie claims that his father was killed by his childhood enemy thrusting a rock-hard stale croissant into the front wheel of the bicycle, which (if true) would count as de-nerfing this trope.
Source: Baguette Beatdown
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Stale and Hard. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/stale
Hard & Stale. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/stale>.
Stale or Hard. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/stale.
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