My younger brother swears he made up the phrase “Risk it with a biscuit” but I have seen YouTube stars user phrases such as "Risk it for a biscuit“ and it's highly unlikely my brother has met any celebrities because if he did, I would probably already know.
My dad tried to Google risk it for a biscuit and apparently it was invented five years ago, but my brother insists he did not hear the phrase before he made up ”risk it with a biscuit“ so I guess he either heard it on the street and thought it was his own phrase a little while later, or maybe it's a ”Great minds think alike thing."
So what do you think?

nickeljorn wrote:

My younger brother swears he made up the phrase “Risk it with a biscuit” but I have seen YouTube stars user phrases such as "Risk it for a biscuit“ and it's highly unlikely my brother has met any celebrities because if he did, I would probably already know.
My dad tried to Google risk it for a biscuit and apparently it was invented five years ago, but my brother insists he did not hear the phrase before he made up ”risk it with a biscuit“ so I guess he either heard it on the street and thought it was his own phrase a little while later, or maybe it's a ”Great minds think alike thing."
So what do you think?

Yeah, he made up risk it with a biscuit, but he has to have heard it somewhere and just misheard it(I use the original phrase quite often myself)

I do that quite often since, well, I'm not always paying the best attention to what people say, but I can't think of any as of right now

The British Government invented it to cover up the British secret, Waxicon Pumplesticks.

-ColorMaster- wrote:

nickeljorn wrote:

My younger brother swears he made up the phrase “Risk it with a biscuit” but I have seen YouTube stars user phrases such as "Risk it for a biscuit“ and it's highly unlikely my brother has met any celebrities because if he did, I would probably already know.
My dad tried to Google risk it for a biscuit and apparently it was invented five years ago, but my brother insists he did not hear the phrase before he made up ”risk it with a biscuit“ so I guess he either heard it on the street and thought it was his own phrase a little while later, or maybe it's a ”Great minds think alike thing."
So what do you think?

Yeah, he made up risk it with a biscuit, but he has to have heard it somewhere and just misheard it(I use the original phrase quite often myself)

I do that quite often since, well, I'm not always paying the best attention to what people say, but I can't think of any as of right now

Yeah I know what you mean

It's like I always say, Biscuit for a risk it!

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

The British Government invented it to cover up the British secret, Waxicon Pumplesticks.

Gaaaaaaah, not Waxicon Pumplesticks AGAIN!

Colby Donaldson from Survivor: Australian Outback maybe? Doubt it xD probably an old time term.

owlannaelsa wrote:

SonicMasterSystem wrote:

The British Government invented it to cover up the British secret, Waxicon Pumplesticks.

Gaaaaaaah, not Waxicon Pumplesticks AGAIN!

We must spread the truth, you will not hold us back you British spy

After looking it up, I've found that it probably stems from an ad from the 70's for a muesli bar called Swisskit. The slogan was something along the lines of “Risk it for a Swisskit” and I'm guessing that after some years of being thrown around, it was eventually bowdlerized to the generic “Risk it for a biscuit”. And like some phrases do, it's been changed around to fit some purposes. I haven't seen or heard any instances of "Risk it with the biscuit", so your brother could be one of the few to grab onto a new development of the original.
I'm not 100% on this because I've seen a few other sources being listed as likely origins, but that's my best guess.