Canned refrigerator biscuits, Greg S, are not the English biscuit. They are not sweet.
I don't know when they first became available - Pillsbury's, I think - but individual 'biscuits' are packed into a cylinder in the unraised dough stage and sealed. When you are ready to use them, you pull the strip off the package and separate the slices onto a cooking sheet. Within minutes they have risen and you pop them into the oven.