A British friend asks the Difference between a US and UK Biscuit

[Biscuit]

As the above says, mortals, a Britlandish friend, after putting down her tea and adjusting her monacle, was unable to figure out the difference between

what the British call a Biscuit

and what your typical US Citizen would call a Biscuit

I assured her that the difference was well known but for some reason she's having trouble taking my word for it. Which is of course silly, as I know and see all. This lack of knowledge has recently caused her some.....torment.

Please elucidate her.

😀

*Divine Glow*

 

[Ashleyyy]

I hate you. ^_^

 

[Interrogator]

You got me... what the hell is an American biscuit if not something crunchy and sweet, which goes rather well dunked in or accompanying a cup of tea (2 sugars of course)?

 

[naughtylucy]

A stateside biscuit is like a scone, but it's usually eaten with savoury rather than sweet stuff. A generally-UK-area biscuit is like a cookie, and can be found in office cupboards and the homes of grandmothers.

 

[Lord Doctor]

Biscuits are things you dunk in tea. Pastry is what you make a pie out of 😀

 

[john getty]

^^ That's right, biscuits in Britain are what Americans would call cookies.

 

[Lord Doctor]

Aye. What we call pastry, they call biscuit...

 

[TangerineTicklee]

I could really go for a "biscuit" right now.

No. Not the American biscuit.

The English one.

It would go great with a hot cup of coffee. Or tea.

 

[john getty]

 

[TangerineTicklee]

Is this an offer?

...I'd love to have one. 😛

 

[Lord Doctor]

I remember having to explain what a Jammie Dodger was! Was that ever hard!

 

[Bugman]

My heart goes out to those who have never enjoyed a breakfast of American biscuits smothered in spicy sausage gravy. Mana from heaven, it is.

 

[venray]

American biscuits........

 

[TangerineTicklee]

American biscuits........

I like to take mine and make them into fluffernutter biscuits. =D Either that, or PB&J biscuits. ^_^

 

[General Zod]

My heart goes out to those who have never enjoyed a breakfast of American biscuits smothered in spicy sausage gravy. Mana from heaven, it is.

I prefer chipped beef gravy over fried potatoes.

 

[venray]

I prefer chipped beef gravy over fried potatoes.

Truckers POUTINE! Woot!

 

[Bugman]

I prefer chipped beef gravy over fried potatoes.

Similar to shit on a shingle, which is served over toast. My dad and uncle Harold had more then their share of that while serving in WWII. A lot of people who served then vowed to never eat it again. The name they gave it tells the story of how they felt about it.

 

[john getty]

My heart goes out to those who have never enjoyed a breakfast of American biscuits smothered in spicy sausage gravy. Mana from heaven, it is.

I pity the fool ain't never had a Full English:

Best hangover cure there is.

 

[Lord Doctor]

^you git! I could just murder one now! 😀

 

[john getty]

^ Lol, I just have, I knew I couldn't post it without having to make one. I think I ate to much too fast, now I'm lying here like a python trying to digest it.

 

[venray]

^ Lol, I just have, I knew I couldn't post it without having to make one. I think I ate to much too fast, now I'm lying here like a python trying to digest it.

Now THAT actually looks like something I would like to have,,

 

[Lord Doctor]

Oh they're a must!

 

[venray]

Of course we do...

 

[General Zod]

Truckers POUTINE! Woot!

Poutine?

 

[Lord Doctor]

Spill the beans, please 😀