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Originally Posted by Eönwë
Anglophilia or just common sense?
Also, a biscuit is a biscuit and a cookie is a cookie over here, or at least to me. Do you call everything cookies over there?
edit: Did some research. So your biscuits are almost the same as scones?
This is just confusing... |
COMMON SENSE!
To my (American) knowledge scones are sugary things usually involving fruit; often in the shape of a 45-45-90 triangle. Our 'biscuits' are cardboard covered in lard . . . excuse me, they are flakey spheres of carbohydrate. Or something like that. I have a low opinion of most of them, save for the ones TGEW's mother makes. In short, scones are sugared; 'biscuits' are not.
You call biscuits 'cookies'? Whaaat? Every British language book I have ever read calls
these things them biscuits. But I think I would trust a real Brit more than a book.
But let's not get too off topic now . . .
