Biscuits. They have them in the UK, and we have them in the US. They’re not the same food. IMHO, our biscuits are one of the most perfect members of the bread family. I particularly love cheesy-garlic biscuits. No matter how many times I ask, I never get an adequate answer to my burning question: " Do people in the UK eat this lovely food?"
It’s not a sweet. We call those cookies, as I know you enjoy laughing about. We laugh at “nappies” so I guess turn about is fair play.
It’s not a scone. Please stop telling me they are, I eat scones as well - raisin and blueberry are yummy- and they’re not the same thing at all. (unless you call two very different foods the same thing.) Scones are heavier/denser and considerably drier. Biscuits are moist and fluffy, or they are as long as you cook them correctly.
It’s not a roll. Rolls are smoother on the outside, and…I don’t know, but they’re just different(glazed?) That goes for ones you butter and ones you make sandwiches with, both.
They’re not dumplings(though ones in stews have the same ingredients), pancakes, waffles, crepes, croissants, english muffins, crumpets(yes, they sell them in the US) etc.
They must photograph poorly, since I can’t find a picture of one that isn’t scary and off-putting.
It makes me sad to think that people in the UK might be biscuit deprived.
So…what have you never gotten a straight answer to regarding something in a country you don’t live in?
Actually, what are sold as scones in America are nothing like the scones I’ve had in England, or the scones mom made from her scottish cookbook. The real scones are much like what we call biscuits, but slightly sweeter. And I’ve had some moister and some not quite as moist, but nothing like the dry things they sell around here. Blech.
And what they call biscuits can be either sweet (cookies) or not sweet (crackers).
Biscuits are moist? S’wha? All the ones I’ve ever eaten (both made by my mom and in restaraunts) have been rather dry even when they’re all fluffy and yummy.
a little off the subject
I was trying to perform my good deed of the day by translating this thing, but even with my limited french language abilities, I can see that the second sentence is a little fishy. I’ve never heard of the verb “taquinir” and it’s not in my french dictionary.
Oh, and why do some Canadians say “aboot”? What about the reasons for saying “zed” instead of “zee”. I’m very curious about this- not trying to be rude or anything.
“Aboot” is provided as a service to American sit-com writers so they can identify a Canadian character without having to learn Newfie. It’s so much simpler to write than “Laird tonderin’ Jaysus, bye!”
We don’t say ‘aboot’. If you wanted to be phonologically accurate, it’s more like ‘abowt’ or ‘abawt’. Plus it’s more of a Southern Ontario thing anyway.
chula, Canadians do pronounce “about” very similarly to the way Americans from the northern states pronounce it. I don’t know where you’re from, but the long O’s are very prevalent in the places in Minn, N. Dakota, and Wisconsin that I’ve been to. It’s more of a regional thing than a national thing.
It bothers me, because they’re sublime. You used to be able to get them at KFC, but since I haven’t visited a KFC in the UK for a decade, I don’t know if you still have. I’ve tried making them, but they never turn out as nicely as the lovely ones you get in US supermarkets.
Scones, however, are the testes of Satan. Apart from my special recipe cheesy scones, for which I won a house point at school when I was 14.
Let’s leave the proclivities of the French, real or imagined, outta this thread. If you’re truly griping, there are any number of recent threads in more appropiate fora; if you’re simply making jest, I think it’s the kind of joke that’s likely to set off a number of people.
