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Dalty wrote:Oreos are kinda weak sauce amongst biscuits. Other biscuits beat them and steal their lunch money. They are so replete over here I have them in the vending machine in my office.

You Britishers and your copious amounts of biscuits.

And crumpets.

You eat crumpets there, right?

We love a biscuit. Oreos are a biscuit, as are chocolate digestives.

Cookies are cookies.

Let's leave muffins out of this! We are amongst friends!!

Well now I'm just confused. What's the distinction between "biscuit" and "cookie"? I thought biscuit was just your catch-all word for cookies?

Cookie is softer dough with chocolate chips and usually trades with that name e.g. Maryland Cookies. Frequently larger than standard size too.

Biscuit is everything else.

What you would call a biscuit, we would call a scone (fruit or savoury).

Muffins are, as previously mentioned, how wars start.

You still haven't answered my question about crumpets!

Sometimes, silence is its own sort of answer.

The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:Sometimes, silence is its own sort of answer.

But is it a YES or a NO?!?

Coming from Goiter, silence can often be deadly.

Gas. I'm talking about his gas.

Master Skywalker wrote:You still haven't answered my question about crumpets!

Crumpets. Yes. Crumpets. I have heard the legends, the stories. Even now I hear them spoken of in hushed tones. Some tell of a place where they can still be found but I don't believe it. Can you imagine such a thing....?

Dalty wrote:Cookie is softer dough with chocolate chips and usually trades with that name e.g. Maryland Cookies. Frequently larger than standard size too.

Biscuit is everything else.

What you would call a biscuit, we would call a scone (fruit or savoury).

Muffins are, as previously mentioned, how wars start.

In the South, it's pretty much only ever savory. A person can add sweet things to it after it is baked (molasses or jelly, for example), but it's not usually baked with sweet stuff. This may not hold true outside of the South.

What would you call what we would call a scone? Is that also a scone? Most of the people in the U.S. would probably say that what they traditionally call a biscuit differs significantly from what they would call a scone.

Can your scones also be fluffy as all hell, or do they lean toward the stiffer side? Can you make your scones with shortening and/or animal fat, or does it have to be butter?

Would Red Lobster's cheddar biscuits also be considered scones in the U.K.?

I could look all these things up, but I won't.

Scones are not really the same as American biscuits. Biscuits have much more butter or shortening, and usually more milk because the batter is moister. The basic ingredients are similar but the texture is very different.

I find American biscuits dryer, more crumbly. And if they come from Red Lobster, I also find them delicious!!

Now I'm almost certain you and I have a different idea of American biscuits.

Dalty wrote:

Master Skywalker wrote:You still haven't answered my question about crumpets!

Crumpets. Yes. Crumpets. I have heard the legends, the stories. Even now I hear them spoken of in hushed tones. Some tell of a place where they can still be found but I don't believe it. Can you imagine such a thing....?

I knew it!

*grabs a bindle, puts it over my shoulder, and begins the Hero's Journey for the fabled crumpets*

Master Skywalker wrote:*grabs a bindle, puts it over my shoulder, and begins the Hero's Journey for the fabled crumpets*

The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:

Master Skywalker wrote:*grabs a bindle, puts it over my shoulder, and begins the Hero's Journey for the fabled crumpets*

*smiles and cries at the same time*

Dalty wrote:Oreos are kinda weak sauce amongst biscuits. Other biscuits beat them and steal their lunch money.

So they are LimpBiscuits?

They did it all for the nookie, apparently.

Whatever happened to them? Did the MI:II soundtrack kill them off?

Dalty wrote:Whatever happened to them? Did the MI:II soundtrack kill them off?

If it did, that was definitely the best thing to come out of MI:II.

Master Skywalker wrote:

Dalty wrote:Whatever happened to them? Did the MI:II soundtrack kill them off?

If it did, that was definitely the best thing to come out of MI:II.

Better than Dougray Scott losing the part of Wolverine thanks to shooting going over-schedule?

The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:

Master Skywalker wrote:

Dalty wrote:Whatever happened to them? Did the MI:II soundtrack kill them off?

If it did, that was definitely the best thing to come out of MI:II.

Better than Dougray Scott losing the part of Wolverine thanks to shooting going over-schedule?

Technically, that happened *before* MI:II was filmed.

But you're right.

Dalty wrote:Whatever happened to them? Did the MI:II soundtrack kill them off?

I can't confirm just yet, but this HAS to be the first time anyone has asked this about Limp Bizkit, right?