PSA: Brits, biscuits are not cookies

[preslove]

Biscuits =

Not a biscuit =

Learn the damn language, you limey so-and-sos

 

[surfsatwerk]

A lot of their cookies taste like shit, so it's not right calling those things "cookies".

 

[HAL9000]

Not a biscuit =

Learn the damn language, you limey so-and-sos

We invented the language you yank so-and-sos

That is a biscuit. You know nothing about english evidently.

Cookie =

 

[zinfamous]

also, wtf is a "sweet?"

"sweet" is a taste profile, not an object.

 

[Kaido]

Why do you think we left?

 

[HAL9000]

also, wtf is a "sweet?"

"sweet" is a taste profile, not an object.

Sweets are what you guys call candy.

 

[HAL9000]

Why do you think we left?

Because you don't know what a biscuit is?

 

[zinfamous]

We invented the language you yank so-and-sos

That is a biscuit. You know nothing about english evidently.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but even you guys don't use the King's English anymore. You're already let 2 Americans onto the board of the OED, which has already seen several American phrases added to the lexicon with the most recent update.

it is inevitable.

 

[acheron]

how is your cookie picture different from the OP's cookie picture?

 

[preslove]

Sweets are what you guys call candy.

It's called candy

 

[Rumpltzer]

It is confounding that the Brits can't speak English.


A friend of mine called from Asia last night to ask me how to pronounce the name "Nigel". Someone wanted to hire him as an English teacher. I was suspicious about the name and asked if this guy is a Brit. She looked into it, and he is!

They're no longer interested in hiring him.

I'm not making this up.

 

[HAL9000]

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but even you guys don't use the King's English anymore. You're already let 2 Americans onto the board of the OED, which has already seen several American phrases added to the lexicon with the most recent update.

it is inevitable.

We won't be letting go of biscuit, jam, jelly, pavement, aluminium, etc any time soon.

how is your cookie picture different from the OP's cookie picture?

One has chunks of chocolate or something in it.

 

[HAL9000]

It is confounding that the Brits can't speak English.


A friend of mine called from Asia last night to ask me how to pronounce the name "Nigel". Someone wanted to hire him as an English teacher. I was suspicious about the name and asked if this guy is a Brit. She looked into it, and he is!

They're no longer interested in hiring him.

I'm not making this up.

It is even more confusing that we spawned you and you can't even speak the language from which American originated.

 

[preslove]

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but even you guys don't use the King's English anymore. You're already let 2 Americans onto the board of the OED, which has already seen several American phrases added to the lexicon with the most recent update.

it is inevitable.

The way we're going, they're going to be the 51st state. Any day now...

 

[acheron]

One has chunks of chocolate or something in it.

Well, yes, obviously. So having chunks of something is what makes it a cookie? What about sugar cookies? Do you call them "biscuits"?

 

[HAL9000]

Well, yes, obviously. So having chunks of something is what makes it a cookie? What about sugar cookies? Do you call them "biscuits"?

That looks like shortbread

 

[zinfamous]

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/19429?redirectedFrom=biscuit#

look at that, they're even using a reference from Webster in the main definition.

it's only a matter of time.

 

[Rumpltzer]

That looks like shortbread

No, that's a sugar cookie.

 

[preslove]

That looks like shortbread

AHA, another bullshit word!

They're all cookies, you cheese mongering bastards!

 

[HAL9000]

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/19429?redirectedFrom=biscuit#

look at that, they're even using a reference from Webster in the main definition.

it's only a matter of time.

Yeah it wont change in English society any time soon, that's a scone.

 

[HAL9000]

AHA, another bullshit word!

They're all cookies, you cheese mongering bastards!

I'm sorry if in america it's too complicated to have multiple words describing similar things, but in English we like to describe different things with different words.

 

[HAL9000]

No, that's a sugar cookie.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=xCZcTbShA4Wx8gPLpsWVAg

 

[acheron]

No, it's not shortbread. Shortbread is unleavened and therefore denser, and usually not as sweet.

 

[HAL9000]

No, it's not shortbread. Shortbread is unleavened and therefore denser, and usually not as sweet.

In all honesty I can't tell from the photo, It looks like a biscuit with sugar on the top.

However shortbread is often not dense and generally very sweet.

 

[DrunkenSano]

So I saw a picture of a wafer cookie and a chocolate chip cookie... where's the biscuit?