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Adinnieken on 25 July 2013
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pokoko said:
Adinnieken said:

No, the insanity is that once cookies were biscuits here in the US.

Nabisco = National Biscuit Company.

The cookies they made were called biscuits.  I forget the how biscuits became cookies, but our biscuits now are kind of like scones, but oh sooooo good. 

If you're ever in the Southern US, get Biscuits and Gravy.  Your heart will hate you, but your stomach will be oh soooo happy!

Or if you're already in the US, go to a restaruant and see if they offer Biscuits and Gravy, with a side of Grits.

Wikipedia blames the Dutch and their word koekje.  "When Europeans began to emigrate to the United States, the two words and their "same but different" meanings began to clash. After the American War of Independence against the British, the word cookie or cracker became the word of choice to mean a hard, baked product. Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States."  -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit

I grew up in the South, in a family that had homemade biscuits (bread) with every meal.  Biscuits with steak gravy, with turkey gravy, with fried chicken gravy, with pork chop gravy, and best of all, with roast gravy.  Oh my god, roast gravy with potatoes is heaven.

Do the English have breakfast biscuit (bread) sandwiches?  Because those are excellent, especially from Bojangles or Hardees/Carl Jr's.  If so, what do they call them?  I'd hate to live in a place where I couldn't get a steak or a chicken biscuit if I really needed it ...

No.  Not even McDonald's in the UK has the Breakfast Biscuit sandwiches.  They only have...gah...choke...English Muffins (I forget what they are in the UK, muffins or something else).

There is nothing quite like the soft, flaky, salted butter taste of a biscuit.  Sure, one will give you 3/4 of your daily supply of sodium, but damn if they're not good!