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Adinnieken on 25 July 2013
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!



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the2real4mafol on 25 July 2013
NiKKoM said:

Whatever the English may say:



but that IS a discusting breakfast...

Depends on if it's fried or not. Full English doesn't have to be fried. 



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winston000smith on 25 July 2013
Cobretti2 said:
winston000smith said:

To the OP I must warn you, you will be disappointed by the customer service here, you will likely be disappointed by the weather here, you may well be disappointed with the food here and it's not as friendly as you might expect. Hopefully you will enjoy the humour that gets us through it all though, along with the safe knowledge that your neighbour is very unlikely to own a firearm.


He may also be dissapointed bhy the women there.

 

OP come to AUS

Weather = great

Food = so much variety you don't know what to eat.

Women = tasty

Friendlieness = about the same as anywher ein the wor;d you get your dicks.


This man does not have the social intelligence to realise it is wrong to generalize an entire nation's women - Aussies are the only cunts ruder than us Brits, basically - is that what you really want OP?

If you want to experience a deadly cocktail of prison colony genetics, marinated in lager and heated up in the baking sun, go to Australia.

If you want to go to the beach all the time and eat prawns on Christmas day, go to Australia.

Seriously though, I've lost count of the number of people who have emmigrated to Aus (probably thinking Neighbours is a fucking documentary) only to return disappointed within a few years...  

 



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