Favourite Biscuit

[Evil One]

What's your favourite (in the UK sense of the word) biscuit? I've left off the chocolate digestives/hobnobs because they would easily win!

[Wario]

SHortbread Fingers

[daveake]

Originally Posted by Evil One

What's your favourite (in the UK sense of the word) biscuit? I've left off the chocolate digestives/hobnobs because they would easily win!

I wondered why "Plain chocolate hobnob" was nowhere to be seen!

[AndyK]

Pink Wafer doesn't deserve to be in a list of "biscuits".

"Other" includes Foxes Ginger Crunch Creams which are the best of the non-chocolate options.

[Evil One]

Originally Posted by AndyK

Pink Wafer doesn't deserve to be in a list of "biscuits".

"Other" includes Foxes Ginger Crunch Creams which are the best of the non-chocolate options.

Find an admin who can change it then!

[AndyK]

Would be unethical to abuse my powers in such a way

[suzieq]

In US terms ...is a biscuit a cookie?

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by suzieq

In US terms ...is a biscuit a cookie?

No, it's a biscuit. You erronesouly call it a cookie.

In the same way that a pavement is still a pavement no matter what side of the Atlantic it's on as far as we're concerned in the UK

[suzieq]

Originally Posted by AndyK

No, it's a biscuit. You erronesouly call it a cookie.

I'll be sure to blame my parents because all my years, the biscuit was for the dog.

[AndyK]

Just to confuse you even more, biscuits are for dogs as well.

[suzieq]

They say English is the hardest language to learn.

[Wario]

what does cookie mean in Britain then?

[suzieq]

Originally Posted by WarioLoaf

what does cookie mean in Britain then?

I reckon' something to do with computers and cleaning them out or enabling them.

[A Slice Of English]

Rich Tea for me. Just nothing better with a brew IMO.

And Wario, our cookies are specific TYPES of biscuits, usually a sweet biscuit with chocolate chips in it.

[mszee]

Yeah...NOT dog biscuit...something else...which is Caramel Latte Biscotti...and I am sure you Brits will have it too soon...ummm...or even sooner...

[unbekannt]

Now I'm hungry…

[CarylB]

Originally Posted by WarioLoaf

what does cookie mean in Britain then?

It means cookie .. and cooies are cooked only once. Chewy, tending to be soft rather than crisp and crunchy. We have cookies in Britain. Just like those in the USA, usually higher fat content, they're different to biscuits; and moister, so aren't much good for dunking.

Biscuits are as Andy said, just that. Meaning twice cooked, (like biscotti) so they are dry and crisp; perfect for dunking as they can absorb liquid without dropping to bits. And they soften when they go stale; the basis of why Jaffa Cakes are cakes, as they go dry and harden when they get stale.

And as Andy says, a wafer isn't a biscuit .. it's a wafer, also cooked once.

Caryl

[mszee]

Originally Posted by CarylB

It means cookie .. and cooies are cooked only once. Chewy, tending to be soft rather than crisp and crunchy. We have cookies in Britain. Just like those in the USA, usually higher fat content, they're different to biscuits; and moister, so aren't much good for dunking.

Biscuits are as Andy said, just that. Meaning twice cooked, so they are dry and crisp; perfect for dunking as they can absorb liquid without dropping to bits. And they soften when they go stale; the basis of why Jaffa Cakes are cakes, as they go dry and harden when they get stale.

And as Andy says, a wafer isn't a biscuit .. it's a wafer, also cooked once.

Caryl

I thought all cookies are called biscuits...then I guess we call it biscotti...which is the same crap only in Italian...

[A Slice Of English]

Well whilst cookies are often slightly chewy, you also have the issue of "Maryland cookies" which are crisp and crunchy, not chewy ;p

[CarylB]

Originally Posted by A Slice Of English

Well whilst cookies are often slightly chewy, you also have the issue of "Maryland cookies" which are crisp and crunchy, not chewy ;p

I'm not saying they're all named right :) .. Maryland Cookies have been around for years, a chocolate chip/nut biscuit launched as a variation on American cookies, but still baked twice to appeal to the UK taste for a crunchy biscuit. It's a brand name after all, and most people would regard them as biscuits, and they're on the biscuits shelf, as opposed to cookies which are generally in clear plastic containers and on or near the bakery section.

But biscuit means twice baked, and basically therein you have the difference between an American style cookie, and the European biscuit. And basically imo we do differentiate between American style cookies and biscuits here, whereas in the USA they call all varieties, whether crisp or not, cookies (probably because they have "biscuits" which are closer in shape and texture to our scones, although not twice baked .. so arguably mis-named "bis-cuit" )

The point is surely that no-one in the UK is likely to refer to digestives, rich tea, Jammy Dodgers, custard creams or Nice as "cookies", but rather as "biscuits". Whereas we do have moist, chewy cookies, like those in the USA, which we too call cookies.

Caryl

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by CarylB

And as Andy says, a wafer isn't a biscuit .. it's a wafer, also cooked once.

A pink wafer isn't even food IMO. It's only use is representing a bath tub in a police reconstruction.

[CarylB]

Or (if not pink) making a small brick of ice-cream manageable :) Remember those?

Caryl

[24K]

Originally Posted by AndyK

No, it's a biscuit. You erronesouly call it a cookie.

In the same way that a pavement is still a pavement no matter what side of the Atlantic it's on as far as we're concerned in the UK

PMPL !

[mszee]

Did you know..and I am definitely NOT kidding...I've posted this here with actual link quoting Telegraph...more than half of Britons were injured by biscuits ranging from scalding from high tea/coffee while dunking...or breaking a tooth during the morning tea break...

I guess I'll stick with cookies...those...once baked...

[Couch Potato]

OHHHHH this is my kind of language my freind...ohh I love biscuits...mmmm Im going to have a few chocolate creams now

We should do a poll on the favourate Pie!!

MMMM Chicken and Mushroom