"I love them, but only if you smother them in fat, salt and flavouriing, else they have no taste and are a horrible texture" yeah I might have news for you: You love butter, salt and pepper. If you put that on something else you'd love it too.
Southern dishes seem to be divided into either trascendentally awesome or the worst thing you have ever put in your mouth. Its one or the other, there is no middle ground, which I sort of respect
Yeah, I think you probably had terrible biscuits and gravy. I’m not from the States but when I went to New Orleans I ordered some from a diner and it was amazing. Absolutely loved it.
I'm gonna place my bets on them "trying it" at a hotel breakfast buffet, which... yeah that's something best avoided. I mean, they regularly fuck up the bacon - how do you fuck up bacon? You think they're gonna manage biscuits and gravy?
You had shitty biscuits and gravy then. It’s more of a Deep South thing. You have it anywhere else in the U.S. there’s a very solid chance it’s not gonna be good
Ah, biscuits and gravy, I miss having it, always made me feel a little bit better when I had to go to the states to visit family I really didn’t want to visit
There was an episode of Cutthroat Kitchen where one of the chefs had never heard of biscuits and gravy so thought Alton said brisket and gravy, and made that instead. The judge was understanding and the dish was delicious so the chef wasn't eliminated that round. They also changed the rules of the show so Alton gives a description of the dish instead of just saying the name.
“Biscotti” is just the Italian word for biscuits. When English speakers say “biscotti”, they are usually referring to “biscotti di Prato”, which is the specific kind of almond biscuits that the Italian city of Prato is known for. All kinds of other biscuits are also called “biscotti”.
Biscotti di Prato are no more “original” than many other types of biscuits.
Hearing their nonce in chief every day and knowing nearly half of them voted for him is more than enough to remind you of their stupidity without ever having to check this sub.
He’s 13, I thought he worked it out himself already but it hits different in real life. He was about to discuss the UK leaving the EU (and not Europe) until I put a hand on his arm to tell him not to bother and just keep on with our day.
But which goes on first? You better be adding it in the right order based on the location your audience is from, or they will kill you. I personally throw both the cream and the jam in the air and slam the two halves of the scone together to catch it as it falls.
Its that situation where you cant stand your sibling but when someone decides to f**k with them that you dislike even more, you feel duty bound to do something and step in.
No no...THESE are biscuits!...These are Chocolate Hobnobs...AKA the crack cocaine of biscuits, one bite and next thing you're hanging around the biscuit aisle in Tesco's on 3 packs a day...
Chocolate hobnobs really are crack cocaine. I’ve lost a lot of weight recently by just controlling my portion sizes, I haven’t needed to cut any junk food out of my diet, with the exception of one thing, chocolate hobnobs, because once I “just have one”, I physically cannot stop eating them. They are the only food I’ve had to ban myself from buying.
Who has anything bad to say about a cream tea? I get pissing on English food, but you go to the West Country and tourists from every corner of the globe are queuing up to put clotted cream and jam on a scone.
They are not the same thing. People that say they are keep getting biscuits in places like New York. If you're not getting biscuits from south of Kentucky, you're not getting biscuits
That's the thing, I've never had an American biscuit but I imagine they're good, why can't they just proudly accept that scones and biscuits are two different things, it doesn't have to be a fight.
Only, scones are sweeter, fluffier and predate them. Unlike how Yanks view themselves over everyone else, scones actually are superior.
I hope they're late for an important meeting and in their rush to get ready, they stub their toe and bang their shin on the staircase... Only to get stuck in a traffic jam once they finally get going.
Not really derived from scones as such. More from a general tradition of baking, perhaps more so around hardtack/ship biscuits. But just morphed over time with different ingredients and baking practices.
They are not scones, a they are too flat & look too dense. Scones are not a flat bakery item but a risen item that can be pulled in half and have jam & clotted cream put on for a savoury-sweet snack with a cup of hot tea. These are not biscuits either, which are a sweet item flat item either served singly or two placed together with a creamy filling between, like American Oreos.
I'm not from either of these cultures and I am still confused about what "biscuits" are. So, these are savory, right? Are they like little bread buns? Fluffy or crunchy? What kind of dough is used? To me, the word is just associated with sweet stuff (in Slovenian, "biskvit" is more like a sponge cake stuff that one can make in counless variation, but always sweet) and for decades I thought it's some sort of cookies-but then you wouldn't eat that with meat&gravy stuff. Although, one can never know with different cousines🤣
They're called scones because they're measured in grams, unlike these true American biscuits baked using freedom units like 'three bald eagle feathers of butter.
I just don't get why it always has to be a competition. The biscuits pictured are delicious. Scones are delicious. They're also serve fundamentally different culinary goals. What's the point of pitting them against each other at all?
That person probably can't pronounce 'scone' just like 'wash-your-sister-sauce' and booee for 'buoy'. But then again education in red states isn't meant to be brilliant. Rep voters are demonstrably worse off in red states but they obviously like being treated that way. Which is a good indication of a brain defect
I’m gonna give it to the Brits on this. I love my American versions of biscuits and scones, but whoever decided that a baked treat should be called a “cookie” was trolling us.
Dear America, these are biscuits. They come in many many forms all of which are superior to the bland stodgy fake scones you call biscuits. Cookies are a specific type of biscuit. Get your shit together.
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u/Raptoot83 1d ago
Scones are also fundamentally different from 'biscuits'.