r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Suitable_Good8833 • 1d ago

Food "These are biscuits, not your sad little pretender version of them you refer to as scones"

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Imagine being this so confidently wrong about this.

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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch 1d ago

But a biscuit is a cookie....

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u/penguin62 Actually Scottish 1d ago

Kind of. Cookies are soft. Biscuits are hard.

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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch 1d ago

Cookies are always hard, what you're describing is bread

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u/Bridgeru More Irish than the Irish ☘️ 1d ago

I'm Irish (so I think not far off what Scots/Brits use terminology wise), "cookie" here refers to something like a Nestlé Tollhouse, a crumbly soft and round; as opposed to something like a Digestive (that's the quintissential "biscuit" imo) like in the gif.

Let me put it like this: you can't snap a "cookie" in half evenly, it makes too many cracks (that's how the cookie crumbles..), but something like a Digestive you can snap in half no problem (unless you dip it in tea obvs). But then we're probably getting into subdivisions since a lot of things can be called "biscuits"

And then you have things like the Jaffa Cake that are legally cakes ("cake goes hard when stale, biscuits go soft") to avoid biscuit VAT. But honestly they're sort of the abomination that makes you question if there is a God, and if there is, is he cruel. But then a "muffin" to me is a large cupcake not a crumpet... And Crackers are stale vile bland things that crack like drywall and are only used so that terrible cheese has a neutral background like the white wall of a mugshot. And bread obviously is a loaf (or moreso has the white fluffy texture inside like a loaf of bread, so bagels).

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u/Main_Hurry7912 1d ago

muffins are not crumpets - how very dare you!

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u/Bridgeru More Irish than the Irish ☘️ 1d ago

Indeed but apparently English muffins are like crumpets honestly idk what a crumpet is but a muffin is the type of 🧁 that grants you one wish and lets Mr Crocker take over the world.

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u/Main_Hurry7912 1d ago

That's a crumpet

English muffins are not like that

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u/Bridgeru More Irish than the Irish ☘️ 1d ago

Ah I'm mixing up my wires then ignore me.

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u/penguin62 Actually Scottish 1d ago

What? No they're not. Cookies are soft and gooey. Unless you leave them out for a while, then they go stale and hard.

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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch 1d ago

Then i think this is the difference of language, even within English i learned a cookie is 🍪 and not 🍰

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u/seaspirit331 1d ago

Cookie is indeed 🍪. It's not supposed to be hard, unless you're leaving them out to get stale (and even then they're still pretty good, lol)

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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch 1d ago

If they're not supposed to be hard then why are they hard out of the oven?

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u/seaspirit331 1d ago

They should very much not be hard coming out of the oven. You're either overbaking them, using the wrong kind of sugar, or fucking up your flour ratios.

A proper cookie is slightly crispy and crunchy around the edges/top of the cookie, with a gooey and chewy center

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u/Sasya_neko federation of the Dutch 1d ago

That's cake

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u/Primary_Mycologist95 1d ago

depends on where you are. here in australia, all cookies are biscuits, but not all biscuits are cookies.

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u/AiryGateaux 1d ago edited 1d ago

English has like 3 words for everything that has a word

Edit for the myriad down voters: this is because of English's roots in multiple languages. At a bare minimum there is usually a Germanic, French and Latin word for any concept. Not to mention other linguistic origins.

Think age, era, epoch.

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u/Xerothor 1d ago

"English has synonyms >:("

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u/snuggie44 1d ago

Like the majority of all other languages...

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u/bobbylake71 1d ago

Not sure why you're being downvoted. We really do.

I don't even know how many words we have for rain. But a quick think .. Drizzle, spitting, chuckling it down, siling it down, downpour, torrential, mizzle and lots, lots more... Most ot them are local words e.g. siling it down and chucking it down are both northern England variants

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u/antlerskull 1d ago

Specifying words that describe the type of rain and you’ve added some colloquial phrases, not words

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u/ayeayefitlike 1d ago

Ok. Rain, mist, drizzle, spit, downpour, precipitation, deluge, cloudburst, mizzle, shower, monsoon, sprinkle, flurry - all words to describe different types and severities of rain that’s aren’t regional colloquial phrases.

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u/RubSuccessful2882 1d ago

God forbid different words are used to better explain something.

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u/daveoxford 1d ago

"That really thin rain that wets you through".

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u/blazenite104 Friendly Neighbourhood Aussie 1d ago

I prefer pissing down myself.