Comment on Hustle tip

• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now just wait a damn minute here, is everything just called a biscuit outside of the US? Cookies are biscuits and now crackers are also biscuits? How do y’all distinguish things‽ “I’d like a biscuit” must be this dangerous game of roulette where you might get a delicious chocolate chip cookie or you might get a dry ass saltines or little teeny oyster crackers or God knows what else.

  Y’all need new words for shit

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  • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I need to know is what do they call biscuits?

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Biscuits.

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    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Scones.

      Not because scones are the same thing but because they don’t know what American biscuits are and they think they look like scones.

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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing that goes near gravy

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  • just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you think biscuit is bad… you should try pan.

    I’ve tried explaining the various English denominations of various bread items to Spanish speaking people and it’s just not easy. Roll, bun, loaf, baguette, brioche, pita, ciabatta, soda bread, brown bread, rye… it’s all just pan.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s just sad. I need my million words for breads because I enjoy having different breads! How will I properly tell the baker what I want??

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        deacribe the bread

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is what annoys me about this argument.

      Im making a soup and want to thicken it “do we have any bread?” Damn near any bread (even tortillas, which are by definition bread) will do the job. If I want to make a sandwich then the difference is important.

      Sometimes its important sometimes it isnt but fuck me if Americans seem to think that we dont know what a cookie or a cracker is, like I’m utterly incapable of using a more direct descriptor to get what I want.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crackers are biscuits. Cookies are cookies. Unless you’re a Brit, then everything seems to be a biscuit or a cake.

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If there’s a question about whether it’s a biscuit or a cake, leave it out for a few days, if it gets softer it’s a biscuit, if it gets harder it’s a cake, and if it gets covered in ‘gravy’ there’s an American in your house.

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Jaffa cakes are cakes then

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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Brit here most things are biscuits except some that are cookies e.g. chocolate chip cookies, crackers are crackers.

      I hope that clears things up

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m just trying to confuse the Americans

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought y’all didn’t have cookies? Like, I thought everything we called cookie you call biscuit?

        Also, have you ever had an American style biscuit?

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The British courts and Proctor and Gamble arguing over wether Pringles are actually chips always makes me laugh.

      mentalfloss.com/…/are-pringles-potato-chips-brita…

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. American is not correct by default.

    Crackers are biscuits, cookies are also biscuits. A Toyota Camry is a car, a Dodge neon is also a car, its not that hard. If specificity is important you specify.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wrong

      We too a vote of native English speakers and it turns out we’re right

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