Comment on Hustle tip

• notabot@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jaffa cakes are cakes then

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indeed they are, as adjudicated by the courts of the land. I like the reporting here, especially:

      Customs and Excise had accepted since the start of VAT that Jaffa Cakes were zero-rated as cakes, but always had misgivings about whether this was correct.

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• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just trying to confuse the Americans

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tbh I don’t know why we call some things cookies. I have heard people say cookies have the softer ce ter buy that doesnt track 100% from brand to brand.

      On American biscuits nope I didn’t know they were a thing rill a long time friend from the states who likes playing with these language quirks as much as I do

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you ever visit (probably don’t, it’s a hellhole) try biscuits and gravy. Preferably from someone’s southern grandma or a gas station in rural Georgia. But if all else fails, Hardee’s is acceptable for someone without something to compare it to.

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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