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Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re self rising Pillsbury biscuits (or similar). Not what Americans call cookies that Brits call biscuits

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hyper sensitive people can be terrified of them. It’s kind of funny in a mean way, like tossing a firecracker at an unsuspecting friend.

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    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tossing a lit firecracker at an unsuspecting friend is a bit beyond mean.

      And the biscuit tube is frightening. Sometimes, I chase my girlfriend around with a half-peeled one.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The little metal end part can become a projectile and hit you in the face.

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      • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Surely that attachment is significantly stronger than the sidewall. Even if you tried I think you’d just split the sides along the spiral impression and couldn’t launch the top

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      • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well don’t face the metal part towards you then!

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sounds fun to me. I would laugh if it happened to me.

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  • aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People with broken flight or fight responses (usually due to trauma, not always involving loud noises) hawe issues with the loud pop, even when you know its coming causes the flight or fight response and takes a lot of effort to calm yourself down.

    Its not scary per se, its aggravating a broken somatic response.

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    • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally fair!

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Loud pop? It just makes a little thud when you whack it.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t think of a sweet dry disc (what Americans call a “cookie”), think of a thick round doughy scone, slightly salty and buttery, designed to receive either sweet (various jams or jellies) or savory (fried cured meats, eggs, cheese) accompaniment.

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  • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s funny that this distinction needs to be made every time biscuits are mentioned in the post. There were some very confused non-Americans in the comments of a biscuits and gravy meme the other day

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Too late, I’ve already dipped me Hob-Nob in me mug o’ Bisto.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But we also have cookie dough in a tube too

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True, but in my experience opening the tube is nowhere near as violent. Biscuits in particular, I suspect by virtue of their yeast content, cause the kind of danger referenced here.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    think of a thick round doughy scone, slightly salty and buttery

    If they’re made right, they’re close to cylindrical croissants.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every biscuit I’ve ever had has been way more dense than a croissant

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You should be able to tear the biscuit apart into thin layers that are only a little more dense than a croissant.

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• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve actually seen these for croissants and pains au chocolat

  If you like incredibly shit-tier croissants and pains au chocolat

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• tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are also a lot of dough based things in a tin sold in Europe. I know that a French company is selling everything in cans under the german brand “knack & back”; bread rolls, croissants and even pizza dough

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m European, Swedish, and these have been common for over a decade. Most common here is in “pizza kits”, you get one tube like in the post but with pizza dough and a glass jar of tomato sauce with herbs.

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• ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  American biscuits, closest you have are scones iirc

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny. I’m American but I don’t eat cookies or biscuits. So I figured this was a British thing.

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