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MoonlitSonata
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leelai said:
Scones, basically.
Biscuits are flakey and buttery, ideally. If you crushed one, it would squish.
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Scones are dry by comparison. If you crushed one, you'd end up with crumbs.
But that's what I've had and prefer. There are a million biscuit recipes.
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Scones are dry by comparison. If you crushed one, you'd end up with crumbs.
But that's what I've had and prefer. There are a million biscuit recipes.
We don't eat biscuits with meals at all but I've always heard Americans say it and wondered.
We have bread with meals....so I guess you just eat biscuits in the same way we eat bread.
It has always fascinated me what they could be!
Same as grits and vittles, I hope I have that right
We have bread with meals....so I guess you just eat biscuits in the same way we eat bread.
It has always fascinated me what they could be!
Same as grits and vittles, I hope I have that right
Biscuits are a form of bread, so eaten with meals at times -- breakfast, lunch or dinner. Some people eat them by themselves. Southerners in the U.S. like them with gravy.
Grits are a southern thing in the U.S., too. A corn mush.
Vittles usually just refers to food, but it's rarely used -- sort of country-ish or in cowboy movies, lol.
Biscuits are a savory version of what the Brits call scones. Pancakes are what the Scots call drop scones. And cookies are biscuits, although French Canadians call cookies biscuits too, but they pronounce it differently. Confused yet? I just thought I'd chuck that in. 
Oh yeah, chuck means throw, not chicken.
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Biscuits are a savory version of what the Brits call scones. Pancakes are what the Scots call drop scones. And cookies are biscuits, although French Canadians call cookies biscuits too, but they pronounce it differently. Confused yet? I just thought I'd chuck that in.
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I've had sweet as well as savory biscuits. Depends on the recipe.
Okay thanks everyone, learnt a lot of the different meanings for the same food more or less. We have scones and pikelets or pancakes.
I find that even in Australia the bottom half have different names to what we in the north call some items.
Kevin, you got me bamboozled with the chuck and chicken reference. Chuck is to toss or throw something but what does it have to do with a chicken.
I find that even in Australia the bottom half have different names to what we in the north call some items.
Kevin, you got me bamboozled with the chuck and chicken reference. Chuck is to toss or throw something but what does it have to do with a chicken.
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KevinJS said:Biscuits are a savory version of what the Brits call scones. Pancakes are what the Scots call drop scones. And cookies are biscuits, although French Canadians call cookies biscuits too, but they pronounce it differently. Confused yet? I just thought I'd chuck that in.
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Wagons?
BTW. Vittles could be derived from the marine term victuals. Victuals referred to food supplies on board a vessel.
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leelai said:Okay thanks everyone, learnt a lot of the different meanings for the same food more or less. We have scones and pikelets or pancakes.
I find that even in Australia the bottom half have different names to what we in the north call some items.
Kevin, you got me bamboozled with the chuck and chicken reference. Chuck is to toss or throw something but what does it have to do with a chicken.
I wonder whether he was thinking of Chuck or cluck?
. In Liverpool, "chuck" is a term of endearment - often used by Cilla Black Sent from my iPad 1 using iPF - Greetings
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Richard Brown said:I wonder whether he was thinking of Chuck or cluck?
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Really...never heard of that one....although of course I've heard of Cilla Black.
I see you've been mighty busy lately Richard with your visitors and showing them the sights. I've been reading up on all your adventures although I've been quite busy elsewhere.
What a wonderful tour guide you are for anyone visiting! I hope you've gotten some rest along the way!
