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[Skade]

Considered supplementing them with chocolate biscuits, but decided to just stick to the brownies.

We have a junk food machine about 10m from my desk and right next to the water cooler … far too tempting for my non-existant willpower!

Now, when you say biscuit you mean cookie, yes? Cause at first I thought the idea of a chocolate biscuit (what we call one at least) would be odd, but then thought bettre of it, and that might be tasty. So if a biscuit is a cookie in America, what is a biscuit in the UK?

 

[Carnifex]

Now, when you say biscuit you mean cookie, yes? Cause at first I thought the idea of a chocolate biscuit (what we call one at least) would be odd, but then thought bettre of it, and that might be tasty. So if a biscuit is a cookie in America, what is a biscuit in the UK?

A biscuit is a biscuit, it's the Americans who have got it awll wrong

Biscuit includes cookies, biscuits like digestives & suchlike (the kind you have with a cup of tea), biscuits for cheese, lots of things.

 

[Morbidity]

A biscuit is a biscuit, it's the Americans who have got it awll wrong

Biscuit includes cookies, biscuits like digestives & suchlike (the kind you have with a cup of tea), biscuits for cheese, lots of things.

I never heard of digestives until I arrived in this country and suddenly half the biscuits in the supermarket have this strange digestive tag which make them sound like they're meant to assist in bowel functions or something similar. Needless to say I've carefully avoided them, sticking to 'Penguins'.

 

[Skade]

Biscuit includes cookies, biscuits like digestives & suchlike (the kind you have with a cup of tea), biscuits for cheese, lots of things.

So is a digestive just high in fibre, or is there a cheemical additive there?

See I think we americans have it right. There needs to be a distinction between biscuits, muffins, cookies, brownies, cupcakes and digestive aides. ESPECIALLY the digestive aides.

 

[Maldur]

They are just normal cookies

 

[Skade]

maldur, did you get my mail?

 

[Carnifex]

Digestive biscuits aren't really digestive aids, they're just normal. And muffins et al are all distinguished from each other over here, just in the *right* way as opposed to the clearly wrong american way

 

[Maldur]

maldur, did you get my mail?

did you send it to bazz@xs4all? then No
If you did send it to my work Im not sure, as I got a day off

 

[Skade]

Digestive biscuits aren't really digestive aids, they're just normal. And muffins et al are all distinguished from each other over here, just in the *right* way as opposed to the clearly wrong american way

It's America, we don;t have to do it right, just consistently.

 

[Skade]

did you send it to bazz@xs4all? then No
If you did send it to my work Im not sure, as I got a day off

herm. I'm trying again. En route now.