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[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Crackers are biscuits, and so are biscuits. Cookies are cookies. Unless you're a Brit, then everything seems to be a biscuit or a cake. Some biscuits seem to be cakes, and some cookies also seem to be cakes. Most cakes are cakes.

This said I'm not British and I'm talking out of my shitpost.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 5 points 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.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago
[-] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 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.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 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

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm just trying to confuse the Americans. You blew my cover!

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 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?

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 2 points 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

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 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.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/560995/are-pringles-potato-chips-britain-high-court

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