Answer the biscuit question already

[Amanda Lewanski]

Okay, nobody has definitively said so--*are* UK biscuits the same as our
cookies? Would you have tollhouse or chocolate chip biscuits, where we
have tollhouse or chocolate chip cookies? Would my mom's peanut butter
cookie recipe be the same if my recipe box were over there, merely
reading "peanut butter biscuits"? And what on earth would the Pillsbury
dough boy sell over there, if you all think biscuits are cookies?

--Amanda, loopier by the minute