[HPFGU-OTChatter] Answer the biscuit question already

[Neil Ward]

Amanda, on the biscuit/cookie summit:

> 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?

What you Americans call cookies, we British call biscuits.  However, we do
use the word cookie as part of the name of some types of biscuit, e.g.
"chocolate chip cookies" or "peanut butter cookies" (I had peabut there...
thank heavens I proof-read) - these are obviously associated with the US, so
that makes sense.

Digestives (digestive biscuits) are a very popular variety of 'short,' sweet
wholemeal biscuit, which also come plain or half-coated with chocolate.  I
prefer them to HobNobs (HobNobs are densely-packed rolled oats - like a
Flapjack - rather than wholemeal).  The United Biscuits picture Heather
posted looks a bit more like chocolate digestives than HobNobs; HobNobs are,
I believe, exclusive to McVitie, whereas the digestive is more a generic
biscuit variety than a brand.

Biscuits usually refers to sweet biscuits, but there are also savoury
biscuits (which we'd also call crackers).  One that always confuses me is
"Graham crackers" - I can't remember if these are the same thing as our
digestive biscuits or our cream crackers (square, crisp, savoury - go well
with cheese?).

The Pillsbury Dough Boy sells, um.... uncooked dough for croissants,
pastries and bread rolls in twist open cardboard tubes?

Is tollhouse a brand?

Next question: What do Americans call dog biscuits?  Dog cookies?

I was offered biscuits and gravy in the US once and, although I understand
what that is now, I gagged at that the thought of, for example, chocolate
chip cookies soaking up thickened beef stock.

Neil, who is feeliing 'cream crackered'

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