Twinkies & also the REAL biscuit question

[Amy Z]

Heather wrote:

> OK, I'm taking Twinkies, Bisquick, Reeses Cups to Neil. 

Arggghhh...no, Neil, don't eat the Twinkies!  Twinkies, I am 
convinced, are the Stage One Invasion Force in the US plot to take 
over the world.  Intelligent people begin to eat them and the next 
thing you know, the preservatives have pickled their brains and they 
start to listen to muzak voluntarily.  Soon they come to think that 
Three's Company is funny.  After that, we roll in the tanks and 
formerly independent European populations just smile vacantly and say, 
"Dja bring any more of them Twinkies?"

You can eat the Bisquick and the Reeses though.  They're Food of the 
Gods.  With the biscuits, I'd skip the gravy and just slather on 
butter and/or raspberry jam if I were you.  But I'm a Northerner, born 
and raised.

Okay, here's what I want to know about biscuits:  what do you Brits 
call the things we call biscuits?  Don't say scones--they're yummy, 
but they're not the same thing.  Maybe you just don't eat them?

Amy Z

P.S.  There was a notorious U.S. case in which "the Twinkie defense" 
was used to get a murderer off.  His name was Dan White, and he killed 
Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay City Supervisor in SF and as 
such, IIRC, the highest-ranking openly gay public official to that 
date in the country, and George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, 
because of a wrangle over a gay rights ordinance.  White's lawyers 
successfully argued that a diet of junk food, with Twinkies at the 
core, had warped his mind, and they got him a manslaughter conviction 
instead.