Enough already with the food.... okay then, just a wafer thin mint

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> > I seem to be posting loads about food and stuff and not much 
about Harry
> Potter.  I guess it takes less brain power!  Maybe I need a 
Twinkie.  Maybe
> I need a Twink.. ;-)
(Snip)
> 
Not that you've
> mentioned them, but I tried Hershy bars when I was in Washington 
and thought
> they tasted horrible - really sweet.  British chololate isn't that 
great
> (compared to Belgian or Swiss), but the American stuff is worse... 
unless I
> picked the wrong things.  Now is Bisquick like Nesquick, I wonder?  
A sort
> of powder you make into a milky drink?   Twinkies - I'm not sure, I 
may have
> eaten one (that explains my behaviour).  I'm curious...

Hershey's makes a Dark, bittersweet chocolate bar (hard as the devil 
to find) that I much prefer to American milk chocolate.  It's more 
like European chocolate (OK, I *know* I'm a snob about chocolate <g>)
Bisquick is a mix which contains all the ingredients (except liquid) 
to make biscuits, pancakes, that sort of thing.  I don't use it--I 
make my biscuits from scratch (as we say here in the South).
> 
> <<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?>>


> 
> I'm still not sure what they are, so it's safe to say we don't have 
them.
> The only thing I can think of that might be similar is dumplings, 
but I
> seriously doubt they are the same.  Dumplings are great though - 
really
> fluffy suet balls that are crunchy on top and served with stew (and 
gravy).
> Tell me exactly what biscuits are in the minutest detail and I may 
be able
> to solve the mystery <g>.

I will be more than delighted to send you my biscuit recipe off-list, 
Neil.  I make them from scratch & they are delicious.   Parker
> 

> Neil
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