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Hi --
<p>Can't believe I'm weighing in on this group twice in one week (but I
love British food).
<p>Neil Ward wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Digestives (digestive biscuits) are a very popular
variety of 'short,' sweet wholemeal biscuit, which also come plain or half-coated
with chocolate.</tt></blockquote>
My husband could live on Digestives! He thinks they are the perfect
food, and I buy them often from the British food store here. Amanda
-- you really need to come visit Houston. You would love all the
delicacies available at this British store ... think of it .... clotted
cream, digestives, Cadbury chocolates, Turkish delights (which my husband
thinks are the most revolting thing ever) ....
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Biscuits usually refers to sweet biscuits, but
there are also savoury</tt>
<br><tt>biscuits (which we'd also call crackers). One that always
confuses me is</tt>
<br><tt>"Graham crackers" - I can't remember if these are the same thing
as our</tt>
<br><tt>digestive biscuits or our cream crackers (square, crisp, savoury
- go well with cheese?).</tt></blockquote>
Graham crackers are closer to digestives than to cream crackers.
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>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.</tt></blockquote>
LOL! Were you in the South? If not, you were probably wise
to turn down this selection. But, if you are in the South in the
future, then you simply must try this regional specialty. Big, thick
fluffy buttermilk biscuits with cream gravy. Yum!! Cream gravy,
as long as it wasn't sausage gravy (which is cream gravy mixed with ground
sausage), might even be acceptable to vegetarian types such as you Neil.
I can't think why cream gravy couldn't be made without animal fat.
<p>Penny (going off to elevate her puffy swollen feet & read for a
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