slobake
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Okay now I am confused. This looks like what they refer to as a cracker in "A Grand Day Out" with Wallace and Gromit. Help out a provincial lad here.
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Help with British honey substitute
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Okay now I am confused. This looks like what they refer to as a cracker in "A Grand Day Out" with Wallace and Gromit. Help out a provincial lad here.
Don't you call biscuits 'crumpets'?
"Two continents, separated by a common language".
Who are you calling crumpet, cracker!?!
Brit biscuits are what Americans call cookies. Cookie has infiltrated NZ thanks to Sesame St.
A cracker is a thin plain dry unsweetened biscuit. I think we agree on that.
A crumpet is an overgrown pikelet cooked from the one side only, served toasted with your usual sweet suspects.
Brit biscuits are what Americans call cookies. Cookie has infiltrated NZ thanks to Sesame St.
A cracker is a thin plain dry unsweetened biscuit. I think we agree on that.
A crumpet is an overgrown pikelet cooked from the one side only, served toasted with your usual sweet suspects.
Pity our American brethren, for they have never had a chocolate digestive to dip in their cuppa.
This is why I'm an ardent Commonwealther. We haven't eschewed all tasty British goodies up here.
A crumpet my American friends is simply a crumpet. A messy piece of joy with honey or syrup. Something quite different to an English muffin as well to further muddy the waters.
If crumpets came out of the wrapper hot and dripping butter and golden syrup they would be illegal.
What about Limp Bizkit? They liked to do it all for the nookie, simply so you could take that cookie, and stick it... in a very uncomfortable location.
slobake
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slobake
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Observe. Next lesson.
This is a crumpet. Best served with butter or honey
This is a teacake. Butter only.
This is a crumpet. Best served with butter or honey
This is a teacake. Butter only.
I've lived in America my whole life and have never had or even heard of biscuits and gravy, so you can't tell me it's ubiquitous."Gravy" n biscuits is ubiquitous in the USA. It is not gravy yet that's what they call it. The also put it over chicken fried steak and mashed.
You have to ask for BROWN gravy to get au jus based gravy. They think we Canadians are crazy when we ask for brown on our French fries IME. Oh, the looks you get! This Canuck idiosyncrasy resulted in the pinnacle of chips n gravy cuisine: Poutine. Fries, brown and cheese curd in one dish.
One thing sorely missing on the USA table is HP Sauce. Heinz should relabel it for the USA and call it "house of representatives" sauce; I think they'd sell tons of it. A1 pales in comparison as it flows all over your plate messing with your potatoes and peas.
Grandmother made tea cakes. She was more English than the Queen. She frowned on jam and butter going on them. Too bad, butter and jam were by then plentiful.
Crumpet with butter only? Waste of a good opportunity to consume golden syrup! Honey is pretty good too, even without butter.
Scones and honey, not happening.
Crumpet with butter only? Waste of a good opportunity to consume golden syrup! Honey is pretty good too, even without butter.
Scones and honey, not happening.
slobake
resident ... something
My learned friend Titus has demonstrated what biscuits, scones and crumpets are. And what Americans call 'English muffins', we simply call 'muffins' (it's the inverse of us calling your football 'American football').
Having heard of biscuits and gravy I made a point of having them for breakfast when I was in the US last week. For the British, it's like having slightly moister scones in a creamy sauce. For breakfast. Crazy idea, but it works. I also had a chicken biscuit - imagine a chicken burger but with a scone instead of a bread roll.
There seem to be lots of American foods that don't sound right on paper but taste great. Apart from grits. What's that all about? Grainy, cheese-flavoured porridge? I don't know why anyone would do that.
Having heard of biscuits and gravy I made a point of having them for breakfast when I was in the US last week. For the British, it's like having slightly moister scones in a creamy sauce. For breakfast. Crazy idea, but it works. I also had a chicken biscuit - imagine a chicken burger but with a scone instead of a bread roll.
There seem to be lots of American foods that don't sound right on paper but taste great. Apart from grits. What's that all about? Grainy, cheese-flavoured porridge? I don't know why anyone would do that.
