Actually, I was watching a Food Network show about cookies last night and they said you wacky Brits use biscuit from the French word meaning "twice-cooked". They gave no explanation of "Cookie", however.
We use the word cookie too, but it usually refers to a biscuit that's kinda' big and uneven round the edges, still semi-soft and most often kinda' warm. Then if you leave them for a couple of days they go kinda' chewy...
Biscuits are fully crunchy. Unless you leave the packet open for a week when they go kinda... well... crunchy but with a hint of chewy... like stale cornflakes, you know what I mean? *nods all knowingly like*
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Date: 2003-12-05 12:42 pm (UTC)(That's biscuits, not biscuits, as in not related to chicken. Just FYI).
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Date: 2003-12-05 12:51 pm (UTC)Say it with me... "Cookie".
Actually, I was watching a Food Network show about cookies last night and they said you wacky Brits use biscuit from the French word meaning "twice-cooked". They gave no explanation of "Cookie", however.
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Date: 2003-12-05 12:55 pm (UTC)Then if you leave them for a couple of days they go kinda' chewy...
Biscuits are fully crunchy. Unless you leave the packet open for a week when they go kinda... well... crunchy but with a hint of chewy... like stale cornflakes, you know what I mean?
*nods all knowingly like*