Hello fellow thinkers

[robvalue]

I think you atheist on here are actually Cookie-Monsterians!

[fr0d0]

[Losty]

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You crumble and brown pork sausage, remove the sausage and make a roux with the pork fat. Then, add milk to finish the white sauce. Add the pork back, add some spices (mainly pepper and sage), and there you go. Serve over proper American-frigging biscuits. No fancy-boy crap.

Yum.

Like I'm sure that's nice and all, but don't call them biscuits.

Looks like I'm going to break it down for you pesky Americans, once and for all.
Biscuits are almost exclusively (I'm looking at you digestives) small and sweet, usually crunchy, flour based and often consumed with tea. Here are some biscuits;
Biscuits are what you americans consider cookies, while the rest of the world considers only these cookies;

What you have been blasphemously claiming above as biscuits are in fact scones, which are usually eaten with jam/cream/butter along with tea, but have for some reason been hi-jacked as gravy vessels by you wacky 'Muricans.
I'm not even English, and I know this shit.

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Incorrect. There is no English comparison to an American biscuit that I know of. Scones are not the same as American biscuits. We have those too we also eat them with cream/butter/jam, and actual American biscuits can also be eaten that way though they're much better all smothered in gravy.

[Ben Davis]

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Looks like I'm going to break it down for you pesky Americans, once and for all.
Biscuits are almost exclusively (I'm looking at you digestives) small and sweet, usually crunchy, flour based and often consumed with tea. Here are some biscuits;
Biscuits are what you americans consider cookies, while the rest of the world considers only these cookies;

What you have been blasphemously claiming above as biscuits are in fact scones, which are usually eaten with jam/cream/butter along with tea, but have for some reason been hi-jacked as gravy vessels by you wacky 'Muricans.
I'm not even English, and I know this shit.

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I've already tried this. The problem is with marketing: Losty has feminine wiles on her side and isn't afraid to use them to get people to agree with her

In the spirit of inclusivity upon which this derail was founded, I suggest that we agree:

1. we all know what biscuits/cookies/scones are, in our own particular frames of reference
2. they're delicious, however we prefer to dress them
3. variety is the spice of life
4. there's no correlation between religiosity and propensity-to-use-confectionary-labels.

[Losty]

I did not use feminine wiles. I lured him in with ice cream sandwiched between two cookies :p

*ETA technically Luckie lured him in with the ice cream sandwich. Mmm yummy yummy delicious...Luckie.

[Sejanus]

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Like I'm sure that's nice and all, but don't call them biscuits.

Looks like I'm going to break it down for you pesky Americans, once and for all.
Biscuits are almost exclusively (I'm looking at you digestives) small and sweet, usually crunchy, flour based and often consumed with tea. Here are some biscuits;
Biscuits are what you americans consider cookies, while the rest of the world considers only these cookies;

What you have been blasphemously claiming above as biscuits are in fact scones, which are usually eaten with jam/cream/butter along with tea, but have for some reason been hi-jacked as gravy vessels by you wacky 'Muricans.
I'm not even English, and I know this shit.

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Incorrect. There is no English comparison to an American biscuit that I know of. Scones are not the same as American biscuits. We have those too we also eat them cream/butter/jam, and actual American biscuits can also be eaten that way though they're much better all smothered in gravy.

Losty, Ily, but this is a scone with sauce on it.

[Losty]

Ily 2, but this

Is a scone.

[Sejanus]

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Looks like I'm going to break it down for you pesky Americans, once and for all.
Biscuits are almost exclusively (I'm looking at you digestives) small and sweet, usually crunchy, flour based and often consumed with tea. Here are some biscuits;
Biscuits are what you americans consider cookies, while the rest of the world considers only these cookies;

What you have been blasphemously claiming above as biscuits are in fact scones, which are usually eaten with jam/cream/butter along with tea, but have for some reason been hi-jacked as gravy vessels by you wacky 'Muricans.
I'm not even English, and I know this shit.

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I've already tried this. The problem is with marketing: Losty has feminine wiles on her side and isn't afraid to use them to get people to agree with her

In the spirit of inclusivity upon which this derail was founded, I suggest that we agree:

1. we all know what biscuits/cookies/scones are, in our own particular frames of reference
2. they're delicious, however we prefer to dress them
3. variety is the spice of life
4. there's no correlation between religiosity and propensity-to-use-confectionary-labels.

It seems you're right. I can't compete with Losty's wiles. Not by a long shot.

[Losty]

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I give you cookies. Real cookies. We leave the biscuits (both kinds) and scones out of it. And humor is spelled humor. I think it's a fair compromise.

[Sejanus]

I can deal with that, as long as you spell all other words correctly; http://www.tysto.com/uk-us-spelling-list.html according to the list on the left.