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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

We definitely don’t call them that.

Also we have Bourbon Biscuits which are just lovely.

[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that British person was trying to wind up OP.

Bourbons shit all over oreos too, oreos are perhaps the most overrated biscuit out there.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Calling any cookie a biscuit gives me the urge to buy a musket and tricorn hat

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[-] Resistentialism@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Someone really needs to start making actual bourbon biscuits.

Like, yeah, they're the best and all that. But, what if I need that bit of something to get me through the day? I can't have a drink at 9 am because it's frowned upon. But a biscuit? Yeah, that's calm.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If only drinking wasn’t frowned upon. Why is the only time I can have a pint at 6am is if I’m in the airport?

I mean that costs so much more money! 😂

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The American word for biscuits equates to a spongey, mostly tasteless muffin. People in the south sometimes pour gravy on them and call it a meal.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And that’s why the American language is so strange.

I think one day in history the dictionary everyone used got coffee on it and the words had no definitions so they had to assign them to whatever they thought was right. Sadly they were wrong.

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Actually most of our words are British words but Britain changed there meaning take soccer thats what the English used to call it because of the long socks the players wore Britain lost the memo but America remembered

[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is this a copypasta I've missed or something...?

Its called soccer because it's full name was association football and they took the second syllable and turned it into a nickname for the sport.

Socks have nothing to do with it.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, "soccer" is a shortened form of "association," as in "Football Association."

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[-] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Mostly tasteless? You need to try a better biscuit. Also, while that biscuits and gravy thing is true, they're more often either on the side or cut in half with bacon and eggs or something in between the halves. It's not something you want to eat every day, but once every few months on a Saturday morning it's incredible.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure that person has ever actually had a biscuit. I've never had a "spongey" biscuit. They are nothing like muffins either, which are closer to cake.

[-] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

To Americans, biscuits are bread leavened with baking soda or baking powder.

That's it. Bread.

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Where I'm from we serve them with a sausage patty in between the halves, and gravy on top. No one eats just a plain biscuit by itself... And they're supposed to be fluffy and moist, not 'crumby.' What was described in the original comment is exactly what a plain, stale biscuit tastes like. That's like an American taking a cold can of chili, dumping it on a slice of bread, and talking about how terrible beans on toast is...

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am American and I stand by what I said. American biscuits are not like muffins (which are closer to cake) and should not be spongey.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except the "gravy" is a greasy roux with bits of sausage meat in it. I think the biscuits are basically savoury scones. I'm not judging, the whole dish sounds fairly tasty and like the kind of thing a Northerner or Scotsman might invent.

[-] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If someone is giving you greasy roux with bits of meat in it, they don't like you.

Good biscuits and gravy will make you smack your mama for lying to you about what a good breakfast is.

[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A breakfast!? This is an actual breakfast meal? With gravy?

It's no wonder we let you win the war of independence you uncultured swine.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

Oreos taste like nothing anyway. So not a loss in my book.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

If there's no hobnobs, no custard creams, no bourbon, no fly cemeteries, no Garibaldis, no choccy digestives

I'd still rather eat a pink wafer before an Orio

They're like the biscuit equivalent of beige

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The part I'm most offended by is thinking Oreos are chocolate. I know chocolate, and you, Oreo, are no chocolate

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, what even is it? Just some weird black crumb shit

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

You mean Hydrox, right? The original chocolate sandwich biscuit.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

The fact that the US considers Oreos edible is enough reason to resist US neocolonialism.

[-] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yankee Doodle went to TOWN on that British ass

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And sent the decent biccies packing aye nice one

[-] kspatlas@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago

That's what happens when you eat too many Neos

[-] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well at least they don't call it Hydrox 💀

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hydrox supremacy 😤😤

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