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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Majorllama@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you hadnt posted this I was going to haha

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 17 points 2 weeks ago

What's a chicken biscuit though?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

A chicken sandwich with a biscuit for bread

[-] Wardacus16@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

What type of biscuit though? Hobnobs? Custard Creams? Honestly I'm struggling to think of a biscuit that would go well with chicken.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like what we call a scone. Whatever name you use, they're delicious.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's not though, the consistency is different. These bitches are buttery and flakey, and savory. Closer to a crescent roll if you're familliar. Scones are great too and all but ime they have a different consistency entirely and aim for sweet instead of savory.

But yeah all listed pastries are delicious!

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

American scones are very sweet compared to what they make in Britain. They will put sweet cream or jam on them to sweeten them up.

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's different than a scone, which is dense. Southern USA has a special kind of flour we use when we make our biscuits that has lower protein and gluten content. It makes for a much softer dough, and a softer end result.

I want desperately to leave my country and go to another one, bring some of our soft red winter wheat seeds with me, and begin making southern (US) style biscuits for the masses somewhere else. I'd make biscuits n gravy and I'd share them with the world.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’m guessing they are asking because in British English biscuits are cookies?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

In case you aren’t being an intentional dumbass; in American ‘biscuit’ means savory buttery pastry roll. Each of the items you listed would be referred to here as ‘cookies’.

[-] Wardacus16@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I know what they are. It was a bit of a deliberate play on words, swapping the American and English definitions of biscuit. A joke that was perhaps a bit too subtle or too British for Americans to comprehend.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

I got it but, to me at least, the delivery/wording made it unfunny for me. I took it as being intentionally thick and condescending, which is also how I read this response.

An answer to make most people mad:

[-] froggycar360@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bless your heart

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Fluffy or flaky biscuit (american, savory buttery pastry dough) sandwich with a bit of breaded fried chicken. Frequently with some honey on it.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Chicken flavoured dry cat food biscuits, I guess? :)

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Biscuit cut in half with (usually) a fried chicken patty or fried breast meat in the middle.

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

My ex learned English as a second language and was fluent but she had a very hard time with any heavy accent.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

My wife too. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to America in middle school.

She can't understand understand British or Australian accents, where I can hear the differences between the two.

She literally can't understand Indian accents. It's like they are not speaking English at all.

[-] Probius@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they're not speaking English to me.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think we were exposed to more Brit and Aus influences. Thinking Steve Erwin, Crocodile Dundee, and a bunch of British actors.

For Indian speaking influence, nope. Even today, the only exposure to Indian accents is at work and even then, its limited.

[-] Probius@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

You can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that's probably why.

[-] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It doesn't help that Indian English often still uses a lot of colonial terms, like Capsicum instead of bell pepper. That being said most Indians in the US will adjust to the local vocabulary pretty quickly.

[-] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Please do the needful

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I absolutely LOVE Indian accents, especially with a very sing-song speech pattern.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

My first language is English and some accents/dialects are very difficult. Certain Indian speakers, Scottish speakers, Newfies, and West Virginians (which has a lot of Scots and Irish roots) can take me some time to acclimate to.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

don't forget the

[-] Bonus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

If there were a phonetic phrase book like this, I might begin to learn their exotic language.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A southern accent? That doesn't sound like a Kent accent to me?

Maybe he means southern Canada??

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

Many planets have a south pole

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

I went to Greenville, South Carolina to view the eclipse in 2017.

Watched it from the Greenville zoo.

There was a guy there, standing in line at the concession stand, talking on the phone to another person.

He kept telling the other person, in his native tongue, that he was in the "Food Line". After like 10 times repeating himself he burst out laughing "nah! Not the food Li-unn, the food LINE!"

Food Lion, for those readers who are unaware, is a regional grocery chain.

The zoo was an awesome place to view an eclipse, btw. Animals were going nuts. There were students there documenting their reaction with go-pros on many exhibits. But I'll never forget that guy.

2024 Eclipse we saw from the Perot Museum in Dallas. Also an awesome experience. They had live music and scientist commentary, and after the eclipse they played "Here comes the sun" and it was just perfect.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Had a very puzzling conversation about wells with a guy I worked with, finally figured out he meant whales.

[-] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Some years ago when We were visiting my dad in Mississippi, my husband (Canadian) and I ,(American who moved to Canada) went to dinner and I had make the order because he just couldn't get a handle on the deep southern accent hahaha

[-] Meltdown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Trying to watch Tiger King without subtitles

[-] g4nd41ph@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of a time that I told my boss the "text dick taking" was not working so well. We had a good laugh about that one later.

[-] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Matt Mitchell of SEC Roll Call fame!

Shameless plug for !cfb@fanaticus.social

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They got all those computers down south, doncha know?

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't even have a broad British accent, generic middle class southern, but most speech to text can't follow me well since I don't speak Yank.

The (certain, wealthy parts of the) US centrism is mucho annoying.

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