cookies... pah. call them by their proper name, biscuits. any english child that whines "mom, I wanna cookie!" deserves a clip round the ear and a weekend up a chimney (that's "smokestack" to you colonials)

my own children once foolishly made the mistake of calling biscuits "ccokies" - an error never repeated Also q bizarrely and for no apparent reason my daughter once asked why we didn't celebrate Independence Day, at which I nearly choked on my roast beef and yorkie puds.

we don't have "ccokies" any more btw, we have baklava and halva and the occasional sweet-filled chapati.

Edited by - Radio Free Tawakalnistan on 9/6/2004 12:58:15 AM

im sure theres a difference between cookies and biscuits taw. but i've never had enough to tell the difference.

i like butter cookies. eh, the dutch one? cylindrical can thing... forgot the name...

Ah yes, halva. It's damn good stuff, and has a fantastic texture. Hmm, it's made from seasame seeds is it not Taw?

*looks over at Esq* well, at least you can't say it's all about food anymore. *Shakes head*

my favourite halva is made from sesame seeds as you say, and pistachios yum!

what's your favourite snack, FD?

A toss up between M & M's and apple slices. I don't do a whole lot of baking anymore.

it's all about food with you, FD, isn't it?

Esq is going to get you for stealing his lines.

good old shortbread one of my proud nations foods

along with haggis and salty porridge?

I have to say that I have taken a liking to Scottish shortbread....er, cookies. They've more heft in them than the Danish butter cookies and not quite as sugary sweet, which I prefer. Lets the fat flavors through more readily.

the tin says shortbread biscuits if it's proper from Scotland. And it should be in a tin too, with tartan decals and a thistle and some whimsical Scottish scenes of GP and Heltak.

I like TUC biscuits. For years i thought the TUC stood for Trade Union Congress and that only Socialists ate them. But i also thought that if you saved up your bus tickets you could eventually exchange them for a bus.

imagine my surprise then really wanted a bus, i did.

I've tasted both the tinned and the ones now sold in cellophane wrappers inside cardboard boxes. Not sure why but the cellophane wrapped ones in boxes tasted fresher. Probably, newer packaging. That tin weighed a ton though!

OK biskweets then. Scottish shortbread biskweets. Are you happy?

Biscuits in the US are, if the edible kind, these delicious soft yet firm, fresh from the oven accompaniments to a wonderful Southern style breakfast composed of country pork sausages, fresh farm eggs, bacon, grits, maybe even a ham steak with some red eye gravy and a nice big pot of coffee.

If not the edible kind, biscuits most commonly are made and used in cabinetry or are part of a manufacturing process in which wafers and, later, chips are made.

Now your talking good eating in buttermilk Biscuits with butter and honey. Or slap a piece of chicken in it, like Chick-Filet does. Dang good eating.