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Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/18/2017 9:22:59 PM

Greta75

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I was having a PM conversation with MercTech about Cookies/Biscuits/Scones.

Came off the thread about the differences of how the English Language is used in different countries.

So I am actually curious, countries like Canada or Germany, do they use Terms more like British or American?

So to give some pictoral examples:

EXAMPLE OF COOKIES IN SINGAPORE

EXAMPLE OF BISCUITS IN SINGAPORE

EXAMPLE OF BISCUITS IN AMERICA

EXAMPLE OF SCONES IN SINGAPORE

And I was just saying that, if I asked an American to bring me Cookies, I am literally gonna get Biscuits in Singapore's context!!! So for example, Oreo is a biscuit and not a cookie here.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 11:15:10 AM

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There's no confusion here, greta.
Just ignore what the americans say: they misname everything. These are people who can't tell a bag of crisps from a plate of chips, FFS.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 12:00:42 PM

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So I am actually curious, countries like Canada or Germany, do they use Terms more like British or American?

As far as Canada goes, the answer is "yes, no, maybe".

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 2:34:04 PM

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There's no confusion here, greta.
Just ignore what the americans say: they misname everything. These are people who can't tell a bag of crisps from a plate of chips, FFS.

Hey whoremods, go shag yourself.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 4:03:21 PM

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So in Singapore a cookie is single but when you put two together with a filling, it’s a biscuit?

Cookie doesn’t come from English but from the Dutch who had the first colony here. What’s now the eastern and southern part of New York State. I think the original spelling was kookje but I can’t promise that.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 7:56:37 PM

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So in Singapore a cookie is single but when you put two together with a filling, it’s a biscuit?

No, a cookie has totally different texture from a biscuit. And a Biscuit can be single too.
It's like two different things.

I mean Oreo doesn't have the texture of a cookie.

Like this is a single plain biscuit with no fillings:

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 8:02:13 PM

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So I am actually curious, countries like Canada or Germany, do they use Terms more like British or American?

As far as Canada goes, the answer is "yes, no, maybe".

Do Canadians refer to Oreo as a biscuit or a Cookie?

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 9:31:27 PM

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So I am actually curious, countries like Canada or Germany, do they use Terms more like British or American?

As far as Canada goes, the answer is "yes, no, maybe".

Do Canadians refer to Oreo as a biscuit or a Cookie?

Yes, no, maybe.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/19/2017 11:50:10 PM

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I call it an Oreo cookie. Unless it's the Golden Oreo. THAT'S NOT an Oreo!!

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/22/2017 10:25:39 AM

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A cookie to me is a small, sweet, baked treat. It can be crisp or soft. I have chocolate chip cookie recipes for both.

The Dutch koekje translates to small cake and refers to testing a wood fired oven’s temperature by cooking small dollops of cake batter prior to baking the cake.

I would imagine that they came out soft or crisp depending on the temperature. Traditionally, you fired it up,and first baked bread which requires higher temps. Then pastries. The last thing was to put a stew in to slowly cook and could handle the temperature slowly cooling as the day went on. A friends 93 year old mother used to be a docent in a colonial village and she cooked like that. These days she uses a bread maker, throws the ingredients in and press the button.

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RE: Cookies....Biscuits....Scones - 10/22/2017 10:32:51 AM

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Biscuit....comes in a packet of sweet, chewy crunchy, sugary delight.
cookie, a biscuit but something you make yourself.
scone, a sweet dough tasty with raisins in, jam and clotted cream to make a cornish tea. OR savoury with cheese in.
Until I moved to canada, now its however I feel like saying it.
biscuits were biscuits until the kids had been in school for a year or so then they became cookies.
But then again, Im trying to give up carbs so they dont have much useage anymore.

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