| Herr-Berbunch |
03-29-11 07:19 AM |
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Originally Posted by Gargamel
(Post 1630331)
And don't get me started on the biscuits thing.... how can you put gravy on a cookie?!?
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To us a cookie is a type of biscuit, usually chocolate-chip. A cracker is a savoury-type of biscuit and a sweet-type of biscuit is just a biscuit (that also encompasses cookies!). Crackers are great with cheese, but one can also say cheese and biscuits and that means crackers. I wouldn't put gravy on a cookie, a cracker or the all encompassing biscuit.
Chips are square-cut wedges (chipped, some might say) of potato, fried. Crisps are very thin slices of potato fried until, get this, crispy! :D I'd put gravy on chips, but not on crisps, and even when on the chips it would have to be chips either on their own or with a meaty item such as pie. Never for fish!
By pie I mean a meat pie such as steak and kidney, or beef and onion, or chicken and mushroom, not apple, cherry or any other fruity pie. Nor do I mean pumpkin. Pumpkin! In a pie! :nope:
Consider yourself educated should you ever come to these shores :D
Edit: Sorry, I've spent that long typing this, and also doing some work in between, that Danlisa appears to have beaten me to it!
Edit #2: UK folks may also remember the furore that long-running children's television program Blue Peter caused after rigging a vote to name the show's new pussy. The popular vote was Cookie, but producers thought that was in common parlance for, well, a pussy - and so rigged the outcome so as to name it Sox! :doh: |
