Cookies and Biscuits and Such

What do you call dog biscuits?

...We call them dog biscuits. Because they're biscuits... for dogs.

Biscuit Monster just sounds…wrong.

You guys, we went to a family seder last night and at one point my parents got into an argument. “The book says if it’s a weeknight, start here, so we should be continuing here…”

My fiancee and I just looked at each other and smiled, and thought of all of you.

Then we all got to use a power.

To clarify, we do use the word "cookie". It specifically means an American style biscuit, like a chocolate-chip cookie or an oatmeal raisin cookie. A cookie is a type of biscuit, like how a wafer or a tuile or a sable or a custard cream is a type of biscuit.

So we're good with the Cookie Monster, we just assume he won't want this chocolate digestive (that's pretty much a graham cracker to you) since it's not a cookie.

I wouldn't challenge him on that. It ended badly for the the last group that I saw that did.

I'm finding myself unable to follow you. Clearly I need to visit you and we can go out and see and sample all of these items.

When I think of a wafer, I think of people going to mass. I have no idea what a tuile is. Something ballerinas wear, maybe? Sable is a type of fish. Custard cream is a type of pie.

Wafers are the crunchy part of KitKat bars to give you an idea. Thin, crispy, and usually have a waffle-type pattern on the surface area (no doubt to aid in the extra crunch department).

Everything else you said I agree 100% though.

For the benefit of those deprived individuals in the benighted former colonies:

Tuille

Custard Cream

Sable

Chocolate Digestive

CUSTARD CREAMS ARE GREAT

Don't fret people in savage countries, I live in the same country as Anna (civilised England) and have never heard of these exotic Tuille or Sables before!

But do feel disheartened that you can't eat Custard Creams or Chocolate Digestives.

How many more posts before we get another split topic I wonder? Taking all bets!

It no look like a fish to me…

Sablé is French for sand. Tuile is French for tile. They are named for their texture and shape respectively.

I make no apologies for including French biscuits in my list because they are delicious, although the best biscuit is the good old English malted milk. I'm not keen on custard creams (too sweet) but I do like chocolate digestives.

Wafers are sort of like a really really thin crispy waffle. Usually you get them in layers with some kind of soft-ish creme filling, like the kit-kat filling as Foote says.

But yes, you people need to come over here and be educated in the ways of the biscuit. We can have a biscuit party! We'll talk nonsense and eat biscuits until we're sick. It'll be awesome!

Us elitist Americans do just fine thank you.  Just because we talk like classy people doesn't mean we are under privileged.

Turns out the answer was 3!

But by Christopher? I don't think anyone saw that coming, you would have won big monies if you'd bet on him. Be here next time for a chance to win fabulous prizes!

I haven't tried many of the various types of biscuits available in the UK, but I have tried Jammy Dodgers, jelly babies, and Jaffa Cakes, and have found those to be especially tasty. (Especially the Jaffa Cakes, those are almost a perfect sweet snack.)

Cornish fairings are rather lovely, wonderful to dunk in a nice cup of tea. Much like ginger nuts… Maybe I’m just a fan of ginger.

Also, as they’ve been mentioned I will take the opportunity to point out the great debate over jaffa cakes as to whether they’re cakes or biscuits - they’re cakes, as the name suggests… But yet people still argue the point. It says a lot of very important things about a person as to which side they stand with.

I'm not sure whether to call Jaffa Cakes biscuits or cakes, I just call them delicious. 

Family Argument, Ongoing, Limited

Power: If you do not speak and signal to immediately end your turn, every other player may use a power now.

They are cakes because they go hard when they aren't fresh, while biscuits go soft.

And you have to pay VAT on them. Chocolate biscuits are VAT-free, and cakes are not.

And yes, they are delicious.

Germany is even odder in that way, because we have two words for biscuits and I don't think there is  an actual rule which word you use, it's pretty much intuition.

Generally speaking, every Christmas biscuit and everything that sort of comes from a fancy tin or bakery and that you would serve to guests on a plate is a 'Plätzchen'. It's sounds slightly more posh. Everything that you either eat straight from the package or would feed to a small child is probably a 'Keks'. Something you bake yourself could be either, really. And cookies are cookies, because that's the name they are sold under at Subway and in the super markets. Otherwise, a cookie would fall into the 'Keks' category, probably.

Oh, and dog biscuits are 'Hundekuchen' (dog cakes) and Cookie Monster is called 'Krümelmonster' (Crumb Monster), but when he demands COOKIES!!!, it's translated as 'KEKSE!!!'.

("This has been the German Education channel. Have a pleasant day!")

Stop giving me useful knowledge! I only have limited space and it's pushing all the Sentinels info out of my head!

But Sentinels knowledge is useful - how else are you supposed to save the Multiverse?

Regarding biscuits, I'd not heard of Tuille or Sable either. Well, I've heard of sable but to me it's (as well as the antelope) another word for black, taken from the small furry mink-like creature whose fur used to be used for posh clothes or whatever.

I like Bourbons and (Dark) Chocolate Digestives :D. Oh yeah, and Choccy Dodgers (choccy equivalent Jammy Dodgers) are nice too :D. And Toffeepops (actually I think it's spelt Toffypops), they look a bit like small, milke chocolate digestives but they have a layer of toffee beneath the chocolate :D. And I like Jaffa Cakes but I agree that they're cakes, not biscuits, for the already-given reason that biscuits go soft when stale and cakes go hard (which is what Jaffas do). That said, I like Jaffa Cake bars even more than normal Jaffas. Om nom nom!

Jaffa cake bars?!?

i must find these!

Damnit!

You're all forcing me to go out and buy biscuits with all your talk here.

Try looking over here … it's delicious!

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