Jaffa Cakes

Originally posted by redbadger
Geonoise sponge cake based biscuit with an orange flavoured jelly spread coated with milk chocolate .

Biscuit as in cookie?

I've heard Brits on here call cookies 'biscuits' before.

In America, biscuits have more flour, less sugar and are usually had for breakfast.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Biscuit as in cookie?

I've heard Brits on here call cookies 'biscuits' before.

In America, biscuits have more flour, less sugar and are usually had for breakfast.

debate, the manufacturer won a legal battle to prove it was a cake (something to do with value added tax) in effect its a cross between a cake and a cookie.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Brits on here

Are there Brits there?! 😲

Originally posted by Seitse
Are there Brits there?! 😲

I am here but I am English Oh F.U.C.K

Originally posted by Suzianne
Biscuit as in cookie?

I've heard Brits on here call cookies 'biscuits' before.

And for once(!), I agree with the USAnians against the British.

A biscuit is a very specific type of baked good - one that has been bis cuit - baked twice. A cookie - and I admit that, being a native speaker of the language from which that word was nicked, I may be prejudiced here - is any kind of small, sweet, bakeware.
Crumbly biscuits like digestives, Maries or rich teas are biscuits. Biscuits are hard. Amaretti are very literally twice baked, and therefore definitely are biscuits. Jaffa cakes are not. Neither are shortbreads (mock tartan variety or others) or gingerbreads. They are cookies, though.

Originally posted by redbadger
I am here but I am English Oh F.U.C.K

English? You sure you're not Scots? Goodness, someone warn Robbie!

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
English? You sure you're not Scots? Goodness, someone warn Robbie!

I used to be lead guitarist in guns and roses.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No. McVities said they were cakes to avoid VAT and won.

Jaffa Cakes are ... cakes, not biscuits.

Sorry I got muddled then. So biscuits are deemed luxury and cakes aren't?

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
Sorry I got muddled then. So biscuits are deemed luxury and cakes aren't?

let them eat cake

Originally posted by redbadger
let them eat cake

Fixed: -

Let them eat cak (poop)

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
And for once(!), I agree with the USAnians against the British.

A biscuit is a very specific type of baked good - one that has been bis cuit - baked twice. A cookie - and I admit that, being a native speaker of the language from which that word was nicked, I may be prejudiced here - is any kind of small, sweet, bakeware.
Crumbly biscuits like ...[text shortened]... re shortbreads (mock tartan variety or others) or gingerbreads. They are cookies, though.

So I gather you wouldn't like an American 'biscuit'.

Buttermilk and flour and baking powder and a lil' bit of shortening or butter, a tiny bit of sugar and salt. That's it.

We have them with sausage gravy in the South.

If you ever had some, you'd come back for more and you'd call them biscuits and love it. 😀

Come on, CP, back me up here. 🙂

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Neither are shortbreads .

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=shortbread+biscuits&biw=1920&bih=911&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=pS7XVKGKD5fl8AWmmoLQDA&sqi=2&ved=0CC8QsAQ

Originally posted by Suzianne
So I gather you wouldn't like an American 'biscuit'.

Buttermilk and flour and baking powder and a lil' bit of shortening or butter, a tiny bit of sugar and salt. That's it.

We have them with sausage gravy in the South.

If you ever had some, you'd come back for more and you'd call them biscuits and love it. 😀

Come on, CP, back me up here. 🙂

I think we call them 'crackers'. 'Nuts' can mean something similar but is a completely different type of savoury snack. 😉

Originally posted by wolfgang59
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=shortbread+biscuits&biw=1920&bih=911&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=pS7XVKGKD5fl8AWmmoLQDA&sqi=2&ved=0CC8QsAQ

Yep. Shortbread cookies, not (unless I'm missing a step in their preparation) properly shortbread biscuits, no matter what tha intartoobs may call them. They only get baked once.

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
I think we call them 'crackers'. 'Nuts' can mean something similar but is a completely different type of savoury snack. 😉

'Crackers'? No, crackers are crunchy and thin, saltines are a cracker. These biscuits I speak of are thick and bready, some soft, some more dense, but all more dense than bread, but not at all crisp and/or crunchy, like crackers. Ritz is a cracker.