Conquer Club

with thanks to tripitaka. ed: and man-b. oops

the biscuit is a true bastion of britishness, its dunkable, crumbly goodness sustaining our island nation through war, revolution, and rainy days at Lord's with no pot in the house (booooo).

I have allowed voting for 2 choices to enable those of us who prefer a different biccy with tea or coffee.

personally, i would take the delicious oaty texture of a hobnob over anything, although i am quite partial to a chocolate digestive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy

And, as we do with most things, the United States has improved the British version dramatically.

Wikipedia wrote:[Biscuits and gravy] consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or sausage gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper.

Wikipedia wrote:American English and British Engligh use the word "biscuit" to refer to distinctly different modern foods. Early hard biscuits (North American:cookies) were derived from a twice-baked bread whereas the North American biscuit is similar to a savory European scone... [Biscuits and gravy] emerged as a distinct regional dish after the American Revolutionary War when stocks of food stuffs were in short supply.

thegreekdog wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy

And, as we do with most things, the United States has improved the British version dramatically.

I didn't like 'The Office' first time around, but what you guys did to that made my balls dizzy. So don't gimme that.

If you want a US biscuit thread, put an addendum in under the many thousands of US politics threads going.

Tell ya something else - the hershey bar should be used to make candles, and nothing else. You guys have the collective palette of a dungfly battling mouth cancer.

thegreekdog wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy

And, as we do with most things, the United States has improved the British version dramatically.

Wikipedia wrote:American English and British Engligh use the word "biscuit" to refer to distinctly different modern foods. Early hard biscuits (North American:cookies) were derived from a twice-baked bread whereas the North American biscuit is similar to a savory European scone... [Biscuits and gravy] emerged as a distinct regional dish after the American Revolutionary War when stocks of food stuffs were in short supply.

No, with typical warped American logic, you just took the name and applied it to something else, even though it doesn't fit with the original meaning.

And I'd take a British scone over an American biscuit any day of the week, especially with lashings of clotted cream and fresh strawberry jam! If I want to smother something in gravy (brown gravy that is, made by mixing a roux with stock and meat juices, not that awful white stuff you have here), then I'd have suet dumplings instead!


I voted for Hobnobs and of course Jaffa cakes. I prefer plain Hobnobs with tea and Chocolate Hobnobs with coffee (Just ahead of Chocolate digestives). For all other times, Jaffa cakes would be my pick, though I could always force myself to settle for chocolate Hobnobs instead!

I heard somewhere that non-Americans thought Hershey bars were shit.

Well done on the pallette comment.

Tripitaka wrote:No, with typical warped American logic, you just took the name and applied it to something else, even though it doesn't fit with the original meaning.

I think if you re-read my post, you would understand that I acknowledged the confusion between biscuits and cookies.

Tripitaka wrote:And I'd take a British scone over an American biscuit any day of the week, especially with lashings of clotted cream and fresh strawberry jam! If I want to smother something in gravy (brown gravy that is, made by mixing a roux with stock and meat juices, not that awful white stuff you have here), then I'd have suet dumplings instead!

With a belly full of biscuits and gravy, I would outperform you in any event!

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:No, with typical warped American logic, you just took the name and applied it to something else, even though it doesn't fit with the original meaning.

I think if you re-read my post, you would understand that I acknowledged the confusion between biscuits and cookies.

I don't need to re-read it, I understood it the first time, thanks.

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:And I'd take a British scone over an American biscuit any day of the week, especially with lashings of clotted cream and fresh strawberry jam! If I want to smother something in gravy (brown gravy that is, made by mixing a roux with stock and meat juices, not that awful white stuff you have here), then I'd have suet dumplings instead!

With a belly full of biscuits and gravy, I would outperform you in any event!

O'rly, how about giving birth?

khazalid wrote:Tell ya something else - the hershey bar should be used to make candles, and nothing else. You guys have the collective palette of a dungfly battling mouth cancer.

Totally agree about Hershey chocolate!. It's vile stuff! One of the worst moves Cadbury ever made, was granting Hershey the licence to make and sell Cadbury-branded products in the US. Hershey changed the original recipe and the result is a far inferior product to that of the British counterpart, even so it's still miles better than the crap they make under their own name.

Have you tasted what the US has the bare-faced gall to sell under the name "Rolo"?

jonesthecurl wrote:Have you tasted what the US has the bare-faced gall to sell under the name "Rolo"?

Not yet, and I'm assuming by that I don't want to!

I've had fake Maltesers, er I mean Whoppers though.

The only Western biscuits that are widely available here are Oreos. They're okay, but they're no chocolate digestive.

Why do they make stupid biscuits that crumble in your mouth and paste your tongue and all your teeth dark brown?

mrswdk wrote:Why do they make stupid biscuits that crumble in your mouth and paste your tongue and all your teeth dark brown?

Um, are you sure you're not eating dung?

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:No, with typical warped American logic, you just took the name and applied it to something else, even though it doesn't fit with the original meaning.

I think if you re-read my post, you would understand that I acknowledged the confusion between biscuits and cookies.

I don't need to re-read it, I understood it the first time, thanks.

Ah, I should have known. You were using the royal "you."

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:And I'd take a British scone over an American biscuit any day of the week, especially with lashings of clotted cream and fresh strawberry jam! If I want to smother something in gravy (brown gravy that is, made by mixing a roux with stock and meat juices, not that awful white stuff you have here), then I'd have suet dumplings instead!

With a belly full of biscuits and gravy, I would outperform you in any event!

O'rly, how about giving birth?

Yes, if I was a woman.

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:And, as we do with most things, the United States has improved the British version dramatically.

No, with typical warped American logic, you just took the name and applied it to something else, even though it doesn't fit with the original meaning.

thegreekdog wrote:Ah, I should have known. You were using the royal "you."

No, since there is no such construct as the royal "you", only the "Royal we", which refers to a single person (the speaker to be precise) and as anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension can see, I wasn't doing that here.

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:With a belly full of biscuits and gravy, I would outperform you in any event!

O'rly, how about giving birth?

Yes, if I was a woman.

But you're not, so that would be a "no" then!

ITT Tripi gets her British on and pwns.

Bollocks.

Tripitaka wrote:No, since there is no such construct as the royal "you", only the "Royal we", which refers to a single person (the speaker to be precise) and as anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension can see, I wasn't doing that here.

What were you doing? By using the word "you" it appeared that you were indicating that I (thegreekdog) was taking the name and applying it to something else. At least that is what I think you meant. But I didn't do that.

Serbia wrote:ITT Tripi gets her British on and pwns.

Bollocks.

Yes, but I will never give up.

khazalid wrote:Tell ya something else - the hershey bar should be used to make candles, and nothing else. You guys have the collective palette of a dungfly battling mouth cancer.

Bravo!

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:No, since there is no such construct as the royal "you", only the "Royal we", which refers to a single person (the speaker to be precise) and as anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension can see, I wasn't doing that here.

What were you doing? By using the word "you" it appeared that you were indicating that I (thegreekdog) was taking the name and applying it to something else. At least that is what I think you meant. But I didn't do that.
Yes, but I will never give up.

*sighs* Really? Okay let me try to explain in more simple terms.

You said "we....the United States..." Here "we" refers to the US/American people

I replied "No.....you...." Here "you", used as a plural pronoun, also refers to the US/American people. Simple, eh? In my response the addition of "the United Sates" to qualify the "you" was unnecessary as I was replying directly to your quote and since I live in America I know full well what biscuits are here and that unless you are a time traveller, it is highly unlikely that you came up with the name for them!

stiff upper trip

khazalid wrote:stiff upper trip

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:No, since there is no such construct as the royal "you", only the "Royal we", which refers to a single person (the speaker to be precise) and as anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension can see, I wasn't doing that here.

What were you doing? By using the word "you" it appeared that you were indicating that I (thegreekdog) was taking the name and applying it to something else. At least that is what I think you meant. But I didn't do that.
Yes, but I will never give up.

*sighs* Really? Okay let me try to explain in more simple terms.

You said "we....the United States..." Here "we" refers to the US/American people

I replied "No.....you...." Here "you", used as a plural pronoun, also refers to the US/American people. Simple, eh? In my response the addition of "the United Sates" to qualify the "you" was unnecessary as I was replying directly to your quote and since I live in America I know full well what biscuits are here and that unless you are a time traveller, it is highly unlikely that you came up with the name for them!

Hey, leave me outta this.

Tripitaka wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:No, since there is no such construct as the royal "you", only the "Royal we", which refers to a single person (the speaker to be precise) and as anyone with an ounce of reading comprehension can see, I wasn't doing that here.

What were you doing? By using the word "you" it appeared that you were indicating that I (thegreekdog) was taking the name and applying it to something else. At least that is what I think you meant. But I didn't do that.
Yes, but I will never give up.

*sighs* Really? Okay let me try to explain in more simple terms.

You said "we....the United States..." Here "we" refers to the US/American people

I replied "No.....you...." Here "you", used as a plural pronoun, also refers to the US/American people. Simple, eh? In my response the addition of "the United Sates" to qualify the "you" was unnecessary as I was replying directly to your quote and since I live in America I know full well what biscuits are here and that unless you are a time traveller, it is highly unlikely that you came up with the name for them!

Right, the royal "you."

To get back on topic (yes, I'm giving up)... I'm not a big fan of biscuits (a/k/a cookies). I do enjoy scones, but prefer them to be fresh baked from an actual baker (sorry Starbucks).

thegreekdog wrote:To get back on topic (yes, I'm giving up)... I'm not a big fan of biscuits (a/k/a cookies). I do enjoy scones, but prefer them to be fresh baked from an actual baker (sorry Starbucks).

I make my own, that way I get to enjoy them while they are still warm, sliced in half with both sides buttered. Mmmmm....

Can one of you Brits describe the custard cream biscuit? It intrigues me.