Nobody in chat seemed interested, but if anyone wants to do a good deed and start sending me a package of crumpets weekly, I'd be grateful. They're hard to get in Sweden. D:
Nobody in chat seemed interested, but if anyone wants to do a good deed and start sending me a package of crumpets weekly, I'd be grateful. They're hard to get in Sweden. D:
Sure what is your address??
*sends rantz a bunch a flowers xD* owned
Ha, Rantz, this reminds me of when Lev first came over and went back with like three six-packs of crumpets. "I CAN'T GET THEM IN NORWAY THEY ARE THE BEST I MUST GET MORE SEND ME MORE."
As for topping up the crumpet, it's got to be butter first and, if anything extra, I use Vegemite. The two end results are very different but both great. I've had jam, too, but I prefer it without the sweetness jam provides. Butter and/or vegemite are both more suited to my tastes.
And sorry, 'merica, but you got this one so very wrong. I have to say that Britain tends to be much better about naming food groups than any country I know, including New Zealand (as much as it begrudges me to say so... but crisps! It just makes sense! Wish they wouldn't call corn chips 'crisps' though, they're different). Crackers, biscuits and cookies are all most definitely different things, and naming them as such allows people to have a very good idea about what kind of food they're actually getting when someone says "Here, have a [biscuit/cookie/cracker/scone/crumpet]." In America, having only two words to define three rather different things is a little silly to me. I think somewhere along the line, Americans just got very confused.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Apparently, we have scones over hear BoB. They just aren't that common. It's like a specialty thing.
So we have biscuits, crackers, and cookies. Then it continues on into regional/specialty things like biscotti, crumpets, scones, etc. Usually at coffee shops and bakeries.
I don't think we have fewer words. Our words just mean different foodstuffs.
BoB the fact that you put vegemite on crumpets makes me so happy. Like it's not a thing I would generally do because I prefer my vegemite on not-crumpets but you honour us with your patriotism.
Soon he'll be drunk on Aussie Day and bitching about boat people. You're like 80% of the way to bogan!
You aren't an Aussie until you've gone drop bear hunting on kangaroos.
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Vegemite continues to be the best thing to come out of Australia as far as I'm concerned!
And sharky, I'm more referring to how you have fewer words to describe what we call biscuits, crackers or cookies. You summarise those things into just two words, and that doesn't make much sense to me! I guess you have more words for scones than we do...?
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We also use the words biscuits, crackers, and cookies. Confusion.
No but your biscuits aren't our biscuits (they are scones. God knows what other food you call scones are), so you're already one word down, is what BoB is trying to say.
You have crackers or cookies to describe this range of food; while we have biscuits, crackers and cookies to describe that same range.
You pretty much got it in your initial post on the matter:
I don't think we have fewer words. Our words just mean different foodstuffs.
Canadian English seems like a mixture of American English and British English.
Then I have the fun of also having French, where we call cookies "biscuits" which is biscuits but in English they're cookies
EDIT: This is what I call a scone
What bugs me is when people call danishes and other pastries croissants. If they don't have the croissant shape, they aren't a croissant
wtf is that shion that's not a scone
A scone is a single-serving cake or quick bread. They are usually made of wheat, barley or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent, and are baked on sheet pans. They are often lightly sweetened and are occasionally glazed <---says wikipedia
And it popped up when I did the image search so I'm apparently not the only one who thinks of it that way
That's what a scone is to the rest of the US, it seems.
I feel like we just had this conversation, but my region's scone is the same thing as Indian frybread.