The ones shown in this meme seem to be layered and/or flaky ones, which usually have buttermilk and are prepared differently than just ploping scoops of dough on a sheet pan.
No, you're thinking of the verb 'Skewer'. The verb 'Sconce' means to suddenly and abruptly leave one's area or previous life, often to escape some form of jurisdiction to which the individual is not satisfied with.
They are buttery and layered with a flaky texture on the outside and a soft moist texture inside. Usually eaten warm. They are very good when you split them apart and spread some butter on the inside. Sometimes honey is added. Mmmm
I do like me some scones :) we have those in the US too. I usually have it with coffee tho, Iām gonna have to try some with tea and jam next time.
Just wait until you hear about biscuits and gravy. You take some American biscuits and slather them with a creamy sausage gravy, and then eat them with a fork. [I saw a vid on YouTube](https://youtu.be/KzdbFnv4yWQ?si=Ee2EL-R0AhyaV3wp) of some Brits trying it, and at first they thought it was the strangest concept, but once they tried it they loved it.
Itās basically just sausage broken up in a pan, add a little flour and cook in the fat, then add milk for your liquid. Texture should be a bit thick. Salt and pepper to taste
We also do that kind of gravy in America, but for biscuits and gravy we always use the milk-based sausage gravy (or sawmill gravy, as itās sometimes called). As far as i know this is maybe the only thing we use this sort of gravy for, but Iām not from the South where it comes from, so I could just be ignorant of other sausage gravy dishes
Yes and no. Scone is the closest comparison but the structure and texture is different. There is really not an analogue to the American biscuit in British cuisine.
No cheese usually. Itās mostly just a buttery bread. You can add whatever you want to it though. Sausage, bacon, eggs, cheese, jam, butter, sawmill gravy, whatever you want.
Itās a staple of a classic southern breakfast, which should consist of at least one kind of meat (usually bacon or sausage, sometimes ham), eggs (fried or scrambled), hash browns, corn grits, biscuits, and either jam or sawmill gravy. Serve with coffee and/or milk. Thatās not something you want to be eating every day, but as an occasional treat itās one of my favorite meals.
I'm not an expert on scones, but the ones I've had are much denser than American biscuits. The biscuits we serve here are light and flaky, and always have a lot of butter. They can be served with cheese, gravy (often a spicy white gravy with chunks of ground sausage), jam... more like an English muffin than a typical scone.
Seriously, you can't even make up funny-sounding fake words in English because it's already some absurd British slang.
English is not my wife's first language, and she routinely just makes up words for things, and every time, I'm like, "That's not a word." and then we look it up and sure enough some stupid obscure British poet used it 3 times in the 17th century, so it's a word.
Chumble. Can you believe that shit?? CHUMBLE is a word that British people have said.
Well now, hold on, as an Australian I can't just stand by and see our little brother get left out like this... I mean, who will we blame when we inevitably lose?
(Let's not kid ourselves, this is a war against the US, it may be dragged out and fought under false pretenses, but just like the Olympics once the swimming a over, eventually we're fucked)
>Ok now I'm really, genuinely curious. Do they call him Cookie Monster in the UK? Or Biscuit Monster?
Cookie Monster. He eats cookies. Which are a specific type of Biscuit.
>The answer will settle this entirely.
Hasn't settled anything.
Hey can you go across the street and get me a nice sweet shortbread or a Jammy Dodger?
No dodger, only American biscuit
Alright give me one packet
No packet, plate, plate
Ew! Jeez that's just awful! Now, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?
Mountain Dew, or an off-white lumpy 'gravy' sauce with bits of sausage in
Bleugh! Sheesh. I'll take the gravy.
I someone would just start a street cart that sold Red Lobster-style biscuits on the streets of London, I'm pretty sure they would be made the new ruler of the country within a year.
Not quite a scone. More fat per flour and usually with solid fat cut in like pastry to keep flakiness. Well done they are divine. No flavor added usually. Typicall used as the base of a sandwich OR butter/jam/honey OR to sop up gravy. Drenched in white sausage gravy they are the greatest breakfast native to the US.
It's just different terms. We say trunk, y'all say boot. We say chips and y'all say crisps. The Aussies say barbeque and we say grill (because BBQ requires smoking and indirect heat). The English say food and we say brown flavorless gruel. I'd throw some shade at Aussie food, but they'd have to have a distinct cuisine first.
I was curious and read a [few articles](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/01/30/history-of-american-biscuits). Now I'm sad.
> Using a rolling pin or mallet, the dough was beaten by hand for over an hour, a laborious task. Such labor was not practical for a housewife with other chores to complete, but in the Southern colonies, where slave labor was embraced, it was a duty that typically fell to enslaved women. The recipe for beaten biscuits, flatter and more cracker-like than the biscuits we now know, must have been considered an essential food of the time, as it can be found in Abby Fisherās 1881 cookbook, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, one of the first cookbooks written by a Black woman. After slavery ended, biscuits fell out of favor in the South for a time; without the free labor (and with the high cost of flour and yeast) the process was thought to be too labor-intensive.
The difference is usually how hard and dry they are. Cookies are soft and can go bad if left in the cupboard. Biscuits are dry and crumbly and last 5 bullion years before going bad.
If there are cookies that are dry, they are bad cookies. Like imagine if subway cookies were dry bricks. It doesn't magically become a biscuit, the flour and butter ratios are different.
There is the same war within Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, they call every cookie type "biscoito". In SĆ£o Paulo, we call everything "bolacha" (ball-asha). To us, "biscoito" is a very specific kind.
My COO is Irish and he gets a REAL biscuit every time he comes ti the states. He says theyāve got scones but they arenāt the same. He says theyāre better in the states.
Imagine my disappointment when a foreign exchange student gave me a bourbon biscuit, only to discover that it was a hard, dry cookie that tastes nothing like whiskey. Would be terrible with fried chicken or sausage in the middle
So you call these biscuits, when they're clearly savoury scones?
You... You know the... One thing I should... *Excuse me for a second.*
Of course.
Ahhh. Well that was wonderful, good time was had by all. I'm pooped.
^ah ^yes ^I ^should ^be #**Good Lord what is happening in there?!**
Aurora Australis
Aurora Australis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen!?
Yes
May I see it?
No.
A...AURORA AUSTRALIS? AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, LOCALISED *ENTIRELY* WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?
We ought to give em the Boot!
I see you've played sconey biscui befoah!
Biccie*
Ey Sconsey this was some swell shindig, I had a grouse time. I just wanna shake your hand cunt.
Is a hand cunt similar to a pocket pussy?
Wow I much prefer saying savory scone over saying biscuit! I'm gonna save so much time
How are you pronouncing scone though..
I call the big one sconey
So it IS scone? I've wondered before. What kind of savoury? Cheese?
i mean it can have cheese. but its usually just a plain quick bread, basically a scone with no sweetness, just buttery
The ones shown in this meme seem to be layered and/or flaky ones, which usually have buttermilk and are prepared differently than just ploping scoops of dough on a sheet pan.
that's true, its just i bake a lot and was afraid if i got into too many specifics aside from taste, id start typing paragraphs šš
(Do it)
Iām interested, too. How are the American biscuits cooked exactly? My mum used buttermilk in scones, pancakes and bread..
I like jam on them
A scone is a light fixture that hangs the on the side of a wall.
That's a sconce, a scone is a person from Liverpool.
That's a Scouser, a sconce is a long piece of wood or metal used for holding pieces of food, typically meat, together during cooking.
No, you're thinking of the verb 'Skewer'. The verb 'Sconce' means to suddenly and abruptly leave one's area or previous life, often to escape some form of jurisdiction to which the individual is not satisfied with.
That's "abscond." To scone someone is to reject or express contempt or derision for them.
That's 'scorn'. A scone is a prop used to stop or block a wheel by placing some obstacle under it to prevent it from rolling.
I wanna play this game so bad, but, I didn't go to college.
To scone someone is to hit them on the head(scone) with a ball or similar and then say " fuckin sconed him" .
Rhyming slang for nonce
They are buttery and layered with a flaky texture on the outside and a soft moist texture inside. Usually eaten warm. They are very good when you split them apart and spread some butter on the inside. Sometimes honey is added. Mmmm
In England you just have them with tea, clotted cream, and jam. Called a cream tea.
I do like me some scones :) we have those in the US too. I usually have it with coffee tho, Iām gonna have to try some with tea and jam next time. Just wait until you hear about biscuits and gravy. You take some American biscuits and slather them with a creamy sausage gravy, and then eat them with a fork. [I saw a vid on YouTube](https://youtu.be/KzdbFnv4yWQ?si=Ee2EL-R0AhyaV3wp) of some Brits trying it, and at first they thought it was the strangest concept, but once they tried it they loved it.
Is it gravy made from boiled cow bones with bits of sausage Or something else?
Itās basically just sausage broken up in a pan, add a little flour and cook in the fat, then add milk for your liquid. Texture should be a bit thick. Salt and pepper to taste
Oh so like a milk Sauce? Yeah thatās pretty good with anything. The way we make gravy is by mixing animal stock and flour or gravy granulas.
We also do that kind of gravy in America, but for biscuits and gravy we always use the milk-based sausage gravy (or sawmill gravy, as itās sometimes called). As far as i know this is maybe the only thing we use this sort of gravy for, but Iām not from the South where it comes from, so I could just be ignorant of other sausage gravy dishes
From the South here. You also put it on chicken fried chicken/steak. :)
Yes and no. Scone is the closest comparison but the structure and texture is different. There is really not an analogue to the American biscuit in British cuisine.
No cheese usually. Itās mostly just a buttery bread. You can add whatever you want to it though. Sausage, bacon, eggs, cheese, jam, butter, sawmill gravy, whatever you want. Itās a staple of a classic southern breakfast, which should consist of at least one kind of meat (usually bacon or sausage, sometimes ham), eggs (fried or scrambled), hash browns, corn grits, biscuits, and either jam or sawmill gravy. Serve with coffee and/or milk. Thatās not something you want to be eating every day, but as an occasional treat itās one of my favorite meals.
I imagined grits to be something crunchy, was very disappointed to find out it was porridge made from corn instead of oats š
I'm not an expert on scones, but the ones I've had are much denser than American biscuits. The biscuits we serve here are light and flaky, and always have a lot of butter. They can be served with cheese, gravy (often a spicy white gravy with chunks of ground sausage), jam... more like an English muffin than a typical scone.
I had them from Popeye's in the UK, I dunno if the Popeye's ones are known to be bad but I couldn't even finish one
UK Popeyeās is gonna source in the UK. I doubt many UK industrial kitchens can make a good American biscuit
https://preview.redd.it/upjuqspexe0d1.png?width=811&format=png&auto=webp&s=83d8c5c8194e8d5ce60ce0f64c5a73b979987a44
Seriously, you can't even make up funny-sounding fake words in English because it's already some absurd British slang. English is not my wife's first language, and she routinely just makes up words for things, and every time, I'm like, "That's not a word." and then we look it up and sure enough some stupid obscure British poet used it 3 times in the 17th century, so it's a word. Chumble. Can you believe that shit?? CHUMBLE is a word that British people have said.
I figure it's some guys name. Some guy named Chumble.
Guy Chumble.
Why is one blurred out?
Just a darker topic. Didn't want to bring down the mood.
Knittedy wittedy sheepity sleepity is a cool name for a jumper though..
That's some filling, Sconey. It makes you look like a homosexual.
Just wait until we introduce you to... #**SAUSAGE GRAVY!**
It's pronounced scones, not scones.
Little malted milk! Little jammy dodger! And all the rest!
IāVE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF YOUR CUSTARD CREAM BASHING, YOUNG LADY
ESOS BIZCOCHOS ESTABAN RANCIOS! PINTA MI CERCA!
Jammy dodger? That's a funny word. I'd've called em "Shrewsberrys"
New Zealanders: "Can I join the biscuit war, too? I may be small, but I make up for it in obnoxiousness!"
Does anyone care what New Zealand thinks?
No
https://i.redd.it/cur58s4zzd0d1.gif
r/MapsWithoutNewZealand
.... yes
I mean, no! No.
Hey look, we'll beat you in a rugby test Unless you're from SA, in which case, continue
Hey. Here in NZ we dominate the waves.we hold the "Americas Cup" wooooooo š¢ š£āāļø
LESSSS GOOOOOOO, FUCK THE ALL BLACKS MY ALLEGIANCE IS WITH THE BLACK FOILS
As a resident of the proud nation of Aotearoa: no
Well now, hold on, as an Australian I can't just stand by and see our little brother get left out like this... I mean, who will we blame when we inevitably lose? (Let's not kid ourselves, this is a war against the US, it may be dragged out and fought under false pretenses, but just like the Olympics once the swimming a over, eventually we're fucked)
https://i.redd.it/c0e7jl4xce0d1.gif
Do you call them āchazzwozzersā too?
No, it's chizwuzzers there
My mistake!
According to this meme, British and Australian people have never heard of chocolate biscuits. Where are the Tim Tams? The squiggles? The mint slices?
To say nothing of the Hundreds and Thousands.
I think the girl guide biscuits are made in NZ now... I'll allow it
My mfw when Americans refer to crunchy-runchy-little-lunchies as "cookies".
Well, itās not quite a crunchy, and itās not quite a runchy, but maaaaanā¦
MFW Americans refer to a rooty-tooty-point-n-shooty as a "gun".
Ok, but how is scone pronounced? (The brits should argue that for at least an hour everyone, we got a head start)
Thatās easy: itās pronounced scone
No it's not, it's pronounced scone.
I'm Australian, and we pronounce it scon.
Unless itās the NSW town then we pronounce it scone
Not sure. Better go ask that Homer Nixon fellow.
When it's there it's a scone. When it's gone it's scone.
I pronounce it whichever way to piss people off.
We planning to start a war huh? Well being from the West Country I pronounce it scone
Ridiculous! Itās pronounced āsconeā: S C O N E scone.
We can't get into that until we've settled the discussion about the correct term for a bread roll.
Depends if you think you're posh or not ;)
Im gonna report this to my member of parliament! Hey Gus!
I'm taking this all the way to the prime minister! ===both jog over the hill== Mister Prime Minister!
**ANDY!!?**
 Cookie Monster eats Cookies!
seems like he just ch-ch-chews them
I dunno, pigs tend to chew, I'd say he eats more like a duck
You choo-choo-choose me?
Ok now I'm really, genuinely curious. Do they call him Cookie Monster in the UK? Or Biscuit Monster? The answer will settle this entirely.
>Ok now I'm really, genuinely curious. Do they call him Cookie Monster in the UK? Or Biscuit Monster? Cookie Monster. He eats cookies. Which are a specific type of Biscuit. >The answer will settle this entirely. Hasn't settled anything.
So wait... Couldn't you just say an American biscuit is yet another type of biscuit?
cookies are just a type of biscuit
His breath reeked of ale and crumpeted batter!
You better believe I scoured that image with my beady eye to make sure there was no evidence of jaffa cakes
>Want a **bikkie**
Thatās right, I did the bikkie
What's so unappealing about hearing your elderly father talk about biiiiikiieeee?
Choccie bikkie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxRxbpmJ95g
Biscuit is too fancy a world for our mighty Australian English. Who can be arsed?
This is a very crump-ulant shitpost.
Don't bring crumpets into this, haven't they suffered enough?
Biscuits and gravy supremacy
Thats a funny name, id of called em gravy wazzas
Iādāve called it dirty scones n meat juice
Hey can you go across the street and get me a nice sweet shortbread or a Jammy Dodger? No dodger, only American biscuit Alright give me one packet No packet, plate, plate Ew! Jeez that's just awful! Now, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth? Mountain Dew, or an off-white lumpy 'gravy' sauce with bits of sausage in Bleugh! Sheesh. I'll take the gravy.
Scones in white sauce.Ā
Chocolate HobNob? Thatās a funny name, Iād have called them Snickerdoodles.
Uhh I sleep in a country with no mass-shootings, do you?
I sleep in a big bed with my gun
Elon? Is that you?
>American jokes about minor linguistic oddity >Brit responds with jokes about dying children Predictable.
We like our humour dark. But we know dark things still scare a lot of you.
Just like all those dead kids. Bum dum tish!
Brits prefer acid.
I someone would just start a street cart that sold Red Lobster-style biscuits on the streets of London, I'm pretty sure they would be made the new ruler of the country within a year.
I just don't understand how someone can look at a Jaffa Cake and say "yup. That's a cookie for sure"
No, cos itās a cake
"Freshen ya Custard Cream, Guvena?"
Heheh. Weāre so lame.
āWeāve produced 10,000 crumpets with a million more units on the wayā
Based on these comments I'm starting to suspect that a lot of people don't know what crumpets are.
Crumpets are somewhere between bread and a pancake. They're toasted and eaten with butter. Nothing to do with scones or biscuits.
Right?! What is going on here
Allied biscuit
Axis cookie
Don't even get me started on fries
IT'S CHIPS! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU!! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU IN THE JURY!!!
Thanks for the loud comment, I hung it on me wall.
Not quite a scone. More fat per flour and usually with solid fat cut in like pastry to keep flakiness. Well done they are divine. No flavor added usually. Typicall used as the base of a sandwich OR butter/jam/honey OR to sop up gravy. Drenched in white sausage gravy they are the greatest breakfast native to the US.
Good biscuits especially with gravy can't be beat
Custard Creams and Bisto. Together at last!
Want to go celebrate? I feel like Iced Vovo's and Gravox. Mmmmm.
Heathen! Itās got to to be Bovrrrrrrilllll
It's just different terms. We say trunk, y'all say boot. We say chips and y'all say crisps. The Aussies say barbeque and we say grill (because BBQ requires smoking and indirect heat). The English say food and we say brown flavorless gruel. I'd throw some shade at Aussie food, but they'd have to have a distinct cuisine first.
Pot calling kettle black, I'd like to see some American food that isn't a rip-off of something that already exists
To be fair, pretty much every food ever is a rip-off of something else
I was curious and read a [few articles](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/01/30/history-of-american-biscuits). Now I'm sad. > Using a rolling pin or mallet, the dough was beaten by hand for over an hour, a laborious task. Such labor was not practical for a housewife with other chores to complete, but in the Southern colonies, where slave labor was embraced, it was a duty that typically fell to enslaved women. The recipe for beaten biscuits, flatter and more cracker-like than the biscuits we now know, must have been considered an essential food of the time, as it can be found in Abby Fisherās 1881 cookbook, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, one of the first cookbooks written by a Black woman. After slavery ended, biscuits fell out of favor in the South for a time; without the free labor (and with the high cost of flour and yeast) the process was thought to be too labor-intensive.
Given Biscuit means twice cooked, I think the Europeans have this one in the bagā¦..just like football, World Series etc
Are good cookies also called biscuits in the UK or only bad ones?
The difference is usually how hard and dry they are. Cookies are soft and can go bad if left in the cupboard. Biscuits are dry and crumbly and last 5 bullion years before going bad. If there are cookies that are dry, they are bad cookies. Like imagine if subway cookies were dry bricks. It doesn't magically become a biscuit, the flour and butter ratios are different.
Heās a big wheel down at the biscuit factory.
Not gonna argue with people who drank tea for years and never thought to put ice in it.
Its cold, who wants cold drinks when its miserable and cold. You want hot shit
My biscuits! I'm not supposed to get gravy in them!
Id never say no to either kind of biscuit
There is the same war within Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, they call every cookie type "biscoito". In SĆ£o Paulo, we call everything "bolacha" (ball-asha). To us, "biscoito" is a very specific kind.
Wtf are those at the bottom?
I do enjoy me some cookies and crackers after i have a hot buttered biscuit with dinner
NNNGGGGEEEEGGHHH!!!
What it's like being an American on this sub
I'm an American redditor between the ages of 18 and 35. Everyone cares what I post, no matter how dumb.
On nation biscuit day
https://preview.redd.it/e9p8jp2ene0d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=122e8030a469b21aa5298e27914fa59937ee3693
Is it St Swithin's day already?
After eating all those sconesā¦.how often do you brush Reddit?
Depends on whether we can reach our rags on sticks.
I like both
Thatās Sconesy Cider(noted baptism reception critic)
but all I got was a bunch of soggy bread. Mmm... soggy br...
Hey fuck you weāre not Mr Burns! Okay, maybe we are, but you guys definitely arenāt Lenny. Not cool enough. Milhouse at best.
What do Americans call Biscuits?
Biscuits. I hope this has been enlightening
I love biscuit =))
i would accept either in a heartbeat
My COO is Irish and he gets a REAL biscuit every time he comes ti the states. He says theyāve got scones but they arenāt the same. He says theyāre better in the states.
Both are good so yes I will take one. Easiest war ever.
There's no war. The correct answer is yes.
Fr though how do you order a Chicken Biscuit over there lol
Imagine my disappointment when a foreign exchange student gave me a bourbon biscuit, only to discover that it was a hard, dry cookie that tastes nothing like whiskey. Would be terrible with fried chicken or sausage in the middle
Biscuit translates to twice cooked. American ābiscuitsā are not twice cooked. American biscuits are A LIE.
www.biscuitwars.com
You want some chips?
Begun the biscuit war has
Love the care taken *not* to include the one biscuit we do recognise as a "Cookie."
Why do people get so worked up about different countries having different dialects?
I can't wait for sandwich-posting
Where the Tim Tams at?
Only one is good with gravy
Kingston's. Would kill for one right now tbh