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10 Jun 2016, 3:02 pm

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Then I'll invite Skibum to my place - we can go skiing :D
Oh yes, I would LOVE that!! ! :D


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10 Jun 2016, 3:03 pm

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Well done, a jumper is a sweater I think and wellies is short for Wellington boots, invented by the Duke of Wellington. I don't know what you call them though.
We actually do call the Wellies when they are the true Wellies like LLBean sells. But regular rain boot wellie type boots, wellie wannabes, are just called rain boots.


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10 Jun 2016, 3:05 pm

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Yorkshire pudding with jam and custard is a good pudding.


The best way I could describe Yorkshire pudding to an American would be to call it a very soft dinner roll with a depression in the middle. My family likes to pour gravy on them.
"Pudding" to us is something similar to custard or mousse.

Oh wow, I never would have guessed it was like a dinner roll. :D


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10 Jun 2016, 3:09 pm

Cotswolds are here.
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Looks a bit like this.
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We do wet well in England, we have a lot of words to describe different types of rain. It does make things very green though and beautiful when the sun shines.


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10 Jun 2016, 3:13 pm

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I always thought an English muffin was essentially what you call a biscuit.

Although I think your biscuits are quite sweet? Certainly I got a surprise when I ordered a sausage and egg biscuit at McDs in the US, when it looked like an English sausage and egg muffin on the menu...


Biscuits and English muffins are similar, but also quite different. It's sort of hard to explain, but biscuits are softer and fluffy, while English muffins are flatter and rather chewy. Neither should be sweet, so I'm not sure what you got at McDonald's. Hmm... English muffins and biscuits are both available there, but there's also something they have called a McGriddle, which I know is supposed to be sweet, but I've never tried one. I wonder if they messed up your order and gave you one of them by mistake somehow?

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English muffin:

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McGriddle:

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Huh, it does resemble an English muffin.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:19 pm

Ah, yes. It will have been a McGriddle, I think.

I really thought I was biting into a Sausage and Egg McMuffin. Shock and disappointment.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:26 pm

I thought, in the UK, that a biscuit was basically a cookie here. I would say shortbread cookies would be called biscuits in the UK. I don't think that our cracker is your biscuit, though.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:31 pm

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I thought, in the UK, that a biscuit was basically a cookie here. I would say shortbread cookies would be called biscuits in the UK. I don't think that our cracker is your biscuit, though.


Yeah, UK biscuits are what you'd call cookies, I think.

Cookies for us are a specific type/texture (and usually with chocolate chips or similar in) whilst biscuit is a broader category. Lots of biscuits, some of which are cookies:

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10 Jun 2016, 3:33 pm

Every item is your picture is what I would call a cookie.

But what are your Ritz crackers called?



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10 Jun 2016, 3:34 pm

Stonehenge, I believe, is in the Cotswolds. I know it's near Amesbury, in the Salisbury Plain.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:38 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Every item is your picture is what I would call a cookie.

But what are your Ritz crackers called?


Also Ritz crackers here, but they're not the only type of cracker. We also have more flaky crackers, like so:

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10 Jun 2016, 3:38 pm

ArielsSong wrote:
I always thought an English muffin was essentially what you call a biscuit.

Although I think your biscuits are quite sweet? Certainly I got a surprise when I ordered a sausage and egg biscuit at McDs in the US, when it looked like an English sausage and egg muffin on the menu...


A basic biscuit is just made from flour, baking powder, milk, and shortening (or lard). Lots of recipes call for sugar, but I like mine salty instead of sweet so I use salt instead.

Restaurant biscuits are different from traditional homemade ones, more greasy and sugary, like a lot of American food is nowadays.

An english muffin is made with yeast and cooked on a griddle, sometimes partially baked. Nothing like a biscuit.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:41 pm

Stonehenge is about halfway between the bottom of the dark green bit of the map and the coast. England's not that big though some in comparison to the US everything is close.


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10 Jun 2016, 3:43 pm

Should have known that LOL...since we drove SOUTHWEST from London.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:50 pm

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Biscuit:
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Sorry, darling, but those are most definitely scones.



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10 Jun 2016, 3:51 pm

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So, I know I should bring this up with him (especially before things progress and we end up getting married or something), but I don't know how. I am afraid he might be offended (although he shouldn't, he is wonderful and being AS does not change that at all).


If he is indeed autistic, the "how" might matter more to you than it does to him. A lot of us appreciate it more when people just say what is on their mind.