I’m sorry but biscuit is clearly a far better sounding word for a savory baked good you dip in gravy and have with bacon and eggs. Not for a sweet delectable baked good, for that a more cutesy sounding word like “cookie” is far fucking better.
English perverts should stop calling fucking cookies biscuits, I don’t dip Oreos in gravy you cretins.
Every take on chacha about food or cooking is terrible. This one slots neatly between “salad spinners are pointless” and “dishwashers are for the bourgeoisie.”
What about gas stoves being bad for you? Where does that one get placed.
That one apparently has scientific basis if you have poor ventilation, but I'm probably die in a firetornado or get executed by a Target loss prevention assassin during the water wars or exploded in a gender reveal party happening down the street well before cooking gas pollution worsens my quality of life so I'm gonna stick with gas. Cooking threads the needle between extremely satisfying and deeply frustrating for me. and electric ranges always make it the latter.
Cast iron is prole as fuck. Relatively cheap, relatively nonstick, and if taken care of, will last longer than you will. Even if abused, they can probably be fixed up and made usable again, as long as there aren't any huge pits in it.
But those artisan machined cast iron pans marketed to hipsters that are like individually hand poured, polished to a mirror finish, and sold for hundreds of dollars: those are totally bougie.
That's not all, or even most, cast iron, though.
Thanks for writing out what I couldn’t be bothered to. I totally agree!
Someone previously argued that Teflon-flaking pans that warp in the dishwasher are the real people’s cookery.
Yeah, I remember that. In a post about how people just assume everyone can buy pricey stuff, iirc. Which I get the general point of, because I'm poor and started out even poorer. And I know how it is when others who don't share your circumstances go "It's only $__" yet all those little things add up, and if I don't have it, I don't have it.
But, like, everyone who can currently afford to stay housed can figure out how to eventually afford a single Lodge skillet that can be used to cook pretty much everything in until you die.
Thrift stores and yard sales are also good places to find them for low prices as well.
There are cast iron fetishists, who are totally among the general ranks of consumerist cooking gizmo obsessives. But at least one friggin cast iron pan is totally doable.
The word cookie is a cartoonish parody alongside 99% of white American culture. You are living in a cartoon.
America won the war, so it gets to decide what biscuits and cookies are.
Them's the rules
Biscuit is the French word as well so probably that's why. Also, outside the US "biscuits" is a wide category that also includes what you guys call "cookies".
You mean milk?
Do British people have some weird name for that like “Creamy Doddy Kippers”
Nah that weird white sauce you call gravy that you have with whatever tf you call biscuits, I think anyway I've only ever seen it on TV (which we call the viddybox).
Dude I’ve never had white gravy
Give me that thick brown shit I can dip my BISCUITS in
Edit: your people eat fucking jellied eels so you can’t really judge anyone for their eating habits
Wait biscuits and brown gravy WTF is wrong with you? Dude it's not hard, get some biscuits from the cardboard tube and make some white gravy:
Ingredients
▢ 1 pound pork breakfast sausage (the loose kind not links) ▢ 1 tablespoon salted butter or bacon fat (probably not necessary) ▢ ¼ cup all-purpose flour ▢ 2 ⅓ cups whole milk ▢ salt and pepper to taste (nah fuck that put a shit-ton of black pepper in there)Instructions
Brown sausage over medium high heat until no pink remains. (Do not drain). Add butter (or bacon fat) and cook to melt. Stir in flour and cook 2 minutes more. Add milk a little bit at a time stirring after each addition. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until thick and bubbly. Season with salt and a shit-ton of pepperI watched one of those videos once where "[Someone from County A] eats [something from Country B]" and they were eating biscuits and gravy with these sad little dabs of gravy on top. Everyone in the comments was going YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!! DROWN THOSE THINGS IN GRAVY!
Ok then a transatlantic consensus of sorts has been reached. Best thing to put gravy on tho is a yorkshire pudding me old bean.
Whats that white stuff I'm thinking of then? Any other usas got any idea? I'm sure i didn't make it up.
EDIT: in my 30+ years of life i've never once eaten jellied eels, seen jellied eels for sale or spoken to anyone who has eaten them. i find this stereotype outdated and highly offensive. please stick to the more accurate stereotype of english people as racist colonial murderers.
There is such a thing as white gravy. It’s just creamer than regular gravy and it is often served with biscuits. It’s good it just looks gross.
But honestly how the fuck did you weirdos have the idea that putting fucking eels in jelly was a good idea? Like... wtf?
I don't think anyone alive in the UK has actually ever eaten jellied eels, probably just made up to trick American tourists into eating ridiculous things.
Liar, you Brits love shoveling those cold slimy cold eels and jelly down your throats.
What yankees call "biscuits" are called scones by normal people and should be eaten with jam and cream.
And it's pronounced "scone" not "scone".
Scones and American biscuts are baked slightly different and have slightly different ingredients.
Why the fuck would you put cream on a biscuit? You dont understand at all.
What scones are you eating that are bland wtf?
They should be nice and buttery.
I mean, as a non-native English speaker, and thus, only impartial judge, final arbitrator, and speaker for the God-Head of TRUTH, "biscuit" sounds small, dainty, and like something sweet which you nibble on, whereas "cookie" sounds like something you cook, and which is associated with cooking. It sounds like it is meant to contain, or att least accompany, something savoury and meaty.
So, not only must Americans start calling sweet and crunchy little nibblums "biscuits", they also must start calling what they call "biscuits", "cookies". As must everyone else.
The GOD-HEAD has spoken TRUTH.
Thank you.
While we're at it: STOP PUTTING UNNECESSARY LETTER U's IN YOUR WORDS YOU FUCKING TERF PISS LAND
"analogue"
:Bwaaa:
the letter Z rhymes with "free", not "fred". OMG don't get me started on pies
my face when americans call whimsy flimsy mark and scribblers "pens"
my face when americans call twisting plankhandles "doorknobs"
my face when americans call breaddystack a "sandwich"
my face when americans call their hoighty toighty tippy typers "keyboards"
my face when americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings "peanut butter and jelly"
my face when americans call an upsy stairsy the "escalator"
my face when americans call a cold-on-the-cob a "popsicle"
The word "biscuit" comes from the Latin for "twice baked," similar to the Italian "biscotti." This is a broad category that can include basically any baked good made without yeast that's more substantial than a cracker. It can be sweetened and can include hard breads like hard tack (aka ship's biscuits) and softer breads like scones and American biscuits.
The word "cookie" comes from either the Dutch "koekje" (little cake) or the Scots diminutive of "cook." So it basically means any small cooked thing, which means there's some overlap with "biscuit." But by 1808 it came to mean a "small, flat, sweet cake" in American English.
So an Oreo can be both a biscuit and a cookie depending on how broad your definitions are. But I'd never call a chocolate chip cookie a biscuit.
The word “biscuit” comes from the Latin for “twice baked,” similar to the Italian “biscotti.” This is a broad category that can include basically any baked good made without yeast that’s more substantial than a cracker. It can be sweetened and can include hard breads like hard tack (aka ship’s biscuits) and softer breads like scones and American biscuits
Why should I care what It*lian “people” say?
I was watching some Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives type show on Finnish tv recently, and in an episode about restaurants in some Southern state the word "biscuit" was translated as "sämpylä" in the subtitles
sämpylä
- roll, bun (type of bread)
- sub, submarine sandwich; often with a modifier that specifies the main fillings (type of sandwich made on this type of bread) juustosämpylä ― cheese sub
To me (and most other Europeans, I imagine) the word biscuit is broadly synonymous with "cookie" though (in Finnish both are typically translated to "keksi" ie cookie) and brings to mind things like Digestive Biscuits rather than these American gravy sponge things
