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.

  • discontinuuity [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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?