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[kongina]

[haitianvixen]

do white people still think they invented rock & roll??

[poorvagina-blog]

white people think they invented everything but crime

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Do English ppl say chocolate chip biscuits? Do you HAVE chocolate chip cookies? What about chips ahoy?

[pedantic-pepperoni-deactivated2]

cookies are a specific type of biscuit

these are cookies because they’re kinda american style i guess, everything else is biscuits

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I’m watching the gbbo w nadiya an they’re doing biscuits and they’ve all been crunchy so far. Are there things that are soft or chewy? Like are those soft and chewy? What about snicker doodles (peanut butter) or ginger?

[kipplekipple]

IME as a foreigner whose third language is English, people here in the UK seem to say cookie for a soft and chewy and biscuit for a cruncher. Jaffa cakes are technically cakes due to how they go stale (they harden).

But the collective word for cookies, biscuits and Jaffa cakes as a group is biscuits.

I have spent 13 years studying this country and this is my assessment. I am up north though, heaven only knows what the southerners say. They don’t even have gravy in their chippies.

[fission-mailure]

Ah, the landmark jaffa cake legal case of 1991.

But yeah, the baseline for the difference between a cookie and a biscuit, I’d say, is that a cookie is softer (and almost always contains something akin to chocolate chips), while other biscuits tend to be harder, and sometimes derived from hardtack.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

This is my favourite thing please keep telling me about the Jaffa legal case

[kipplekipple]

You pay less tax for cakes than for biscuits. And they won it because Jaffa cakes, which are biscuit-sized, go hard when stale (which is something cake does) while biscuits go soft when stale. I dunno about @fission-mailure but I learned this on QI.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Why do you pay less tax? Who decided this? There’s a specific tax for baked goods? No wonder we rebelled!

[pedantic-pepperoni-deactivated2]

You should have seen it kick off when they introduced the pasty tax

[chimaeragray]

Wtf less tax for cakes??????

Anyway cookies v biscuits discourse, it’s the same in Australia. Often big soft round ones are cookies and the rest are biscuits. But I personally think the hard type like Chips Ahoy are also cookies. Round and chocolate chip esp defs cookies. The rest are biscuits (bikkies). Bikkies which you dip on your tea but apparently Americans don’t really “do” tea so..

[pedantic-pepperoni-deactivated2]

controversial question: are oreos biscuits or cookies?

[dfvsfasdfewf5156165132-deactiva]

….cream butty?

[pedantic-pepperoni-deactivated2]

lmao!! I guess it is described as a sandwich!

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

What is butty! Also I think Frances the Badger is an English children’s book character yeah? And she loves chocolate sandwich cookies!

[snoozyspice]

Omg I love this whole thread Oreos are biscuits, not cookies. Cookies are chewy, but round with chocolate chips is called a chocolate chip cookie no matter how soft or hard it is. Oreos are hard so they’re classed as biscuits, but I have heard them described as sandwich biscuits because something is sandwiched between them. A butty is a sandwich, and only an the noun sandwich when it’s used to describe a filling between bed. It’s generally associated with cheap cafes where you can grab a chip butty or a bacon butty for breakfast. Butty is never used like the verb sandwiched - so something sandwiched between two things may be described as a sandwich but not a butty.

[pedantic-pepperoni-deactivated2]

see idk if chewy is the only prerequisite, because german biscuits aren’t called cookies but they’re chew(ier than standard) so surely for something to be called a cookie it’s down to it being an american style biscuit, ergo oreos = cookies

(to clarify in case you’re not as big of a fan of lidl as I am)

[misscherrylikesthediscourse]

Okay that is gingerbread though? There are many types of German cookies that could qualify either as a biscuit or a cookie or also a sandwich. We bake many things! Don’t reduce us to gingerbread.

[fkn-icehell]

From my perspective in the US, cookies can be hard or soft. Like to us, Oreos are cookies. Chips Ahoy are cookies. A biscuit over here is the baked bread roll that you butter. I’ve never heard anything else from anyone I’ve spoken to in the US.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I must beg to differ! A biscuit is not the same as a roll. They’re both carbs! But rolls are basically small roundish bread and US biscuits are a BIT like a plain English scone with nothing in. They’re flakey and crumbly and delicious with butter and honey, or gravy, or jam, or cheese and egg! But they have a wholly diff texture than rolls.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

A friend has informed me that while we don’t have nice court cases over CAKE, we do have a case about whether a burrito is a sandwich. In my personal taxonomy, anything that is surrounded by a carb is a sandwich. Thus burritos ARE sandwiches as are gyros and wraps and quesadillas.

[justpar]

WHAT!? is stuffed potato sandwich??

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Yes.

No, okay just bread! But bread wrapped or filled with things is a sandwich no matter what kind!

[maskedlinguist]

For the record the specific issue was that adding chocolate coating to a biscuit qualified for a Value Added Tax, but chocolate coating on a cake is considered expected for cake and therefore VAT isn’t added.  But yes, it was primarily decided based on the fact that biscuits go soft when they go stale but cakes get hard when they go stale. Jaffa cakes get hard when they go stale QED… (also considered -  For the cake designation: made with batter, not dough; spongy consistency. Against the cake designation: put in stores by other biscuits rather than cakes; small size; not eaten with fork)

Ireland charges different VAT rates for cakes than cookies, but their designation of Jaffa Cakes as cake is based on moisture level of the good.  Which is a good method,  but less entertaining for discussion purposes.

Man, I don’t even live there and yet I find that case fascinating… I’ve never even HAD one.

[spanishskulduggery]

For the cookie vs. biscuit thing, it’s all about the etymology.

A “cookie” comes from Dutch but it means “little cake”, so a cookie is usually intended to be softer. A “biscuit” in the UK/Australia sense is most closely related to “biscotti” which means “cooked twice” because they used to be cooked and then dried out, similar to how you make biscotti.

In the US, cookies can be hard or soft but a chewy cookie can’t really be labeled a “biscuit” in the traditional sense. Biscuits are intended to be harder and crispier/crunchier. The “biscuit” in the UK sense are something like tea cakes where you usually were expected to dip it in tea (and later coffee and chocolate) like biscotti.

In the US, biscuits used to be harder and the biscuit we think of now was called a “soft biscuit”. It was relatively cheap and easy to make, and people used their biscuits to sop up sauce/gravy where regular bread would get soggy. For us in the US, a biscuit is more like bread or a bun, and it’s usually intended to be eaten with meats or sauces, and it might have butter or honey, but they’re not usually sweet.

By that way of thinking, a chewy cookie like Chips Ahoy, soft gingerbread, or anything where the intended texture is soft would be called cookies, but others like ginger snaps, digestive biscuits, biscotti, butter cookies, oreos, pizzelles, or things where the texture is intended to be hard, crispy, or crunchy are biscuits.

The US bread-type biscuits which are kind of like scones or sodab read are considered bread, but still have the name biscuit.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Who is the real embarrassment for the country?

[lovemystruggle]

say it louder for the people in the back 

[culturenlifestyle]

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[heymrsamerica]

Omg the Eleven one😭😭

[staypozitive]

I don’t mind clingy. In fact, I appreciate it more. When you constantly tell me you miss me, or get worried when I don’t respond quickly. Because it shows that you actually care about me, and if I truly like you, nothing you do will ever annoy me.

[noncombustiblehowell]

good clingy: constant compliments/praise/words of love, asking to spend time together, coming to me whenever you feel bad, getting worried about my safety when I don’t show up on time or respond to a text/call, respectfully expressing concerns if you feel you’re being ignored or maybe just need a little more ‘us’ time, etc

bad clingy: getting mad when i miss a text/call or accidentally run late to something, being possessive or ridiculously jealous whenever I’m around someone else, trying to guilt trip me into spending every second of free time with you, etc

So basically…

Show me you love me, not you own me

[sky-sylph]

5-15-16 // purple skies

[apersnicketylemon]

Abusive parents can say “I love you”

Abusive parents can give their kids an allowance, gifts, toys and nice things sometimes.

Abusive parents can seem like parent of the year to outsiders.

Abusive parents can defend their children from outside threats and get them in all the best schools and programs and deal with school bullies.

Abusive parents are still abusive, regardless of the things they get right or the nice things they sometimes do.

[creativeandcoolusername-deactiv]

whoever wrote this evidently had an idyllic, sheltered, childhood…

[apersnicketylemon]

The person who wrote this had dishes thrown at them by the same person who said ‘I love you’ and tucked them into bed sometimes.

The person who wrote this would be severely punished and hit for being home even one minute late by the same person who threatened to call the cops on the two girls who bullied them relentlessly.

The person who wrote this was told over an over again by everyone that their mother was ‘incredible’ and ‘awesome’ by every one of their friends growing up despite being denied food to eat.

The person who wrote this got presents on their birthday and on holidays and had an allowance and was threatened with have everything they owned destroyed or have their pets killed on a regular basis by a parent.

The person who wrote this was called ‘stupid’, ‘retarded’, and ‘a useless idiot’ every time they couldn’t understand something by the same person who said they were ‘very smart’ and ‘had potential’.

The person who wrote this did not have an idyllic, sheltered childhood and spent years questioning if having dishes thrown at their head was actually abusive because that same person said ‘I love you’.

The person who wrote this is pretty pissed off that you would tell an abuse survivor that they had an idyllic childhood and assume there was no abuse just because the abuser was really good at making them question whether they were really abused or not, or that somehow saying ‘I love you’ made the abuse go away.

The person who wrote this literally has a personality disorder as a direct result of their parent who sometimes said I love you and got their bully’s in middle school dealt with abusing them.

But you’re right. How dare I point out that this is something ACTUAL abusers have ACTUALLY done.

[apersnicketylemon]

I’m going to need people to stop using this post to shit on mentally ill people by the way.

[floralls]

by  many_makers

[nb-72-deactivated20180906]

[gracefulhaya]

Why do boys get away with everything? And if your a girl you leave a glass on the coffee table you’re bringing dishonour to your family????? Pls explain

[goldxbrown-deactivated20241014]

الله يرحمه

My grandpa just passed away. Please pray for my family and pray for him, although he was the loveliest and kindest man and I know for certain he is already in heaven meeting my other geddo for the first time.

[angrymuslimah]

Shoutout to all those people that have jobs like cleaning the bathrooms in rest areas or gas stations, to the people that take out the trash and wash dishes in restaurants, school janitors, house maids. You’re doing jobs that don’t get much recognition but are some of the toughest. stay awesome

[ithelpstodream]

🔥🔥🔥

[yougivemelife-deactivated201809]

I’M LIVING SIS

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tell me this song doesn’t sound like something that was supposed to be in the Interstellar soundtrack. its so ethereal. 

[alovesogentle]

YOU KNOW WHAT HE DIDN’T FUCKING HAVE TO DO THIS

[sharmakeswife-deactivated201809]

Wowowowowowowww

[brutereason]

It is physically and emotionally draining to be called upon to prove that these systems of power exist. For many of us, just struggling against them is enough — now you want us to break them down for you? Imagine having weights tied to your feet and a gag around your mouth, and then being asked to explain why you think you are at an unfair disadvantage. Imagine watching a video where a young man promises to kill women who chose not to sleep with him and then being forced to engage with the idea that maybe you are just a hysterical feminist seeing misogyny where there is none. It is incredibly painful to feel that in order for you to care about my safety, I have to win this verbal contest you have constructed “for fun.”

An open letter to privileged people who play devil’s advocate (via brutereason)

[acciotardis394]

someone: why do you add so many ellipses to everything

me: listen.......this is whats Fresh and Cool, my dude......this is whats in style, whats à la mode......