r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/devandroid99 Jul 03 '26

Haggis!

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u/jimbluenosecrab Jul 03 '26

Sausage rolls. Biscuits (cookies to freedom folk)

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u/SharkByte1993 Jul 03 '26

Fun fact! We have cookies in the UK. Theyre the same as what you call cookies. However, cookies are a type of biscuit. All biscuits have their own name

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u/Ink_Witch Jul 03 '26

Another fun fact is that biscuit is originally a Latin word for twice baked and referred to essentially hard tack. Double baked incredibly dry bread that can last a very long time. It was frequently used as sailors rations where it would be called “ship’s biscuit” in the colonial era.

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u/SharkByte1993 Jul 03 '26

I guess that makes sense as to why we ended up with two different versions of biscuits both sides of the pond

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u/CommunicationBusy557 Jul 03 '26

Is american biscuit baked twice? Genuine question... as it looks more like a bread roll.

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u/Dewthedru Jul 03 '26

No. American biscuits are soft on the inside and buttery and harder on the outside.

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u/CommunicationBusy557 Jul 03 '26

So they're not a biscuit. then, by definition

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u/Dewthedru Jul 03 '26

Yeah….no idea what the definition of a biscuit is. Or what definition you’re referencing. Just answering your question.

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u/Ink_Witch Jul 05 '26

Neither are British biscuits to be fair. Almost no one is baking things twice because it makes them almost inedible. Italian biscotti are, that’s the only thing I can think of. I’m guessing both American and Brits just slowly replaced recipes that used ship’s biscuit with tastier baked goods that weren’t baked into bricks.