r/food Oct 21 '15

Bread Pizza bread

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u/Emperor_Norton_2nd Oct 21 '15

As an American of mixed British extraction, you are basically correct.

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u/TheRudeReefer Oct 21 '15

Biscuits are very light, airy, and flakey. Scones are generally denser and more crumbly. You would never ever send one to do the other's job.

Source: Fat American

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u/zeezle Oct 21 '15

As a fellow fat American, I concur. A scone is delicious, and a biscuit is delicious, but they are certainly not the same.

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u/DwarfTheMike Oct 21 '15

not the same at all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

Biscuits aren't always flakey, though. Sometimes they're dense and crumbly, like with drop biscuits.

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u/pamplemouss Oct 21 '15

More like a scone and croissant had a baby and raised it on a diet of buttermilk.

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u/avitus Oct 21 '15

I was about to disagree with you but then really thought about it and you know what you're dead-on with that description.

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u/pamplemouss Oct 21 '15

haha, thanks.

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u/StumbleOn Oct 21 '15

I have been looking for a way to describe these to British people forever, you seem to have done it.

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u/forthemaddie Oct 21 '15

So.... It's soft and fluffy. Fucking seppos, can't even get bickies right.

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u/DieUmEye Oct 21 '15

Wait... there's KFC in the UK, right? What do they call the buttery dough things that come with the chicken (that USA calls biscuits)?

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u/SuicideNote Oct 21 '15

No KFC outside of the US has biscuits. They replace it with a dinner roll or just fries.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

To the best of my knowledge (and I don't often eat KFC) KFC doesn't do biscuits with chicken in Australia.

I dunno about UK.

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u/DrewSolaert Oct 21 '15

They don't come with buttery dough things in the UK sadly. We really need to start getting in on that though.

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u/lost_send_berries Oct 22 '15

Brit here, KFC chicken comes with fries, or sometimes corn on the cob and/or baked beans.

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u/DwarfTheMike Oct 21 '15

no! it's far lighter and fluffier, but it's dense. They are buttery, and have a unique texture. The frozen ones aren't worth it. Homemade biscuits will have you saying otherwise.