Biscuits??

[murraycrewe]

I just love their buttermilk biscuits! But one thing I don't like that Americans seem to be obsessed with are those big slimy gerkins (or 'pickles' as the americans call them).

[Clare R]

Murraycrewe - how could you, US pickles are wonderful !!! Just as well we don't all have the same tastes.

[rogerdunnaker]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by andrewmckay5
"Grits"

Now that is a product I have never been able to get my head ( or taste buds) around.

andrew[/quote]Yes, very much like Larks vomit!!!!!

[Dads_Taxi]

Glad to see my thread's still alive.

So, to continue - Gravy? It's [u]white</u>??

[blott]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Dads_Taxi
Glad to see my thread's still alive.

So, to continue - Gravy? It's [u]white</u>??[/quote] White gravy (sawmill gravy in Southern American cuisine) is the gravy typically used in biscuits and gravy. But sometimes gravy is beige snd it's almost always not dark brown and it's invariably almost always very salty...

[paulm]

Biscuits in the UK tend to be crunchy, whereas cookies in UK and USA tend to be soft/soggy.
I hate soggy biscuits unless dunking ginger nuts in my coffee

[steph_goodrum]

Biscuits in the UK tend to be crunchy, whereas cookies in UK and USA tend to be soft/soggy.
I hate soggy biscuits unless dunking ginger nuts in my coffee

Just for our US friends to explain some of our quirks, the difference between biscuits and cakes in the UK is that biscuits when stale go soft and cake when stale dries out and becomes dry and hard.

I'm lucky in that my SIL is from Boston and, having lived on his own for a few years before marrying my daughter, loves to cook and bake. So any time I get a hankering for corn bread or such I know I can get some baked to order fairly quickly