What do the Brits call biscuits?

Question

If a particular type of cookie in England is called biscuits, then what do they call what American's refer to as biscuits?

Answer 1

there are cookies here in london, and they have chocolate in them, and everything that is not a cookie is a biscuit really!

Answer 2

We don't actually get American Biscuits in the UK, the nearest thing to them here are scones which aren't actually that similar

Answer 3

Our biscuits are the equivalent to your cookies

Answer 4

In the U.S., we call cookies (sweet chewie round things) cookies and round small chewy bread things biscuits.

Answer 5

scones

Answer 6

scones in Britain is the same as biscuits in America and cookies is what they call biscuits. They call chips crisps and fries chips. they have a lot of things like that, like boot on a car is a trunk and a bonnet is a hood.

Answer 7

Biscuits are cookies in the U.S and cookies are biscuits in the U.K. All cookies are biscuits to us, but there are those things Americans call biscuits which they have in cowboy films with gravy, which I think are something like out English savoury scones - not bread-like, but in the cake/biscuit realm. Um. Good question. We don't have them in the U.K.

Answer 8

That what you Americans know as cookies, and as for what you Americans know as biscuits, it hasn't got an equivalent is the UK, there's nothing similar.

Answer 9

Quite often "Bikkie" as in "Have a cup of tea and a Bikkie, love!" I studied in England and worked there too. I love Ginger Nuts, Garibaldi Biscuits, Chocolate Digestives and Fig Rolls. There is also something called a 'Chip Buttie" which is actually a sandwich made with potato chips or "French Fries". In England, the British do not have what the Americans eat for Breakfast as "biscuits". The closest would be muffins perhaps or crumpet which can also have an amorous "double entendre".

Enjoy! {:-)

Answer 10

"Short & sweet" No pun intended...

Brits of G.B. refer to as biscuits is known in the America's as cookies (a typically thin sweet to semi-sweet baked wafer dessert usually 1 to 2 inch diameter. Served in the United States either as a dessert or a dessert accompanyment.

Answer 11

Scones when sweet and Crumpets when savory.

Answer 12

hmmm i thought it was crumpets