Favourite Biscuits?

[Spot's Meow]

So then I thought, well, KFC is in the U.K. - the Colonel won't let me down. But see for yourself - not a biscuit to be had!

This is an outrage. I'm going to be emailing their corporate offices. You can't serve a proper southern meal without biscuits!

That IS odd... their beans look wrong, too.

Do you have any foods in the US marketed as 'english style'. Cuz I'd be interested to see just how americanized they are.

I'm imagining,
yorkshire pudding... made with cinnamon sugar and corn syrup
cornish pasties... made with jelly beans
lincolnshire hotpot... made with corn dogs and mustard

Honestly I have no idea what yorkshire pudding or pasties or lincolnshire hotpot are. There is a little shop I pass every day called "Original Pasties" or something like that. I've never been inside, but it doesn't look too commercialized. Besides that I doubt many people know what these things are. Whenever I see the word "pasty" I instinctively add an "r" to make it "pastry." But I have no idea if they are even related.

I don't actually think there's a lot of "English food" going on. It seems like if it's not Asian, Italian, or Mexican food, then it is just American food. So I'm sure that the English foods were changed so much over here that they are hardly recognizable and barely relate anymore.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I like custard creams and bourbon creams, though I have to say that some December my eyes are always drawn to the Belgian Selection from Fox's or at M&S...

Since the British (and commonwealth nations) apparently call crisp cookies "biscuits", what word do they use for those tasty things American southerners cover with sausage gravy (or eat as their bread with fried chicken)?

Scones?

Yeah, I'd say that's the closest term that applies. Really it seems to be unique to the States. My wife makes some damn fine Yankee biscuits.

What are called scones in Commonwealth countries so not have to be sweet. Scones can be either sweet or savoury.

Quite, set that colonial lassie straight, Miss Chicken!

As it is here, I think the biggest difference is the texture. Scones, whether sweet or savory, are more dense than American biscuits. Biscuits are flaky like a pie crust, but also soft and light like a light bread.

Well, unless you're talking about potato scones as you get up here, which are flat like a pancake and quartered before being pan fried and eaten on a roll with a fried egg and brown sauce (lovely).

So then I thought, well, KFC is in the U.K. - the Colonel won't let me down. But see for yourself - not a biscuit to be had!

True and the chips are utter crap and the coleslaw is the usual over-mayoed rubbish that passes for coleslaw in the UK -- basically I wouldn't eat anything from a British KFC but the beans, which are your basic Heinz variety and therefore good.

However, tea doesn't really go well with any foods, in my opinion. It just doesn't have the right taste to eat anything dipped in it.

Well, that's why you shouldn't dip anything in it (the very idea!). I like tea with my lunch and drink it throughout the day, but I never ever dunk anything in it. Could be because I don't drink the bagged floor sweepings that most people do...

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I'm imagining,
yorkshire pudding... made with cinnamon sugar and corn syrup
cornish pasties... made with jelly beans
lincolnshire hotpot... made with corn dogs and mustard

Honestly I have no idea what yorkshire pudding or pasties or lincolnshire hotpot are. There is a little shop I pass every day called "Original Pasties" or something like that. I've never been inside, but it doesn't look too commercialized. Besides that I doubt many people know what these things are. Whenever I see the word "pasty" I instinctively add an "r" to make it "pastry." But I have no idea if they are even related.

I don't actually think there's a lot of "English food" going on. It seems like if it's not Asian, Italian, or Mexican food, then it is just American food. So I'm sure that the English foods were changed so much over here that they are hardly recognizable and barely relate anymore.

Now Jadzia you're not having a little fun there are you Although yorkshire puddings with sugar and syrup sound ok. My grandad use to love cold ones with jam for afters

And spot yorkshire puddings are made with a batter/pancake mix but whipped and baked to make crunchy savoury little 'cups' to have with roast dinners, esp beef. Especially handy for containing ones gravy

Cornish pasties were originally made (so I believe) as a 'meal in the hand' usually for miners. So you'd have your meat ~ lamb or beef, potatoes and veg all in an easy to hold thick pastry case. If I remember correctly there were some that had a sweet filling, fruit etc, in the other end. So a two course lunch Fab!!

 

[Spot's Meow]

I know that this area (Sacramento Valley) saw a lot of Cornish men because their hardrock mining skills were in need when the Gold Rush had ended and placer mining was no longer feasible. So I would say that it is quite possible that the pasties found here are "authentic."

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I know that this area (Sacramento Valley) saw a lot of Cornish men because their hardrock mining skills were in need when the Gold Rush had ended and placer mining was no longer feasible. So I would say that it is quite possible that the pasties found here are "authentic."

Very likely! It's nice to know they bought their own food too

 

[ITL]

Although yorkshire puddings with sugar and syrup sound ok. My grandad use to love cold ones with jam for afters

I love eating Yorkshires that way.

But my favourite type of Yorkshire Pud is a large, thick doughy one with chopped onions baked into it. One of those with a nice Sunday dinner...bliss.

 

[An Officer]

^ I've not seen those before... do you have a local for your sunday lunches?

Strange isn't it, how even after you've immigrated to a new land, and perhaps lived there for generations , you might still have a soft spot for the food you were raised with, I know I certainly do. Still, I mix and match to criminal degrees. If however, I were told I could only ever eat one regional cuisine for all my life, I honestly don't know what I'd choose! I've become used to a much wider variety than was availbale to me during my early years.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

It is physically impossible and I think against 'English Jaffa Cake eating Law' to eat less than 3 jaffa cakes in one go. And another 3, 5 mins later... repeat until feel guilt or nausea

At Christmas they bring out these special boxes which are, like, a yard of Jaffa Cakes. Have you seen them?

Whenever they show up in the shops I always think of the poor people who will sit down after dinner to have just one or two, and will rise an hour later with an empty box. This is why I do not buy them.

'A yard of jaffa cakes', that would be too cruel to jest about.
No thankfully, have not seen them.
It's like those giant Toblerones in airports (never understood that? Emergency pressie on way home - I've just been to Thailand and I've bought you this mystical Toblerone...), but they're harder to eat whereas Jaffas just melt in your mouth and in a bizarre and evil way make you hungrier the more you eat

Which reminds me. I was looking at the box of Jaffa Cakes, and it says "Now Even Bigger Jaffa," or something to that effect. I was wondering if that was the new product wide policy, or if they just make giant Jaffa for the fat American market.

 

[An Officer]

^ I suspect the latter is correct.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This afternoon I had another revelation at work: apparently I have never had a Rich Tea biscuit with tea before. (In the past I'd enjoy one or two with a mug of Horlicks before bed, but not in the Eddo Brandes style sadly... ) So I tried it with my afternoon tea (black of course, no milk or sugar).

I ended up having two.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

^ I suspect the latter is correct.

Then my Jaffa is bigger than your Jaffa.

 

[JuanBolio]

So then I thought, well, KFC is in the U.K. - the Colonel won't let me down. But see for yourself - not a biscuit to be had!

This is an outrage. I'm going to be emailing their corporate offices. You can't serve a proper southern meal without biscuits!

That IS odd... their beans look wrong, too.

Do you have any foods in the US marketed as 'english style'. Cuz I'd be interested to see just how americanized they are.

I'm imagining,
yorkshire pudding... made with cinnamon sugar and corn syrup
cornish pasties... made with jelly beans
lincolnshire hotpot... made with corn dogs and mustard

But in fairness,
I wanna waldorf salad... I'm afraid we're all out of waldorfs.

Plenty of pasties in Michigan. The others you mentioned are pretty much the realm of homemade food and maybe a few restaurants here and there. We have Heinz beans in grocery stores, but they're not particularly popular here. Bush's and Van Kamp's are more mainstream.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

But in fairness,
I wanna waldorf salad... I'm afraid we're all out of waldorfs.

Do they have any Ritz salads instead?

 

[Jadzia]

But in fairness,
I wanna waldorf salad... I'm afraid we're all out of waldorfs.

Do they have any Ritz salads instead?

and a couple of screwdrivers

 

[USS Triumphant]

There is a little shop I pass every day called "Original Pasties" or something like that.

Mmmmm.... pasties.

Oh, but we were talking about food, weren't we?

Yeah, I'd say that's the closest term that applies. Really it seems to be unique to the States. My wife makes some damn fine Yankee biscuits.

"Yankee biscuits". There's a phrase designed to piss off Southern women, if I've ever heard one.

Which reminds me. I was looking at the box of Jaffa Cakes, and it says "Now Even Bigger Jaffa," or something to that effect. I was wondering if that was the new product wide policy, or if they just make giant Jaffa for the fat American market.

Nah, that's just something that happens to Jaffa when they come to us through the Chappa'ai.

Kree, Jaffa!

 

[DBR]

I was ignoring this thread, but now that I understand that we're talking about cookies, my attention has been caught and my interest's been piqued.

Store bought cookies are pretty gross, I think it is the dryness of most of them that has turned me off, but Tim Tams are pretty good.

I love fresh, warm homemade peanut butter cookies. Biscuits, I mean.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Which reminds me. I was looking at the box of Jaffa Cakes, and it says "Now Even Bigger Jaffa," or something to that effect. I was wondering if that was the new product wide policy, or if they just make giant Jaffa for the fat American market.

I've not seen those either I am bereft in Jaffa Cake marketing strategies.
And what happened to Wagon Wheels Surely they have shrunk

 

[trampledamage]

Although yorkshire puddings with sugar and syrup sound ok. My grandad use to love cold ones with jam for afters

I love eating Yorkshires that way.

My understanding from my Grandad is that's the actual Yorkshire way of eating Yorkies!

But my favourite type of Yorkshire Pud is a large, thick doughy one with chopped onions baked into it. One of those with a nice Sunday dinner...bliss.

You and your onions again... Anyone fancy Toad in the Hole?

 

[Kryton]

Don't confuse Cornish pasties with stripper-type nipple pasties. The food one is pronounced "past-eez" while the nip covers are pronounced "payst-eez". And yes...a lot of them (the food) available in Michigan. Used to live in Traverse City and they had a nice shop that specialized in them.

 

[ITL]

Although yorkshire puddings with sugar and syrup sound ok. My grandad use to love cold ones with jam for afters

I love eating Yorkshires that way.

My understanding from my Grandad is that's the actual Yorkshire way of eating Yorkies!

And as I am from Yorkshire, the circle is complete!

But my favourite type of Yorkshire Pud is a large, thick doughy one with chopped onions baked into it. One of those with a nice Sunday dinner...bliss.

You and your onions again... Anyone fancy Toad in the Hole?

Funnily enough, I'm not that keen on it. Maybe it's because I prefer sausages in different dishes to that. Or on a sarnie. With fried onions.