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Default British biscuits

Oh pshaw, on Mon 29 Oct 2007 10:01:26p, Miche meant to say...

> In article >,
> Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:08:54 +1300, Miche wrote:
>>
>> > In article >,
>> > Sqwertz > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:01:24 +1300, Miche wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> In article >,
>> >>> Sqwertz > wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:40:04 -0500, Terry wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> I was talking to my nephew on the phone this morning. He said

they
>> >>>>> were having sausage, eggs and British biscuits.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> English muffins?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Horribly dry crackers/cookies.
>> >>>
>> >>> No. Same as US "English muffins".
>> >>
>> >> That's 10 votes for cookies/crackers and 1 vote for English muffins.
>> >> You've got some catching up to do.
>> >
>> > I live in New Zealand, where British meanings tend to match ours.
>> >
>> > Maybe it's the US that's out of step, here? Nah, couldn't be.

>>
>> So in NZ, you call cookies English muffins?

>
> No. Biscuits.
>
> We call English muffins English muffins.
>
> Miche
>


Miche, do you have a good recipe for Anzac Biscuits? I found one on the
web and used it several times, as it was really quite good. I've since
lost it and cannot find it again.

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