Ban the use of the word Cookies

[Scotty Mac]

bandaid for a f***ing PLASTER is the worst

its like asking to put bob geldolf in a cut leg

 

[Gully]

Ask an American if he would like a biscuit and he will expect something similar to a scone...don't know what they would call scones in that case...

 

[RexCathedra]

"Cookie" is Dutch, from koekje, diminutive of koek, cake, from Middle Dutch koeke.

Its use in America is one of the few enduring traces, beyond place-names in New York, of the period of Dutch settlement in North America.

In this hemisphere, biscuits are, IMHO, a nasty baked good made mostly down South, and designed primarily for the conveyance of ham and gravy, or chicken-fried steak, directly to the lining of the cardiac arteries.

And you will be happy to learn, Gully, that my local supermarket makes a mean scone, sold under that name.

With butter and blueberry preserves, they're killah, as we say Up Heah in Maine. Although their name is pronounced to rhyme with 'stones', which I gather makes the Scots unhappy...but then most things do.

 

[John Bumlick]

and what about the f***ing japanese? they've got different words for literally everything.

 

[dougdeep]

Ask an American if he would like a biscuit and he will expect something similar to a scone...don't know what they would call scones in that case...

And if you ask him if fancies a fag, well.....