2007-06-18 03:11:46 · 12 answers · asked by Aisya 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Depending on where you are or where the person is that you are talking to, it can be nothing or quite a lot.
Cookies are biscuits in UK, Australia, New Zealand.
Biscuits are fluffy bread, similar to scones but not as hard in the US.
2007-06-18 03:20:13 · answer #1 · answered by Expat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That all depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on!
In Great Britain, a biscuit IS a cookie.
In America a biscuit is a bread product, complete with ingredients to make it rise, while a cookie is a sweet treat for dessert.
2007-06-18 10:20:08 · answer #2 · answered by Army mom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the UK and Australia, nothing. Sweet little baked goods.
In the USA, biscuits are savory, short quitck breads usually eaten for breakfast. Cookies are sweet little baked goods.
2007-06-18 10:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on where you live. In the states a cookie is usually a sweet confection that is a dessert. A biscuit is a thick breadlike food that can be sweet or savory and can be served as dessert or with the meal, it is often buttered and jelly is added...or maybe honey...yummy.
2007-06-18 10:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In AMERICA "Cookie" means a sweet, desert thing. LIke an oreo or a CHips ahoy.
Biscuit means a non-sweet, bread roll. Like what they serve at KFC. We eat it with margerine and jam or pour gravy over it.
In ENGland and any country that has Brittish Influence (I.e.. India, Australia) "Buiscuit" means the sweet desert, oreo or CHips ahoy, basically what we call "Cookies" they call "Buiscuits". What Americans call "buiscuits" they call "scones"
I'll never forget the face on my good Australian friend the first morning she was here in America (for college). I was just meeting her, and she asked what the cafeteria was serving for breakfast, We told her 'Buiscuits and Gravy.' LOLLL. you really should have seen her face. I'm sure she was imagining a nice brown gravy (The type that belongs on Mashed Potatoes) poured all over some CHoccolate Chip cookies!! LOL... BTW.. she passed on Breakfast that morning LOL...
a few weeks later a bunch of my friends went out to eat. We stopped at one of those KFC Taco bell combos and everyone got what they wanted. Someone had a big box of buiscuits (The ameriacn kind) from KFC, and offered some to the Aussie girl, whom I was now very good friends with. She looked at the buiscuits, laughed and said.. "OH!! SCONES!! That explaines it!!"
LOL.. She's hilarious.
2007-06-18 10:31:19 · answer #5 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Great Britian, biscuits MEANS cookies.
In the US, a biscuit is a southern savory bread, similar to a roll.
2007-06-18 10:13:35 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Vincent Van Jessup 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
biscuits are or breakfast and cookies are for midnight when you walk half asleep to the kitchen and raid the fridge and cabinets
2007-06-18 10:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australia there is no real difference, in cooking, some people say the difference is if you use marg or butter, ie. one of them comes out softer and one of them comes out crunchier
Thats what I think anyways, I prefer mushy half cooked cookies... ohhh yeah I just skipped dinner so I could eat three of them
2007-06-18 10:15:10 · answer #8 · answered by hey mickey you're so fine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 3500 miles and a whole lot of French support.
2007-06-18 10:15:32 · answer #9 · answered by Dudeguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cookies are sweet and a desert. and biscuts are just ...like bread.
2007-06-18 10:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋