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I'm still working on chips vs crisps vs fries vs fritos. And more importantly:
But what of crispy tortilla chips (wheat or maize corn), vegetable chips, and wood chips? (Yeah, some of those crispy chips taste like salted sawdust.) And while French (Freedom!) fries, papas fritas, and home fries usually involve potatoes, I've also seen vegetable variants. Carrot chips, anyone?potato chips - crisps
french fries - chips
A real homemade biscuit is made from scratch with buttermilk. I doubt many cookies or crackers are made that wayKant
But what of crispy tortilla chips (wheat or maize corn), vegetable chips, and wood chips? (Yeah, some of those crispy chips taste like salted sawdust.) And while French (Freedom!) fries, papas fritas, and home fries usually involve potatoes, I've also seen vegetable variants. Carrot chips, anyone?
...Biscuits in the English sense were cooked twice to make them last longer than bread, and according to Dr. Johnson's dictionary, biscuits designed for long sea voyages were cooked four times.
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Let us not omit buffalo chips. But I digress. I see some crispy chips tabeled as twists or waves and of course we have cheezy puffs. BUGLES (which I had the occasion to beta-test five decades ago) are funnel-twists of maize corn. I forget what they're called in Mexico but totopos = maize tortilla chips.I have seen non-American brand vegetable crisps for vegetable chips, and as far as I know, wood chips are wood chips.
A UK cracker is not a biscuit. Or it is.
LOL...
me: I ran into Luc today, he was absolutely pissed, I had to take him home, he couldn't walk straight
Lori: Why was he angry?
me: He wasn't angry, he was drunk
Lori: Then why didn't you say that?
me: I did
Lori: No you didn't, you said he was mad
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Ship's biscuit and lifeboat biscuits were very hard. "Hardtack" They were designed to keep for years, sometimes decades. They were very difficult for insects to penetrate and almost impossible for humans to eat unless they were soaked first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
Two Nations separated by a common language.
USA "pissed" = angry
But "pissed off" = angry in the UK and in parts of the USA
UK "pissed" = drunk
UK "mad" = USA "crazy", or nuts, or mentally demented, etc.
USA "mad" = UK "pissed"
And attitude issues.
And lack of mutual understanding of our respective political systems.
US politics seems nonsensical to Brits; British politics seems mad to US people.
Perhaps worse, most Americans are so insular they don't think of British politics at all.
We do. They're called Republicans.Why can't Americans have an official Monster Raving Loony Party?
Those are the Democrats.Or a political party that believes the world's problems and rubbish collection will be solved by Yogic Flying?
We do. They're called Republicans.
Those are the Democrats.
Meanwhile, USA alone has mutually incomprehensible dialects. A westerner saying 'ball' and a southerner saying 'poon' might not realize they both mean 'fuck'. And in parts of the South, 'dope' means cola, specifically Coca-Cola.
I can assure you there are literally hundreds of different dialects in the UK - with many words that are incomprehensible once you leave a particular geographical area.
Perhaps worse, most Americans are so insular they don't think of British politics at all.
Of course Americans can pronounce or spell things however they wish, but I always like to point out that it's called English, we invented it, and therefore however we spell it or pronounce it is correct.