Growing up in Canada when it was just a colony (more or less) of the
UK, a biscuit was definitely nearer to a cracker than anything else.
Biscuits are hard dry flat things that go well with cheese.
Will

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:54:02 GMT, "TOliver" >
wrote:

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>"EastneyEnder" wrote:
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>>
>> The currants that you think are in scones are very small dried grapes -
>> "mini raisins" if you like. Which actually are not put in scones although
>> may have been in past times - the overwhelming preference is for plump
>> juicy
>> raisins or sultanas. These days they are only seen in mincemmeat, rich
>> fruit
>> christmas cakes, and Eccles cakes.
>
>....Round here, East of the land of Fruits and Nuts, where raisins once were
>set out to dry in the streets of Fresno, we're even seeing dried cranberries
>in scones.
>>
>> Don't know where you got your scone impressions from, but s/he'd have been
>> first against the wall in my view. Unless this is merely some anti-Brit
>> propaganda, which I feel would be undeserved as we gave you the "biscuit"
>> recipe in the first place. What you've done with it since is your own
>> affair.
>>
>
>We're supportive of the UK and UKians, but become demonstrably out of
>control when scullery scuts from the Scuttled Haisles commence to preaching
>on biscuits with which they've been on a downhill run since Admiral Benbow
>hauled down his flag and became a publican.
>
>The cistern-chain pulling was so open, I had not the wit to include an irony
>meter to advise you....
>
>TMO
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