Yup. I knew an Irish dude and his girlfriend who would do exactly the type of shit you're talking about. He looked like an 18th Century romantic-era poet, too, which made it even more surreal to watch this motherfucker taking 22 minutes, painstakingly rolling up the tightest, most perfectly crafted spliff in the history of smoke.
It isn’t often we get a cultural win over them so I always revel in it, being from the south I deeply want to give my welsh drinking buddy some moonshine
Fucked if I know the exact definition tbh. Biscuits are more crumbly, cookies are more moist and generally have other things added to them, like chocolate chips or m&ms. I just know a biscuit when I see it. Your biscuits look more like savoury scones but I can't say I've had the opportunity to try
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we just lump your biscuits in with the umbrella definition of "cookie" and some of them are just harder than others. As for our biscuits, I have the same problem that I've never had a scone, so I also remain pretty sure that scones are what I'd call sweet/non-savory biscuits...but I'm also not sure.
The ingredients for American biscuits: flour, butter, baking powder, and milk.
EDIT: trying to make them in places outside the American South can be more complicated than the recipe indicates, though. I read an article a couple of years ago, where someone dug into the problem of why biscuits aren't very good when they're made outside the American South. Apparently, the hardness of wheat flour (which I didn't even know was a thing) is different, in different flour producing regions, and only the softer flours produce good biscuits.
This explains why they're a regional thing. It also explains why I, as a Texan, have had such mixed luck, with biscuits sometimes turning out perfectly, but other times turning out way too dense and horrible. Apparently, we get both types of flour here, and they are not labeled according to which one is the biscuit flour and which one is the bread/roll flour.
Interesting. I'll have to see if I can figure out which of these hard vs soft flour types y'all have over there, so I'll know if they'll come out correctly. It's surprisingly difficult to ascertain, especially since I've forgotten the terms that one article used to describe the situation.
UK is a bad example though, it's basically an island that has an issue getting decent weed... decent anything really, they're consuming a ton of crappy coke, too. Horrible quality doesn't stop them though.
Crappy coke just seems like a natural safety feature, really. You toot a bunch of baking soda and flour, with some cocaine added for spice, party your face off, and you're never really in truly elevated danger of a heart attack. I'm sure it saves the NHS a lot of trouble.
Unfortunately, people don't simply add baking soda, but rather animal dewormer on one end of the spectrum, and fentanyl on the other, with all kinds of creative bullshit in between.
Hmm. I suppose recent years have seen a shortage of dewormer (because morons were taking it, in a misguided attempt to cure covid) and a surplus of fentanyl (because morons are taking it, in general).
Just to provide accurate information for anyone that might read this: different kind of dewormer. Cocaine has Levamisole, the covidiot crowd latched on to Ivermetcin.
It is somewhat "funny" that we now have multiple contexts in which people guzzle down animal deworming agents though. Ah well.