Question for you British people out there :)?!
Question for you British people out there :)?
If you call french fries chips, what do you call chips? If you call cookies bisquits, what do you call bisquits?
Answers: crisps (potato chips), bisquits are more like crumpets or rolls or scones (savory bisquits). chips to us are your french fries. your chips are our crisps. Your cookies are our biscuits. What are your bisquits? What are chips to you are our crisps.
What are cookies to you are our biscuits. We call them crackers like you Yanks, we also call beer either, lager, bitter, stout or ale, the word beer is the product, you would not go to a fast food place and just say burger.
You also refer to all soft drinks as soda, when soda is an unflavoured sparkling water, if the Queens English was spoken all around the world there would be less confustion!!! Your potato chips are our crisps and don't have a clue about your "bisquits". However, all the American biscuits I had when I lived in the states are pretty much the same as our scones... if you are going to be a smart Alex guess you should learn to spell <g> Well, I a not British, but having been to many British areas, I will say that what we Americans call "chips" are "crisps" in the British vocabulary. And Americans say "cookie" while Britons say "biscuits." "Flapjacks", a US term, were called "scones." Crisps for potato chips, biscuits are not known the same way as in America. Scones are not quite the same, and flapjacks are not at all scones.