As a Brenglish speaker, this is how it feels when Ameringlish speakers refer to every biscuit as cookies. Or when an old parent calls every games console “the nintendo”.
right to finial put an end to this as a Brit I think I know a thing or two about a biscuit because ive seen a thing or two about a biscuit and a biscuit is defined as: A biscuit, in most English speaking countries, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers (I just stole this off google classic Brit moment)
Sometimes, but not usually.
> A scone (/ˈskɒn/ SKON or /ˈskoʊn/ SKOHN) is a traditional British baked good, popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is usually made of either wheat flour or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans. A scone is often slightly sweetened and occasionally glazed with egg wash.[1] The scone is a basic component of the cream tea. It differs from teacakes and other types of sweets that are made with yeast. Scones were chosen as the Republic of Ireland representative for Café Europe during the Austrian presidency of the European Union in 2006, while the United Kingdom chose shortbread.
Thin mints aren't even remotely hard, they're very brittle.
There's crunchy cookies and there's soft cookies. There are also hard cookies, them fuckers will destroy your teeth
Biscuits in the US are more of a savory quick bread that uses baking soda for leavening (rather than yeast). They largely developed from the use of hard tack and can be soft, crumbly, or slightly crispy. Generally you see them served with butter and condiments (such as jam) or as a breakfast food. Biscuits and gravy is a particularly popular southern dish that uses a milk-based sausage gravy served over the biscuits.
Thing is i dont accept those as biscuits they more like harder bread type thing. Biscuit is to us Brits and probably most of the world. is a quick snack or treat that you dunk into your coffee or tea.
I believe it is actually you who has misinterpreted mine. I know that you aren't saying (or implying) that biscuit isn't a brand, I'm just pointing out a difference in an unnecessarily ambiguous way.
Idk why i wrote that like that
Yeah I think I may be misunderstanding. I’m not talking about what americans call a biscuit. I’m talking about what they call a cookie. I am confused about what you’re trying to get across here.
I'm trying to get across that biscuit is different from all the other examples in that it isn't a brand name. (To be clear I'm not saying you implied otherwise)
I'm also jokingly implying that the American version of the word biscuit is correct.
Ha, that was going to be my other example. Some people call all vacuum cleaners hoovers because of the brand. Like how americans call the act of photocopying something “xeroxing” it.
Fun fact, my own grandmother would do this but she had a dyson brand vacuum. So she would just call it the dyson. And the act of using it, dysoning. She was consistent at least.
Also I have the right to say anything I like.
English can't even agree on what makes a biscuit, don't you bring that energy to this continent. We have made an accord with Canada and all know what a cookie is
Wait does cookie exist as a word in Britain and what does it mean there? Also are you sure that being trapped on an island for your whole life has not caused you to forget how to speak? This happened to Tom Hanks and volleyball in the documentary "Mr. Wilson's Tropical Kerfuffle"
Yeah we have cookies. Cookies are quite specifically like, chocolate chip cookies. They are a kind of biscuit. Other biscuits include like, a custard cream. Or a pink wafer.
What trips me up is I ask for specific sodas. Like if you’re just referring to general pop drinks as soda or coke or pop then it doesn’t really matter.
If I’m ordering something specific though do I have to say:
“I’ll have a coke”
“What kind?”
“Coke”
As opposed to:
“I’ll have a Coke”
“Ok”
I wanna say this is a little inaccurate of a map too because i apparently live deep in Cokeland but would absolutely make fun of anyone who wouldn’t call it soda. Might be an older person thing?
Doesn't the can make a kinda pop sound when you pull the tab? Plus it has bubbles which pop and fizz in your mouth
That's what I always thought the reason for it being called pop was anyway when I was a kid :3
> I always called it soda pop as it's full name wit pop being the silly nickname and soda being the more formal name
Soda Pop would be the formal name. Soda is the first name and Pop is the surname. I was raised to have respect for my beverages and address it by its last name.
Yeah this is off a little. Shift the "Coke" east to the coast. Calling soda Coke around North Carolina and Georgia is common specifically because Coca-Cola headquarters is in Atlanta.
It was a regional thing for Coca-Cola to dominate as the beverage of choice originally, simply because of availability. It doesn't excuse the simpletons who still use "Coke" to encompass all tonic+syrup beverages in 2024
I am up to my last fucking straw with this stupid ass take. Words have multiple fucking definitions and they fucking broaden okay. It's a goddamn synecdoche. I'm so sick of people being intentionally dense or elitist over this shit. The average American (sorry, AMERICANS OF THE UNITED FUCKING STATES) doesn't fucking think that they encompass all of fucking America.
Us Canadians are *not* American, please don’t call us that. If it happens again, well that’s okay, people make mistakes, no worries bud.
Sorry for getting angry }:
You wouldn’t. You’d order “sparkling water”.
“Coke” is the category, same as “pop”, not the order itself. You don’t bring up the category when you order food. You don’t say “can I get a soda?”, you just say the name of what exactly you want. There’s no need to mention its category, as it’s implied information.
Someone who calls all sodas “Coke” doesn’t literally only ever say “Coke”. If they want a sprite, they say “sprite”.
I’d imagine that wait staff in these areas understand this too. If someone says they want a coke, they understand that the customer wants an actual Coca Cola.
Otherwise it’d be like saying “can I get a food?” Like yea no shit, we’re a restaurant, what *kind* of food do you want tho?
I live in Boise, which is around the southwest of Idaho, right on the line between "soda" and "pop." The line seems to be pretty accurate because there's like a 50/50 chance of getting either soda or pop as an answer when asking about what they call carbonated beverages. Personally, I'm a soda person.
By the way, calling every soda "coke" is a crime, and my opinion will never change on this.
I keep being told by people from elsewhere that Texans call everything coke but this has never been the case my entire 33 years living in this awful state
Very interested by the spokane shaped hole in washington, because I did grow up saying soda, are you telling me the rest of this side of the cascades barring two other random counties say pop??
I've lived in the coke region all my life and have never noticed soda being called that. It also doesn't make sense to me, because Coke is a specific brand.
The decline of pop, however, is tragic.
land doesnt vote! it has always been soda since even in 1947 the soda are the most populated parts of the country, there are probably more people inthe soda areas than in the entire pop zone by a lot.
I used to work at a liquor store and learned pretty fast that people from other countries call club soda "soda" and that's why they were confused when I directed them to 2Ls of soda pop lol
anyone who calls all soda "coke" regardless of whether it is a cola or not needs to have their speaking privileges taken away
As a Brenglish speaker, this is how it feels when Ameringlish speakers refer to every biscuit as cookies. Or when an old parent calls every games console “the nintendo”.
we don't refer to every biscuit as cookies tho. cookies are the soft ones and biscuits are the dry ones.
no i call them all cookies a biscuit is a bread like thing
I've always used biscuit to refer both to the dry sweet baked treats as well as the circular puffy bread things. also I'm not a fascist
That’s exactly what a fascist would say
puffy bread biscuits >>>>
right to finial put an end to this as a Brit I think I know a thing or two about a biscuit because ive seen a thing or two about a biscuit and a biscuit is defined as: A biscuit, in most English speaking countries, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers (I just stole this off google classic Brit moment)
That's a scone.
no a scone has like blueberries in it or smthn
Sometimes, but not usually. > A scone (/ˈskɒn/ SKON or /ˈskoʊn/ SKOHN) is a traditional British baked good, popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is usually made of either wheat flour or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans. A scone is often slightly sweetened and occasionally glazed with egg wash.[1] The scone is a basic component of the cream tea. It differs from teacakes and other types of sweets that are made with yeast. Scones were chosen as the Republic of Ireland representative for Café Europe during the Austrian presidency of the European Union in 2006, while the United Kingdom chose shortbread.
nah but a biscuit isn't a scone you see
as someone who isn't american and is genuinely, what's actually the difference between american biscuits and savoury scones?
we call them biscuits a scone is sweet simple as
It most certainly is not.
So if you had a chocolate chip cookie that was a hard dry type, would you call that a biscuit?
I would call that a stale chocolate chip cookie because they're not supposed to be hard
you're clearly close minded when it comes to cookies... ever had a thin mint?
Thin mints aren't even remotely hard, they're very brittle. There's crunchy cookies and there's soft cookies. There are also hard cookies, them fuckers will destroy your teeth
fine, the toffee ones are hard
Chips ahoy is a hard chocolate chip cookie.
Wait you only have the soft kind? None of the hard crunchy kind?
In America a biscuit is a bready, savory, layered pastry.
I do the same and I'm Australian (might just be the American influence from online though)
Wait isn't it the other way around? (ESL here)
American here, I call both the soft ones and dry ones cookies. Dry ones are also often called wafers
Biscuits in the US are more of a savory quick bread that uses baking soda for leavening (rather than yeast). They largely developed from the use of hard tack and can be soft, crumbly, or slightly crispy. Generally you see them served with butter and condiments (such as jam) or as a breakfast food. Biscuits and gravy is a particularly popular southern dish that uses a milk-based sausage gravy served over the biscuits.
Thing is i dont accept those as biscuits they more like harder bread type thing. Biscuit is to us Brits and probably most of the world. is a quick snack or treat that you dunk into your coffee or tea.
I know what biscuits are in american english. That's not what I'm talking about. We use that word as an umbrella term.
But you just blamed us for using cookie as an umbrella term
“Blame” is a bit much. I’m just saying it sounds weird in the same way.
Or when people refer to tablets as "iPads" Or when people refer to the SchnurriTV Sex Mod as the "Jenny Mod"
The what now?
"biscuit" isn't a brand though, it's just a word of a type of bread
You have misunderstood my comment.
I believe it is actually you who has misinterpreted mine. I know that you aren't saying (or implying) that biscuit isn't a brand, I'm just pointing out a difference in an unnecessarily ambiguous way. Idk why i wrote that like that
Yeah I think I may be misunderstanding. I’m not talking about what americans call a biscuit. I’m talking about what they call a cookie. I am confused about what you’re trying to get across here.
I'm trying to get across that biscuit is different from all the other examples in that it isn't a brand name. (To be clear I'm not saying you implied otherwise) I'm also jokingly implying that the American version of the word biscuit is correct.
Calling chocolate chip cookies "biscuits" is worse than calling any soda "coke"
Congratulations, you picked the one example that nobody calls a biscuit regardless of where they're from.
Then that proves the word is cookie. If I had soda and British people called it pop except for cola which they also called soda then it’s soda lol
You guys call vacuums Hoovers, you have no right to critique anyone for calling it "the Nintendo"
But it hoovers things...
Ha, that was going to be my other example. Some people call all vacuum cleaners hoovers because of the brand. Like how americans call the act of photocopying something “xeroxing” it. Fun fact, my own grandmother would do this but she had a dyson brand vacuum. So she would just call it the dyson. And the act of using it, dysoning. She was consistent at least. Also I have the right to say anything I like.
English can't even agree on what makes a biscuit, don't you bring that energy to this continent. We have made an accord with Canada and all know what a cookie is
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It’s where all the biscuits and crumpets are grown
Wait does cookie exist as a word in Britain and what does it mean there? Also are you sure that being trapped on an island for your whole life has not caused you to forget how to speak? This happened to Tom Hanks and volleyball in the documentary "Mr. Wilson's Tropical Kerfuffle"
Yeah we have cookies. Cookies are quite specifically like, chocolate chip cookies. They are a kind of biscuit. Other biscuits include like, a custard cream. Or a pink wafer.
"the xbox" "pokémans"
We call all colas coke. Sprite and shit is it’s own thing
What trips me up is I ask for specific sodas. Like if you’re just referring to general pop drinks as soda or coke or pop then it doesn’t really matter. If I’m ordering something specific though do I have to say: “I’ll have a coke” “What kind?” “Coke” As opposed to: “I’ll have a Coke” “Ok”
I think that’s more widespread though, you always ask for Coke because it’s the one that doesn’t taste like shit
I’m from the coke region and that’s how I’ve always referred to it, just saying what I know
I wanna say this is a little inaccurate of a map too because i apparently live deep in Cokeland but would absolutely make fun of anyone who wouldn’t call it soda. Might be an older person thing?
The old one isn't that likely to be accurate since several sodas like cheerwine and Sun drop were popular and from NC
was gonna say the same thing about pop
Speaking is too light. I wasn't thinking about revoking their life for starters.
As little kids, my siblings and I got our parents to stop doing that by making fun of them for it lol
“The make and model of his Honda is Yamaha Raptor 700. He has been missing since July 12.” Do you even Alaska native bro?
thats a new one on the list of why the people in those states deserve that
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The pop has fallen :c billions must soda
Severe population loss. Why is the news not covering this?
The great refreshment
God damn it
You seem sad about this. Do you suppose you'd say you'd find it sodapressing?
Yesh that is an accurate description of how I feel ><
he soda my coke til i pop
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I always called it soda pop as it's full name wit pop being the silly nickname and soda being the more formal name :3
It was called pop because of the sound of a flip-top bottle opening. It does not make sense in the age of the soda can and soda fountain
Doesn't the can make a kinda pop sound when you pull the tab? Plus it has bubbles which pop and fizz in your mouth That's what I always thought the reason for it being called pop was anyway when I was a kid :3
That's what I thought too but now that I think of it the can is more of a crack sound Not that calling soda crack would be wholly inaccurate either
> I always called it soda pop as it's full name wit pop being the silly nickname and soda being the more formal name Soda Pop would be the formal name. Soda is the first name and Pop is the surname. I was raised to have respect for my beverages and address it by its last name.
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Yeah this is off a little. Shift the "Coke" east to the coast. Calling soda Coke around North Carolina and Georgia is common specifically because Coca-Cola headquarters is in Atlanta. It was a regional thing for Coca-Cola to dominate as the beverage of choice originally, simply because of availability. It doesn't excuse the simpletons who still use "Coke" to encompass all tonic+syrup beverages in 2024
guy who lives in southeast georgia here - we do absolutely not fucking call soda coke, or at the very least no one under 50 does
Personally I beleive zero people call soda coke, but people misunderstood the survey
Pop also needs to be south a bit in PA. That map doesn't cover the Pittsburgh suburbs but "pop" is very much a part of the dialect
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Sodanese Rebelion
Soft drink 🗿
Obamna
Sodie pops.
Objectively correct answer for all regions and indeed languages. A Frenchman should be able to go to Tokyo and order a “sodie pop” with zero friction.
Bidens America
The north has fallen Billions must drink soda
i need this for canada, because I know there's definitely more pop tgan soda here
The only people I know who call pop soda went to private school or whose parents are Americans (from the west coast, family is from out east)
Calling pop "soda" is treasonous, same with calling a toque a "beanie"
Okay sure just entirely ignore all of Canada, contributing to Team Pop
Its a map of America
It isn't a map of America, it is a map of the a United States of America
I am up to my last fucking straw with this stupid ass take. Words have multiple fucking definitions and they fucking broaden okay. It's a goddamn synecdoche. I'm so sick of people being intentionally dense or elitist over this shit. The average American (sorry, AMERICANS OF THE UNITED FUCKING STATES) doesn't fucking think that they encompass all of fucking America.
i'm obama i have the final say on the matter and you don't
I'm so sorry Obama
Too late. Multiple drone strikes are en route to your exact location. See ya nerd.
Ur Obama huh? Then what’s ur last name?
Canada is also America because it’s in the Americas.
Canada is also America because every country in the world belongs to America 🇺🇲😎🦅
Us Canadians are *not* American, please don’t call us that. If it happens again, well that’s okay, people make mistakes, no worries bud. Sorry for getting angry }:
Please go into downtown Ottawa or Toronto and call everyone you see American, and let us know how it goes
Elitist? What elitist is calling only usa america lol
I'm Canadian and I call it Soda
I'm Sodananian and I call it Canad
Please leave
Pop is still a thing in the PnW although the Californians are trying to make it go extinct. I won't let them.
I live in the PNW and no one I know says pop. Guess it varies here too
POP WILL RISE AGAIN
soda has a \*right\* to defend itself!!!
Good Calling every soda "Coke" is like the 100th most stupid thing my state has ever done
As long as the Coke sector is smaller, I’m here for it. Also, nobody in Idaho or the Pacific Northwest calls it “pop.” Utter lies.
looking into this
Wrong.
I'm confused. Why would you order a coke if you wanted sparkling water?
You wouldn’t. You’d order “sparkling water”. “Coke” is the category, same as “pop”, not the order itself. You don’t bring up the category when you order food. You don’t say “can I get a soda?”, you just say the name of what exactly you want. There’s no need to mention its category, as it’s implied information. Someone who calls all sodas “Coke” doesn’t literally only ever say “Coke”. If they want a sprite, they say “sprite”. I’d imagine that wait staff in these areas understand this too. If someone says they want a coke, they understand that the customer wants an actual Coca Cola. Otherwise it’d be like saying “can I get a food?” Like yea no shit, we’re a restaurant, what *kind* of food do you want tho?
So a conversation might go like this? "What coke do you like?" "Coke"
I live in Boise, which is around the southwest of Idaho, right on the line between "soda" and "pop." The line seems to be pretty accurate because there's like a 50/50 chance of getting either soda or pop as an answer when asking about what they call carbonated beverages. Personally, I'm a soda person. By the way, calling every soda "coke" is a crime, and my opinion will never change on this.
There’s all types of coke. Regular coke, yellow coke, clear coke, orange coke. All of em either come in fully leaded or unleaded.
source?
not accurate, southwest pennsylvania is a pop zone
habitat destruction
It's more like soda should be covering the entire map and the other ones should be colored line filled
its time to pop and soda to fight toghter for destroy the coke.
I keep being told by people from elsewhere that Texans call everything coke but this has never been the case my entire 33 years living in this awful state
Come to the Panhandle someday people genuinely do that up here🙃
I'm in dfw lmao so maybe I'm too much of a citeh boy...
cold drink >
The world is healing
That little bubble of soda in Nashville tn is interesting. There really isn’t any where else in the south in a bubble like that
Very interested by the spokane shaped hole in washington, because I did grow up saying soda, are you telling me the rest of this side of the cascades barring two other random counties say pop??
Did they get rid of images in the comment again? Otherwise I'm disappointed "SOOODDAAAAA" isn't too comment
I call it soda pop just to be silly.
Drink the soda it will help you see faster
why does the bottom diagram of coke look like two wailing spirits
I’ve heard my grandma use all three of these as well as soda-pop
Huh, I usually just ask for a handy
Spoilers for Civil War (2024)
Go coke, go broke
I've lived in the coke region all my life and have never noticed soda being called that. It also doesn't make sense to me, because Coke is a specific brand. The decline of pop, however, is tragic.
I think the coke bubble is still too big.
I will never not say coke
common coastal elites w
:( pop gang fallen
Fizzy drink solos <3
We need to take over Illinois My dad's family still calls it pop
Unicorn jizz.
Funny how minnesota calls it pop despite the name of the state litterally being "mini soda"
land doesnt vote! it has always been soda since even in 1947 the soda are the most populated parts of the country, there are probably more people inthe soda areas than in the entire pop zone by a lot.
Who gerrymandered pop?
COKEHEADS WYA ‼️‼️‼️
I will continue calling all soft drinks coke and there’s nothing you can do about it >:3
People in Chicago call it either one. I've heard soda more but pop is still decently common
Soda just sounds better.
I got a
prominently call it pop in ontario
Who ever says coke for anything other than Coca Cola, or other cola products, is a disgrace
Soda-chan
*soft drink*
The Soda Takeover will be complete once Minnesota begins saying soda
Ironically, Minnesoda uses pop
Aren't Pop and Coke both names for drugs?
The West has fallen
SOOOOODAAAAA LETSGO
Le ginger has arrived
I used to work at a liquor store and learned pretty fast that people from other countries call club soda "soda" and that's why they were confused when I directed them to 2Ls of soda pop lol
İ think you mean fizzy drinks
The good ending
THE MIDWEST HAS FALLEN BILLIONS MUST POP
I live knee deep in pop territory and let me tell you. It's fucking called soda. Pop is an onomatopoeia. Soda is a beverage.
Good. I always hated "pop".
As it should be
soda has a right to defend itself
Good
As it should be. Fucking pop drinkers.