Karl_K|1477877676|4092149 said:Why are cookies called cookies when you bake them not cook them?
Should they be called bakies?
AGBF|1477878982|4092160 said:Karl_K|1477877676|4092149 said:Why are cookies called cookies when you bake them not cook them?
Should they be called bakies?
The English don't call them cookies. They call them biscuits. Are they more sensible than Americans? Remember that they eat Marmite.
Deb
Snowdrop13 said:We do call some things cookies, usually if they are bigger and softer than biscuits! And nothing wrong with Marmite.......lovely on cheese on toast and full of B vitamins....
Garnetgirl|1477917813|4092248 said:AGBF|1477878982|4092160 said:Karl_K|1477877676|4092149 said:Why are cookies called cookies when you bake them not cook them?
Should they be called bakies?
The English don't call them cookies. They call them biscuits. Are they more sensible than Americans? Remember that they eat Marmite.
Deb
Biscuit= "bis" twice and "cuit" cooked - from Latin. So maybe the British are no more sensible than Americans!
Snowdrop13 said:We do call some things cookies, usually if they are bigger and softer than biscuits! And nothing wrong with Marmite.......lovely on cheese on toast and full of B vitamins....
Marmite
NOoooooooooooooo....Garnetgirl|1477937871|4092380 said:Thanks, Deb! I'm so old that I had to study Latin in school...
If olive oil is made from olives, and corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?
AGBF|1477940251|4092398 said:I guess this is a threadjack. I just saw it on another forum to which I belong, though, and it felt as if it belonged in a happy thread.
Deb