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That's...odd. Still, chicken flavoured biscuits are marginally less weird than biscuits being buns. That's just Twilight Zone weirdness.
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Well, calling crackers 'biscuits' isn't too strange. And calling biscuits 'cookies' isn't wierd, just backward (a cookie is a type of biscuit). But calling a type of bun a biscuit? :screwy:
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Here is a traditional serving of biscuits and gravy, American style. It is eaten at breakfast. It is very disgusting, and should be avoided at all costs. (Unlike Chickin-in-a-Biskits, which are rather tasty.)

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I see no gravy.
Those biscuits look like some sort of pastry!
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Murrin wrote:I see no gravy.
Those biscuits look like some sort of pastry!
The gravy is that pile of mush underneath. This is just one method of serving biscuits & gravy. Here is another. It is even nastier: www.goodoldays.net/images/mvc-137f.jpg
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Those "biscuits" look like pie lids. And the "gravy" resembles the filling of chicken and mushroom pies. So, in fact, "biscuits and gravy" is "chicken and mushroom pie" anywhere else? :? ;)
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I am begging to think that when Americans say they're going to eat chicken, they actually DO mean people :P
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It's actually a creamed sausage gravy. No chicken.

Chicken-in-a-Biskit should shame you, being as it is a marvel of modern alimentary chemistry. Biscuits and gravy should make you proud, as evidence of the fact that British cuisine is not the only large-scale practical joke in the food world.

(Let the outraged "But we invented steak-and-kidney pie!" flames commence!) :D :P ;)
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Urg. That's not gravy. This is gravy.
Odd.
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Murrin wrote:Urg. That's not gravy. This is gravy.
Odd.
Yes, we use that kind of gravy, too. Mostly on turkey. The white gravy is for biscuits. And country-fried chicken. :twisted:
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Hi, Brits. There's a thing called "other cultures". ;) Heck, there's a lot of stuff in British culture that is very different from mine, but I respect other cultures/refrain from calling them "backwards" or whatnot. Heck, most of my favorite music is British (Beatles, Procol Harum, King Crimson, and so on). You guys know how to rock, I'll give you that.
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No, there's a thing called "real culture" and something else called "foreigners being foreign" :P

We know how to rock, but we also know how to name food ;)
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I'm glad you didn't major in sociology! :lol: Or did you? 8O :P
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CovenantJr wrote:No, there's a thing called "real culture" and something else called "foreigners being foreign" :P

We know how to rock, but we also know how to name food ;)
I agree. Foreigners are foreign, and always will be. Or sometimes they're a band called Foreigner. In which case Foreigners are British. Which is fine by me, because Brits are foreigners. But I imagine the Brits must find it confusing. And it certainly calls into question Cov's assertion that Brits know how to rock. :P

As far as naming food goes, I don't feel confident enough about the oddities of American cuisine to pretend we do it better than anyone else, but let me just say this: Bubble and squeak! Bangers and mash! Spotted dick! Toad in the hole!
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Myste wrote:I agree. Foreigners are foreign, and always will be. Or sometimes they're a band called Foreigner. In which case Foreigners are British. Which is fine by me, because Brits are foreigners. But I imagine the Brits must find it confusing. And it certainly calls into question Cov's assertion that Brits know how to rock. :P
Hey, that was my assertion! The Brits do know how to rock. How do I know? The Beatles. I win. Anyway, the good of 60s Brit pop outweighs the bad--even Foreigner, whom gets constant airtime in hell.
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Myste wrote:Bubble and squeak! Bangers and mash! Spotted dick! Toad in the hole!
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chicken doesnt taste like my left foot
Think on that, and be dismayed

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:fim: He's right!
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Well, no, that'as becuase it's American chicken. :P
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This is the wierdest prattle I have ever read. :?

You peeps are all mentalists and bonkers in the nut.

I think you all need to be locked up for your own safety and the safety of those around you. Any second now you could all go postal.

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