h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wondered what Margaret Mitchell was on about in "Gone With The Wind" when she said that Scarlett had biscuits and gravy for breakfast. It always sounded like a very strange meal to me!

http://www.rad2020.com/biscuits_and_gravy.htm

and

http://www.trainweb.org/wyomingrails/bg.html

Ah...so it's basically white sauce, rather than what we'd call gravy, over unsweetened scones.

Hmm...four and fat in two different forms.......That'll be why everyone sez it tastes so good!

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cookie

We have Scones here in the US, but they tend to be sweet, and are a form of Cookie.

Also, be careful of the word Biscuit, as we have numerous varieties of Biscuits here.

It is best to remember that the American language is one of inclusion, meaning that we include words from elsewhere, mostly to describe the same item they did when the word was outside our borders, but generally domesticating the word to our spelling conventions. Likewise, we also tend to assign a domestic name to that item that most fits the item's characteristics, often assigning the nation of origin as a prefix word. Hence, a Dutch Oven, a French Kiss, an English Toffee, an English Muffin, Scotch Whisky, etc. Furthermore, we have regionality like you might not believe, so a word might have a different meaning depending just where you use it.

Back to the thread- *muffler*- very good! a long scarf in Britain and an exhaust in the US!

in the same vein-

jumper

Sorry, but since this thread is becoming slightly unravelled......I think that Devonshire Cream (unless this is a USA term) should heve been clotted cream.

PP

PS If I could follow this conversation I suspect it would be quite fun.

fanny

Mr Pink-Paisley. : glad I'm not the only one who has no idea what's going on!

It's more like Chinese Whispers than a dictionary

Scones can be savoury.I make a mean cheese and herb scone.I've also made sweet and savoury cobblers with a topping of scones.Damn now I've made myself hungry!


Incog.

to knock one up in the morning.

Yeeargh. I'm hungry now too.

outlet -K

Stove

Wait a minute... did we get an answer for 'jumper' yet?

jumper - sweater

*still doesn't know what is going on*

It seems that in the US there isn't much difference between having Elle MacPherson and having "a PB & J with the crusts cut off".

In England, there's a world of difference, except under unusual circumstances.

And what's the idea of having a fanny at the back?

So sleeping with a supermodel is much like eating a sticky sweet snadwich?

How odd.

oh, clzoomer


English Muffin

Breakfast Muffin