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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on August 30, 2021, 08:07:53 PM

Title: I keep ordering chips and people keep bringing me crisps.
Post by: rcjordan on August 30, 2021, 08:07:53 PM

https://i.imgur.com/IMYkxjT.gifv

Title: Re: I keep ordering chips and people keep bringing me crisps.
Post by: ergophobe on August 30, 2021, 11:30:57 PM

You can have your chips, but no, Harry, they are cookies. I am not nationalistic about American cuisine in general, but the simple fact is we make the best cookies and brownies. We just do.

But I would trade them all for a constant supply of French or French-Canadian pastries.

Title: Re: I keep ordering chips and people keep bringing me crisps.
Post by: creative666 on August 31, 2021, 10:08:09 AM

It's a biscuit.

Secondly, for my taste, I would take Italian delicacies! I spent a week in Lake Como back in Feb 2019 and breakfast consisted of a cannoli, tiramisu and a cappuccino

Title: Re: I keep ordering chips and people keep bringing me crisps.
Post by: ergophobe on August 31, 2021, 03:14:06 PM

>>It's a biscuit.

I guess this is just one of those things where, as civilized people, we're just going to have to agree that you're wrong. HHH

Actually, when I lived in Switzerland, I found the "biscuit" (that's a beesskwee, not a biskitt) distinction useful, because a biscuit is a subset of what in the US we would call cookies. To me there are two basic categories of cookies: chewy and yucky. In Switzerland, biscuit refers only to the second kind.

I love tiramisu, but can only eat so much. I can eat a near infinite amount of chaussons aux pommes though.

Title: Re: I keep ordering chips and people keep bringing me crisps.
Post by: rcjordan on August 31, 2021, 03:45:57 PM

>tiramisu

In Paris, during a week-long stay, we became friends with the cafe owner next to our little side-street hotel.  He'd wait for us in the late evening after closing with a couple of servings of fantastic tiramisu. One of the best memories of the trip.

Also in Paris, the street vendors sell warm crepes with Nutella.  Worth the trip just for those.