“They can’t be that different, they’re called the same thing!”
For your convenience: waffles, muffins, and biscuits, in the US and England.
I did take a few liberties with this, in the interest of making an awesome graphic:
- The “England” header should probably say UK, but Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have their own delicacies, and I’m not sure how they conflict with these definitions. Playing it safe.
- The British waffle is potato, and is generally eaten with sausages or bacon or baked beans (or all three!). (Baked beans, by the way, are not supposed to have brown sugar in them, you awful people.) Waffle is actually interchangeable and can mean either a potato waffle or a sweet waffle in England, but if someone says “waffle” they usually mean the potato kind.
- The American muffin is technically called an English muffin, which is equal parts ironic, ridiculous, and confusing. Muffin is also interchangeable in the US, and possibly in England (I’m sure we have English muffins like you guys, but I’d never eaten one before now).
- The American biscuit looks awful, and I do not ever want to eat one. What I call a biscuit, Americans call a cookie or a cracker. American cookies are also fairly common in the UK.
Images stolen from Wikipedia, mostly.
We call them “bickies”.
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I eat american waffles, english muffins and english biscuits.
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always love Americans...ragging on each other,...delicious....
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This makes me hungry. Also, oddly enough,...“English Muffin”,
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Did someone say BISCUITS AND GRAVYYYYYYYYYYYY? Because that’s a good food if you’re hungry and want some cholesterol...
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Biscuits and Gravy is awesomesauce! Don’t knock them until you’ve tried them. Also, I know they’re not exactly the same...
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I love british biscuits with my tea :)
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Hold up a sec. Yea, waffles. Sure. The Biscuit-Biscuit thing is accurate. (And might I add amusing, especially when a...
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I think the lesson here is that the American version is bigger, sweeter, and more fattening. No wonder we’re so obese.
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American biscuits...not far off what you’d think of as...the...
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We call them “bickies”.
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It should also be noted that potato waffles are waffly versatile.
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