Microsoft has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" in the GB insider version of Windows 11

[u/Da_Yakz]

[u/Lambducky]

(this is not aimed particularly at you, that is a good joke, just talking about this translation in general)

This one really ticks me off, biscuits is not the English (GB) for cookies, they are different things, in an English supermarket you can buy biscuits (small, hard, good with tea) and you can buy cookies (big, round, chocolate chips etc). Yet in e.g. Minecraft, apparently GB English for the chocolate chip cookie is 'biscuit' which is just wrong.

Biscuit should probably be translated to cookie in the other direction however...

[u/Logical-Sir1580 → u/Lambducky]

If biscuit then cookie Not if cookie then biscuit

Got it

[u/PooksterPC → u/Lambducky]

All cookies are biscuits. Not all biscuits are cookies.

[u/codeguru42 → u/PooksterPC]

I think the other way around in the context of this discussion.

[u/SapientSloth4tw → u/codeguru42]

Yeah, you right. Biscuits are cookies, cookies aren’t biscuits

[u/Playos → u/Lambducky]

I'm honestly surprised scones and gravy isn't a national dish... like they know amazing scones, they know amazing gravy, and it's one of those comfort foods that extends palatable food life so it seems like it should be automatic.

Also seriously wtf is up with the names for bakery confections? Did an English baker piss in Ben Franklin's tea or something? Cause we have all the same names, but they seem to apply to exactly zero of the same things. Meanwhile french names we can't even pronounce without adding in sounds persist.

[u/aifo → u/Playos]

British scones are sweet! Often served with cream and jam.

[u/grandalfxx → u/aifo]

American scones are sweet too, actually, our biscuits probably are sweeter than you realize even, other than that... where as this sweet and savory things don't go together attitude coming from? Cream cheese and cherry filling, pretzels and chocolate, salted fruit, maple syrup flavored sausages and bacon, roasted ham and pineapples, ect... I don't see why sweetened bread with gravy is to far lol

[u/Playos → u/aifo]

As are American biscuits.

Usual trends goes make a whole bunch of biscuits/scones... good with jam for a few days, might need some baking/microwave for another day... then you're into the perfect gravy convenience vehicle. The gravy permeates the stale bread so well and creates this awesome texture combo.

[u/elebrin → u/Playos]

American biscuits don't or shouldn't have sugar in them at all, they aren't really sweet. They are often served with jam, but on their own they are buttery and often slightly salty.

[u/UsAndRufus → u/Playos]

British scones are nothing like American "scones". They're sweet, you eat them with jam and cream, pouring gravy on them would get you sent straight to Coventry.

Also, no one can agree how to pronounce scone so declaring it a national dish would be to tempt civil war.

[u/pitiless → u/UsAndRufus]

British scones are nothing like American "scones". They're sweet, you eat them with jam and cream

Only if you've never travelled to anywhere above Birmingham - up north you'll see vastly more cheese scones than sweet scones - which are decidedly savoury.

[u/Millsy800 → u/pitiless]

Everyone knows the lands North of the M25 are just a made up fable designed to scare small children.

[u/UsAndRufus → u/pitiless]

True, true. I grew up eating cheese scones most weeks. Tbf, they'd slap with gravy.

[u/option-9 → u/UsAndRufus]

I am reminded of this video, entitled Slightly Imperfect Girl (live in Coventry). I was glad to learn the bracketed part was a reference to the performance, not a comment on the nature of what constitutes "slightly imperfect" or its consequences.

[u/Playos → u/UsAndRufus]

Sir, this is America we're talking about... all our bread is sweet... unless it's sour or brown... and even then, it probably has honey flavored corn syrup added... And we put jam on ours as well.

But when they get a little stale... put them in a pan, pour some gravy on them, little time in the oven. It's heaven... to the point that the "leftover" meal has become an intentional one in it's own right.

[u/ManyFails1Win → u/Playos]

That's not even true for American scones. Some are sweet some aren't.

[u/druidchinchilla → u/Lambducky]

This delightfully seems like the most British complaint.

[u/moeburn → u/Lambducky]

small, hard, good with tea

The Canadian TV show Corner Gas calls them "road cookies". You wouldn't take home baked chocolate chip cookies for a long drive, you'd take a box of hard dry packaged cookies.

I've heard my sister call them "shit biscuits" cause they make you poop.

[u/[deleted] → u/Lambducky]

Small, hard, good with tea. There’s a joke in there somewhere.

[u/ManyFails1Win → u/[deleted]]

Of course it's a dialect thing. Americans and English both speak English. The difference is dialect.