Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US) In the US, cookies are flat, round snacks made of sweet dough. In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.
In British English, crackers are sometimes called water biscuits, or savory biscuits.
Cookies. In the U.K., a cookie specifically refers to a chocolate chip cookie. Anything else would be called a “biscuit.” Biscuits aren't the chewy cookies you'd find in American bakeries, but have a crisper texture, like shortbread, or a snap. It's a fact that British bacon tastes better—and here's why.
The term digestive is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties due to the use of sodium bicarbonate when they were first developed. Historically, some producers used diastatic malt extract to "digest" some of the starch that existed in flour prior to baking.
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I. It's said that wives and mothers of soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—abbreviated to "Anzac"—baked these treats to send to their men overseas.
Now that all seems fairly straight-forward, until we learn that lolly is actually the Australian word for sweets – i.e. British lollies but without the sticks. In other words, the correct translation for “Süßigkeiten” in Australia is “lollies”.
Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.
First off, try digestive biscuits. They're really very similar cookies/crackers/biscuits, and it's a common enough substitution that it's even mentioned on Wikipedia. Cook's Thesaurus implies that they're called wheatmeal biscuits in Australia.
Lightly sweet and crunchy, McVitie's the Original Digestives are made with wholesome healthy ingredients. With 60% wheat and wholemeal and made without hydrogenated vegetable oil and anything artificial, these delicious wheat biscuits feature the classic crunch we all love with loved ones.
What do Brits call graham crackers? In the UK, there's no such thing as graham crackers. The closest thing we get is the digestive biscuit. A digestive biscuit is a sweet-meal biscuit (cookie) with wholemeal flour.
They call the tasty snack "crisps", while the Americans call chips "(French) fries". A "biscuit" in Britain is a "cookie" in the US. After a meal, Americans ask the waiter for "the check". In the UK: "the bill".
cookie is the usual term for the flat, sweet, crisp or chewy items known outside of North America as biscuits” (“cookie, n. 1.”).
In the U.K., those are generally still just called muffins (because it's fairly easy to tell the two apart), but you'll sometimes see them referred to as “American muffins.” English muffins definitely aren't a British food that Americans just don't understand. View slideshow. More on Muffins.
Did you know they call cigarettes fags in the U.K.? You probably did. He takes short, quick drags, racing to the filter – to the fix.
Chips (UK) / French Fries (US)
Meanwhile, Brits call fat strips of potato that are (usually) deep fried and eaten with plenty of salt and vinegar “chips”. In the US these are “French Fries”, or often just “fries”.
So in sum, from a nutrition perspective, digestives are essentially just a cookie (albeit a very delicious cookie), and nothing more.
- Technical reason: the holes through the biscuits enables the steam created inside the dough during baking to pass through and this prevents the swelling.
The Granita is kind of the flash cousin of the Shredded Wheatmeal. It's a digestive biscuit, and it includes whole wheat. However, it's much sweeter and less worthy that the aforementioned biscuit, and requires much less chewing.
ANZAC Biscuits (with Almonds)
This is the national biscuit of Australia. Thin, crunchy, and full of coconut and oats, these became the national treasure they are during World War I!
Whatever you favour, just don't call them Anzac cookies. "Referring to these products as 'Anzac Cookies' is generally not approved, due to the non-Australian overtones," the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) advises.
The number one spot for Australia's most popular biscuit we easily give to Tim Tam because everyone who has any knowledge of Australia's culture knows that Tim Tams are a prototype of the country's sweet treats.
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Intoxicated (by drugs or alcohol).
Aussie Word of the Week
A brickie is a bricklayer. This piece of Aussie slang has been around for yonks and was recorded as early as 1900. You might say that brickie has cemented its place in the Aussie lexicon. You could even consider it a foundational word.