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To me there's a world of difference between a US scone and a US biscuit. I love both but they're a lot different IMO.
This is kind of related... my partner is from Iowa, and moved here to South Texas, and would refer to a taco as a "Mexican Taco". Cracked me up every time. I mean, here, what else is there?
A Mexican Taco as opposed to WHAT??
I didn't know there was any other kind.
When I first moved to France many years ago in the Air Force, my wife asked a waiter for French Dressing........[we didn't know] His reply was, "Madamme, zees eez France......all dressing eez French."
Now you've got me thinking... can you get a danish pastry in Denmark? How about a Belgian waffle in Belgium? Not trying to be funny, I really am curious!
I have eaten both of those things in those respective countries. I don't know what the Danes would call that type of pastry, but to a Belgian a waffle is a just a waffle.
An English Muffin is almost like a scone but more bready, hard to explain, its savory, not sweet. You can actually make a pizza on them if you want. Toast them and put jam and butter on them.
Just done a Google Image search on them and they look like mutant crumpets. I'll have to try them if I ever see them. They look good.
American = "English muffin", Britain = "muffin" - same thing
To (slightly?) confuse matters the sweet cakey thing (you know, blueberry, chocolate chip et al) called just "muffin" in the U.S. is also called simply "muffin" in the UK, although they're not nearly as prevelent as they are Stateside.
Bingo.
And crumpets are much rubberier and the holes go through to the top edge. They are very leaky!
Now you've got me thinking... can you get a danish pastry in Denmark? How about a Belgian waffle in Belgium? Not trying to be funny, I really am curious!
Waffles have been served in Belgium for centuries, however in Belgium they are known as "gauffres", and there are generally not eaten for breakfast…more of a dessert type item over there.
In Denmark what we call Danish pastry is known as Wienerbrød", this is due to the fact that the basic recipe came from Vienna, Austria centuries ago. The Danes took the basic sweet dough recipe and went from there.
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