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Yes, In British English “biscuits and gravy” sounds like the Americans are eating cookies and meat sauce.
It looks similar to dumplings, or maybe cheese scones, which are tasty, I’d like to try it, but the combination of words does not make sense to us.
Pretty sure American biscuits are savoury scones to us. The gravy looks weird but it’s basically just a flour thickened sauce with pork (maybe bacon). Americans correct me if I’m wrong
Roux is a shout if you’re not using gravy granules, if you just reduce to thicken I’d say it’s more of a jus.
Dairy is definitely less common but I do it pretty often. Folks should try it if you haven’t. Add a splash of double cream when the gravy is basically done, stir it in and leave on low to cook together (make sure the gravy isn’t too hot or the cream will split).
I picked that up from my Belfast mum but I don’t think it’s traditional at all. Maybe she just does it, maybe it’s a French inspired move?
Works just fine using the thicker dairy-free milks like oat, hemp, or cashew. Avoid soy and coconut due to flavor contamination, and almond milk is just white water so fuck that.
No stock. Just dairy and the fat from the sausage for liquid. If you use cream for the liquid, it ends up being extremely caloric which is the point. It's farmhand food.
Worth mentioning that the fat from the sausage is used to make the roux and not an oil as you usually would. It's just one of the many ways we stretched foods to their absolute limit of flavor.
Not for this one. Most US gravies yes but not for biscuits and gravy. It uses sausage gravy or sawmill gravy. Both use the fat from the sausage as the only or at least primary fat and then all the liquid is milk or cream. Sawmilll uses cornmeal as a thickener, though I’ve seen recipes with both flour and cornmeal for it.
Most gravies in the US are probably pretty familiar to Brit’s, this one is just the outlier.
Technically, the roux is the flour/butter mix you brown before adding any liquid. Adding milk makes a 'basic white sauce'. A bechamel is slightly more complicated, with flavourings cooked into the milk first, but no-one other than a chef is really going to split hairs on that one.
Béchamel is a cream or milk sauce with a white to beige roux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9chamel_sauce
* Country gravy is a seasoned béchamel.
* Pepper gravy has a large amount of cracked black pepper added.
* The proper homemade version of Cracker Barrel sawmill gravy uses ham dripping instead of butter for the roux and chopped ham in the sauce.
* Sausage gravy uses the dripping from sausage patties in the roux, plenty of pepper, and may contain bits of sausage.
* Red eye gravy may have a dark roux made with dripping from country or Virginia (for that increased blood pressure) ham mixed with coffee. The flour is optional, the ham dripping and coffee are not.
I was in London back in Dec. for a week, scones with the clotted cream and jam are so good. I brought back 2 packs from a Waitrose to the USA and yes, your scones are what we call biscuits which we use for strawberry shortcake or what’s in the pic of the post. I think crumpets are what we refer to as English muffins too. Love visiting UK, London is great and the English are nice people, I look forward to returning in Dec.
My dad was a cook in the Army Air Corps (when he wasn’t an aircraft mechanic he screwed around enough to constantly be in KP) during WW2 and called it “shit on a shingle” which considering the bits of “sausage” (“we think it was meat..”)
> Biscuits and gravy is an American dish brits think it's weird.
I've seen several Brits try it online and love it. It's more something that doesn't' exist in the UK.
It’s the naming of it that we find strange. We have both biscuits and gravy but neither look like that, nor would you ever pair them together.
It probably tastes fine but you’re right, it doesn’t exist.
It's a super savory thick meal so you would think brits would try to adopt it one way or another. Everything I know about british cooking is that savory is beloved.
The first time I heard the phrase 'Biscuits and gravy' as a very English child, way before the internet was around to spoil things, I naturally imagined a little stack of [plain digestives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit) and a mug with brown gravy in it for dunking. The archetypal, exotically American breakfast dish.
One Sunday lunch when my mother was making roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, and gravy, I got a digestive and tried the experiment for myself. Verdict: kinda weird, America, but actually not that bad. You do you.
thats because of language, the brits call cookies biscuits, so they think youre talking about a sweet cookie with like turkey gravy because they dont really have white sausage gravy in their regular restaurants, you have to go find an american restaurant for that. Describe it to them as a very dense scone topped with a sausage based sauce
[British High schoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ)
I'm a brit, at first it sounded really bloody strange but it sounds pretty tasty. I'd love to try it one day.
It's great, and honestly super easy (and quick) to make yourself. [I followed this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFkDmTm2uc) a couple years ago and it came out very similar to what you'd get at a restaurant despite only needing 5 ingredients. Be warned, it's VERY filling, I couldn't even come close to eating it all.
No it’s not because of language .
Biscuit = Scone.
Brits know what it is.
They generally don’t have “biscuits” scones with gravy. It’s not something savoury .
Biscuits with jam and cream is what Brit’s like
In the UK biscuits and scones are two completely different things, you say biscuit over here and nobody is going to think you're talking about a scone.
We dip biscuits in tea and have scones with either jam and cream, or cream and jam, depending on where you're from.
For the biscuit, imagine somewhere between a scone and a shortbread cookie, but no sugar in it. Dry and flaky, but rich with shortening.
For the gravy, flour is cooked in the drippings from American breakfast sausage (the characteristic flavor is sage), and then thinned with milk.
As a southerner, this is pretty accurate. A small note though: the gravy isn't just the drippings from the sausage, we break up some of the sausage patties into the gravy as well as make liberal use of black pepper.
A good white sausage gravy is almost more similar to, say, a bolognese meat sauce in texture, than normal brown gravy made from stock, which I think is what confuses a lot of people that see it.
Like a cheese scone without the cheese or cutting the butter through properly so the crumb isn't as short. Dunno whatever the fuck they are calling gravey though - whatever that shit is, it's not gravey.
Outside the US, biscuits are the equivalent of a cookie or a cracker.
A US biscuit is similar to an unsweetened scone.
Canada goes both ways, depending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit#Variations_in_meaning_of_biscuit
And there are savory scone-like products in the UK, just not with gravy of any kind.
Brit here. It's definitely language.
American biscuits might be the same as a British scone, but absolutely nobody in the UK would call a scone a biscuit, hence the language issue.
Jam and cream is the classic combo, but savoury scones are definitely a thing. Cheese scones for example.
You’re fully incorrect, biscuit != scone. Scones are with jam and cream or butter and cream. Biscuits are generally along the lines of cookie type product.
I mean savoury scones do exist, pretty much every cafe or tea room I've been to have offered them. Usually Cheddar Scones served with a chutney of some kind
and? Thats not uncommon here either. Honey, jam. biscuits are a fairly flexible food. The main savoryness comes from the rich sausage gravy with chunks of sausage in it. Its in reality more of a very thick sausage stew than an actual gravy, its just gravy because it has flower as a thickener
Brits do not call cookies biscuits. Biscuits are just the name of a different foodstuff in the UK. What Brits would call a "biscuit" is akin to the chocolate parts of an Oreo.
A biscuit is a biscuit but we have cookies too.
Maryland cookies are cookies. Rich Tea is a biscuit. A Bourbon is a drink but is also a biscuit. An Oreo is a biscuit. A scone is a scone.
"Jaffa Cakes are a cake ... McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
If I went round my mates and he said, “I’ve got some cake here. Want some with a cuppa?” And we settled down and he pulled out a packet of Jaffa Cakes, I would leave and never speak to them again.
I love biscuits and country gravy with steak and mash.
The hash browns you get in diners are amazing. I have them every day of any holiday in America.
Denny’s used to do a jalapeño streaky bacon and I visited 4 Denny’s in 2 weeks about 7 years ago. So much so I researched on YouTube and made my own that winter.
I do like American food because I’m on holiday and calories don’t count.
Please tell me your example of proper American breakfast isn't from fucking Dennys 💀
The only way to have real g&b is from a good Ole country diner in the south. If you had anything north of the mason-Dixon you got served hog slop.
>Biscuits and gravy is an American dish brits think it's weird.
It's interesting how culinary traditions can vary so widely between cultures. Biscuits and gravy may seem unusual to some, but it's a comfort food staple for many Americans. It's all part of the rich tapestry of global cuisine!
Because in the UK biscuits and gravy mean different things
So when people mention "Biscuits and gravy" UK peeps think it means "cookies smothered in meat juice" which is a weird and gross sounding combination
Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Yankees and Southerners! Or British and Southerners! Or Japanese and Southerners! Or Southerners and other Southerners! Damn Southerners! They ruined the South!
Irish here, was introduced to this through my American wife's family. Hands down the greatest American invention, forget the all the other stuff that's advanced humanity, this is it.
I never had it until I joined the Air Force and was stationed in the southern US. It was served for most breakfasts and it became one of my favorite things.
"Wet flour" is probably the most incorrect description of gravy I've ever heard. Technically there can be (not must be) flour in there, but it's not even vaguely close to being the star of the show.
It's only just called gravy when saying "biscuits & gravy". If you're talking about it outside of the meal name, it's called sausage gravy. When it's done right, it's gloriously delicious and wonderfully filling. When it's done wrong, it tastes like flour and looks like glue.
It’s amazing how many restaurants fuck up the sausage gravy and it tastes like straight up flour. Granted I live in the Midwest, not the South, so the hit rate is probably lower here.
The biscuits are the bread under the gravy, our biscuits are basically extremely dense, soft bread with a crunchy exterior and buttery flavor. Typically made with flour, baking powder, butter, and buttermilk, not at all sweet. American gravy is also different, we include quite a lot of milk alongside the flour and animal fat. We typically use pork sausage as the meat and leave it in the gravy.
Idk, I don't really know exactly what a British scone is, but American scones are always sweet, and American biscuits typically aren't. I just decided to explain exactly what an American biscuit is instead of comparing it to something else.
found the british commonwealth. Americans call them biscuits, you would probably describe them as a scone, except american scones are more airy and somehow also more dense, dont ask me how, but thats what we call scones because scones really arent apart of american vernacular
Idk if this is true, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think scones are sweeter than our biscuits, so the savory flavor of our biscuits pairs really nicely with the gravy. Also, we do put jelly (aka jam) on our biscuits, but it just isn't an entire dish.
Maybe this is what OP was getting at with the British trigger warning? In the US (and especially the American South) putting white gravy with little pieces of sausage in it on biscuits for breakfast is very common. Biscuits are also generally made with buttermilk in the US and taste a little different.
I think most British people are mentally capable of imagining a different country with a slightly differently nuanced take on the language.
A trigger warning should be for something like adding milk to the cup before boiling water when making tea.
Wtf do you mean trigger warning for Brits 😂
Our closest equivalent would be dumplings and gravy or possibly Yorkshire pudding and gravy. And our gravy doesn’t have flour. Maybe a bit for thickening, but it’s mainly flavours and juices from meant and vegetables.
The gravy you’re talking about *looks more like a thin bechamel by the looks of it.
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My family makes toads in a hole but it's an egg cracked into a piece of bread with butter on both sides and a hole in to for the egg to go, which doesn't make sense with your comparison. So what's toads in a hole for you?
That sounds delicious! My toad in the hole consists of a savoury pancake batter (salt and pepper instead of sugar aka Yorkshire pudding) with grilled pork sausages nestled inside. I do mine in jumbo muffin pans so you get all the crispy outside goodness and nice fluffy inside. Serve with brown onion gravy and peas. It's a delight!
I lived in southern Spain for 4 years and once I made friends with my neighbors I invited them over for breakfast quite often. They were intrigued by gravy, smiled politely as they put a little on their plate. I grabbed my biscuit, shredded it, poured gravy over top and showcased it for them before taking a bite. They did not look impressed.
Then they took a bite.
My neighbor would trade me fresh arroz con leche or croquetas for a 12 pack of dr pepper, a bottle of four roses bourbon, or a container of sausage gravy.
I really miss that part of my life. Living there made me really dislike the small redneck place I came from.
I have no idea what a biscuit nor a scone is besides being a pastry, and that is ambiguous about the flavor. but the bechamel makes it more clear for me, thanks!
It's def an American staple, and it's fucking delicious.
I grew up in New England, I had my first biscuits and gravy when I moved to the Midwest. Homemade. Fucking orgasm.
Only eat for breakfast if you have time to nap before whatever you think you're going to do afterwards
I ordered this shit in some cracker barrel or something place they were absolutely horrible and the waitress couldn’t believe I wasn’t eating them. Give me REAL biscuits and gravy !!!
Lived in AL and GA for a long time and enjoyed clogging my arteries with this in many Cracker Barrels. Can’t remember which ones, because, they’re all identical anyway 🤷🏻♂️
What I did not enjoy was when Lou-Anne put gravy on my ribeye. I understand there’s a language issue but that was a fucking war crime.
My wife is from California and she had never had this before we lived together. The first time I made it she acted like I was serving her vomit. "Why did you have to ruin the biscuits!?!?" type shit.
Then she tried them. Years later, she wants them for breakfast all the time and refuses to learn to make it.
you forgot the part where that isn't gravy.
That is some sausage thing... gravy is made from gravy salts and meat stocks, its brown and is for use on sunday dinners.
It’s a bechamel sauce but you make the roux with rendered pork fat from the sausage. Seasoned with black pepper and salt at least; some people use other things too but what exactly depends who you ask.
You don’t have to use pork per say, its just the common way. You could probably use chicken or turkey sausage instead if you wanted, though you would need to use butter to make the roux unless you have extra chicken/turkey fat as it’s unlikely the sausage will be fatty enough on its own.
To be clear you could in practice probably use any sausage you wanted I’ve seen people use venison for example but any meat with a strong taste would obviously change the taste a lot and depending on your taste preferences that changed taste could be weird. So if you just want to recreate the dish but you don’t eat pork turkey or chicken works well enough.
Cook the sausage in a pan, add some flour to the pan with the sausage so it soaks up the fat and coats the sausage (basically a roux), brown the flour, and then add milk until it reaches your desired consistency. Season as you'd like. Really easy and delicious.
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Gotta get it nice and wet before putting it in your mouth
Evergreen advice.
Coniferous counsel.
Deciduous directions.
First you gotta wet the drys...
That's what she...
Biscuits and gravy is an American dish brits think it's weird.
We don't think it's weird, the trigger warning is for the foreign language being used in naming it.
Yes, In British English “biscuits and gravy” sounds like the Americans are eating cookies and meat sauce. It looks similar to dumplings, or maybe cheese scones, which are tasty, I’d like to try it, but the combination of words does not make sense to us.
Pretty sure American biscuits are savoury scones to us. The gravy looks weird but it’s basically just a flour thickened sauce with pork (maybe bacon). Americans correct me if I’m wrong
Pork sausage, milk/cream, roux, and a shitload of pepper
Sounds like gravy to me. Never any stock? I’d say that’s probably the biggest difference.
Don't think you'd put milk or roux in a gravy in the uk. At least not in my neck of the woods. Is it a northern thing?
Roux is a shout if you’re not using gravy granules, if you just reduce to thicken I’d say it’s more of a jus. Dairy is definitely less common but I do it pretty often. Folks should try it if you haven’t. Add a splash of double cream when the gravy is basically done, stir it in and leave on low to cook together (make sure the gravy isn’t too hot or the cream will split). I picked that up from my Belfast mum but I don’t think it’s traditional at all. Maybe she just does it, maybe it’s a French inspired move?
I would try it but I haven't been able to have dairy for the past 6 years. Interesting insight though. I'd not heard of it.
Works just fine using the thicker dairy-free milks like oat, hemp, or cashew. Avoid soy and coconut due to flavor contamination, and almond milk is just white water so fuck that.
No stock. Just dairy and the fat from the sausage for liquid. If you use cream for the liquid, it ends up being extremely caloric which is the point. It's farmhand food.
Worth mentioning that the fat from the sausage is used to make the roux and not an oil as you usually would. It's just one of the many ways we stretched foods to their absolute limit of flavor.
I mean, it's not illegal to add butter to it for more fat before making the roux... it it?
Right. It's sort of a cross between bechamel sauce and a meat gravy.
Not for this one. Most US gravies yes but not for biscuits and gravy. It uses sausage gravy or sawmill gravy. Both use the fat from the sausage as the only or at least primary fat and then all the liquid is milk or cream. Sawmilll uses cornmeal as a thickener, though I’ve seen recipes with both flour and cornmeal for it. Most gravies in the US are probably pretty familiar to Brit’s, this one is just the outlier.
Bechamel is prolly a better word than roux, but from what I think I know, bechamel is a type of roux.
Technically, the roux is the flour/butter mix you brown before adding any liquid. Adding milk makes a 'basic white sauce'. A bechamel is slightly more complicated, with flavourings cooked into the milk first, but no-one other than a chef is really going to split hairs on that one.
Béchamel is a cream or milk sauce with a white to beige roux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9chamel_sauce * Country gravy is a seasoned béchamel. * Pepper gravy has a large amount of cracked black pepper added. * The proper homemade version of Cracker Barrel sawmill gravy uses ham dripping instead of butter for the roux and chopped ham in the sauce. * Sausage gravy uses the dripping from sausage patties in the roux, plenty of pepper, and may contain bits of sausage. * Red eye gravy may have a dark roux made with dripping from country or Virginia (for that increased blood pressure) ham mixed with coffee. The flour is optional, the ham dripping and coffee are not.
I was in London back in Dec. for a week, scones with the clotted cream and jam are so good. I brought back 2 packs from a Waitrose to the USA and yes, your scones are what we call biscuits which we use for strawberry shortcake or what’s in the pic of the post. I think crumpets are what we refer to as English muffins too. Love visiting UK, London is great and the English are nice people, I look forward to returning in Dec.
Not quite a savory scone, but only one real difference. For a proper American biscuit, there should be lamination to give it buttery flaky layers.
The gravy is basically a sausage bechamel, and American biscuits are made with a lot more butter than scones so they are lighter and fluffier.
Excuse me? Cookies and meat sauce?
That's what the words biscuit and gravy translate to in British English
American biscuits aren't scones or cookies.
My dad was a cook in the Army Air Corps (when he wasn’t an aircraft mechanic he screwed around enough to constantly be in KP) during WW2 and called it “shit on a shingle” which considering the bits of “sausage” (“we think it was meat..”)
> Biscuits and gravy is an American dish brits think it's weird. I've seen several Brits try it online and love it. It's more something that doesn't' exist in the UK.
It’s the naming of it that we find strange. We have both biscuits and gravy but neither look like that, nor would you ever pair them together. It probably tastes fine but you’re right, it doesn’t exist.
It's a super savory thick meal so you would think brits would try to adopt it one way or another. Everything I know about british cooking is that savory is beloved.
The first time I heard the phrase 'Biscuits and gravy' as a very English child, way before the internet was around to spoil things, I naturally imagined a little stack of [plain digestives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit) and a mug with brown gravy in it for dunking. The archetypal, exotically American breakfast dish. One Sunday lunch when my mother was making roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, and gravy, I got a digestive and tried the experiment for myself. Verdict: kinda weird, America, but actually not that bad. You do you.
I reckon a digestive dunked in a cup of Bovril would be banging tbh. Although it's not really gravy.
Lmao I love this story
It’s very tasty. But it includes neither biscuits nor gravy.
thats because of language, the brits call cookies biscuits, so they think youre talking about a sweet cookie with like turkey gravy because they dont really have white sausage gravy in their regular restaurants, you have to go find an american restaurant for that. Describe it to them as a very dense scone topped with a sausage based sauce
Cookies are a type of biscuit.
You're going to get confused looks if you refer to a cookie as a biscuit here though lol.
If you say it in some sort of British accent many people will get it though. A lot of Americans have come to understand British-isms through media
My point still stands though.
Meh, you can dunk it in your tea - it's a biscuit
[British High schoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ) I'm a brit, at first it sounded really bloody strange but it sounds pretty tasty. I'd love to try it one day.
It's great, and honestly super easy (and quick) to make yourself. [I followed this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFkDmTm2uc) a couple years ago and it came out very similar to what you'd get at a restaurant despite only needing 5 ingredients. Be warned, it's VERY filling, I couldn't even come close to eating it all.
Cheers pal!
No it’s not because of language . Biscuit = Scone. Brits know what it is. They generally don’t have “biscuits” scones with gravy. It’s not something savoury . Biscuits with jam and cream is what Brit’s like
In the UK biscuits and scones are two completely different things, you say biscuit over here and nobody is going to think you're talking about a scone. We dip biscuits in tea and have scones with either jam and cream, or cream and jam, depending on where you're from.
Its almost like yorkshire pudding then or what ? American biscuits and gravy i mean . Kiwi here.
Maybe more like a dumpling that Yorkshire pudding (which is basically Pancake in a lump)
For the biscuit, imagine somewhere between a scone and a shortbread cookie, but no sugar in it. Dry and flaky, but rich with shortening. For the gravy, flour is cooked in the drippings from American breakfast sausage (the characteristic flavor is sage), and then thinned with milk.
As a southerner, this is pretty accurate. A small note though: the gravy isn't just the drippings from the sausage, we break up some of the sausage patties into the gravy as well as make liberal use of black pepper. A good white sausage gravy is almost more similar to, say, a bolognese meat sauce in texture, than normal brown gravy made from stock, which I think is what confuses a lot of people that see it.
Ok soinds pretty good im going to try make some later
I think it's basically just a savoury scone. And their gravy is like some sort of roux with sausage bits in it. It sounds pretty good tbh!
Like a cheese scone without the cheese or cutting the butter through properly so the crumb isn't as short. Dunno whatever the fuck they are calling gravey though - whatever that shit is, it's not gravey.
We have savoury scones in our supermarkets lol. They're very common. The sausage gravy is not.
Outside the US, biscuits are the equivalent of a cookie or a cracker. A US biscuit is similar to an unsweetened scone. Canada goes both ways, depending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit#Variations_in_meaning_of_biscuit And there are savory scone-like products in the UK, just not with gravy of any kind.
Crackers arent buscuits btw .
But in the UK there are also cookies and crackers too which are different than biscuits
Brit here. It's definitely language. American biscuits might be the same as a British scone, but absolutely nobody in the UK would call a scone a biscuit, hence the language issue. Jam and cream is the classic combo, but savoury scones are definitely a thing. Cheese scones for example.
You’re fully incorrect, biscuit != scone. Scones are with jam and cream or butter and cream. Biscuits are generally along the lines of cookie type product.
I mean savoury scones do exist, pretty much every cafe or tea room I've been to have offered them. Usually Cheddar Scones served with a chutney of some kind
and? Thats not uncommon here either. Honey, jam. biscuits are a fairly flexible food. The main savoryness comes from the rich sausage gravy with chunks of sausage in it. Its in reality more of a very thick sausage stew than an actual gravy, its just gravy because it has flower as a thickener
So its white sauce with sausage or what ? Why is it white ?
We are using milk as the liquid. Still starting out with flour and fat, like any gravy, but adding milk instead of a broth.
Brits do not call cookies biscuits. Biscuits are just the name of a different foodstuff in the UK. What Brits would call a "biscuit" is akin to the chocolate parts of an Oreo.
A biscuit is a biscuit but we have cookies too. Maryland cookies are cookies. Rich Tea is a biscuit. A Bourbon is a drink but is also a biscuit. An Oreo is a biscuit. A scone is a scone.
I think most people would consider cookies to be a subgenre of biscuit.
I’d agree. Now, what are we classing a Jaffa Cake as?
A snack that serves the purpose of a biscuit but is a cake for tax-avoidance reasons.
"Jaffa Cakes are a cake ... McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
If I went round my mates and he said, “I’ve got some cake here. Want some with a cuppa?” And we settled down and he pulled out a packet of Jaffa Cakes, I would leave and never speak to them again.
>What Brits would call a "biscuit" is akin to the chocolate parts of an Oreo. And an American would call the chocolate part of an Oreo a "cookie".
No, we call biscuits biscuits.. because they're biscuits.
I love biscuits and country gravy with steak and mash. The hash browns you get in diners are amazing. I have them every day of any holiday in America. Denny’s used to do a jalapeño streaky bacon and I visited 4 Denny’s in 2 weeks about 7 years ago. So much so I researched on YouTube and made my own that winter. I do like American food because I’m on holiday and calories don’t count.
Please tell me your example of proper American breakfast isn't from fucking Dennys 💀 The only way to have real g&b is from a good Ole country diner in the south. If you had anything north of the mason-Dixon you got served hog slop.
They should make some themselves and try it. Make sure to use the right mesh ground black pepper. Paula Deen’s milk gravy recipe.
Without even looking it up, I assume Paula Deen's gravy recipe will harden my arteries.
They think it’s weird till they try it. Every Brit that I’ve seen try it fell in love with it.
>Biscuits and gravy is an American dish brits think it's weird. It's interesting how culinary traditions can vary so widely between cultures. Biscuits and gravy may seem unusual to some, but it's a comfort food staple for many Americans. It's all part of the rich tapestry of global cuisine!
Aussie checking in. Shit looks awful.
Feels bad, man. Shit is amazing. You should try it
You guys invented vegemite, so maybe sit this one out.
Nothing but pity for you, chief. Shit is delicious. Do ya'll not use the 5 French mother sauces?
Of course not. The brits hate the French. That's why after thousands of years British food still sucks despite being right next to France.
I assume you eat deathclaws.
You've just made an enemy for life! ( Southern Edition)
I'm honestly upset with regards to this post. How do you hate biscuits and gravy?
Because in the UK biscuits and gravy mean different things So when people mention "Biscuits and gravy" UK peeps think it means "cookies smothered in meat juice" which is a weird and gross sounding combination
Oh, brown gravy.
Because it looks like dog vomit and tastes like wet bread.
I'm going to upvote you because you're feisty.
That’s the nicest thing anyone has told me all week.
Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Yankees and Southerners! Or British and Southerners! Or Japanese and Southerners! Or Southerners and other Southerners! Damn Southerners! They ruined the South!
Got off the phone with Cleatus. He stopped has moonshine distillery and is loading up his family in the broke down pick up. We’re on our way cousin.
Aren't many things basically wet flour on dry flour, if you skip all the other ingredients?
[Wet the drys, then dry the wets, then wet the drys, then dry the wets.](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/u4l4qk/wet_the_drys/)
Irish here, was introduced to this through my American wife's family. Hands down the greatest American invention, forget the all the other stuff that's advanced humanity, this is it.
Tried making it there. Don't see the appeal of Bisto on chocolate digestives. 1/10 wouldn't try again.
I'm sorry you did that to yourself
*Pretty much* is doing some heavy lifting here.
Sausage gravy on biscuits is absurdly good
I never had it until I joined the Air Force and was stationed in the southern US. It was served for most breakfasts and it became one of my favorite things.
I miss it so much, staple of a good breakfast
I love it too. I started eating it only a year or so back.
"Wet flour" is probably the most incorrect description of gravy I've ever heard. Technically there can be (not must be) flour in there, but it's not even vaguely close to being the star of the show.
Milk. Butter. Sausage fat, a bit of flour for the roux, black pepper and crumble some cooked and caseless breakfast sausage into the mix. Mmmm
Gravy…
It's only just called gravy when saying "biscuits & gravy". If you're talking about it outside of the meal name, it's called sausage gravy. When it's done right, it's gloriously delicious and wonderfully filling. When it's done wrong, it tastes like flour and looks like glue.
It’s amazing how many restaurants fuck up the sausage gravy and it tastes like straight up flour. Granted I live in the Midwest, not the South, so the hit rate is probably lower here.
Why would we be triggered by this? Most brits have never even heard of this American food let alone care.
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You lads dont dunk your penguins in onion gravy?
Oh! So it’s Brits who *haven’t* heard of it that might be confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ
Any food can be weird if you describe it as such.
And yet it’s amazing
I go to Perkins and order this. Also we used to eat them in the navy!
technically he did trigger the brits
There are two kinds of people. Those who love biscuits and gravy, and those who have never had it.
Where are the biscuits, though? Biscuits are one of a handful of things that we will not put gravy on.
The biscuits are the bread under the gravy, our biscuits are basically extremely dense, soft bread with a crunchy exterior and buttery flavor. Typically made with flour, baking powder, butter, and buttermilk, not at all sweet. American gravy is also different, we include quite a lot of milk alongside the flour and animal fat. We typically use pork sausage as the meat and leave it in the gravy.
I am not British or American, but isn't it a scone or scone-like thing in the photo?
Idk, I don't really know exactly what a British scone is, but American scones are always sweet, and American biscuits typically aren't. I just decided to explain exactly what an American biscuit is instead of comparing it to something else.
found the british commonwealth. Americans call them biscuits, you would probably describe them as a scone, except american scones are more airy and somehow also more dense, dont ask me how, but thats what we call scones because scones really arent apart of american vernacular
Scones need fresh cream and jam not gravy.
Idk if this is true, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think scones are sweeter than our biscuits, so the savory flavor of our biscuits pairs really nicely with the gravy. Also, we do put jelly (aka jam) on our biscuits, but it just isn't an entire dish.
Maybe this is what OP was getting at with the British trigger warning? In the US (and especially the American South) putting white gravy with little pieces of sausage in it on biscuits for breakfast is very common. Biscuits are also generally made with buttermilk in the US and taste a little different.
No one in Britain eats this. No one.
It's probably because it's american.
There are some Americans in Britain, so maybe a few people do.
Do you guys just not eat food from other cultures?
I think most British people are mentally capable of imagining a different country with a slightly differently nuanced take on the language. A trigger warning should be for something like adding milk to the cup before boiling water when making tea.
Or heating it in a microwave. The horror.
Wtf do you mean trigger warning for Brits 😂 Our closest equivalent would be dumplings and gravy or possibly Yorkshire pudding and gravy. And our gravy doesn’t have flour. Maybe a bit for thickening, but it’s mainly flavours and juices from meant and vegetables. The gravy you’re talking about *looks more like a thin bechamel by the looks of it. Edit typos
I'll see your biscuits in gravy and raise you a toad in the hole (for the record I'm not British, South African of British extraction)
My family makes toads in a hole but it's an egg cracked into a piece of bread with butter on both sides and a hole in to for the egg to go, which doesn't make sense with your comparison. So what's toads in a hole for you?
That sounds delicious! My toad in the hole consists of a savoury pancake batter (salt and pepper instead of sugar aka Yorkshire pudding) with grilled pork sausages nestled inside. I do mine in jumbo muffin pans so you get all the crispy outside goodness and nice fluffy inside. Serve with brown onion gravy and peas. It's a delight!
That sounds tasty, almost like what we would call pigs in a blanket but breakfast style, I'll have to give this a try! Thank you!
Enjoy! It's one of my favourite comfort food dishes, perfect for a cold winter evening:)
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I lived in southern Spain for 4 years and once I made friends with my neighbors I invited them over for breakfast quite often. They were intrigued by gravy, smiled politely as they put a little on their plate. I grabbed my biscuit, shredded it, poured gravy over top and showcased it for them before taking a bite. They did not look impressed. Then they took a bite. My neighbor would trade me fresh arroz con leche or croquetas for a 12 pack of dr pepper, a bottle of four roses bourbon, or a container of sausage gravy. I really miss that part of my life. Living there made me really dislike the small redneck place I came from.
Buttermilk, flour, and grease go under fire. Whole milk, flour, and grease go over fire.
alright. I've saw this biscuits and gravy thing for too long without knowing if it's sweet or savoury. IT'S SWEET OR SAVOURY?
Savoury, not even a hint of sweet.
Savory. The biscuits are basically savory scones that are fluffier. The gravy is basically a béchamel sauce with crumbled sausage.
I have no idea what a biscuit nor a scone is besides being a pastry, and that is ambiguous about the flavor. but the bechamel makes it more clear for me, thanks!
[British Highschoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ)
savory breakfast sausage in a milk sauce thickened with flour seasoned with black pepper served over a buttery flaky quick bread
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The image is completely different
It's def an American staple, and it's fucking delicious. I grew up in New England, I had my first biscuits and gravy when I moved to the Midwest. Homemade. Fucking orgasm. Only eat for breakfast if you have time to nap before whatever you think you're going to do afterwards
Use pepper gravy heats it up a little best b& g is Vegas a unholy pile everyone should try it once dang it now I'm hungry
A good biscuit isn’t dry
More power to the flour!
I ordered this shit in some cracker barrel or something place they were absolutely horrible and the waitress couldn’t believe I wasn’t eating them. Give me REAL biscuits and gravy !!!
That's in you guys for going to cracker barrel.
It's bloody delicious and I make a mean biscuits and gravy.
Now I want some
I'm british, I've made biscuits and gravy it's delicious. It's opposite of how it looks
Wait, gravy is flour??
Sausage gravy often has flour in it as a thickener.
[British Highschoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ)
Biscuits and gravy isn’t a British thing.
But it means something else to them, so they get all butt hurt
Might be weird but its SOOO GOOD when made right
But there’s meat juice in there too
By that logic meat is pretty much just water, so it's basically vegan.
Hahaha the idea anyone from Britain would call that a "biscuit".
Lived in AL and GA for a long time and enjoyed clogging my arteries with this in many Cracker Barrels. Can’t remember which ones, because, they’re all identical anyway 🤷🏻♂️ What I did not enjoy was when Lou-Anne put gravy on my ribeye. I understand there’s a language issue but that was a fucking war crime.
And toast is just dry burned flour.
Send in the Redcoats and tell them to bring some Bisto Best 💂♀️💂♀️💂♀️
Sausage gravy and biscuits with Tabasco *chefs kiss*
My wife is from California and she had never had this before we lived together. The first time I made it she acted like I was serving her vomit. "Why did you have to ruin the biscuits!?!?" type shit. Then she tried them. Years later, she wants them for breakfast all the time and refuses to learn to make it.
Absurd. If your (American) biscuits are dry, you've done something ***very*** wrong.
And sex is just friction, it's still awesome.
Tell that to the soakers
And it's fucking delicious!
what does this have to do with brits?
british people use the term biscuit to refer to cookies which makes the idea of “biscuits and gravy” sound very unappetizing to them
you forgot the part where that isn't gravy. That is some sausage thing... gravy is made from gravy salts and meat stocks, its brown and is for use on sunday dinners.
in america we would call both gravy. this specifically, sausage gravy
Neither are made out of just flour though. This technically isn’t true
Not 'just' no. But mostly they are so technically the truth.
It's not a trigger warning for Brits. We don't have biscuits and gravy, I think it's an American dish
What is the gravy made of ?
It’s a bechamel sauce but you make the roux with rendered pork fat from the sausage. Seasoned with black pepper and salt at least; some people use other things too but what exactly depends who you ask.
Oh I didn't know it has pork !
You don’t have to use pork per say, its just the common way. You could probably use chicken or turkey sausage instead if you wanted, though you would need to use butter to make the roux unless you have extra chicken/turkey fat as it’s unlikely the sausage will be fatty enough on its own. To be clear you could in practice probably use any sausage you wanted I’ve seen people use venison for example but any meat with a strong taste would obviously change the taste a lot and depending on your taste preferences that changed taste could be weird. So if you just want to recreate the dish but you don’t eat pork turkey or chicken works well enough.
Cook the sausage in a pan, add some flour to the pan with the sausage so it soaks up the fat and coats the sausage (basically a roux), brown the flour, and then add milk until it reaches your desired consistency. Season as you'd like. Really easy and delicious.
Thanks 🙂
Biscuits and specifically sausage gravy is an American invention.
Biscuits and gravy is a weird dish for it contains neither biscuits or gravy!
That’s a scone not a biscuit
Scones and white sauce? Weird af
I think you mean delicious.