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[labellementeuse]

So I'm watching Friends and eating Oreos (I can't believe I just wrote that, by the way. Friends. Oreos. Next thing I'll be calling them cookies and dunking them in milk.) but! On the side of the package there's this little logo- I'm guessing it's probably just the appropriate script, actually- and it says "halal"! Oreos are halal!


... I thought it was interesting, okay.

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[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

You call Oreos biscuits?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We use the word cookies, but only for a very specific sort of biscuit- flat, and usually with something in them, like chocolate chip cookies, or peanut cookies, or raising cookies. Oreos are definitely biscuity. :P You also couldn't get Oreos in New Zealand until, oh, about five or six years ago. I grew up wondering what oreos and graham crackers were, and the only reason I know about graham crackers is a friend sent me a box.

I think what you guys call biscuits, we call scones. I'm not sure what we call what you guys call scones. Oh, language, it's a wonderful thing...

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Huh....

We call lumpy, somewhat heavy, biscuits, sometimes with raisins in them, sometimes triangular-shaped, scones. And fluffier things I call biscuits.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I guess we'd call all of the above scones. :)