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Unread 01-21-2011, 05:28 PM
Bill Carpenter Bill Carpenter is offline
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Transatlantic Usage

When we say biscuit, we don't really mean it.
We bake it once and eat it steaming hot
with butter, honey, jelly, jam or gravy.
A packaged biscuit wouldn't hit the mark.

What you call biscuits, we call cookies, crackers,
or maybe we have don't even have a name
for things you like, but which strike us as foreign,
which may be soggy, dry, or in between.

Our common tongue divides us on this theme;
come visit, and we'll feed you what we mean.

Last edited by Bill Carpenter; 01-21-2011 at 07:17 PM.
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