
Originally Posted by
OC Richard
That's very interesting. I used the term "cookie cutter" without stopping to think that it was an Americanism, but of course it is!
Mental head smack!! It didn't occur to me, either. Do the British have a "biscuit cutter" in the kitchen, for making rounds of dough?
Now, if a cookie is a biscuit, what is a biscuit (Yank style)? In my part of the world, the same implement may be used for cutting both.
Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
gainfully unemployed systems programmer
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