Brits,please answer my question?

[imabrat]

What in the world are 'digestives' and 'flapjacks'?
If someone could post a pic or translate to Am.English,I'd really appreciate it.

I'm watching BBCAmerica 'You are what you eat', and I have no idea what they're talking about sometimes.


PS : Are your crisps potato flavored? Are they called potato crisps like they are in the US,except it's potato chips?

 

[Pirate Me]

I'm not british but I think digestives are your digestive system organs and flapjacks are pancakes. And crisps are potato chips.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

are digestives cookies? XD

 

[imabrat]

IDK,all they said was 'chocolate digestives'.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

I think they are.

 

[PurpleDucky]

maybe digestives are laxatives

 

[laura_<3]

Digestives are biscuits (cookies)
http://www.123healthybalance.com/i/products/milk-choc-digestive.jpg

Flapjacks are biscuits/thick pancakes made from oats and golden syrup
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/942Honey_flapjacks_small.jpg

I think most Brits call potato chips Crisps. I think they're just like the ones you can get in the US but are called crisps in England.

Hope that's helped a bit

 

[england rocks]

hey i am english we call them biscuits but we do get digestives biscuits. flapjacks are the same no diff word and chips are u fries 4 us and crisps are u potatoe chips 4 u

i hope that makes sense.

 

[marypops!]

Like i've mentioned on the Random Thread. Our biscuits are different to american biscuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit

You dunk them in Tea sometimes :-D

i've never used the term potato crisps... they're like potato chips in America and are also flavoured like salted, cheese & onion, salt & vinegar, roast chicken, etc.

anything else?

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Roast chicken?!

 

[marypops!]

yes roast chicken

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I've never heard of that. Our flavors are, regular, salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion, barbeque, cheddar and onion (I think).

Sorry if I came off as rude.

 

[marypops!]

we have so many flavours... they keep making new ones like baked bean, tomato ketchup, beef & onion, etc.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Roast chicken?!

Here in Canada at Fortinos, we have smoked rib chips XD

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

hey i am english we call them biscuits but we do get digestives biscuits. flapjacks are the same no diff word and chips are u fries 4 us and crisps are u potatoe chips 4 u

i hope that makes sense.

Not.....really.


The grammar was difficult to interpret.

 

[Pirate Me]

I never would have guessed that digestives were cookies.

 

[DramaGirl]

we have so many flavours... they keep making new ones like baked bean, tomato ketchup, beef & onion, etc.

When I went to England, I saw a lot like those... it was really cool :]

 

[UltraJoshua]

I'm Irish but Flapjacks are pancakes and digestives are biscuits and crisps are chips.

 

[marypops!]

In America, biscuits are more of a sweet bread I think... I had some at Trails End. Our biscuits are like cookies or crackers. Some are sweet, some are plain.

I always thought flapjack were those blocks of oats and syrup. I made some a couple of months ago.

Never knew they could also be pancakes as well...

 

[Vannah]

I knew about the flapjack thing, but not about the digestives.
That's really neat.

Oh, and we also have Dill Pickle flavored chips.