Quote: Griff @ August 13 2008, 6:47 PM BSTIsn't that what we call "haslet" over here ?
I thought it was scrabble for dyslexics, I've been patronised all these years!
Quote: Griff @ August 13 2008, 7:26 PM BSTI reckon that guy had been eating artichokes.
Dear Lord Griff are you trying to become me?
Quote: DaButt @ August 13 2008, 6:33 PM BSTSimilar to a roll or a scone, but not sweet. Basically a hunk of bread.
Sounds more like a dumpling.
Cheese & Onion sensations with nuts
Quote: David Chapman @ August 13 2008, 8:08 PM BSTSounds more like a dumpling.
Not really. Dumplings are cooked in liquid and are closer to pasta. A biscuit is bread-like. Don't the McDonald's there serve breakfast sandwiches made with biscuits?
No because people would think they were cookies.
Quote: DaButt @ August 13 2008, 9:06 PM BSTNot really. Dumplings are cooked in liquid and are closer to pasta. A biscuit is bread-like. Don't the McDonald's there serve breakfast sandwiches made with biscuits?
No they just sell offal and industrial alcohol. It's all we Brits like to eat.
Quote: ian_w @ August 13 2008, 9:07 PM BSTNo because people would think they were cookies.
Surely they could make up a new name? AmeriBun? YankBread? BisKKKit?
Quote: sootyj @ August 13 2008, 9:12 PM BSTNo they just sell offal and industrial alcohol.
No alcohol at U.S. McDonald's.
I just checked the UK McD's website and it looks like your breakfast sandwiches are mostly the same (bagels, "English" muffins) but you're getting shortchanged in the biscuit department. Not that I eat there more than once per year ...
McDonald's breakfasts are in muffins here, not bagels or these 'biscuit' things.
Unless you order the pancakes of course. That would be a bit messy.
And they don't sell alcohol here either. Don't believe anything sooty ever says. 
Quote: Aaron @ August 13 2008, 9:24 PM BSTMcDonald's breakfasts are in muffins here, not bagels or these 'biscuit' things.
Unless you order the pancakes of course. That would be a bit messy.
And they don't sell alcohol here either. Don't believe anything sooty ever says.
The UK McD's website showed bagels. 
And they sell (or sold?) a breakfast sandwich here that replaced the bun with pancakes with syrup injected inside:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGriddles
I've had beer at a McD's somewhere in the distant past. Maybe Germany or Panama?
One more nail in the coffin of irony.
They sell beer at the KFC at the Tower of London.
The majesty of our royal family obviously drives foreigners to drink and junk food.
Reminds me of this story I read a few days ago:
P.S. I prefer the Big Kahuna Burger.
Quote: DaButt @ August 13 2008, 9:31 PM BSTThe UK McD's website showed bagels.
Oh yes, they started doing a different range recentlyish with bagels. The majority are muffins though. The equivalent of what you linked to, are muffins. The McMuffin, to be precise.
Economics: Screw everyone else for as much as possible, and rake it in yourself.
Basically.
It's a fascinatingly accurate yardstick of comparative econmies.
Except looking at the figures it makes Indonesia twice as rich as US.
Go Indonesia!
Hmmm. I need to eat, apparently. Ice cream doesn't count.