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adjl posted...

Where do shortbreads fall? By your description, I'm getting the sense that "biscuit" is roughly anything crunchier than a shortbread and "cookie" is anything chewier, but I realize that's a pretty baseless assumption.

You're right, it's about texture. Biscuits are hard. We consider American biscuits to be savory scones. The Wikipedia articles on shortbread and biscuit covers it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortbread

Shortbread is just shortbread. We'd consider it a biscuit, but usually just call it shortbread. I'm wondering if you mean something different, because I've never heard of the plural, "shortbreads".

Bugmeat posted...

So, like a fig newton? What about chocokate chip cookies? Are those also cookies over there? Or are they buscuits?

Chocolate chip cookies are cookies. Oreos are biscuits (we have Oreos here).