Biscuit tag: American or British?

iridescent_slime said:

I'm not quite sure what to make of snacks like the ones in post #995036 or post #2279523 or post #3199464 — they look more like a cracker to my eyes, so any biscuit expertise would be especially helpful.

The difference between cookie and cracker is mostly in the ingredients and taste, right? Makes it kinda hard to tag properly and I think it’s that important to get it 100% right. Anyone interested in the visuals should search for ~cookie ~cracker anyway. ;-)

I’d tag post #995036 and post #2279523 as cracker because they look like the usual crackers to me. The thing in post #3199464 looks like it has two layers, so I’d tag that cookie.

iridescent_slime said:

• What's the BE term for a large bottle with a handle and a narrow mouth, if not jug? How do you distinguish containers like these from these? My curiosity is genuine.
• I've stopped using the pavement tag altogether as I honestly have no idea what the point of it is. The wiki doesn't conform to either the AE or BE definition, as far as I can tell. FYI, the AE use of pavement is for any road paving material — asphalt, brick, concrete, etc. — and it certainly isn't limited to "stones arranged to form the surface". I'm not sure whether this is actually useful as a tag.

• The first is just a bottle, while the second a jerry can? Neither of them are anywhere near being jugs.
• For pavement, what the definition is for is really paving, rather than pavement. Perhaps the tag name should be changed to that.

kittey said:

The difference between cookie and cracker is mostly in the ingredients and taste, right?

Seems true of any difference between any 2 foodstuffs...

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