• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      18 days ago

      Good question, but no.

      A cookie is one of the types of biscuits.

      Cookie monster, to my knowledge, normally ate cookies in the English sense, so the name still worked either side of “the pond”.

      wiki article - chocolate chip cookie

      We probably just accepted that he occasionally ate other biscuits too - but also, we grew up with Standard Definition TV, so maybe there just weren’t enough pixels to tell what he was eating.

      • brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        18 days ago

        Cookie monster eat cookie… chocolate, raisin, even oatmeal. Nomnnomnnomnnomnnomn nomnnomn. Biscuit? Explain difference between English & American biscuit while cookie monster eat biscuit! Nomnnomnnomnnomnnomn! More cookie, please!!!

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          I’m actually pretty convinced by this impression.

          Assuming you are the real cookie monster,

          In English, “Cookie” is a smaller subsection of the category of “Biscuits”.

          In American, “cookie” is equivalent to the English word “Biscuit”, like it’s the entire category of everything slightly in that area of food.