Re: Harry Potter American

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:13:54 +0000 (UTC), tmcd@xxxxxxxxx (Tim McDaniel)
wrote:

In article <9avkv35qnclpmrqa9bltmmno6ggselja2g@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
animal crackers are considered cookies, for example

The passive voice should sometimes be avoided. You consider animal
crackers to be cookies. I don't: I'd call them rather sweet crackers,
but I think they're too cracker/bread/pastry-like to be cookies.

Hmm...

It had honestly never occurred to me that anyone didn't consider them
cookies, so I googled. Didn't find anything definitive, but I went to
Wikipedia and found this:

"There is debate about whether or not Animal Crackers are actually
crackers or cookies. They are like crackers due to the way they are
made, with layered dough, however the use of sweetened dough gives
them the cookie taste and consistency."

So apparently it's not universally taken for granted, you're right.

Huh. Learn something new every day.





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