Originally Posted by
p1eman
So sportives are similar to gran fondos.
Jelly babies are basically slightly softer than jelly beans and shaped like a person, they're small, so 'babies'.
Jaffa cakes are essentially a biscuit. It's a sponge biscuit with a splodge of orange (hence jaffa) jelly (gelatine, not American jelly, which we call jam!). Then it has a dark chocolate layer to finish. Both items are full of sugar and well know among UK cyclists for their restorative properties. I'd be happy to send you some!! I guess there are less references to food in English sitcoms and films than there are in American ones!!
Got it!
Oh, man this is fun; it could go on forever. Gotta let you know, in the USA a biscuit is something you have never seen before. The are wonderful, but don't ask. It is too hard to explain. Oh, all right. It is a very short, unsweetened, quick breakfast bread leavened with baking powder (acid and bicarbonate), not yeast, and formed into round cakes. An English biscuit is a "cookie" in America. The term goes back to our heavily German population in Pennsylvania during colonial times.