@Grace Warren: In some rare cases, a lump of raw biscuit dough may climb out of the mixing bowl, reject its parentage, put on blue lipstick, date a punk rocker and redefine itself on an emotional cross-continental road trip. In the end, it will realize it was a cookie all along.

As for biscotti, I'm not sure what the popular perspective is on 'biscotti' vs 'biscuit'. My mother talks about biscotti sometimes, but she's actually referring to a brand called <em>Lotus Biscoff</em>, which isn't even Italian. It's Dutch.

Keep posting, this is good stuff.

Best question of the month! Now, a question in return:

Do Italian websites use biscotti?

Now please excuse me while I go bake some biscotti. Not cookies or biscuits.

In fact, we do eat cookies as well as biscuits in the UK :)

The difference is a bit vague. It's something you have to develop an intuition for, and there's plenty of room for disagreement.

Generally, a biscuit is crunchy and crumbly, whereas a cookie is usually soft and gooey.

An extreme biscuit is like cardboard. An extreme cookie is just raw dough.

So, do British websites use biscuits instead of cookies? I think it must depend on the preference of the website designer. Personally, I think cookies are still the better option; most biscuits aren't sticky enough to hold onto data reliably.

If this was meant to be a joke, it was a good one.