CBB viewers chuckle as biscuits baffle Ryan Thomas

From Digital Spy

Celebrity Big Brother's White House faced the first crisis of Kirstie Alley's administration on Monday all thanks to transatlantic confusion over biscuits.

President Kirstie almost irrevocably breached trust with her vice president, former Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas, while the two were discussing how she likes to throw dinner parties for her very famous friends.

Ryan's mind was truly boggled when Kirstie mentioned that her favourite meal to make for friends is old-fashioned sausage, gravy and biscuits. That's right, gravy and biscuits.

"You can't put gravy on your biscuits. They go in your tea?!" Ryan grimaced.

"No," Kirstie tried to explain. "In America, biscuits aren't similar to Yorkshire pudding, but you can put jam or honey on them."

Still confused, Ryan mumbled: "Oh, okay."

To be clear, Kirstie was referring to American-style savoury biscuits, which Ryan has apparently never tasted. Viewers loved watching him come to grips with gravy on biscuits:

The conversation led to lots of problems:

In response to that third tweet, Americans actually call biscuits "cookies". For those of you still confused, here's the kind of biscuits that Kirstie was talking about:

Try them at KFC sometime, people! They're nothing at all like a Yorkshire Pudding, but you'll like them - we'd advise against dunking in your tea, though.

Celebrity Big Brother continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 5, followed by Rylan Clark-Neal presenting Bit on the Side at 11pm.

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