Recipe entirely of packaged items!

We’ve been to the US loads of times but never had biscuits. Perhaps they were on menus but eating a biscuit with your meat course just seems wrong! 😂

They are horrible those American biscuits, taste like farleys rusks.
I thought I was getting a fancy biscuit, like here. They are cookies over there.

We call that kind of food a construction kit recipe. You just put all the things together like a Lego kit.

We recently stayed in a very nice hotel with a huge breakfast menu to choose from. A party of Americans were seated at the next table and one of them asked for biscuits with his cooked breakfast items. There followed a rather amusing (to us!) conversation with the waitstaff as to what the guest actually wanted.
‘Biscuits?’
‘Yes, biscuits.’
‘Aaaah…we have shortbread.’
‘What’s shortbread?’
‘A type of biscuit, made with butter flour and sugar.’
‘No, that doesn’t sound right.’
‘We may have some other packet biscuits. Chocolate chip, ginger snap.’
‘NO! BISCUITS! For my breakfast!’

At this point dh and I decided discretion was the better part of valour and we scurried back to our room. For all I know, they are still there, arguing. 😂

There was a bit of a glitch with Campbells but they are very much still alive and kicking. It seems a "thing" in the US to use condensed soups in slow cooker recipes which always seems a bit odd to me, but each to their own.

I still do the chicken and soup , we love it, onions, diced celery, portobello mushrooms, and I use a knorr chicken stock pot a good splash of sherry or some brandy, a little tarragon, garlic and some cream. Delish.

I used to have the Campbell's cookery book. All the recipes used their condensed soups. Mostly the recipes were it used for family camping holidays. Very useful, quick and easy one pot meals.

I've made something similar myself from time to time, I admit - but almost every American recipe I see on social media is full of stuff like that. Even their cake recipes invariably start with a box of cake mix.

Grandmabatty

I used to make a chicken and mushroom casserole that used a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup as the basis of the sauce (with added cream). It tasted really nice. And that was a very long time ago

I still do a tuna/pasta thing, with condensed mushroom soup. Only it’s Crosse and Blackwell now, after Campbell apparently discontinued theirs. Tastes just the same.
It’s my occasional go-to when I just cannot be bothered to do ‘proper’ cooking. Pasta, soup, tuna, all mixed together, served with frozen peas.
It’s actually very tasty.

Grandmabatty

I used to make a chicken and mushroom casserole that used a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup as the basis of the sauce (with added cream). It tasted really nice. And that was a very long time ago

So did I. Maybe I’ll try it again, I haven’t thought about it for years.
We had a trip round the Campbells factory before it shut down in our town and I was incredibly impressed by the way the soup was made.

I used to make a chicken and mushroom casserole that used a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup as the basis of the sauce (with added cream). It tasted really nice. And that was a very long time ago

Like a cobbler topping, but not sweet.

I’m a fan of biscuits and gravy. I made it once and was impressed with how it turned out.

Ooo, I've always wondered what American biscuits are. Now I know.
Thank you.

A lot of those American 'recipes' on social media are the same - their 'casseroles' in particular often consist of tins of condensed soup and other similar items. Very few that I've seen actually seem to be cooked from scratch.
And yes, their 'biscuits' are similar to our scones, but are more flaky and are usually savoury rather than sweet. They are often served with 'gravy', which again bears absolutely no resemblance to our gravy, but is more of a white sauce often with sausage or other meat in it.

I think plain scones (unsweetened) are the nearest UK thing to US biscuits.

I think that what the Americans call biscuits would be called scones in Britain, with maybe more salt?