Quick question

What does the Queen of England have to do with Scottish shortbread

Seriously someone explain it to me

Comments

[Marcthelightspark2004]

yer British?

[Ice Star]

Clearly she likes it a lot; it's the royal seal of approval!

[Majin Syeekoh]

5179377
No.

I got these at a specialty store.

[Mousse]

Um they’re called biscuits you fucking pleb.

[Tuckerx78]

This is the IRL version of Rarity being asked to make the Gala dresses for Celestia and Luna. The Queen be like "These are damn good, and you better shove 'em up your bum before I do."

[Admiral Biscuit]

Royal Warrants of Appointment have been issued since the 15th century to those who supply goods or services to a royal court or certain royal personages. The warrant enables the supplier to advertise the fact that they supply to the royal family, so lending prestige to the brand and/or supplier. In the United Kingdom, grants are currently made by the three most senior members of the British royal family to companies or tradespeople who supply goods and services to individuals in the family.

--Wikipedia

Or, in a nutshell, what 5179382 said.

[Super Trampoline]

5179385
Not only are you an authority on cars, but apparently Biscuits as well. How appropriate.

[Admiral Biscuit]

5179387
Of course I know a thing or two about biscuits, American and English.

[Loganberry]

5179385
Just don't go getting the idea that Royal Warrants actually make anything posh. Sure, Bentley and Bollinger have one. But so do Heinz and Kellogg's. The trick with shortbread is finding any that isn't Walkers. (It's perfectly tasty, but it's in no way posh. You can barely move in some gift shops for the damn tartan tins.)

[Eris Dis Harmonia]

Mother Mary, full of grace. Save the Queen, for she loves the taste! Long live the Biscuit!

5179388
^--[this Biscuit in specific, for he's just terrific.]

[hazeyhooves]

they’re made from actual bits of the queen’s flesh and blood. the boxes of dry ones are lower quality, just fingernails and such, but still 100% royal.

[LightOfTriumph]

The Queen of England is also the Queen of Scotland. Been that way since 1603.

[Tuckerx78]

5179387
We should try to get him some sort of title that reflects his biscuit authority. Like Lord Biscuit, or Commander Biscuit.

[The Blue EM2]

As a British person, let me explain.

England and Scotland once were separate kingdoms, with their own monarch. However, when Elizabeth I died in 1603, the Scottish King was asked to become King of England. That monarch, James VI of Scotland, became James I of England as well. However, the crowns were not formally unified until 1707, when England, Scotland, and Wales joined together to form Great Britain.

Thus, to refer to Elizabeth II as 'the Queen of England' is only half-right. She is the Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and thus the monarch of both England and Scotland.

[PresentPerfect]

I'll be honest, I spent most of this thread trying to figure out what that picture had to do with the Queen. <.<

[CapNTilfy]

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I am not sorry.

[The Blue EM2]

5179745
So you shouldn't be.

[Absentia 616]

The use of that is always more broad and general then what you might think it just means that the Royal family as an organisation buy's it, whether the Royal family eats it or not is another question entirely, which they probably do it shortbread who doesn't eat shortbread.

[howard035]

5179388 Do you know anything about admirals?

[Admiral Biscuit]

5180323
Sure! The word comes from Arabic amīr-al (amīr commander and al of the).

[CommanderBigMac]

I see the question has already been answered, but I didn’t have the answer anyway. Just popping in to say I love me some good shortbread.