Different names for foods - UK/US
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aspic is interesting stuff. Take a flavorful stock, mine preferred is chicken or veal. Then thicken it with gelatin, and you eat it chilled. It's a nice garnish, first step in making soup dumplings (xiao long bao). It's also when heated up, it's what you use as the gel base for headcheese.0
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xX_PhoenixRising_Xx wrote: »Paracetamol? I came across that one reading a short story and, based on context clue,s I think it's a pain killer like Tylenol or Advil.
And don't you Brits call Band-Aids plasters?
ETA oh wait, you asked about food. Ignore me.
You are right, Paracetamol is a painkiller. I'm from New Zealand and we use more British names than American. I live in Australia though and there are even different names for foods here than there are in New Zealand.
Tylenol is a brand of paracetamol
Advil is a brand of ibuprofen
Brits use the drug name whilst Americans use the brand name.
Brits call band-aids plasters, or sometimes we use the brand name Elastoplast.
Another one: q-tips are cotton buds.
Paracetamol is marketed in the US as acetaminophen and sold under different brand names (like Tylenol.) There is no such thing as paracetamol here. Only acetaminophen (sold as Tylenol.)
"Elastoplast" here is a generally used for special kind of medical tape, lol.0 -
aspic is interesting stuff. Take a flavorful stock, mine preferred is chicken or veal. Then thicken it with gelatin, and you eat it chilled. It's a nice garnish, first step in making soup dumplings (xiao long bao). It's also when heated up, it's what you use as the gel base for headcheese.
Oh ,ok - I haven't heard of that.
But, no, I would not call it jelly.
Jelly is sweet ( either sugared or artificially sweetened) and is a dessert thing, often eaten with fruit and custard.
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1stplace4health wrote: »lolli = sucker
breakie = breakfast
tea = lunch
crisps = potato chips
chips = French fries
carvary = Buffet w/ chicken & prime rib roasts
sunday dinner = roasted chicken & potatoes
All the Brits I know call the evening meal (supper or dinner) tea. Not lunch.
Same in Australia - tea is always the evening meal.( unless it is the drink ie as in tea or coffee ) Lunch is always the middle of day meal. Dinner is bit interchangeable but tends to refer to a main cooked meal, whether one eats it at lunch time or tea time
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US / UK ?
grits/
cole slaw/
hush puppies/
Do you have chili/mac (chili over macaroni and cheese?)0 -
1stplace4health wrote: »lolli = sucker
breakie = breakfast
tea = lunch
crisps = potato chips
chips = French fries
carvary = Buffet w/ chicken & prime rib roasts
sunday dinner = roasted chicken & potatoes
All the Brits I know call the evening meal (supper or dinner) tea. Not lunch.
Calling the evening meal 'tea' is a Northern thing. I grew up in the North, but I live in the South now, and we say 'dinner'. Supper is something you eat before bed.
A carvery is just where they carve some meat for you, and you help yourself to veg and gravy.
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UK don't have grits at all.... I've often wondered what it is when I see it in movies
Root beer is similar to Dandelion and Burdock
And no chilli mac .. well not when I was still living there
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Hush puppies are deep fried scorn meal batter.
Grits are like polenta -- often served at breakfast with butter and salt.0 -
paperpudding wrote: »aspic is interesting stuff. Take a flavorful stock, mine preferred is chicken or veal. Then thicken it with gelatin, and you eat it chilled. It's a nice garnish, first step in making soup dumplings (xiao long bao). It's also when heated up, it's what you use as the gel base for headcheese.
Oh ,ok - I haven't heard of that.
But, no, I would not call it jelly.
Jelly is sweet ( either sugared or artificially sweetened) and is a dessert thing, often eaten with fruit and custard.
The only time aspic is commonly used is as the 'jelly' inside a pork pie.0 -
Hush puppies are deep fried scorn meal batter.
Grits are like polenta -- often served at breakfast with butter and salt.
My wife and I tried to find out what grits are in a Florida supermarket. The ingredients label said "Corn grits". We're none the wiser.
In general it seems to me there is more use of brand names in the US than here in the UK, so if I put Jello into Google I get a load of stuff about Kraft Foods product Jell-o, but Jelly gets me a wikipedia page about all the uses of that word.
As well as the wobbly dessert, "jelly" in the UK can be a form of jam made from just the fruit juice rather than the whole fruit. Also there are semi-savoury things like redcurrant or cranberry jelly.
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question84.htm
Other forms of jelly include the gelatine found in canned pet food, pork pies or older preserving recipes like jellied eels.0 -
DawnieB1977 wrote: »Never heard if chilli over mac and cheese. In fact, mac and cheese isn't that popular here.
Indeed, when I saw Gordon Ramsay making it on one of his US shows I was aghast ! That, and meatloaf. How the mighty have fallen.0 -
In parts of the US Sh*% on a Shingle refers of creamed beef served over toast, usually for breakfast.0
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Grits is ground hominy. Hominy is dried corn that's been soaked in lye to remove the outer hull then dried again and cooked into a savory type of porridge. Its similar to how they make masa, which is the main ingredient in corn tortillas.
I hear its also almost the same as polenta, but I've never tried polenta so I don't know.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits
Most stuff online says it's usually a breakfast side dish, but that's not really how this Georgia girl sees it. Growing up we usually had grits as a super side dish when we had pork chops with BBQ sauce. And you haven't lived to you've had good shrimp and grits. Creamy grits topped with sauteed shrimp in a spicy sauce, heavenly.0 -
DawnieB1977 wrote: »
I went to a shopping mall in Beverly Hills and had a jacket potato, and they put that disgusting squeezy cheese on it. You'd expect posher cheese in Beverly Hills!
Oh gosh that's my pet peeve. I discovered cheese fries here at that chain called Nifty Fifties... so absolutely delicious, real cheddar, no aftertaste. I tried them at several other places and it was horrible, they're using that squeezy artificial cheese on it and it has a horrible aftertaste. Never again.
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Erbs=Herbs
Biscuit=Bread roll
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DawnieB1977 wrote: »
All the Brits I know call the evening meal (supper or dinner) tea. Not lunch.1stplace4health wrote: »lolli = sucker
breakie = breakfast
tea = lunch
crisps = potato chips
chips = French fries
carvary = Buffet w/ chicken & prime rib roasts
sunday dinner = roasted chicken & potatoes
Calling the evening meal 'tea' is a Northern thing. I grew up in the North, but I live in the South now, and we say 'dinner'. Supper is something you eat before bed.
I'm northern and I used to call it 'tea' but then I moved to the South and had to learn to call it 'dinner'. I notice that some places still call it Sunday lunch as it's sometimes eaten earlier, about about 2pm.
Posh southerners call it 'supper'. I used to die laughing on the tube, listening to all the business call their wives and ask what was for supper, darling ;-)
Up north, supper is a sandwich or the like that you have before you go to bed.
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I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.0 -
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blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.
Ah yes - my husband comes from UK - once I bought us 2 finger buns as a treat.
Me - would you like a buttered bun?
him- can I have lettuce, cheese tomato
Am thinking to myself no, he can't possibly want that, so I took it out to show him, You really want lettuce cheese tomato on a bun???.
Oh you mean a finger bun I thought you meant a bread bun..
Which to Australians is a bread roll.
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