Different names for foods - UK/US
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@karenjanine Tuxedos are Oreos, just the generic name for two cracker style cookies around a filling.
So a cookie in the uk is a chocolate chip cookie?
Because if that's the case, that's all I need.
Yep - that's definitely a cookie @dbmata0 -
Forgive my ignorance.refuseresist wrote: »Zucchini = Courgette
But I honestly never realized those were the same thing.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »Hunh? Every time I've ever seen pigs in a blanket, they were an appetizer of mini hot dogs that had been cooked in some kind of flaky pastry that was wrapped around them
That sounds like a Sausage Roll (UK).
Pigs in blankets (UK) = sausages wrapped in bacon.
Sausages (UK) = Links (US) ? (if not a tubular thing it would be called "sausage meat" in the UK)
Here, pigs in a blanket usually refers to hot dogs wrapped in croissants. Sometimes with cheese. (though, I've also heard those called 'pigs in a poke')
And sausage links are right. All other sausage is just sausage usually. Or sausage patties.0 -
lisaabenjamin wrote: »plumsparkle 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.
ignoring is mean
yes, paracetamol is a pain killer, and we call band aids plasters.
i have often wondered what Americans call cider, (alcoholic apple based drink) because what you call cider doesn't seem to be alcoholic as far as i can tell.
and cold cuts sounds so much tastier than our processed meat.
oh thought of one
linseed (uk) flaxseed (us)
I always thought there was a difference between US "cider" (non-alcoholic) and "hard cider" (alcoholic). But maybe I'm wrong.
o.O In my neck of the woods, there is. Maybe that differs in the US by state.0 -
US - Cider is made from pressed apples, not filtered and usually cloudy, apple juice is filtered and usually pasteurized. Cider can be fermented which is then called hard cider.0
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myrtille87 wrote: »US: steel cut oats / UK: pinhead oats
US: frosting / UK: icing
US: can (for tomatoes, beans etc.) / UK: tin (cans are what fizzy drinks come in)
US: applesauce ??? I am not quite sure what this is as it seems to be something people eat on its own and add into recipes. UK: apple sauce - made from Bramley apples, served with roast pork and that's pretty much it.
I think it's pretty much the same thing?
Apple puree. Or as I call it, adult baby food.
Except here in the US, it is often eaten as a dessert, for breakfast, or used in recipes. You very rarely see Americans eat it at dinner or lunch.
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Fairy Cake... cute.
It's amusing how many French words people in the UK use for veggies!
Coming from a French person, I have to say that there is good cheese in the US, mostly good cheddars (and mostly from the North). But we find a lot more imported cheeses now thankfully.
And US chocolate is crap.
Also there is both ginger beer and ginger ale in the US. Ginger beer has a much stronger flavor and is typically sold in glass bottles as opposed to cans (as far as I know).
There is no real equivalent for custard here sadly. I mean, you can make it, but you won't be able to find it already made at the store.
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Fairy Cake... cute.
It's amusing how many French words people in the UK use for veggies!
Coming from a French person, I have to say that there is good cheese in the US, mostly good cheddars (and mostly from the North). But we find a lot more imported cheeses now thankfully.
And US chocolate is crap.
Also there is both ginger beer and ginger ale in the US. Ginger beer has a much stronger flavor and is typically sold in glass bottles as opposed to cans (as far as I know).
There is no real equivalent for custard here sadly. I mean, you can make it, but you won't be able to find it already made at the store.
I think of cupcakes as bigger than fairy cakes with more icing (frosting) on them.
You use an Italian word..zucchini ..while we use the French word, courgette.
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!
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dammitjanet0161 wrote: »lisaabenjamin wrote: »Cheese (uk) = processed plastic (US)
I was going to say exactly the same thing yesterday when I first looked at this thread, but was too scared!
We do have processed crap like "American Cheese" in the UK thanks to the likes of Kraft, and other processed cheese-like substances made from whey and the like, what are "good" cheeses in the US ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses didn't inspire.
This is why I only buy imported European cheeses.0 -
KarenJanine wrote: »
@karenjanine Tuxedos are Oreos, just the generic name for two cracker style cookies around a filling.
So a cookie in the uk is a chocolate chip cookie?
Because if that's the case, that's all I need.
Yep - that's definitely a cookie @dbmata
It doesn't have to have choc chips in it though. You can get oat cookies, raisin cookies, peanut butter cookies.....
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Is aspic called jelly as well?Ready2Rock206 wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »JasmineSoper wrote: »Jelly (US) Jam (UK)
I always thought peanut butter jelly sandwiches sounded horrible!
Well, Jelly and Jam are two different specific things.
Jelly: it's a congealed spread made from sweetened fruit juice.
Jam: it's a congealed spread made from sweetened and crushed fruit
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No - in Australia (and UK?) jelly is not a spread - it is a gelatine dessert thing - what you call jello, I think.
Nobody spreads jelly on sandwiches here .
In the US they are different things. We have them both.
But yep - your jelly is our jello I believe.
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re: cheeses in america. There's been quite a strong revitalization of the festishization of handmade "farmhouse" and gourmet cheese.
Now we have quality cheeses like 3 and 4 year cave aged new york cheddars that smell like bile and taste like heaven. Or my personal favorite, humboldt fog, which is a soft and moldy cheese with a line of vegetable ash in the middle. We still have a far cry to go before we can really compete with the germans and french though.
btw, just found out today that shrimp and prawns are from two different orders. no *kitten*. that's pretty cool.0 -
I thought I was sorted with most of this until I moved from England to Ireland. Here if you ask for crisps (chips ) you automatically get cheese and onion flavour instead of ready salted. Bacon is a big lump of cooked pork that I would call ham. If you want sliced bacon you have to ask for rashers. Aaaargh!!!0
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I agree, Americans have had decent quality cheeses available for at least the past ten years. They are a lot more expensive than the processed crap, but they are available.
If you ask my husband, most Americans would call aspic gross, lol (actually most of them wouldn't know what it was). Americans today don't eat it. I haven't seen head cheese in a grocery store for a very long time, and that's the only aspic use I can recall seeing. We eat Jello, but that's a sweetened dessert. The unsweetened gelatin is really only used here as a thickener or a drink/treatment to improve fingernail quality.0 -
Is aspic called jelly as well?Ready2Rock206 wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »JasmineSoper wrote: »Jelly (US) Jam (UK)
I always thought peanut butter jelly sandwiches sounded horrible!
Well, Jelly and Jam are two different specific things.
Jelly: it's a congealed spread made from sweetened fruit juice.
Jam: it's a congealed spread made from sweetened and crushed fruit
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No - in Australia (and UK?) jelly is not a spread - it is a gelatine dessert thing - what you call jello, I think.
Nobody spreads jelly on sandwiches here .
In the US they are different things. We have them both.
But yep - your jelly is our jello I believe.
I don't know what aspic is.
In Australia, ( and. UK) jam is the spread made from fruit that people spread on toast,crumpets etc.
Jelly is the dessert thing made from flavoured coloured gelatine crystals, mixed with boiling water and set in fridge. (Which in USA is called jello)
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_runnerbean_ wrote: »I thought I was sorted with most of this until I moved from England to Ireland. Here if you ask for crisps (chips ) you automatically get cheese and onion flavour instead of ready salted. Bacon is a big lump of cooked pork that I would call ham. If you want sliced bacon you have to ask for rashers. Aaaargh!!!
Are we that different in Ireland. Knew the crisp thing as we just call them taytoes.0 -
lolli = sucker
breakie = breakfast
tea = lunch
crisps = potato chips
chips = French fries
carvary = Buffet w/ chicken & prime rib roasts
sunday dinner = roasted chicken & potatoes
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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.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.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
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