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  • SolotoCEO
    SolotoCEO Posts: 293 Member
    It's time to learn how to use google!
  • mum23
    mum23 Posts: 248 Member
    They aren't fancy biscuits. Now Viennese whirls, homemade or brandy snaps are a bit fancy.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Pigs in a Blanket
    Funnel Cake: No equivalent -see above
    Corndogs: No equivalent - a hot dog on a stick encased in cornbread
    Fried Pickles: No equivalent, on my list to try when I come over the pond in May! - dill pickles (do you even have those?) sliced and deep fried in fish batter/cornmeal
    Bloomin' Onion: No idea what this is - an onion sliced to look like it's blooming and deep fried in cornmeal
    Cinnamon Rolls: Samesies - a swirling pastry seasoned with cinnamon and covered in rich, surgary icing.
    Root Beer: No equivalent, I think it may be available some places - scoop vanilla ice cream in it for a root beer float
    Ranch Dressing: I feel like we have this but I'm not a big dressings person. - that's because you haven't had ranch
    Hot Apple Cidar: Cider. Samesies. - meh, to me it's basically apple juice served hot (but not quite)

    Take a stab at those! lol

    ETA: Stuffing: We also have stuffing but I think yours may be more bread based, ours is more sausage meat based.

    Chatting to neighbour, I'm probably way behind the curve on this conversation now!


    Haha, I knew what they all were, (oh, gotcha) that's why I said no equivalent, as in I know what it is but we don't have it here. Dill pickle I think is what we call gherkins, which I adore and that's why I want to try the fried pickles when I come over. Pickles and gherkins are basically the same concept. Dill is a certain "flavor" of pickle, if you will.

    So your hot cider isn't actually cider? Pointless if no alcohol is involved. I prefer mulled cider to mulled wine.
    Nope. Not this kind, anyway.

    I'm pretty sure I've had ranch, it's the default in the States after all and I've been a few times. Will make a conscious effort to try again.
    This time try dipping *crisps* in ranch chip dip. Also, any veggies you like.

  • nikinuu
    nikinuu Posts: 22 Member
    Getting back to fried food I think you'll find we do fry things havn't you heard of the great English breakfast?!? Best hang over cure there is!
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    nikinuu wrote: »
    Getting back to fried food I think you'll find we do fry things havn't you heard of the great English breakfast?!? Best hang over cure there is!

    I grill most of the items contained in a "fry up". But that's not deep fried anyway. But you will see mention of the great many things we do fry earlier in the thread!
  • Frappleberry
    Frappleberry Posts: 251 Member
    I'm loving this thread! Cream first and plenty of it! Anyone who says jam first is plain wrong!
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    The UK use kgs more now
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    nikinuu wrote: »
    Getting back to fried food I think you'll find we do fry things havn't you heard of the great English breakfast?!? Best hang over cure there is!

    I grill most of the items contained in a "fry up". But that's not deep fried anyway. But you will see mention of the great many things we do fry earlier in the thread!

    Agree ....me too
    Frappleberry wrote: »
    I'm loving this thread! Cream first and plenty of it! Anyone who says jam first is plain wrong!

    Hell no...cream has to hit the roof of your mouth as you bite through to the strawberry jam and soft crumbly scone

    It's basic science ;)
  • markrgeary1
    markrgeary1 Posts: 853 Member
    FiNnY22 wrote: »
    Lets not start talking about chocolate either....anybody in the UK tasted American chocolate? not good. :)

    My boss used to send his UK peer gifts of Hershey chocolate just to tease him. I agree UK (probably most of Europe) chocolate is so much better. Clotted cream is yummy. Hobnobs are amazing! If only I could get a decent ice tea! Seems like ice is almost as scarce as the crown jewels.
  • wrenak
    wrenak Posts: 144 Member
    This thread is hilarious! Our raid team (yeah, I play WoW) has an Australian, a gal from England, a gal who was from England but now lives in Canada, a couple of Canadians, and the rest of us are USers. I've heard of many, many things in this thread thanks to those lovely folks, but I gotta say... undercrackers was a new one. I *love* fries (chips) with malt vinegar on them, and the Cadbury Creme Egg is my favorite part of Easter. I've only seen Maltesers in the store once. But then, I live in Alaska and it can be hard to find worldly variety that isn't Korean/Mexican in nature. My ultimate weight-loss goal reward is a trip to Scotland. I hope by then we can afford it and that we can take a good month or so to travel around viewing Scotland & England both. I want to hit a lot of distilleries and pubs for an authentic food experience. I imagine I will need to go right back into a deficit when I return to undo the damage I plan to do while I'm there. :D

    (PS, still begging the team to find a Scottish member because I absolutely adore the accents. I keep telling my husband he'd get a lot more action if only he'd learn how to talk like them. :P)
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Wait a minute...we gave y'all our American muffins...so why haven't you sent us any scones?

    I mean if the French can send us crepes...surely y'all can let us have scones.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Wait a minute...we gave y'all our American muffins...so why haven't you sent us any scones?

    I mean if the French can send us crepes...surely y'all can let us have scones.

    I fear we have tried but you're just not posh enough for our cream teas :p

    I'm not a big Creme Egg eater but apparently when the 'muricans bought Cadbury and basically did what they said they wouldn't and changed the recipes of loads of stuff, they also made the Creme Egg not a patch on the old version and last year sales fell by a huge amount. Much like the English language, couldn't leave well enough alone......... Love you all really!
  • daniwilford
    daniwilford Posts: 1,030 Member
    There is a bakery called the Rolling Scone in some US cities. But let me get this straight, porridge for breakfast, bangers and mash for dinner and clotted cream for tea. Strange things you Brits get up to in the kitchen.
  • Twincle1970
    Twincle1970 Posts: 45 Member
    try them: bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scones_1285

    and they are pictured correctly with the clotted cream on top :p
  • Jetamu96
    Jetamu96 Posts: 963 Member
    daniwilford wrote: »
    There is a bakery called the Rolling Scone in some US cities. But let me get this straight, porridge for breakfast, bangers and mash for dinner and clotted cream for tea. Strange things you Brits get up to in the kitchen.

    Clotted cream with scones and thats at afternoon tea, not teatime! :smiley:
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Afternoon tea

    afternoon-tea-london-soho-hotel-1.jpg

    :bigsmile:
  • Jetamu96
    Jetamu96 Posts: 963 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Afternoon tea

    afternoon-tea-london-soho-hotel-1.jpg

    :bigsmile:

    Oh gosh we are posh aren't we! I've never looked at it that way before!
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I logged it as 2000 calories :)
  • Jetamu96
    Jetamu96 Posts: 963 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    I logged it as 2000 calories :)

    I wish!
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Wait a minute...we gave y'all our American muffins...so why haven't you sent us any scones?

    I mean if the French can send us crepes...surely y'all can let us have scones.

    I fear we have tried but you're just not posh enough for our cream teas :p

    I'm not a big Creme Egg eater but apparently when the 'muricans bought Cadbury and basically did what they said they wouldn't and changed the recipes of loads of stuff, they also made the Creme Egg not a patch on the old version and last year sales fell by a huge amount. Much like the English language, couldn't leave well enough alone......... Love you all really!

    Haha!! We're mad about that here, too.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Afternoon tea

    afternoon-tea-london-soho-hotel-1.jpg

    :bigsmile:

    Please tell me that's your sitting room and not a google image. Lol
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Y'all are serious about your tea...

    I love coffee but I don't have a set time to stop what I'm doing and dedicate myself to drinking it. Lol
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    We have a similar chair but no that's a hotel afternoon tea :)
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    I have to confess though.
    I've never tried a tea I like. Ever. Not even southern sweet tea (much to my wife's chagrin).
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    We have a similar chair but no that's a hotel afternoon tea :)

    I'm so disappointed...lol
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Soz
  • Jetamu96
    Jetamu96 Posts: 963 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    I have to confess though.
    I've never tried a tea I like. Ever. Not even southern sweet tea (much to my wife's chagrin).

    English breakfast tea is where it's at. PG tips or Typhoo for me :)
  • emtjmac
    emtjmac Posts: 1,320 Member
    Ugh.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    And what is mash?
    Sounds like thick heavy soup. Or grits.
  • ChrissyC1985
    ChrissyC1985 Posts: 406 Member
    great thread :) LOVE tea and it's scones with jam and butter for me. as for weighing people, I weigh myself in stones but log in kgs and lbs so people understand what on earth i'm on about as it seems a few people on my friends list understand struggle with the concept of stones.
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