Different words for the same things depending on which country you're in.
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Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
If you go to comparable places, "family restaurants", in Canada the price for two meals might come to about $30 and in the US you can probably get away with $20.
And those meals would likely include the extras we don't get here in Australia. In North America, a pasta dinner would include garlic bread. Here we have to buy it extra. It may also include dessert in some places.
See here ... this is a Perkins menu. Perkins is a "family restaurant" which might be comparable to an Australian pub.
http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/wp-content/themes/gsperkins/assets/pdf/Perkins-Menu-052016.pdf
Scroll down to "Fork-worth Entrees" (those would be the main meals).
I'd probably go with the chicken strips meal (because they do chicken properly in Canada ... in Canada they cook the chicken, here in Australia they serve it up half raw ... I rarely choose chicken in a restaurant here! I found that out early on. <<shudder>>) ... as you can see the chicken strip meal would include two sides in the price of $10.79. I'd probably choose the mashed potato and broccoli.
And then I see that I can get a beverage and a slice of pie for an additional $3.99! Cool. Done. And that would be the chocolate cream pie if they've got it.
So for a grand total of $29.56 (plus tax), my husband and I could have a meal that includes a dessert and beverage.
I'd better go for a bicycle ride now that I've drooled over all that.
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paperpudding wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Australian:
Chips = us fries
Chips = uk crisps
There's rarely any confusion over them - it's usually context that will give it away, though we also do sometimes distinguish hot chips vs potato chips.
However just about every aussie who visits the US has at least one instance of being disappointed when offered chips with something and getting potato chips. You guys do eat potato chips with weird things (hotdogs, subs, burgers, etc.)
For that matter, all of the classic bun + meat items that are sold in mcdonalds in australia are "burgers" even the chicken offerings . A "sandwich" is generally a much healthier item, cheese/cold meat such as ham etc/egg with salad in two pieces of bread, such as what's taken to school.
At home I take my tea white. It took a number of confused looks and wrong orders in the states to eventually come up with "hot black tea with milk." (or space for milk.)
I still don't understand what the deal is with "cream" in america. Cream to me is thick and what I put on desserts, I put milk in my tea and coffee. Nor do I understand what half n half is.
Speaking of this ... one that confused me when I first moved to Australia was "salad roll". As in, "I think I'll just have a salad roll for lunch."
I was envisioning some sort of salad. Nope!
A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?
A cheese sandwich.
If someone asked me for a cheese sandwich, they'd get bread and cheese, and maybe butter if they asked for it.
I agree. The item described above seems more to me like what we'd call a "wrap", assuming it was all rolled up in a flour tortilla.
No, a salad roll wouldn't be rolled up in a tortilla - that would be a salad wrap.
A salad roll would be the items in a roll ( or a bread bun, to some of you)
A salad sandwich would be same items between 2 pieces of bread.
3 things - same fillings- ie lettuce, tomato, cucumber, cheese, or similar things, but in roll, wrap or sandwich outers.
Oh!! Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't thinking roll and bun at all. I thought of rolled up somehow. Got it now.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
That seems reasonable to me, but there's a huge range depending on the restaurant here (and I'm in a big city, which makes it more expensive).
Here are a couple of pub-type menus: http://www.thegrafton.com/food-menu/ and http://www.hopleafbar.com/#our-menus, and remember we'd tip on top of that.1 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Watching a US cooking show last night, they were making "hamburger mac-n-cheese".
Hamburger = Mince (ground beef). In Australia, a hamburger would be the whole thing - bun, meat patties, sauce, etc. I would buy or make "burger patties" as the meat component.... I have no idea what we'd call mac-n-cheese with mince in it?!
Here (US, Chicago specifically), I'd certainly understand "hamburger" used for the meat, but I think it's much more common for hamburger to refer to the whole thing, just the meat is usually "ground beef" or maybe "burger meat."
But could be I'm weird. ;-)
Btw, I think I was quite old before I figured out that mince was ground beef. The whole "mincemeat" thing had me all confused, as I assumed they were the same thing, and understood mincemeat to be sweet.1 -
Target tried to move in to the Canadian market and failed. We weren't used to seeing food in department stores either. But to squeeze Target out, we now can get groceries at Wal-mart and our local drug stores too.
We've had that for a while in my end of Alberta. (You northerners are just behind the times... ) My local Wal-Mart became a "supercentre" several years ago and started carrying groceries, and my Shoppers Drug Mart always did (since we've been here anyway, 11 years now). One of the things I read about Target was that they didn't take account of the differences in minimum wage here, and the general cost of doing business in Canada was what caused them to give up because their losses were too high. I went to the one in Calgary a few times and thought it was quite good, but didn't really understand the enthusiasm Americans seem to have for it! I guess their products are much cheaper in the US?
(lol at the boots, too. Some Brits do call them "rubber boots", but they were always "wellies" to me!) 0 -
@makeupandmuscle , what always cracks me up is the eastern seaboard word for Wellies, as in Wellingtons, as in rubber boots.
Outsiders won't get it, but we have plenty of Newfies right here in Alberta.
Anytime I hear folks talking about wellies there's normally a sheep in the story.0 -
I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!0 -
Has anyone mentioned Gum boots? That's what i call wellingtons/rubber boots.0
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Christine_72 wrote: »Has anyone mentioned Gum boots? That's what i call wellingtons/rubber boots.
I've heard them called gumboots, but it's not a word my family ever used themselves. 0 -
I don't think anyone mentioned napkins. I was warned not to ask for a "napkin" in an English restaurant because a napkin is a feminine hygiene product in England. In America you use a cloth or paper "napkin" to wipe your fingers and mouth during/after a meal, and the feminine product is a pad.
Like a previous poster, my mother from Alabama also said "fixin' ta" meaning "getting ready to." Growing up in California, my school friends had to correct the southern sayings I picked up from my mother. A high school boyfriend roared when I said "let up the (car) window" and "Let down the window." I still slip and say that sometimes! And my husband still laughs remembering how my mom would drawl, "Can I dip ya some putatahs, darlin'?"1 -
CynthiasChoice wrote: »I don't think anyone mentioned napkins. I was warned not to ask for a "napkin" in an English restaurant because a napkin is a feminine hygiene product in England. In America you use a cloth or paper "napkin" to wipe your fingers and mouth during/after a meal, and the feminine product is a pad.
Like a previous poster, my mother from Alabama also said "fixin' ta" meaning "getting ready to." Growing up in California, my school friends had to correct the southern sayings I picked up from my mother. A high school boyfriend roared when I said "let up the (car) window" and "Let down the window." I still slip and say that sometimes! And my husband still laughs remembering how my mom would drawl, "Can I dip ya some putatahs, darlin'?"
Yes to the paper napkin in restaurants. The feminine hygiene product is a "sanitary napkin" as well as a "sanitary pad", (US/Michigan), but we would never take "napkin" (unadorned by adjective) as the feminine product.
Also, "rubbers", when not condoms (i.e., in polite society, in proper context) are short rubber-material footgear - either a shoe-like profile, or perhaps ankle high or a bit higher. Those things up to the knees are "rubber boots". Middling high rubber footgear (below knee, above ankle (with zippers or other fasteners can also be "galoshes".
"Wellies" aren't natively anything, though some understand them as a synonym for knee-high rubber boots. (Canada is near, and Britain is in books.)0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Watching a US cooking show last night, they were making "hamburger mac-n-cheese".
Hamburger = Mince (ground beef). In Australia, a hamburger would be the whole thing - bun, meat patties, sauce, etc. I would buy or make "burger patties" as the meat component.... I have no idea what we'd call mac-n-cheese with mince in it?!
For some reason the mac-n-cheese thing drives me mad. It's MACARONI CHEESE!!!2 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Has anyone mentioned Gum boots? That's what i call wellingtons/rubber boots.
Yes! That's what we called them when I was growing up, and I grew up in the US and Canada. I didn't actually hear them being called anything other than that until I was an adult.0 -
From the best I can tell *kitten* is a universal word here at MFP. Every country uses *kitten*, regardless of the original profanity.
For this reason, I consider MFP to be a leader in attempts to unite the world in a universal language that we can all understand.7 -
cerise_noir wrote: »I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!
Chicken chips? Never heard of such a thing. Chicken? Hmmm. People want their chips to taste like chicken?!
Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. I don't like them much.
Smarties are a Canadian candy that looks like chocolate M&Ms. Rockets are cheap sugar candies than are called smarties in the US.0 -
Target tried to move in to the Canadian market and failed. We weren't used to seeing food in department stores either. But to squeeze Target out, we now can get groceries at Wal-mart and our local drug stores too.
We've had that for a while in my end of Alberta. (You northerners are just behind the times... ) My local Wal-Mart became a "supercentre" several years ago and started carrying groceries, and my Shoppers Drug Mart always did (since we've been here anyway, 11 years now). One of the things I read about Target was that they didn't take account of the differences in minimum wage here, and the general cost of doing business in Canada was what caused them to give up because their losses were too high. I went to the one in Calgary a few times and thought it was quite good, but didn't really understand the enthusiasm Americans seem to have for it! I guess their products are much cheaper in the US?
(lol at the boots, too. Some Brits do call them "rubber boots", but they were always "wellies" to me!)
Hubby and I loved Target in the US. The exchange rate! The prices! But then when Target moved north they had logistics problems resulting in half empty shelves. And the prices were no bargain. Canadian shoppers are no fools.
Yes, we have higher wages, long distances, and higher taxes here. If a retailer makes it here they are smart and tough.
Just in the news, the Fort McMurray Wal-Mart just got charged for selling fire contaminated product on their shelves. I suspect top executive arrogance. But we shall see.
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CynthiasChoice wrote: »I don't think anyone mentioned napkins. I was warned not to ask for a "napkin" in an English restaurant because a napkin is a feminine hygiene product in England. In America you use a cloth or paper "napkin" to wipe your fingers and mouth during/after a meal, and the feminine product is a pad.
I'd heard it the other way around, that a "napkin" generally refers to the feminine hygiene product in North America. (Although if, as Ann mentioned, the word alone doesn't refer to such then that makes more sense!) Those were always 'sanitary towels" or "sanitary pads" to every woman I knew in England, I never heard them referred to as "napkins" over there.
The bits of paper or cloth you wipe your fingers on were either napkins or serviettes (which I think is a French word). In my personal experience people tended to use "napkin" for cloth versions and "serviette" for disposable paper ones, but I don't know if that was a common distinction.
Nappies, on the other hand, are what North Americans refer to as diapers. You probably don't want one of those to wipe your fingers on either! 1 -
cerise_noir wrote: »I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!
Chicken chips? Never heard of such a thing. Chicken? Hmmm. People want their chips to taste like chicken?!
Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. I don't like them much.
Smarties are a Canadian candy that looks like chocolate M&Ms. Rockets are cheap sugar candies than are called smarties in the US.
We have smarties in aus too.... They are bigger than m&ms, and different colours.
We have TimTams in aus - the UK has a terrible version called a Penguin.0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »We have smarties in aus too.... They are bigger than m&ms, and different colours.
We have TimTams in aus - the UK has a terrible version called a Penguin.
*gasp* How dare you malign Penguins?!?!?
(The ones in the orange wrappers always tasted best. I don't care what anybody says about them all being the same.)0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
If you go to comparable places, "family restaurants", in Canada the price for two meals might come to about $30 and in the US you can probably get away with $20.
And those meals would likely include the extras we don't get here in Australia. In North America, a pasta dinner would include garlic bread. Here we have to buy it extra. It may also include dessert in some places.
See here ... this is a Perkins menu. Perkins is a "family restaurant" which might be comparable to an Australian pub.
http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/wp-content/themes/gsperkins/assets/pdf/Perkins-Menu-052016.pdf
Scroll down to "Fork-worth Entrees" (those would be the main meals).
I'd probably go with the chicken strips meal (because they do chicken properly in Canada ... in Canada they cook the chicken, here in Australia they serve it up half raw ... I rarely choose chicken in a restaurant here! I found that out early on. <<shudder>>) ... as you can see the chicken strip meal would include two sides in the price of $10.79. I'd probably choose the mashed potato and broccoli.
And then I see that I can get a beverage and a slice of pie for an additional $3.99! Cool. Done. And that would be the chocolate cream pie if they've got it.
So for a grand total of $29.56 (plus tax), my husband and I could have a meal that includes a dessert and beverage.
I'd better go for a bicycle ride now that I've drooled over all that.
That's another difference - in Australia your "entree" is your starter. I think it leads to a lot of Aussies accidentally ordering enormous meals over there.0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
If you go to comparable places, "family restaurants", in Canada the price for two meals might come to about $30 and in the US you can probably get away with $20.
And those meals would likely include the extras we don't get here in Australia. In North America, a pasta dinner would include garlic bread. Here we have to buy it extra. It may also include dessert in some places.
See here ... this is a Perkins menu. Perkins is a "family restaurant" which might be comparable to an Australian pub.
http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/wp-content/themes/gsperkins/assets/pdf/Perkins-Menu-052016.pdf
Scroll down to "Fork-worth Entrees" (those would be the main meals).
I'd probably go with the chicken strips meal (because they do chicken properly in Canada ... in Canada they cook the chicken, here in Australia they serve it up half raw ... I rarely choose chicken in a restaurant here! I found that out early on. <<shudder>>) ... as you can see the chicken strip meal would include two sides in the price of $10.79. I'd probably choose the mashed potato and broccoli.
And then I see that I can get a beverage and a slice of pie for an additional $3.99! Cool. Done. And that would be the chocolate cream pie if they've got it.
So for a grand total of $29.56 (plus tax), my husband and I could have a meal that includes a dessert and beverage.
I'd better go for a bicycle ride now that I've drooled over all that.
That's another difference - in Australia your "entree" is your starter. I think it leads to a lot of Aussies accidentally ordering enormous meals over there.
Oh, yeah - same in England I think, although I never went to many restaurants that were fancy enough to use the word! It surprised me that an "entree" here (in Canada) is the main meal and not a starter. 0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »We have smarties in aus too.... They are bigger than m&ms, and different colours.
We have TimTams in aus - the UK has a terrible version called a Penguin.
*gasp* How dare you malign Penguins?!?!?
(The ones in the orange wrappers always tasted best. I don't care what anybody says about them all being the same.)
Nuh-uh! Blue wrappers for the win.0 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »We have smarties in aus too.... They are bigger than m&ms, and different colours.
We have TimTams in aus - the UK has a terrible version called a Penguin.
*gasp* How dare you malign Penguins?!?!?
(The ones in the orange wrappers always tasted best. I don't care what anybody says about them all being the same.)
Nuh-uh! Blue wrappers for the win.
Actually, it's been so long since I had them that I might be mis-remembering. I think it was the green ones! Definitely not blue, though...
(I was probably thinking orange because I loved orange Club bars - although these days they just don't have as much chocolate on them as they used to. I'd always bite all the chocolate off around the edges first before tackling the biscuit! (That's "cookie" to you Murricans, btw, not a chocolate-covered scone... ) 0 -
cerise_noir wrote: »I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!
Chicken chips? Never heard of such a thing. Chicken? Hmmm. People want their chips to taste like chicken?!
Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. I don't like them much.
Smarties are a Canadian candy that looks like chocolate M&Ms. Rockets are cheap sugar candies than are called smarties in the US.
It's called chicken salt. What it tastes like is when you've roasted a chicken in the oven and have done the whole butter and salt and herbs thing on the skin so that it is a crispy golden brown. Like that. Not so much like chicken but more like the seasoning you'd put on chicken.
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cerise_noir wrote: »I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!
Chicken chips? Never heard of such a thing. Chicken? Hmmm. People want their chips to taste like chicken?!
Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. I don't like them much.
Smarties are a Canadian candy that looks like chocolate M&Ms. Rockets are cheap sugar candies than are called smarties in the US.
It's called chicken salt. What it tastes like is when you've roasted a chicken in the oven and have done the whole butter and salt and herbs thing on the skin so that it is a crispy golden brown. Like that. Not so much like chicken but more like the seasoning you'd put on chicken.
Chicken salt is food of the gods. So tasty.0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
If you go to comparable places, "family restaurants", in Canada the price for two meals might come to about $30 and in the US you can probably get away with $20.
And those meals would likely include the extras we don't get here in Australia. In North America, a pasta dinner would include garlic bread. Here we have to buy it extra. It may also include dessert in some places.
See here ... this is a Perkins menu. Perkins is a "family restaurant" which might be comparable to an Australian pub.
http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/wp-content/themes/gsperkins/assets/pdf/Perkins-Menu-052016.pdf
Scroll down to "Fork-worth Entrees" (those would be the main meals).
I'd probably go with the chicken strips meal (because they do chicken properly in Canada ... in Canada they cook the chicken, here in Australia they serve it up half raw ... I rarely choose chicken in a restaurant here! I found that out early on. <<shudder>>) ... as you can see the chicken strip meal would include two sides in the price of $10.79. I'd probably choose the mashed potato and broccoli.
And then I see that I can get a beverage and a slice of pie for an additional $3.99! Cool. Done. And that would be the chocolate cream pie if they've got it.
So for a grand total of $29.56 (plus tax), my husband and I could have a meal that includes a dessert and beverage.
I'd better go for a bicycle ride now that I've drooled over all that.
That's another difference - in Australia your "entree" is your starter. I think it leads to a lot of Aussies accidentally ordering enormous meals over there.
Yeah, that threw me off when I moved to Australia almost 8 years ago.
I was looking at entrees on the menu here in Australia and thinking ... "that doesn't look like a meal, that looks like a starter".
Now it throws me off every time I visit Canada.
Going back and forth between the two places can be a bit confusing ... and for more than just which side of the road I need to be on!
PS. I'm Canadian-Australian ... dual citizen.
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In the US we have jam and jelly they are two separate spreads. Jam has seeds made from strawberry, blackberry ect. Jelly is smooth and usually grapes or plumbs. We are very technical with food and names here. Lol0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »I was on the other thread about how many times people eat out per week, and it was a lot!
I'm curious about what a regular meal out for 2 people averages in America. If we go the cheaper route, like a normal pub meal, our bill rarely comes out under $40 for the two of us. That's 1 meal each, a beer for him and a soft drink for me.
If you go to comparable places, "family restaurants", in Canada the price for two meals might come to about $30 and in the US you can probably get away with $20.
And those meals would likely include the extras we don't get here in Australia. In North America, a pasta dinner would include garlic bread. Here we have to buy it extra. It may also include dessert in some places.
See here ... this is a Perkins menu. Perkins is a "family restaurant" which might be comparable to an Australian pub.
http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/wp-content/themes/gsperkins/assets/pdf/Perkins-Menu-052016.pdf
Scroll down to "Fork-worth Entrees" (those would be the main meals).
I'd probably go with the chicken strips meal (because they do chicken properly in Canada ... in Canada they cook the chicken, here in Australia they serve it up half raw ... I rarely choose chicken in a restaurant here! I found that out early on. <<shudder>>) ... as you can see the chicken strip meal would include two sides in the price of $10.79. I'd probably choose the mashed potato and broccoli.
And then I see that I can get a beverage and a slice of pie for an additional $3.99! Cool. Done. And that would be the chocolate cream pie if they've got it.
So for a grand total of $29.56 (plus tax), my husband and I could have a meal that includes a dessert and beverage.
I'd better go for a bicycle ride now that I've drooled over all that.
That's another difference - in Australia your "entree" is your starter. I think it leads to a lot of Aussies accidentally ordering enormous meals over there.
Yeah, that threw me off when I moved to Australia almost 8 years ago.
I was looking at entrees on the menu here in Australia and thinking ... "that doesn't look like a meal, that looks like a starter".
Now it throws me off every time I visit Canada.
Going back and forth between the two places can be a bit confusing ... and for more than just which side of the road I need to be on!
PS. I'm Canadian-Australian ... dual citizen.
I thought I recalled you being in Australia - I'm a dual citizen too, US/Australian 0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »williams969 wrote: »Don't you call the flat work surface in a kitchen the benchtop, @Christine_72 ? Im the US, a bench is something one sits on at a park or a person has in his workshop/toolshed for woodworking or fixing things, lol.
Edit, the kitchen surface is a counter in the US, which I suppose makes zero sense for a name, too lol.
yup, we have a kitchen bench in aus we also call the thing you sit on in the park a bench...
we also have a splash back, not a back splash....we have so much american tv (including reno/flip programs) so i keep mixing them up!!
we have scones in aus (and UK) - i'm sure they're biscuits in the US
lollies - sweets/candy
mince - ground meat
We have scones. But they are sweeter. Our biscuits are more like scones.0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »I'll also just mention ... potato chips.
In Canada, my favourite flavour is dill pickle. In Australia, I cannot find dill pickle chips. In fact, dill pickles are hard to find ... it's all sweet pickles which are really quite ick.
In Australia, a common potato chip flavour is chicken. In fact, there's chicken salt that goes on chips (the big, thick fries type of chips), dim sims, deep fried lasagne, battered fish, and whatever else you want to get at the take-away.
So true.
And chicken chips are not easy to find in Canada. I also miss Burger Rings! I miss meat pies, too.
As for chicken chips (fries), I just sprinkle some powdered chicken stock on my fries instead of salt...YUM!!!
Chicken chips? Never heard of such a thing. Chicken? Hmmm. People want their chips to taste like chicken?!
Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing. I don't like them much.
Smarties are a Canadian candy that looks like chocolate M&Ms. Rockets are cheap sugar candies than are called smarties in the US.
It's called chicken salt. What it tastes like is when you've roasted a chicken in the oven and have done the whole butter and salt and herbs thing on the skin so that it is a crispy golden brown. Like that. Not so much like chicken but more like the seasoning you'd put on chicken.
Chicken salt is food of the gods. So tasty.
I think of Chicken Salt as being an Adelaide thing. As in when you get chips from the Chicken Shop (also an Adelaide thing) they will ask if you want chicken salt or regular salt. I haven't seen that anywhere else in Australia, but I guess i probably don't order chips much when I'm in Sydney or Melbourne or Brisbane. And not often at home in WA either.0
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