Different words for the same things depending on which country you're in.
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Christine_72 wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »It took me a while to realise that US 'broil' means 'grill' too.
Haha me too! I wondered why do these people boil their meat
When we use the bbq, we call it a barbecue lol Americans - grill, right?
One more
Prawns - shrimp. We call those teeny tiny ones that you sometimes get on a pizza, shrimps.
That's kind of a technical one and often misused. A lot of Americans say they're "barbecuing" if they're cooking hamburgers/hot dogs/whatever on the grill, but technically they're grilling. "Barbecuing" is actually slow-cooking meats at low temperatures (called "low and slow"), such as beef brisket, pork shoulder/ribs, whole hog, etc., usually with some kind of hardwood used/added to the fire for a smoky flavor. Sometimes also called "smoking" the meat.
It's also a very regional thing as far as what meats are used, how they're sauced and what woods are used for the smoke. Texas BBQ differs from Kansas City BBQ, which differs from Carolina BBQ (and which style of Carolina BBQ), and so on.
Another one nobody has mentioned yet: Oatmeal and porridge.
This is way way too complex for me.
It's all grilling. Unless it's smoking. 2 -
cheese curd, now THAT is different than drizzled velveeta. And I'm *ok* with that on poutine.cerise_noir wrote: »Heh...how did I know the whole fanny thing would be mentioned? :laugh:
Aussies: I'm going to use the toilet.
US/Canada: I am going to use the bathroom.
I do realise that in the US/Canada, the w/c and bath tub/shower are mostly in the same room. In Australia, these can be separate rooms. I honestly prefer the separate rooms.Cool that you started this:
Canada - US
pop - soda
burger - dinner plate
poutine - "who the *kitten* puts cheese curds on fries???"
double-double (coffee with double sugar, double cream)
Timmy's - Dunkin' Doughnuts
Canada - Australia
fifty-fifty (10% cream)
As an Aussie who lives in Quebec, the home of Poutine.
It depends on the poutine. There's a place down the road that makes the most incredible poutine. The cheese is actually curd cheese which works well with the gravy. I've had bad poutine, but this poutine...oh my god. Delicious.
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UK Hob = US Stove
Oh wait, I might have got that one wrong. We call the burners on top 'hob', and the enclosed bit 'oven'. Stove is a manufacturer who makes both.0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.5 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »williams969 wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »Cool that you started this:
Canada - US
pop - soda
burger - dinner plate
poutine - "who the *kitten* puts cheese curds on fries???"
double-double (coffee with double sugar, double cream)
Timmy's - Dunkin' Doughnuts
Canada - Australia
fifty-fifty (10% cream)
For me, (who goes back and forth between the U.S and Canada) Tim's and Dunkin are not interchangeable. Tim's (still) has coffee. DD is swill.
Depending on your area/province: BBQ can mean "grill" where as BBQ for me means add/cook with bbq sauce, as in a bbq salmon.... NOT the same as grilled salmon.
poutine... hmm, for me this is only a canadian thing, other wise, it's a wanna be and no. CHEESE? UMM NO.
Although in the South and SW US (particularly Texas, they own this, apparently), BBQ means cooking meat outdoors on huge pits (even dug out into the ground) for a long time over wood smoke. Those little barbies/grills are for "grilling" (fast cooking over charcoal or propane fire).
I'm in the southwest. We grill.
Oh, we grill, too. I leave the bbqing to professionals.0 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes. the boob tube is the television.0 -
Fanny pack and bum bag are an interesting one. Apparently 'fanny pack' has a quite different meaning in Australia.
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nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.2 -
williams969 wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »williams969 wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »Cool that you started this:
Canada - US
pop - soda
burger - dinner plate
poutine - "who the *kitten* puts cheese curds on fries???"
double-double (coffee with double sugar, double cream)
Timmy's - Dunkin' Doughnuts
Canada - Australia
fifty-fifty (10% cream)
For me, (who goes back and forth between the U.S and Canada) Tim's and Dunkin are not interchangeable. Tim's (still) has coffee. DD is swill.
Depending on your area/province: BBQ can mean "grill" where as BBQ for me means add/cook with bbq sauce, as in a bbq salmon.... NOT the same as grilled salmon.
poutine... hmm, for me this is only a canadian thing, other wise, it's a wanna be and no. CHEESE? UMM NO.
Although in the South and SW US (particularly Texas, they own this, apparently), BBQ means cooking meat outdoors on huge pits (even dug out into the ground) for a long time over wood smoke. Those little barbies/grills are for "grilling" (fast cooking over charcoal or propane fire).
I'm in the southwest. We grill.
Oh, we grill, too. I leave the bbqing to professionals.
Agreed. yes, BBQs are those fancy smoker things that people hire for parties or civic festivals.0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.2 -
Food related: a big hunk of meat that Americans (and others) call a roast can also be referred to as a joint in some areas of UK (I think my FB friend is in Scotland). He kept talking about this "joint" he bought, and I'm all like, mmmmkay....thinking he's going to do drugs, lol.4
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Rubber ---> condom in Canada1
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nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
haha yes! Sorry for confusion but I'm laughing as I imagine their faces when you said it LOL!2 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
Sounds like interesting fun 0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
haha yes! Sorry for confusion but I'm laughing as I imagine their faces when you said it LOL!williams969 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
Sounds like interesting fun
I'm laughing remembering it!1 -
in canada we have so many different flavors of potato chips0
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Rubber ---> condom in Canada
we call erasers rubbers here, but the youngins also call condoms rubbers1 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »Rubber ---> condom in Canada
Both, for me, it's more a register variation, than a regional one. My nephews may talk about rubbers. But their teachers talk about condoms.0 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
I got some interesting looks when I lived in the UK and told some friends I was wearing pants and thongs to a party (instead of trousers and flip flops...)
does the US have toasted sandwiches? or are they called grilled cheese?
we have toasted sandwiches (pressed) or jaffles (squished together in a machine that seals the edges and holds the filling in)3 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
I got some interesting looks when I lived in the UK and told some friends I was wearing pants and thongs to a party (instead of trousers and flip flops...)
does the US have toasted sandwiches? or are they called grilled cheese?
we have toasted sandwiches (pressed) or jaffles (squished together in a machine that seals the edges and holds the filling in)
As an american, I was baffled when the cheap flippy sandals were no longer called thongs. They were when I was a pool rat in high school! Of that, I am sure.
(they were also called flip flops. but "thongs" were more like G strings or T strings etc. not thongs)1 -
jumper - sweater
trackpants - sweatpants
nappy - diaper
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I've got friends in the north of England that call trousers 'pants', but to me 'pants' are underwear.0
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
I got some interesting looks when I lived in the UK and told some friends I was wearing pants and thongs to a party (instead of trousers and flip flops...)
does the US have toasted sandwiches? or are they called grilled cheese?
we have toasted sandwiches (pressed) or jaffles (squished together in a machine that seals the edges and holds the filling in)
Might be a regional thing, but in the Southwestern US (where I've lived my entire life), those have always been called "turnovers" or "paninis".0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »
OMG that was hilarious. That guy could been Australian, he used the exact same terminology as us.
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Jumper= pull over dress thinglivingleanlivingclean wrote: »jumper - sweater
trackpants - sweatpants
nappy - diaper
trackpants=yes sweatpants
nappy= yes, diaper
Southwestern US (but I travel A LOT, so I could be skewed)0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »jumper - sweater
trackpants - sweatpants
nappy - diaper
Dummy - pacifier0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Oh my. I was working internationally and we were having a similar conversation about different word meanings. The looks on the girls faces when I used the phrase "sitting on your fanny watching the boob tube." It was all kinds of fun!
LOL Thank you Wikipedia, for explaining that Americans call boob tubes 'tube tops'
Actually, we used the term boob tube to refer to televisions.
Yes, but what we call boob tubes you call tube tops.
I get it. I misinterpreted your previous post.
So up the girls interpreted the saying as siting on their kitty staring at their rack.
I got some interesting looks when I lived in the UK and told some friends I was wearing pants and thongs to a party (instead of trousers and flip flops...)
does the US have toasted sandwiches? or are they called grilled cheese?
we have toasted sandwiches (pressed) or jaffles (squished together in a machine that seals the edges and holds the filling in)
Might be a regional thing, but in the Southwestern US (where I've lived my entire life), those have always been called "turnovers" or "paninis".
we have turnovers - but they are generally puff pastry squares, filled and folded in to a triangle (like an apple turnover). and our panini is a type of long flat bread roll that would be toasted/pressed0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »
OMG that was hilarious. That guy could been Australian, he used the exact same terminology as us.
That's Michael McIntyre, a comedian I sometimes love and sometimes loathe (even during the same performance).1 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »I've got friends in the north of England that call trousers 'pants', but to me 'pants' are underwear.
for me (sw us) pants are what you wear on the outside to work or school, BUT, I'm also comfortable with trousers and slacks.
And for me: underwear, yes, but I'm also comfortable with gotch or knickers for underwear. Which my grandmother called "unmentionables".0
https://youtu.be/5wSw3IWRJa0
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