Different names for foods - UK/US

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  • lisaabenjamin
    lisaabenjamin Posts: 665 Member
    Salad Cream (UK) = Salad Dressing, sorta (US). There's no exact equiv. in the US. Tastes a bit like mayo.
    Whelk (UK) = Snail (US)

    There's a brand called Miracle Whip in the U.S. that is essentially mayo with sugar in it, I think (I don't like it, so I don't know for sure) - is that "salad cream"?

    Whelks -- there is a (not very commonly available) food called whelk in the U.S.; it's a sea creature, I guess you could call it a shell fish, since it lives in a shell (very pretty shell; we used to be very happy when we found one on the beach as children). Something like abalone or scallops, I think; I don't remember ever actually eating one. Or is the whelk in the U.K. a sea snail? When you say snail in the U.S., people generally assume you mean a land snail. And in the U.S. people generally call land snails "escargots" when they eat them.


    Nope, salad cream is very different from mayonnaise. It's runnier, and much more vinegar-y.
    Agreed on the whelk/snail thing. Land snails we Brits would call snails (or escargots if in a French restaurant) and whelks are a specific type of sea snail.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    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.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Salad Cream (UK) = Salad Dressing, sorta (US). There's no exact equiv. in the US. Tastes a bit like mayo.
    Whelk (UK) = Snail (US)

    There's a brand called Miracle Whip in the U.S. that is essentially mayo with sugar in it, I think (I don't like it, so I don't know for sure) - is that "salad cream"?


    Salad cream is more vinegary than mayo.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_cream
  • lisaabenjamin
    lisaabenjamin Posts: 665 Member
    edited October 2014
    yarwell wrote: »
    Heavy Whipping Cream (US) = Whipping cream (UK)

    Double cream (UK) = no equivalent ? (>=48% fat)

    Half & Half is another for which I didn't think there was a UK equivalent. Here's a useful chart though:

    US:

    Nonfat milk: 0%-1%
    1% milk: 1%-2%
    Lowfat milk: 2%-4%
    Whole milk: 4%
    Half-and-half: 12%-15%
    Light cream: 18%-30% (generally unavailable)
    Whipping cream: 30%-36%
    Heavy whipping cream: 36%-44%
    Manufacturer's cream: 44%+

    UK:

    Skimmed milk: 0%
    Low-fat milk: 2%
    Homo milk: 4%
    Half cream: 12%
    Single cream: 18%
    Whipping cream: 35%
    Double cream: 48%

    Um....no.
    Skimmed milk is usually more like 1%, but you can also get 0.1% at some shops.
    We don't generally call 2% milk "low-fat", it's "semi-skimmed milk".
    I have no idea what homo milk is - milk for gays?? Full cream milk is called "whole milk" or "full fat".
    I've no idea what half cream is either!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    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)

  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    For brit biscuits, is that the generic term? Or is that a specific type?

    Would you call a tuxedo, a shortbread, and a gingersnap the same thing? Are those all biscuits?

    Not sure what a tuxedo is, but yeah, it's a generic term - hobnobs, digestives, bourbons, jammy dodgers, etc. = 'biscuits'.

    A cookie is a specific type of biscuit, usually with chocolate chips :smile:
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    Heavy Whipping Cream (US) = Whipping cream (UK)

    Double cream (UK) = no equivalent ? (>=48% fat)

    Half & Half is another for which I didn't think there was a UK equivalent. Here's a useful chart though:

    US:

    Nonfat milk: 0%-1%
    1% milk: 1%-2%
    Lowfat milk: 2%-4%
    Whole milk: 4%
    Half-and-half: 12%-15%
    Light cream: 18%-30% (generally unavailable)
    Whipping cream: 30%-36%
    Heavy whipping cream: 36%-44%
    Manufacturer's cream: 44%+

    UK:

    Skimmed milk: 0%
    Low-fat milk: 2%
    Homo milk: 4%
    Half cream: 12%
    Single cream: 18%
    Whipping cream: 35%
    Double cream: 48%

    Um....no.
    Skimmed milk is usually more like 1%, but you can also get 0.1% at some shops.
    We don't generally call 2% milk "low-fat", it's "semi-skimmed milk".
    I have no idea what homo milk is - milk for gays?? Full cream milk is called "whole milk" or "full fat".
    I've no idea what half cream is either!

    Homo is short for homogenised, which is 'standard' milk - or whole milk as it's usually called. I've never seen half cream either.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    [Skimmed milk is usually more like 1%, but you can also get 0.1% at some shops.
    We don't generally call 2% milk "low-fat", it's "semi-skimmed milk".

    Skimmed milk isn't 1%, there is a new milk on the shelves at 1% previously it was either whole milk, semi skimmed or skimmed at about 4,2 and next to no fat respectively. UK Rules were changed to allow fat content to be used to define the product I think.
  • ShortMrsN
    ShortMrsN Posts: 177 Member
    LeslieTSUK wrote: »
    bubble and squeak = sausage and mash
    Never had bubble and squeak with any meat in it!

    It is usually a mash of leftover root vegetables....potatoes, carrot, parsnips, turnips etc, sometimes cabbage.
    Mash up last nights vege with butter and milk and serve....or you can mash and fry in a frypan to give it a crunchy outside!

    I'm from New Zealand :) We do a lot of British stuff still!

  • 2dare2dream
    2dare2dream Posts: 104 Member
    i cant think of anymore but now ive got that damn tune in my head.... oh yes you know which one.
    "You say either and I say either,
    You say neither and I say neither
    Either, either neither, neither
    Let's call the whole thing off.

    You like potato and I like potahto
    You like tomato and I like tomahto
    Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto.
    Let's call the whole thing off
  • trinatrina1984
    trinatrina1984 Posts: 1,018 Member
    i cant think of anymore but now ive got that damn tune in my head.... oh yes you know which one.
    "You say either and I say either,
    You say neither and I say neither
    Either, either neither, neither
    Let's call the whole thing off.

    You like potato and I like potahto
    You like tomato and I like tomahto
    Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto.
    Let's call the whole thing off

    Pretty sure no one says potahto, either side of the pond.
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    In the UK the extra large portion of almost anything, say chips or coke, is classed as a small or regular in the US.....
  • 60sPanda
    60sPanda Posts: 303 Member
    Apart from the usual chips/crisps/fries/sizing/biscuits thing, I always tell friends who are US visiting that if they see bacon on a menu its usually rock-hard crispy streaky bacon. If they see Canadian Bacon then that's the UK back bacon rasher equivalent. Also agree on the plastic cheese thing. Kraft has a lot to answer for. First they destroy our cheese and now our chocolate (cadbury's).
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,995 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    Heavy Whipping Cream (US) = Whipping cream (UK)

    Double cream (UK) = no equivalent ? (>=48% fat)

    Double cream (UK) = Whipping cream (US)
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    acpgee wrote: »

    Double cream (UK) = Whipping cream (US)

    not really, a quarter less fat in Heavy Whipping Cream (US) than in Double cream (UK)
  • JasmineSoper
    JasmineSoper Posts: 12 Member
    Jelly (US) Jam (UK)
    I always thought peanut butter jelly sandwiches sounded horrible!
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    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

    @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?
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    Because if that's the case, that's all I need.
  • WhoWasGivenToFly
    WhoWasGivenToFly Posts: 64 Member
    yarwell 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)

    stuffed cabbage: cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef and rice and cooked in a tomato sauce, I have heard some in my area also call these pigs in a blanket. I have also heard those mini hot dogs wrapped in pastry called pigs in a blanket. 6 of 1, half dozen of the other :#
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Growing up, pigs in a blanket was breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake.

    Here: http://blog.misselisabeths.com/storage/PIGS IN BLANKET.JPG
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    americans dont have crumpets... :disappointed:

    I'm in Seattle - there's a crumpet shop down the street from me. They're delicious. And they sell them in the grocery store too but they aren't as good as the fresh ones from the shop.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    shaumom wrote: »
    UK-US


    I thought root beer was like our ginger beer? I've never tried it in the US though.


    I've had ginger beer in the US and it is a lighter color soda. Rootbeer is a darker soda. They're a little similar I guess, but not the same. I can't find Ginger beer in my area though so I haven't had it in a very long time.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    americans dont have crumpets... :disappointed:

    I'm in Seattle - there's a crumpet shop down the street from me. They're delicious. And they sell them in the grocery store too but they aren't as good as the fresh ones from the shop.
    Canadians do. I toast them and melt butter and put real maple syrup on them.
    Those holes soak up the delicious sweet salty goodness. :)
  • lintino
    lintino Posts: 456 Member
    FredDoyle wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    is treacle a specific type of syrup, or just a generic for syrup?

    It's usually golden cane sugar syrup. I think black treacle is like molasses.

    Thank you. I have wondered for years what Treacle was!!!!

  • lintino
    lintino Posts: 456 Member
    cw106 wrote: »
    yarwell wrote: »
    Then what do Brits call the pastry that forms both the base and top of a "double-crust pie," as it is called in U.S.?

    "Pastry"
    Pastie.most famous version of is the cornish pastie.
    We have the most yummy pasties in the upper peninsula of Michigan!!!
  • lintino
    lintino Posts: 456 Member


    I thought root beer was like our ginger beer? I've never tried it in the US though.

    Ginger beer is also know as Ginger Ale in some parts of the US.





  • lintino
    lintino Posts: 456 Member


    Pastie (US) = Nipple cover for exotic dancers. What's the British word for that? B)

    The correct spelling for this is pasty!!!

  • lintino
    lintino Posts: 456 Member
    UK: Dairy Milk, Cadbury's Roses, Twix, Kitkats etc = normal everyday chocolate that is considered cheap and definitely not posh high end chocolate.

    US: the same brands of UK chocolate are considered gourmet high end chocolate with prices to match. At least it was in a shop I once visited in Carmel, where a box of Roses was about $20 and Twixes were about $5 each, which I found hilarious. Or maybe that's just Carmel...

    That's just Carmel!!!

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,302 Member
    dbmata 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

    .

    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 .

  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    dbmata 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

    .

    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.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    lintino wrote: »
    UK: Dairy Milk, Cadbury's Roses, Twix, Kitkats etc = normal everyday chocolate that is considered cheap and definitely not posh high end chocolate.

    US: the same brands of UK chocolate are considered gourmet high end chocolate with prices to match. At least it was in a shop I once visited in Carmel, where a box of Roses was about $20 and Twixes were about $5 each, which I found hilarious. Or maybe that's just Carmel...

    That's just Carmel!!!

    Carmel and hotel mini-bars :D
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