Different names for foods - UK/US
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Hush puppies are deep fried scorn meal batter.
Grits are like polenta -- often served at breakfast with butter and salt.
My wife and I tried to find out what grits are in a Florida supermarket. The ingredients label said "Corn grits". We're none the wiser.
In general it seems to me there is more use of brand names in the US than here in the UK, so if I put Jello into Google I get a load of stuff about Kraft Foods product Jell-o, but Jelly gets me a wikipedia page about all the uses of that word.
As well as the wobbly dessert, "jelly" in the UK can be a form of jam made from just the fruit juice rather than the whole fruit. Also there are semi-savoury things like redcurrant or cranberry jelly.
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question84.htm
Other forms of jelly include the gelatine found in canned pet food, pork pies or older preserving recipes like jellied eels.0 -
DawnieB1977 wrote: »Never heard if chilli over mac and cheese. In fact, mac and cheese isn't that popular here.
Indeed, when I saw Gordon Ramsay making it on one of his US shows I was aghast ! That, and meatloaf. How the mighty have fallen.0 -
In parts of the US Sh*% on a Shingle refers of creamed beef served over toast, usually for breakfast.0
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Grits is ground hominy. Hominy is dried corn that's been soaked in lye to remove the outer hull then dried again and cooked into a savory type of porridge. Its similar to how they make masa, which is the main ingredient in corn tortillas.
I hear its also almost the same as polenta, but I've never tried polenta so I don't know.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits
Most stuff online says it's usually a breakfast side dish, but that's not really how this Georgia girl sees it. Growing up we usually had grits as a super side dish when we had pork chops with BBQ sauce. And you haven't lived to you've had good shrimp and grits. Creamy grits topped with sauteed shrimp in a spicy sauce, heavenly.0 -
DawnieB1977 wrote: »
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!
Oh gosh that's my pet peeve. I discovered cheese fries here at that chain called Nifty Fifties... so absolutely delicious, real cheddar, no aftertaste. I tried them at several other places and it was horrible, they're using that squeezy artificial cheese on it and it has a horrible aftertaste. Never again.
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Erbs=Herbs
Biscuit=Bread roll
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DawnieB1977 wrote: »
All the Brits I know call the evening meal (supper or dinner) tea. Not lunch.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
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.
I'm northern and I used to call it 'tea' but then I moved to the South and had to learn to call it 'dinner'. I notice that some places still call it Sunday lunch as it's sometimes eaten earlier, about about 2pm.
Posh southerners call it 'supper'. I used to die laughing on the tube, listening to all the business call their wives and ask what was for supper, darling ;-)
Up north, supper is a sandwich or the like that you have before you go to bed.
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I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.0 -
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blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.
Ah yes - my husband comes from UK - once I bought us 2 finger buns as a treat.
Me - would you like a buttered bun?
him- can I have lettuce, cheese tomato
Am thinking to myself no, he can't possibly want that, so I took it out to show him, You really want lettuce cheese tomato on a bun???.
Oh you mean a finger bun I thought you meant a bread bun..
Which to Australians is a bread roll.
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ah yes, bread.
pain levain.
pullman
sourdough round.
brioche
Then you have buttermilk biscuits, king's hawaiian rolls, cross buns, croissants.
Since those are the basic types of bread I make, that is the extent of the bread vocabulary at home.
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Double super whopper burger with mountains of cheese and bacon (UK)
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10.30am snack (US)0 -
Bangers and mash = Mashed potatoes and sausage0
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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.
French chocolate is cr@p too from my experience. I paid 10€ for a piece from a gourmet shop and came out thinking whether it would have been better invested in a 60p bar of Dairy Milk.0 -
I'm a brit who's recently been spending a lot of time in Canada and the US. What sometimes surprises me is when I know the UK and US term for a vegetable and the American I'm talking to has still never heard of it!! I also seem to spend a lot of time being asked what things are on menus by my colleagues, even though I'm the foreigner!
One thing I do love in America is the range of crackers. Because in the uk people tend to have tea and biscuits there's a lot more sweet biscuits available than savoury crackers here.0 -
paperpudding wrote: »blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.
Ah yes - my husband comes from UK - once I bought us 2 finger buns as a treat.
Me - would you like a buttered bun?
him- can I have lettuce, cheese tomato
Am thinking to myself no, he can't possibly want that, so I took it out to show him, You really want lettuce cheese tomato on a bun???.
Oh you mean a finger bun I thought you meant a bread bun..
Which to Australians is a bread roll.
Oh yeah, I think we call them iced buns here, the longish ones with white (or sometimes pink) icing on top?
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ah yes, bread.
pain levain.
pullman
sourdough round.
brioche
Then you have buttermilk biscuits, king's hawaiian rolls, cross buns, croissants.
Since those are the basic types of bread I make, that is the extent of the bread vocabulary at home.
Wasn't brioche the (slightly mistranslated) source of the belief that Marie Antoinette said 'let them eat cake?' i.e. let them eat brioche...
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Just thinking about it - a bun can also be confusing. A hot cross bun is actually a tea-cake (a bread roll with raisins, and nothing to do with cake, or tea for that matter) but a bun can also be the basis for a fairy cake. If you are cooking buns, those are little sponge cakes that Americans sometimes refer to as cupcakes (but without the icing). Alternatively a bread bun can just be a bread roll with no cake association at all. What a bun and cake confusion!0
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blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »I also notice that we haven't even *started* on the minefield that is bread yet.
Up north a bread roll can be called a bap, a barm, a cob, a muffin (as in - chip muffin). So a muffin can be anything from a bread roll, to a type of cake often sold in paper, to a flat bread like thing that McDonalds sells sausage and egg mcmuffins in.
Ah yes - my husband comes from UK - once I bought us 2 finger buns as a treat.
Me - would you like a buttered bun?
him- can I have lettuce, cheese tomato
Am thinking to myself no, he can't possibly want that, so I took it out to show him, You really want lettuce cheese tomato on a bun???.
Oh you mean a finger bun I thought you meant a bread bun..
Which to Australians is a bread roll.
Oh yeah, I think we call them iced buns here, the longish ones with white (or sometimes pink) icing on top?
Yes, one of those.
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Hahah, love this...
Biscuit in the UK is a sweet flat cookie kind of thing, usually no chocolate chips or anything like US "cookies though".
Biscuit in the US is a scone type bun bread thing that you guys put weird meat gravy stuff on for breakfast!! My mind was blown when I had these over xmas last year though - SO GOOD.0 -
I remember my years in Scotland very well.
Gammon = ham
biscuits = cookies
chips = french fries
crisps = potato chips
I have yet to see an American scone that was like the ones I had in the tea shop in Dunoon. American ones are way too large, way too dry, and rarely have currants (my favorite). An American rich cream biscuit that is sweetened with some dried fruit could do it.
Oh, yeah. If you didn't specifically specify black coffee, what you would get in the tea shop was white coffee, which is brewed coffee with hot milk.
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ah, always wondered what Hersheys's were.UK-US
herbal infusion - herbal tea - this is for those that solely for drinking
tisane - still called herbal tea - this is for those that are supposed to be medicinal
Oh, and to add to the fun apple cider issue, in the USA, we also have something called Apple Jack - where you take alcoholic (hard) apple cider and cool it to freezing, skimming of the ice that forms and therefore raising the alcohol content.
Rootbeer (a soda) is an American thing that you don't really find in the UK - most UK folks I know who tried it when they came to American thought it tasted like cough syrup.
Most common chocolate in the UK: cadbury
Most common chocolate in the US: Hershey's
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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.
French chocolate is cr@p too from my experience. I paid 10€ for a piece from a gourmet shop and came out thinking whether it would have been better invested in a 60p bar of Dairy Milk.
I can't even give you any name of French chocolate, frankly! I love Belgian and Swiss ones...
And I've lived in the US for 12 years and have yet to have biscuits and gravy.0 -
Macaroni Cheese - Mac and Cheese0
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Cheddar comes from Somerset. (South West England)0
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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.
French chocolate is cr@p too from my experience. I paid 10€ for a piece from a gourmet shop and came out thinking whether it would have been better invested in a 60p bar of Dairy Milk.
I can't even give you any name of French chocolate, frankly! I love Belgian and Swiss ones...
And I've lived in the US for 12 years and have yet to have biscuits and gravy.
French chocolate is nice, it usually has more cocoa in it. I lived in France for a year. I didn't eat much chocolate though, but I can tell you the wine is good lol. I'm not a fan of beer, but I had strawberry beer there yum, and beer with grenadine.
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Iced finger0
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There's a lot I've learnt from this post helps with Pinterest recipes0
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There was something... no forgot
I remembered.
'Pro-Doose' - US,
'Vegetables/Fruit n' Veg' - UK0
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