Different names for foods - UK/US

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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    It's a specific type of chili sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    caddir wrote: »
    Regional issue in the UK - a scone is a lovely bakery item (a sort of bread?) either sweet or savoury (I love cheese scones and herb scones) and l really like them with strawberries and cream. This is not contentious except in pronunciation, (rhymed with stone or with gone?).

    In Yorkshire a scone can also mean what in other areas is called a cake or a scallop; it is two slices of old potato with mashed fish and seasoning sandwiched together and then fried in batter. They are very popular 'fish and chip shop' fare, and often served in a 'teacake'. So you go into a chip shop and order a 'scone in a teacake' - which creased me up the first time I heard it.

    Think I've also been living under a rock lol. I grew up in Yorkshire (in York), and I've never heard if the potato/mashed fish thing being called a scone.
  • maria0104
    maria0104 Posts: 64 Member
    edited September 2015
    I'm from Yorkshire and never in my entire life have I heard the scallop 'scone'. Nor has my family, or google?
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    I'm from across the Pennines, but my wife and her family are Yorkshire born and bred and they haven't heard of the above either.
  • qubetha
    qubetha Posts: 83 Member
    kristydi wrote: »
    Paracetamol? I came across that one reading a short story and, based on context clue,s I think it's a pain killer like Tylenol or Advil.
    And don't you Brits call Band-Aids plasters?

    ETA oh wait, you asked about food. Ignore me.

    In the US, Paracetamol=Acetaminophen
  • caddir
    caddir Posts: 150 Member
    cityruss wrote: »
    I'm from across the Pennines, but my wife and her family are Yorkshire born and bred and they haven't heard of the above either.

    Maybe it is a Keighley thing?

  • caddir
    caddir Posts: 150 Member
    Oh, and also I have moved to Preston now and they have this strange thing called butter pie. I haven't ever had one - it isn't diet friendly - but I think it is potato and butter in pastry.
  • caddir
    caddir Posts: 150 Member
    I googled "fish Scone" and got this: http://holtsfishandchips.co.uk/menu3.php
  • tiny_clanger
    tiny_clanger Posts: 301 Member
    I will never cease to be confused by the cider thing. It does make the whole incident with my American exchange partner when I was 18 make more sense though!
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    refuseresist wrote: »
    There was something... no forgot

    I remembered.
    'Pro-Doose' - US,
    'Vegetables/Fruit n' Veg' - UK


    its Produce. thats the umbrella term for fruits and vegetables.....as in where is the produce section of the grocery store? we never say "im going to eat some produce".....we name the fruit or veg
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