Different words for the same things depending on which country you're in.

Christine_72 · January 2017

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't think milk is that weird or uncommon. I used to use it in my coffee (that's how I learned to drink coffee) and never had anyone look at me funny (this was in MA, MI, and IL, as well as other states when traveling). I usually see it in coffee places as an option when I happen to notice (I drink it black now, so don't), and I have a friend who asks for it at restaurants, and again it's not treated as strange (this is in Chicago). I wouldn't expect people to know what "white" is for coffee or tea, but milk being added, not weird.

The deal with half and half, I think, is that it's available in little tiny single servings that apparently sit out without being chilled and so if you have coffee at a meeting it's usually available. That's why I used to drink coffee with it, before I converted to black. You'd add less half and half than you did milk, or at least that's what I did.

I don't know where the cream thing came from -- are there cultures that influenced American coffee drinking that use cream? I think there are Cuban coffee drinks with cream and when in Vienna they served coffee with cream (including whipped).

Cream in tea sounds disgusting, so I wonder if the UK/Australian resistance to coffee with cream is a hold-over from tea culture.

I lack a good knowledge of coffee history. ;-)

I find sweetener in coffee (or tea, but more coffee) weird because to me coffee just is not supposed to be a sweet beverage, but don't have a particularly strong feeling about cream vs. milk -- just would depend on how much I added if I was adding some (which I don't any more).

Milk was available everywhere on our trip to the states for coffee/tea. If you didn't have a drink with milk (cappuccino, latte etc) there was usually a station at the side with multiple types of milk (full fat, 2%,fat free) and cream and half--half. Half-n-half was the best thing ever in my opinion - part cream, part milk, and made the coffee delicious.

(the individual servings would be UHT - you can get those as milk too)

Ordering coffee was a little different -
you can get freshly brewed coffee (cheap, often refillable/bottomless) and add your own milk/cream,
or if you want what we call a "long black" in Australia you order an Americano (different to freshly brewed - Americano is made with espresso). More expensive, and not refillable.
(then there was the huge selection of other options - insane!)

Oh boy, waaay too many choices lol

livingleanlivingclean · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't think milk is that weird or uncommon. I used to use it in my coffee (that's how I learned to drink coffee) and never had anyone look at me funny (this was in MA, MI, and IL, as well as other states when traveling). I usually see it in coffee places as an option when I happen to notice (I drink it black now, so don't), and I have a friend who asks for it at restaurants, and again it's not treated as strange (this is in Chicago). I wouldn't expect people to know what "white" is for coffee or tea, but milk being added, not weird.

The deal with half and half, I think, is that it's available in little tiny single servings that apparently sit out without being chilled and so if you have coffee at a meeting it's usually available. That's why I used to drink coffee with it, before I converted to black. You'd add less half and half than you did milk, or at least that's what I did.

I don't know where the cream thing came from -- are there cultures that influenced American coffee drinking that use cream? I think there are Cuban coffee drinks with cream and when in Vienna they served coffee with cream (including whipped).

Cream in tea sounds disgusting, so I wonder if the UK/Australian resistance to coffee with cream is a hold-over from tea culture.

I lack a good knowledge of coffee history. ;-)

I find sweetener in coffee (or tea, but more coffee) weird because to me coffee just is not supposed to be a sweet beverage, but don't have a particularly strong feeling about cream vs. milk -- just would depend on how much I added if I was adding some (which I don't any more).

Milk was available everywhere on our trip to the states for coffee/tea. If you didn't have a drink with milk (cappuccino, latte etc) there was usually a station at the side with multiple types of milk (full fat, 2%,fat free) and cream and half--half. Half-n-half was the best thing ever in my opinion - part cream, part milk, and made the coffee delicious.

(the individual servings would be UHT - you can get those as milk too)

Ordering coffee was a little different -
you can get freshly brewed coffee (cheap, often refillable/bottomless) and add your own milk/cream,
or if you want what we call a "long black" in Australia you order an Americano (different to freshly brewed - Americano is made with espresso). More expensive, and not refillable.
(then there was the huge selection of other options - insane!)

Oh boy, waaay too many choices lol

There was sweeteners at the milk station too - blue packet, pink packet, yellow packet, sometimes green/stevia, normal sugar, the unrefined (brown/not brown) sugar, honey in some places!

Christine_72 · January 2017

2 more things.

Lounge - Couch
Lounge room - Living room

Machka9 · January 2017

elebel82 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!

TonyB0588 · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Strangely enough, I grew up taking milk in tea and coffee. More recently I've seen a culture develop which indicates coffee creamer for coffee, and milk for tea. There are powdered creamers as well as liquid creamers, but the liquid ones seem to be gaining popularity.

livingleanlivingclean · January 2017

Australia - icing sugar
US - confectioners sugar

Pudding can be a general alternative term for dessert (I think that's more British english), or like a steamed pudding (Christmas pudding, sticky date pudding, treacle pudding - often made in a pudding "basin").... I have never quite understood the US pudding.

When we go out to eat, we ask for the bill at the end of our meal. Not a check. If you want to pay, you might use a cheque (rare these days), not a check.

Christine_72 · January 2017

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

Machka9 · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

We tip here in Australia on occasion. Only in restaurants, of course ... and only when the service is exceptionally good.

In Canada, tipping is only a food-related thing (restaurant, cafe, pizza delivery), and again, only if you think the service was good or maybe if you had a bit of extra change in your pocket.

sammyliftsandeats · January 2017

Machka9 wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

We tip here in Australia on occasion. Only in restaurants, of course ... and only when the service is exceptionally good.

In Canada, tipping is only a food-related thing (restaurant, cafe, pizza delivery), and again, only if you think the service was good or maybe if you had a bit of extra change in your pocket.

I think that's changed now. I don't know when you were last back in Canada but tipping in Canada is now more along the lines of tipping in America.

paperpudding · January 2017

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

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lemurcat12 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't think milk is that weird or uncommon. I used to use it in my coffee (that's how I learned to drink coffee) and never had anyone look at me funny (this was in MA, MI, and IL, as well as other states when traveling). I usually see it in coffee places as an option when I happen to notice (I drink it black now, so don't), and I have a friend who asks for it at restaurants, and again it's not treated as strange (this is in Chicago). I wouldn't expect people to know what "white" is for coffee or tea, but milk being added, not weird.

The deal with half and half, I think, is that it's available in little tiny single servings that apparently sit out without being chilled and so if you have coffee at a meeting it's usually available. That's why I used to drink coffee with it, before I converted to black. You'd add less half and half than you did milk, or at least that's what I did.

I don't know where the cream thing came from -- are there cultures that influenced American coffee drinking that use cream? I think there are Cuban coffee drinks with cream and when in Vienna they served coffee with cream (including whipped).

Cream in tea sounds disgusting, so I wonder if the UK/Australian resistance to coffee with cream is a hold-over from tea culture.

I lack a good knowledge of coffee history. ;-)

I find sweetener in coffee (or tea, but more coffee) weird because to me coffee just is not supposed to be a sweet beverage, but don't have a particularly strong feeling about cream vs. milk -- just would depend on how much I added if I was adding some (which I don't any more).

Milk was available everywhere on our trip to the states for coffee/tea. If you didn't have a drink with milk (cappuccino, latte etc) there was usually a station at the side with multiple types of milk (full fat, 2%,fat free) and cream and half--half. Half-n-half was the best thing ever in my opinion - part cream, part milk, and made the coffee delicious.

(the individual servings would be UHT - you can get those as milk too)

Ordering coffee was a little different -
you can get freshly brewed coffee (cheap, often refillable/bottomless) and add your own milk/cream,
or if you want what we call a "long black" in Australia you order an Americano (different to freshly brewed - Americano is made with espresso). More expensive, and not refillable.
(then there was the huge selection of other options - insane!)

Possibly the no milk available, only those pre packaged creamer things, was specific to Hawaii and not representative of all of America (having never been to any other state of America to have any experience there.)

Fresh milk is very expensive in Hawaii as they have no dairy industry and it is all imported - we bought some from supermarket to keep in our hotel fridge and was about 4 x equivalent cost in Australia. (which of course produces its own milk)

paperpudding · January 2017

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elebel82 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?

Christine_72 · January 2017

Machka9 wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

We tip here in Australia on occasion. Only in restaurants, of course ... and only when the service is exceptionally good.

In Canada, tipping is only a food-related thing (restaurant, cafe, pizza delivery), and again, only if you think the service was good or maybe if you had a bit of extra change in your pocket.

I need to start frequenting more high class establishments. The local pub and Chinese take away are about as classy as i get

AnnPT77 · January 2017

paperpudding wrote: »

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Machka9 wrote: »

elebel82 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 (USA/Michigan), with fixin's.

Machka9 · January 2017

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Machka9 wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

We tip here in Australia on occasion. Only in restaurants, of course ... and only when the service is exceptionally good.

In Canada, tipping is only a food-related thing (restaurant, cafe, pizza delivery), and again, only if you think the service was good or maybe if you had a bit of extra change in your pocket.

I think that's changed now. I don't know when you were last back in Canada but tipping in Canada is now more along the lines of tipping in America.

I was last there about 18 months ago.

Machka9 · January 2017

paperpudding wrote: »

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Machka9 wrote: »

elebel82 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.

Machka9 · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

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Machka9 wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

We tip here in Australia on occasion. Only in restaurants, of course ... and only when the service is exceptionally good.

In Canada, tipping is only a food-related thing (restaurant, cafe, pizza delivery), and again, only if you think the service was good or maybe if you had a bit of extra change in your pocket.

I need to start frequenting more high class establishments. The local pub and Chinese take away are about as classy as i get

Maybe once or twice a year we'll go out somewhere special ... and if the service is really good, we'll tip. But that's about it.

Dnarules · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

In the US, the wait staff are paid less than minimum wage, and the rest is made up by tips. It is expected. It used to be 15 percent, but I think it is now at least 18 to 20 percent. It depends on location some times.

Christine_72 · January 2017

Dnarules wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

In the US, the wait staff are paid less than minimum wage, and the rest is made up by tips. It is expected. It used to be 15 percent, but I think it is now at least 18 to 20 percent. It depends on location some times.

It sucks that they can get away with that! The minimum wage here is around $18 per hour iirc

My 21 year old son is a trade assistant and he clears $1200 most weeks, the little shite is richer than me!

livingleanlivingclean · January 2017

Machka9 wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

Machka9 wrote: »

elebel82 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.

HonuNui · January 2017

paperpudding wrote: »

A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?

A veggie sub.
Just to throw a wrench (is that an Americanism?)..... "slippers" (or slippahs) in Hawaii is flip-flops (or, what I called thongs when I grew up in Michigan)

livingleanlivingclean · January 2017

HonuNui wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?

A veggie sub.
Just to throw a wrench (is that an Americanism?)..... "slippers" (or slippahs) in Hawaii is flip-flops (or, what I called thongs when I grew up in Michigan)

The wrench has been thrown a few pages back.... I'll add "jandals" in for those from New Zealand

AnvilHead · January 2017

Dnarules wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

What about tipping. It seems in America tipping is a common practice, I've never seen it done here.

In the US, the wait staff are paid less than minimum wage, and the rest is made up by tips. It is expected. It used to be 15 percent, but I think it is now at least 18 to 20 percent. It depends on location some times.

We have a large population of Canadian "winter visitors" (aka "snowbirds") in our town, and they tip very sparsely, if at all. Apparently from what I understand, wages for wait staff are much higher in Canada and they don't understand the custom of (or reasoning behind) tipping in the U.S.

Wage laws vary from state to state, but in Arizona, if a person works in a position which receives tips they're not even required to be paid minimum wage. State law says they can be paid up to $3/hr less than minimum wage (current minimum for tipped employees is $5.05/hr.)

Local people in the service industry have a standing joke - "Know what the difference is between a snowbird and a canoe? A canoe will tip once in a while."

I'm not Mr. Etiquette or anything, but it's my understanding that the customary tip (in the U.S.) is between 15% - 20%. If I get reasonable service I always tip 20%; if it's excellent service I'll tip 25%.

cerise_noir · January 2017

Christine_72 wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Weird. I have seen coffeemate type coffee whiteners on shelves in QLD. Liquids (uht, I think) and powders in the coffee section.

Alatariel75 · January 2017

cerise_noir wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Weird. I have seen coffeemate type coffee whiteners on shelves in QLD. Liquids (uht, I think) and powders in the coffee section.

Yup, they have it here in Melbourne too - They have the powdered stuff and I found the single serve hazelnut flavoured one, which was very exciting.

Christine_72 · January 2017

cerise_noir wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Weird. I have seen coffeemate type coffee whiteners on shelves in QLD. Liquids (uht, I think) and powders in the coffee section.

Adelaide. .. The forgotten state.

The store i went to was a smaller woolies. Coles have a larger selection, I'll check next time i go there.

paperpudding · January 2017

cerise_noir wrote: »

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Christine_72 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Weird. I have seen coffeemate type coffee whiteners on shelves in QLD. Liquids (uht, I think) and powders in the coffee section.

I dont dispute that they exist or are available in some places here - but they are certainly not the norm and most people would not ever use them

Alatariel75 · January 2017

paperpudding wrote: »

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cerise_noir wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

elebel82 wrote: »

Australian:

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.

I'm glad someone else doesnt get half and half.
I have not been to main land America but I have been to Hawaii - nobody (except us Australian tourists) had plain milk in tea/coffee.
The hotel's breakfast buffet had milk in a jug to go on cereal which we used to put in our tea/coffee.
The actual tea/coffee section did not have milk on offer.

I don't get it either. Someone pages back mentioned we do have creamer type things here, but i checked at the supermarket the other day and I didn't see any.

I've said it before, but the choices here are either black coffee/tea or tea/coffee with milk.

Weird. I have seen coffeemate type coffee whiteners on shelves in QLD. Liquids (uht, I think) and powders in the coffee section.

I dont dispute that they exist or are available in some places here - but they are certainly not the norm and most people would not ever use them

Oh, agreed. I flipped out a little when I saw them.

paperpudding · January 2017

HonuNui wrote: »

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A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?

A veggie sub.
Just to throw a wrench (is that an Americanism?)..... "slippers" (or slippahs) in Hawaii is flip-flops (or, what I called thongs when I grew up in Michigan)

Ok.

Ive never heard anyone hear refer to a salad roll as a veggie sub here - sub is only used for subway (the food chain) , not as a general term.

Someone said they would call it a cheese sandwich - a cheese sandwich would be just cheese here (and probably butter/marg) - if it has lettuce tomato cucumber etc it would be a salad sandwich - a sandwich meaning between 2 pieces of bread. As distinct from a salad roll, meaning same fillings in a roll.

Chef_Barbell · January 2017

paperpudding wrote: »

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HonuNui wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?

A veggie sub.
Just to throw a wrench (is that an Americanism?)..... "slippers" (or slippahs) in Hawaii is flip-flops (or, what I called thongs when I grew up in Michigan)

Ok.

Ive never heard anyone hear refer to a salad roll as a veggie sub here - sub is only used for subway (the food chain) , not as a general term.

Someone said they would call it a cheese sandwich - a cheese sandwich would be just cheese here (and probably butter/marg) - if it has lettuce tomato cucumber etc it would be a salad sandwich - a sandwich meaning between 2 pieces of bread. As distinct from a salad roll, meaning same fillings in a roll.

See a salad roll to me sounded like a veggie wrap until I see you mentioned it was on bread. And here in NYC, we call that a Hero sandwich. And since cheese is the main ingredient, its called a Cheese Hero.

livingleanlivingclean · January 2017

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

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paperpudding wrote: »

HonuNui wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

A salad roll - ie a bread roll filled with things like lettuce ,tomato, cucumber,cheese - what would you call it in other places?

A veggie sub.
Just to throw a wrench (is that an Americanism?)..... "slippers" (or slippahs) in Hawaii is flip-flops (or, what I called thongs when I grew up in Michigan)

Ok.

Ive never heard anyone hear refer to a salad roll as a veggie sub here - sub is only used for subway (the food chain) , not as a general term.

Someone said they would call it a cheese sandwich - a cheese sandwich would be just cheese here (and probably butter/marg) - if it has lettuce tomato cucumber etc it would be a salad sandwich - a sandwich meaning between 2 pieces of bread. As distinct from a salad roll, meaning same fillings in a roll.

See a salad roll to me sounded like a veggie wrap until I see you mentioned it was on bread. And here in NYC, we call that a Hero sandwich. And since cheese is the main ingredient, its called a Cheese Hero.

A salad in a wrap would be a salad wrap

We call the individual serve bread things rolls/baps/baguette or French stick/buns

Different words for the same things depending on which country you're in.

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