'Murica and the UK : Some Slight Differences

[catcul]

I thought haggises(4,691 irradiated haggises...check)were banned from the USA...

Weird that haggis would be banned, and yet the USA has chitterlings (chitilns).

Actually, haggis is not allowed to be imported into the USA. If anyone buys haggis in the US, the haggis was manufactured in the US.

[dalesys]

UK: A delicacy: Boiled and boiled brussels sprouts.
US: Toxic waste.

[Food Lady]

I grew up in the desert--great for sun tea. I just made the mistake once of putting the sugar in while it was brewing. The ants had a field day. My mom was so mad!

[Ironclad Alibi]

model railroad club's

Cue Homer Simpson: "NERD!!"

But what Homer doesn't know is it is a Japanese Model Railroad Club and our mascot is Godzilla.

We are SUPERNERD!!!

[EricKei]

Also, dear friends...Just so ya know...

THESE are flapjacks...


Not these...these are granola bars:

[Kit-Ginevra]

Those appear to be... pancakes... possibly Scotch pancakes or drop scones...
(which are different to normal scones)



Now good people please finish this sentence.The item pictured here is a .....

[Seanette]

It's a roll.

[EricKei]

Yer on a roll, Seanette :wink:

KG: In the US, the terms "flapjack" and "pancake" are used pretty much interchangeably, tho the latter is far more common. I think I've even heard them referred to as "griddle cakes," on occasion.

[notalwaysright]

Also terms are different within the US. For example, around here it would be pancake and not flapjack. You want to make Americans from different parts of the country fight? Ask them what they'd call a carbonated beverage. Soda, pop, coke? I actually remember the verbiage changing as I grew up. When I was little, it would have been "pop" but then our area was inundated with Californians, and they are INSANE about this. Soon enough, it's called soda. Once when I was little I asked for a pop and the waiter said, "it's called soda." This was at a restaurant in California.

Here ordering a coffee will get you just coffee with nothing else, but I've been told that in New York, you order a coffee regular and it comes with cream and sugar. The same at Tim Hortons in Canada, I think.

EricKei beat me, lol. One more, the UK term "tray bake" would be "bar cookies" here. And from observation (could be wrong) it seems like tray bakes are more cake-like, and bar cookies are more dense and brownie like.

[EricKei]

Why, they're all coke, of course Yes, even that stuff in the blue can that hardly anyone actually drinks is a kind of coke ("soft drink" is also acceptable). I think it's called...Pepp-see?

Back in New Orleans, asking for "coffee" will get you a piping hot mug of arabica-based, chicory-infused dark matter, the stuff the deepest reaches of the universe are forged from. Said fluid is suitable for use as a universal solvent, or even for drinking.

Asking instead for "café au lait" will get you a half-and-half blend of that with hot milk, each poured simultaneously from old, long-spouted silver serving kettles. Ideally, from a height of no less than two feet above the actual mug. Not a drop spilled.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Now that thing up there.... in Cornwall it's a split. Up north,it's a barm. I've also heard it as a cob.

[mjr]

Why, they're all coke, of course

Yep, and then in restaurants the waitstaff will even ask you what kind of coke you want. And they don't mean "diet" or "regular".

I don't drink carbonated beverages anymore, but my favorite was usually this one.

Sometimes I couldn't get it, so I went with his non graduate degree holding cousin (who has apparently changed his name).

[Ironclad Alibi]

You want to make Americans from different parts of the country fight? Ask them what they'd call a carbonated beverage. Soda, pop, coke?

You kids these days. It's called sody pop.

[EricKei]

mjr - As much as I enjoy the good Professor's offering,. I much prefer his cherri-er cousin, myself. Problem is, in this general region (including NOLA, where Coke utterly dominates), you can ONLY get it in fountains (read: from Subway and almost nowhere else in NOLA; a few fats food chains up here); no cans, no bottles, nohow. Coke and ThatOtherCompany both bottle and distribute Dr.P there; they just get the syrup in from the DP/7Up Corp.

[mjr]

mjr - As much as I enjoy the good Professor's offering,. I much prefer his cherri-er cousin, myself.

In Dublin, Texas, they made the good professor with pure cane sugar. It came in little bottles (6.5 and 10 oz). It's no longer made as of 2012.