American Reacts to 28 British vs American Food Words
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- I knew British vs American food words could be completely different, but in this reaction I found out just how different they could be. Spag Bol? Gammon? Pudding means dessert? LOL This was fun. I can't wait to learn more about the different words British and American people use to describe food.
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We wouldn't just have 'spaghetti' because you can have lots of different sauces on it. Bolognaise, carbonara, vongole, puttanesca etc.
yes, this! spaghetti is just the pasta part - many different sauces go with it, so what would Americans call 'spaghetti cabonara' (for example)???
@@amethystjones7393, I don't think the average American knows that they can eat spaghetti with anything but ketchup and meatballs.
Absolutely!
Wtf? So what if you wanted something other than bolognaise on your spaghetti lol…?
That’s like saying I’ll have some pizza please… sure sir what kind? Er pizza… just a pizza flavoured pizza lmao… jumping…😂
✌️❤️🏴🇬🇧🏳️🌈xxx
@@amethystjones7393 but then again, most people in the UK when ordering what you asked for would just say 'carbonara', rather than 'spaghetti carbonara'
In UK we have skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk and full fat milk. We can tell the difference because the label and lid are different colours for each type of milk. Skimmed is red, semi-skimmed is green and full fat is blue
I love that you laughed at 'spag bol' but said 'mac and cheese' quite happily 😄
When I first met my Canadian cousin, I asked, "Do you want a drink of squash?" You should have seen his face!
Diluting juice here in Scotland! Never squash lol
The way Americans can say New Hampshire correctly but for anything else they pronounce the shire at the end. Bizarre
YES I noticed that Right away. My own county is DERBYSHIRE. pronounced DAR BE SHER .Especially by a Local. But in Britain as a whole.
@@maxmoore9955 Not necessarily. It is a regional thing. I know people who say Shire. I tend to say Sheer, like the American New Hampshire. They make me laugh when they drag them out in mispronounced syllables. Lie-Sester- Shya. War -Sesta- Shya! Someone pronounced Worcestershire properly on one I watched recently (may have been Steve) and I felt like Professor Higgins. 'By Jove he's got it! He's really got it! ' Lol
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Ha Ha Ha .
A lot of people refer to any desert as pudding or sometime “afters” although pudding is usually a hot sponge type “cake” with hot or cold custard
I agree, I think using the word ‘pudding’ to describe all desserts is more of a regional thing in UK, often used in England, mainly Southern. Elsewhere in UK a ‘Pudding’ is a type of dessert, most usually cake-like and baked or steamed,
@@countesscable In our family, if it was steamed, whether savoury or sweet, it was a pudding. My gran used to make REAL spotted dick, not the insipid little sponge pudding of today. She used self raising flour, sugar, dried fruit, suet and milk or water (not sure). The gloopy mixture was rolled into a ball, rolled onto greaseproof paper, wrapped in a pudding cloth ( clean old sheeting) tied at the top and steamed for 3 hours. The pudding cloths were all grey and looked a bit dirty because of the aluminium saucepans. At the end, the pudding had risen enormously, was white, sweet, curranty and fabulous with custard.
One day my gran left the pudding steaming safely while she went to the local shops. When she got back my grandad told her he'd turned the dirty washing off. My gran burst out, "Dirty washing be damned. That is my pudding!!" After that, it was always called Dirty Washing Pudding. Great memories.
Or even Sahara, Gobi, Atacama, etc. I think you mean "dessert". 😄
It's called spaghetti Bolognese because there are many many different varieties of pasta and sauces that go with it. If you asked for spaghetti in Britain you will most likely just get a plain bowl of pasta only. There are numerous sauces that can go with it so there is a need to verbalise exactly what you want, Bolognese, Carbonara and Arribiata are just three off the top of my head.
No kidding. I'll have to keep that in mind when I come for a visit. Thanks
Although I have read somewhere that our bolognese sauce is more like a sauce from Naples so perhaps it should be spaghetti napalese
In Italy if you ask for spaghetti there is no sauce but it is delicious maybe because they use fresh made spaghetti rather than the dried pasta we buy from the supermarket.
@@vladd6787 I believe its from Bologna
It is from Bologna,🎉
We do use quite a few French words for things eg courgette whereas you use the Italian word zucchini. We use coriander for both the plant and the seed.
I remember asking a friend (who lived in Canada for 30 years) if he would like to have courgette with a meal - he didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, then I remembered it was zucchini, and he said ‘oh yeah’
@@clareowen2047 that surprises me. I know there are a lot of Italian Americans, so it always made sense that they'd use the Italian name for it in the USA. It seems odd however when there's a French speaking part of Canada, that Canadians wouldn't use the French word.
American fries v British chips: When I was a kid my dad used to cook steak casserole and he would also make very thin home made chips. I'd call them fries, but if he made a meal say of egg and thick cut potatoes then I'd call them chips. To me fries are very long and thin versions of chips.
My Welsh gran always called spring onions 'scallions'. Fish and chips are extremely popular here. Absolutely gorgeous!!
My Welsh mam called then gibbans. I've since learnt they are properly called sibwns.
Same with Irish …
Wales had a lot of Caribbean immigrants in the past so the word scallions would have come from them
@@petrinadendy6395 thanks so much for clarifying that the Welsh word is sibwns! I always thought it was jibbons because that’s what I heard and repeated as a small child and it was never corrected. I also learned only last year through a Welsh/English play on TV that Bacu means grandfather. I called mine Baccy all my life and was constantly asked whether it was because he was a heavy smoker, which he wasn’t. You learn something new every day, even when you’re in your 70s…! 😮👍🏴
Geordie here, I'd call them scallions too.
Shrimp is the tiny Asian prawns that you buy in a bag by the kilo, frozen for use in fried rice etc. Prawns are much bigger, finger sized and even larger.
The joy of being an island nation, means we have a lot of coastline. One perk of that is decent access to fresh seafood, which is probably why fish and chips is such a popular dish over here in the UK. Traditionally we would use cod, but thats become quite expensive in recent years, so cheaper options options include haddock and pollock, though any meaty white fish would work, I guess. It gets floured and battered, then deep fried.
We have dedicated takeout places in every little town and village, that serve fish and chips as their main 'thing' (we call them a 'chippy') so you're pretty right in your assumption that its a big thing over here!!
(also, for your own peace of mind, I hate eggplant/aubergine!)
I'm jealous. I love fried fish, but no where serves it. If I had the access to shops that specialized in fried fish like you do I'd probably eat far too much of it. LOL
Referring to the types of fish that we eat, it can be very much a regional preference, for example place and other flat fish are more popular in coastal areas and the old favourites of cod and haddock have a divide between the north ( haddock) and the south (cod) although due to some fish being overfished you are more likely to be served with pollack or coley, unless you specifically ask for the fish of your choice.
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But I have also eaten plaice and huss from the chippy. I think another name for huss is catfish, although we don't generally call it that.
The difference between 'chips' and 'fries' is dimensions, 'chips' are cut more chunkily than 'fries' which are sometimes called 'french fries' and are much thinner, again sometimes called 'skinny'.
@@pennyaccleton6227 huss in London and the South East is rock salmon or just rock depending on the chippy
Best rock and chips I had was in Sheringham Norfolk
@@duntalkin I believe I've heard it called Rock also, although I don't remember where. I've lived in a lot of different places.
Cod and Haddock are nice enough, but I definitely prefer Huss. Also I'm really picky about my chips and I find most chippy chips are too soggy. I prefer my chips (and fries) to be really crisp.
Mincemeat is a sugary pie filling that is filled with currants, raisins, dried fruits and shredded beef suet (refined lard).
The sweet course at the end of a meal is known as:
Dessert
Afters
Pudding,
I have always called it dessert.
The courses of a posh meal are
Aperitifs
Starter (usually a soup or pate)
Main
Dessert
Cheese board with coffee or liquers
Also each course cones with the appropriate cutlery to use for it and a range of glassware for red wine, white wine, and water.
We call spaghetti bolongnese that because the sauce originated in Bolongns, Italy,, but normally eat it the Italian way with tagliatelle as the souce adheres to the tagliatelle better than it does to spaghetti.
Here in the UK jello is jelly and jelly is jam or preserve or if it is made with a citrus fruit such as lemon/lime or oranges it is then marmalade.
That was a COS lettuce.
Things such as Mars, and bounties are bars of chocolate.
Fish'n'chips are fabulous. We normally eat cod, haddock or plaice.
What is known in the US as a biscuit we call them scones and eat them with jam and clotted cream. We also make savoury scones with cheese and serve them with a ploughman's lunch consisting of egg, cold meats, pickles/relishes and a salad for example.
I wouldn't say that a cheeseboard is posh, Aperitif is definitely posh though, it's posh as soon as you start including French words 🤣
Which part of the UK are you from? I've never heard of anyone having a cheese scone with a ploughman's lunch. A massive wodge of nice bread, yes, but cheese scones here are something that you'd usually have on there own (as a separate snack, not without butter). Usually they'd be toasted first.
I think most people still use normal spaghetti. I have never seen a ploughmans served with a scone. Mars and bounties are not 'bars of chocolate' ... they are simply mars bars and bounties. Bars of chocolate is a term reserved for actual bars of chocolate like cadburys dairy milk. Coffee and mints is a separate course in itself and comes after the cheeseboard.
What’s he on about? OK he’s not been in the UK for 20 years, but we had lettuce even then! That’s an iceberg lettuce. Kos lettuce isn’t round, it’s longer and more dark green.
It's round in cross section. The photo is taken from the Romaine lettuce page on Wikipedia.
I thought that Lettuce was Iceberg too, we call that one the same.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was some really pale romaine. LOL
@@reactingtomyroots Definitely an iceberg.
Also, our Biscuits or Biccy's are graded on how 'dunkable' they are. A good biccy is dunked (submerged) into a nice, hot cup of tea then eaten, some biccy's are better than others at their dunkability but we'll give them all a go. As an advertising campaign for a certain biscuit once said, "A drink is too wet without one"
Totally agree!
Ooh yesss! My favourite dunkers are ginger nuts.
@@Boogledigs bourbons for me ginger nuts are close 2nd
@@gutsblackswordsman3986 Love Bourbons as well. Close second in the dunking list.
@@Boogledigs hellyeah you have good taste 😛
For the milk types, you look at the bottle top. Blue top is full fat, green top is semi-skimmed and red is skimmed.
They have changed semi skimmed now to white tops
@@paulmason6474 not at Sainsbury's they haven't, it's still green top for semi skimmed. Where are you buying milk?
@@JK50with10 they use both at my sainsburys
So word of warning it’s fine in this video but other videos this guy does about the US and U.K. differences are quite a bit out of date keep in mind he hasn’t been living in the U.K. for a long time so sometimes he’ll say stuff that’s what going on in the U.K. when that isn’t true any more
Fish'n'chips was the national "fast food" before the concept of fast food chains was invented. It was cheap,delicious and a favourite of the working class. It's still really popular and when prepared right it's a gorgeous and unhealthy treat.😋. The post war influx of Indians,Pakistanis and Bangladeshis had led to curry becoming a favourite too. Even my tiny town has two Indian restaurant/takeouts. Going for a curry after 10 pints at the pub is a common occurrence. When you wake up with a hangover the next morning you'll be able to soak up some of the pain with a full English breakfast. You'll get to sample these delights when you visit. Although, we don't eat like that all the time or we'd all be dead from heart attacks at 35...Oh,of course,the Sunday Roast can't be left off the list of iconic British meals. You won't look like your passport photo by the time we're through with you. We're sending you home fat innit bruv! 😋👌
LOL All that sounds delicious. My kind of food. Can't wait to explore the food scene over there.
i believe Fish'n'chips was also made popular because it was one of the few foods not rationed during the war
Cooking terms are also very different, for example, in the UK we don't "broil" food (whatever that is), grilling can mean something different, etc.
It says broil on the oven, but I don't do that either. LOL
This is another one, like "fall" for Autumn, that comes from Middle English, but fell out of use in contemporary English. "Broil" is to be found in English texts which were written around the late 13thC.
Btw - fish & chips are equally popular in many Commonwealth countries. The fish used in Fish & Chip shops in Oz & New Zealand is shark. It's referred to as "flake", because it literally flakes as soon as fork or fingers touch it. Big, firm flakes which each can be popped into the mouth one at a time - no muss, no fuss.
It was obviously designed to be eaten with the fingers😉.
A broiler in this sense is the heating elements within the oven compartment which can be used for grilling or finishing pies etc. Most UK ovens have an open grill at eye level above the hobs. I have owned a few ovens with the internal grill ie broiler but rarely used it.
A broiler is also the name for an older chicken.
@@tonygreenfield7820 the last time I saw an oven with a grill like that, rather than an internal one was over 2 decades ago at school. Most UK ovens have internal grills now, unless someone still has one from decades ago.
You can differentiate the kind of milk from the colour of the carton or the bottle top in the UK.
Generally in supermarkets, (grocery stores)
Blue - full fat
Green - semi skimmed
Red - skimmed
More recently they've all been changed to white tops to avoid confusion about which ones you can/can't recycle.
A Yorkshire pudding is not strictly savoury as it only made out of the same thing a pancake batter - unsalted and unsweetened. So unused ones can be eaten with jam (jelly (US)).
You should really check a channel called *Jay Foreman*
He made some incredible videos about UK.
Why British place names are so difficulty to pronounce, the origin of English counties, a crazy series about super facts about London like where London ends and how many boroughs London has…
I wrote that name down to check out for future videos. Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve literally never heard a single person refer to lettuce that way in the UK 😆
It looked more like an iceberg lettuce rather than cos, but I'm not a lettuce expert
I think it was a Cos lettuce chopped in half making it look pale like iceberg. We call it cos in Australia too, not Romaine. But I pronounce it as "Coz"
Came here to say this, Unlike the other repliers this is literally the first I'm ever hearing of Cos lettuce
Lettuce discuss this some more cos this thread is interesting.
A Lettuce is a lettuce! He is confusing Types of lettuce! And that is neither a Kos or an Iceberg. It looks like a Plain lettuce. You know, that one your grandad grew, that wilted within minutes of being picked. The best thing to do with a Plain lettuce is harvest the leaves you need and leave the plant where it is 'Cut and Come again' And don't pick it too soon, or you will have sad leaves in your salad. very nice when fresh though, more taste than an Iceberg
Yes fish and chips is popular here but it's not like we eat it a lot, so me family's may have it once a week or something. To put fish and chips in context for americans here in the uk fish and chips is a takeaway food(takeout for americans), we have things called chippys or a chip shop this is where most people get fish and chips, but fish and chips isn't actually the most common takeaway people get ,it's actually Chinese then Indian then fish and chips. People generally think we eat fish and chips a lot but that's exaggerated stereotype.
Here in the UK, we have been influenced by French cuisine, in the US, by Italian cuisine, hence Courgette & Zucchini.
Hats of to you for being curious, I did know all the differences between UK and American foo, however you are right they do get pronounced differently in different places! Enjoy exploring different cultures, there are so many to experience ❤
We in the UK love our fish and chips especially on a Friday evening you often find queues at the Fish and Chip stores
Talking about Milk, up until recently Milk in the UK was sold with different coloured caps, on the plastic bottle, Blue = full fat, Green = semi skimmed, Red = fully skimmed, now the caps are all white, only the label around the carton telling the type, I feel the old coloured caps was a much better system, there is one other colour cap, Yellow which is between fully skimmed and semi skimmed still in use, there was also an Orange one but I think this has been discontinued, as I have not seen this one for ages.
Many people don't like eggplants/aubergines because of the taste and texture. Preparing them well can change this: Aubergines/eggplants should be halved or sliced or cubed and then salted with LOTS of salt, and left for a long time. This draws out the juice where the unpleasant flavour originates, and also gets rid of the 'spongy' texture. When they're then rinsed well with lots of water, not only is the salt removed, but the texture has improved considerably and the prepared aubergine/eggplant will take on the flavour of what it's cooked with, i.e. sauce, seasonings, etc. (A lamb tagine just isn't the same without including highly seasoned and spiced aubergine!)
Love your reaction. You’re totally right that there are variations within the UK, what are referred to as spring onions in England are referred to as syboes (sigh-bees) in the area in Scotland where I grew up, also what in England are swedes in Scotland they are turnips or ‘neeps’ or ‘tumshies’. A swede is smaller. It’s all very interesting and yes we love our fish and chips, it’s a staple on pub and restaurant menus, usually cod or haddock 😋
So what do Scots call what the English call turnips?
@@hardywatkins7737 swedes 🤷♀️
@@lesley4085 LOL that's funny.
Aye, I call them syboes too. Scottish turnips are English swedes and American rutabegas.
@@thepickledpixie9052 In Cornwall we call them (spring onions or scallions) chipples. Well, some of us anyway.
Here in Scotland we call spring onions "Syboes" ( pronounced "sighbees"). We also say Spag Bol. We get our usual milk in 4 varieties, Full fat also known as Blue milk, due to the coloured label on the carton/bottle semi skimmed milk is green, skimmed is red and Jersey milk is also known as Gold top
There are many variations, steak and kidney pudding (basically a soft pie), Yorkshire pudding (baked batter to accompany a main meal), bread and butter pudding (a desert) and absolutely anything sweet you eat after a main meal is also a pudding.
Also black pudding, which freaks some people out because it's made from blood.
Milk in the UK - when you go to the supermarket the tops of the milk cartons are different colours to indicate the type of milk: Blue = Full Fat Milk, Green = Semi-Skimmed milk with maybe 50% of the fat removed, Red = Skimmed Milk with most of the fat removed.
GOLD TOP !!!!! get that lovely fatty cream down you ! (Not seen very often these days due to Health wimps Bloody lovely on a bowl of Cereal)
'Ham' and 'gammon' are both from the same Latin root. In Spanish, it's 'jamón', and depending on how you anglicise the pronunciation of the j it's easy to see how both the English words derive from it.
Here in the UK full fat milk usually has a blue top, semi-skimmed (half fat) a green top, and skimmed has a red top
Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but at 10:01, I'm pretty sure that IS a picture of a cream puff. Profiteroles aren't sliced across the middle. The filling is pumped into them through a single hole.
"Gammon" is just a corruption of the French word "jambon" - i.e., ham.
Minced meat tends to be the stuff you put in Xmas tarts - the classic mince pie, which isn’t filled with meat but fruit. Mince - minced beef. Mincemeat - fruity, spicy tart mix.
The fish component of fish and chips is generally either cod or haddock. Other popular fish are also plaice, skate, sole and pollack. Courgette? I would have called that a cucumber. The small pickled variety that are sliced up and put into McDonalds are known as gherkins. Shepherd's Pie is the one with the mashed potato topping. The most common pies are steak & kidney, fish pie and pork pies. The latter is eaten cold and is delicious!
Shepherds pie is made with minced lamb, cottage pie is made with minced beef. Generally, I mix grated cheddar into the mash before I bake it.
This channel is super interesting, great to watch you learn new thing. I would also recommend Wolter's World for all the DOs and DON'Ts of the UK.
Thanks so much. I appreciate that. I will write that name down to keep in mind for future videos.
@@reactingtomyroots If do go down the road like many others of using Wolter's world stop by Walmart to get some salt so you can take what he says with some pinches of.
To a point. Both channels are a bit out of date.
Fun fact: Swiss Rolls are actually Austrian.
Cod, haddock, huss, plaice, lemon sole are popular fish and chip choices in the UK. Huss is a member of the shark family and has a very distinct taste.
I always called the 'cream puff' a petit choux. Profiteroles are smaller versions
Exactly the bigger is child bun smaller profiteroles 👍🏻
Coriander is chopped fresh like parsley or in dried seeds to cook in curries.
Cream puff is what I'd call those cakes and that is how they are sold in the cake shops.
Yes you can interchange the word dessert and pudding, although pudding is traditionally like a steamed pudding, usually sponge and sweet. Chocolate swiss roll
I think the distinction they were making with the milk is just that it's a slightly shorter word in the USA - skim milk vs skimmed milk.
But we both now say ice cream, not iced cream.
I agree and they'll probably have just shown any milk. In the UK we have skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk and whole milk.
You’re not alone in disliking eggplant/ aubergine, but through my Italian friends, I have discovered that I’m allergic to the brown liquid in eggplants, which chefs will often slice and salt in order to remove it. Then it can be cooked and my stomach will be happy. Eggplant is used for many different types of sauces in UK and Europe, often mixed with zucchini, eg Baba Ganush.
11,000 fish and chip shops (excluding restaurants) that serve 167 million servings of fish and chips every year in the uk.
19:07 it’s very true, I have that gene and it also makes us extremely sensitive to capsaicin in 🌶 that makes it actually incredibly painful if we eat it.
And we most definitely call cookies, cookies. Biscuits are brittle, and designed to be dipped in liquid, cookies are a mix between a biscuit and a cake, slightly chewy in the middle. Here in the uk they are most definitely different
Re Fish and Chips: It is the traditional takeaway ('take-out') food in the UK and by custom in England and Wales its cod while in Scotland its haddock. That said, such places will often have other options and in terms of popularity in the UK, its been overtaken by curry.
HI STEVE
DEBRA HERE FROM S WALES
Here in the UK different types of milk cartons come with different coloured tops for example whole milk will have a blue screw top and Semi-skimmed milk has a green top.
That was a COS lettuce.
A FVRY is made from reconstituted powdered potato pushed thru a mould and deep fried . Candy Floss 100% spun sugar syrup
fish and chips is hugely popular and has been since WWii because it was never rationed. it is always either cod or haddock
I grew up in North Wales and I'd say Cod and Haddock were almost equally popular, and most Chippies did Plaice too, some shops sell several varieties of fish these days though, Coley is very nice, and my favourite of all time is Turbot which is really delicious but a little pricey so an occasional treat!
I always liked rock salmon which was, I believe, dog fish a sort of shark.
If the milk is in a glass bottle, you can tell if it’s skim milk or full cream just by the colour. Full cream milk is not translucent, skim milk is!
Lots of other vegetables have different names on each side of the Atlantic. A few that spring to mind are:
Zuchini (US) or Courgette (UK);
Rutabaga (US) or Swede (UK);
Endive (US) or Chicory (UK);
Arugula (US) or Rocket (UK);
Steve, a swiss roll, is not just a chocolate version. It is a method of rolling the cake or cake dough, which gave its name to the product. (A christmas log for example is also a swiss roll.)
Tbf this guy in list in the pond hasn’t lived or been back to the U.K. in over 16 years. A lot of what he says I’m like…. What? 🤣
When I was a kid candy bars were non-chocolate bars there was a pink 'Pink Panther' bar and a caramel bar that were referred to as candy bar.
We do have fish sticks in uk,but they aren't aren't with breadcrumbs and are processed fish individually wrapped in celephabe wrappers 🎩
The picture was that small I couldn't tell what it was, however gyros is Greek and Donner is Turkish. Two very different meals. The Turkish, mainly, don't eat pork (religion) so Donner is mainly chicken or lamb. Gyros is pork based. Both are equally delicious, but I, personally, would probably go 55/45 for Donner.
'Pudding' is a complex word which can mean different things in different contexts. It can mean a gelatinous texture, a steamed or boiled savoury or sweet dish, a dish encased in pastry, or a general term for any dessert, or can refer to specific types of dessert. The very oldest meaning of pudding is referring to something savoury boiled in a skin, like black pudding or haggis.
As loads of people have said, here 'spaghetti' is simply the name of the pasta, and you have to specify both the type of pasta, and also the type of sauce that you want with it (there are many). So you might ask for Spaghetti Carbonara if you wanted a creamy sauce with ham chunks on spaghetti pasta, or you might ask for Penne Bolognese if you wanted a tubular pasta with your Bolognese (tomato & minced beef) sauce. There are lots of different types of sauce, many of which contain meat, so 'meat sauce' doesn't identify which one.
We use the names of food from which country they come from and are called that in that country or a particular area of a country, like certain pasta is called from what area in Italy its from and we have alot of French foods as well as Italian so we call them the same as the French or Italian do which is their correct names, or shorten them like sag bol .
Skimmed milk has a red top, semi skinned has a green top and full cream has a blue top. So really it should have shown the top.
Over here we do have cookies, but they are a specific type of cookie, I think it's brand name an they are called Mayland Cookies. They are lovely with a cup of tea or coffee.
In West Yorkshire, Fish and Chips is made with haddock, although cod might be more common in other parts of Britain. It is best fried in beef dripping, as my local chip shop does.
Hi from Grimsby on the east coast of England. Grimsby is a fishing port and where Laurence comes from. Fish and chips is a takeaway food. In the south of England the fish is usually Cod but in the north it is haddock.
Hi Mike thanks for stopping by the channel. I love both cod and haddock. Considering I have no fish shops near me a good fish and chips shop will be among my first stops when I come over for a visit. :)
Spag Bor? No, Spag Bol. short for SPAGhetti BOLognese. Spaghetti is just the strands of pasta.
We can’t just call it spaghetti because spaghetti is the name of the pasta shape, so ordering spaghetti would come without sauce! Bolognese is the meat sauce, but Carbonara and many other sauces are also served with spaghetti, penne, fettuccine, tagliatelle etc.
I've listened to a few of your posts now and flavour wise and likes and dislikes, you're a man after my own heart. Keep it up
Fsh and chips. In Britain the fish would usually be cod or haddock- but you can get plaice or other wite fish. Always fried in batter. Most small towns or high streets will include a 'fish and chip' shop. Lots of families will have fish and chips once a week, and anyone on holiday at a British coastal resort will expect to have fish'n'chips at least once during their stay. A lot of pubs will serve fish'n'chips as one of their food options, but for a really authentic meal you should buy them from a dedicated fish'n'chip shop. Occasionally you can eat in the shop, but it's mainly a takeaway meal.
The green part of a Spring Onion goes in the bin, the white part is the Onion part that you eat !
All the foods named UK style would have the same names pretty much across the UK.
You might get local variants of biscuits of a specific appearance or taste, but they are all biscuits, even wafers. We do have ''cookies''; they are larger, softer and chewier than biscuits but not the same as cakes and not quite the same as buns. Biscuit means ''twice cooked'' more specifically ''twice baked'' whereas cookies are half-baked (LOL).
If you go to a restaurant "dessert" is on menu section. If you're just having a regular sweet treat after your savoury courses at home, it would be pudding.
We wouldn't refer to it as Spaghetti as that's the name of the pasta. Spaghetti Carbonara is another common dish in the UK too. Maybe if we only had one dish with Spaghetti in the UK, we'd call it by the name of the pasta too.
I'm not sure why he doesn't know that's ham. In the UK you can cook a ham or buy sliced ham in the shop. Maybe his family never cooked a ham. The woman was right, gammon is a different cut and is a different thing.
Cos Lettuce not cost. Iceberg Lettuce is a different type of lettuce. We have both in the shops.
We don't make fairy cakes in a cup, we use little paper cases.
Fish and chips is definitely a big deal. Most people are walking distance from their nearest chippy. Usually it's cod or haddock.
The reason we call it Beetroot is because we also grow Sugar Beet (Sugar Cane won't grow here so our sugar is made from Sugar Beet rather than Sugar Cane) and Fodder Beet which is used to feed animals like sheep in the colder months when there's less grass.
Dude. Can you react to the Atherstone ball game and cheese rolling please
Absolutely. I have them wrote down and I'll try to get to them soon. Thanks
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Fairy cakes are the ones where you take the top off, cut it in half, fill the remaining top of the cake with cream and then stick the two sliced wings back on the top = fairy cake.
interesting if we take a fairy cake & slice the top of like you said, then we call it a butterfly cake.
@@JP-pp8bt Yes I would call it a butterfly cake too. And a fairy cake would be any decorated small single cake.
Fish and Chips with mushy peas is a UK favourite. There are regional variations on the fish used eg: Haddock, Cod not salted, whiting and sometimes plaice.
I'd even go so far as to call it the national dish!
The milk we have coloured tops red for skimmed green for semi skimmed and blue for full fat
steve to answer your question if fish and chips popular, lets just say within a 5 min walk i have access to 4 different chips shops and that goes up to about 20 chippys if you make it a 5 min drive
"When you are getting your genetics test" Oh my goodness.
The reasons that fish and chips are a popular dish here in the UK are manyfold, ranging from the availability of the ingredients and a human preference for fried foods but also historically during the world wars when most foods were rationed, Fish and Chips were one of the few foods that were never rationed. Sometimes they were shortages of the ingredients, causing the price to rise, but the government never even tried to seriously impose a ration on fish and of course the potatoes could be grown at home meaning that such a move would result in a general dissent in the population and a possible overthrow of the government. It was considered so important that they even imposed a form of price control, so that people were not priced out of their meals.
That is something I absolutely had no idea about - Fish'n'chips being unrationed. It also answers a question that's always puzzled me: they were only allowed a few ounces (was it 4?) of butter for the duration - so where did they get their oils & fats? Now I know: the Chippies could be said to have helped keep the nation healthy!🥰🤩
Whereas nowadays chippies are cited as being part of the obesity problem.🥶
Life changes continuously, doesn't it? 🤔
Spag bog in Australia , mincemeat and mincebeef here fish n chips huge in Australia usually butterfish whiting or garfish, fairy floss, everything else we say the British way
I would call it a bar of chocolate.
Me too I've never heard an anybody phrase it as a chocolate bar, only ever a bar of chocolate.
In Italy Spaghetti Bolognese doesn't exist, they would never put Bolognese sauce on the round Spaghetti.
In the UK there is whole (Blue Top), semi skimmed (Green Top), skimmed (red top).
Jello in the UK is Jam.
Gammon is the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or brining, which may or may not be smoked. Strictly speaking, a gammon is the bottom end of a whole side of bacon,
Romaine or cos lettuce is a variety of lettuce that grows in a tall head of sturdy dark green leaves with firm ribs down their centers. Unlike most lettuces, it is tolerant of heat.
Fish & Chips was the most favoured meal, now it is Curry in its various strengths, the usual fish used in Fish & Chips is usually Cod or Haddock, the skin is left on the Haddock so you can see the difference after they have been fried.
I never got the Jelly thing over there. You have jelly and jam and i've no idea what the difference is. I was told by an American that jelly is smooth and jam has fruit bits in it (or visa versa) but then had other Americans saying that was wrong and others saying they're the same thing.
In schools over here lots of us including me have fish n chips every single Fridays for lunch
Yorkshire pudding is made from a thick pancake mixture dropped into hot oil and baked. It was originally served on it's own before Sunday lunch covered in gravy. The idea was to blunt the appetite so they could cut down the amount of meat (which was expensive).
This is how I ate it as a kid. My dad made the most delicious puds and we'd have at least 6 each with beef gravy before we had Sunday dinner.. yumm
Very similar, if made in individual servings, to pop popovers.
Appen Tha's Raight Lass ! Tha knows Thi stuff ! AND NO BLOODY ONIONS in 't Gravy either !
@@tridentmusic5570 aye well, Ah"m from Bradford so Ah should bluddy well ope so.
@@tridentmusic5570 Just wonderful gravy made from the juice from the beef joint and flour. Mouthwatering.
It cant be found because if you grind anything you turn it into dust like ground flower . Minced meat is meat put through a mincer
Fun fact.
Gello is the company name which produces Jelly.
And candy is the hard shell on chocolate treats such as smarties,M&Ms.
You are correct, the more normalized term is 'Minced Meat' rather than 'Minced Beef'.
Milk here is skimmed, seem-skimmed or whole and it tells you which one on the bottle or cartons.
I feel like Fish and Chips (While it is enjoyed a lot around the UK) it is more traditionally English dish. Its not surprising the Brits eat a lot of fish, given that in Britain you can never be further away from the coast than 84 miles = lots of fishing towns.
That's true. Great Britain is very long, but not crazy wide so you're always fairly close to the water. Eating a lot of fish would make lots of sense, especially long ago when I'm guessing fish and chips started to become popular. I'm getting hungry. LOL
@@reactingtomyroots In England they call the meal Fish and Chips, but in Scotland it is called a Fish Supper (same thing) Supper is just another word for dinner btw. Interesting quirk lol
Actually, we Brits don't eat much fish. Or rather we eat a very limited variety of fish. Cod, salmon plaice and prawns make up most of the Uk's consumption.
Aussie here. Just to emphasise ... prawns shrimp 2 different animals different shell structure and number of claw and more. Google if you want to. Prawns generally grow bigger. Taste similar. Get this all the time in Australia reaction vids because of the shrimp on the barbie thing. Jelly over here too. I think Jello is a brand name which is now a common term for the food. No such terminology as "preserves" over here not in the UK either I dont think. Fish n chips (NOT fries NEVER fries) is a big deal in the UK and here. Fun fact Cotton Candy/Candy Floss is Fairy Floss over here.
Chips / Fries - to me they are different. Fries are much thinner than chips, chips are much thicker. Fish and Chips is one of the biggest meals in the UK. Cod is used mostly but most Fish and Chip shops also sell Haddock.
We have roast ham as a joint like this, and gammon as a joint or as steaks. We also have cold sliced ham that is finely sliced.
In uk we do say fries fir the very skinny chips served in McDonald's etc...chips are generally twice thickness of fries 🎩
What we spread on sandwiches is jam and jelly is jello
It looks like a profiterole - usually they aren't split; just filled with cream.