Americans React to "28 British vs. American Words for Food"
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- In this video, my wife and I check out 28-word differences between Britain and the US. This video was made possible by the channel Lost in the Pond so special thanks to Lawerence and his wife. Crazy to see how the words can be so different! Thanks for checking out the video, comment what you thought below.
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We have eggplants in the UK, but we tend to call them "chickens"
hehe nice one m8.
Brilliant!
Eggs-cellent pun there!
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Gyros are Greek cuisine. Doner Kebabs are Turkish. Both are available in U.K but Doner kebabs are everywhere.
funny enough, Doner Kebabs are a german invention - taking the greek flat bread combining it with the turkish kebab meat and first sold in Berlin.
As Chris said the Doner Kebab was invented in Berlin by Kadir Unman a Turkish immigrant in 1972
Thank you both for confirming my statement that doner meat and the doner kebab are in fact of Turkish origin.
@@Rogue.Phoenix Not quite. The Döner Kebap Sandwich, i.e. Döner Kebap (which is just the meat) served with sauces and Salad in a Pide bread (just the meat in Pide was recorded in the 17th century in the Osman Empire, so that's not a novelty, adding salad and offering it as a take away meal was new). There were existing Greek places in Berlin, which copied this by serving Gyros with Sauces and Salad in a Pita (rather than a traditional version served ON pita) bread to form the Gyros sandwich. Gyros was present in the US at least since the 1950s, but existing Gyros sandwiches in the US trace back to the spread of the Döner Sandwich from Germany to most of Europe in the early 2000s. While Germany has a large turkish migrant population, other european countries got Döner joints from other middle eastern and in the case af portugal and spain north african immigrants.
Doner Kebabs are actually not Turkish. The Kebab is. The Doner Kebab was invented in Germany by a Kurdish immigrant.
In Australia, we use mostly the same words as UK including minced beef or pork etc, because to us, ground is powdered like ground coffee beans or ground cinnamon etc. if you grind meat, you’ll end up with a fine paste.
Yup, same in South Africa
Uh... it IS a fine paste. 🤔
I'm from Western Australia and I've always called it the meat + mince rather than minced + meat. So instead of minced beef or chicken I'd call it beef or chicken mince. In fact, both of our largest supermarket chains (Coles & Woolworths) use beef mince on their labels. As for the rest of the words featured, I use: molasses, cream puffs, fairy floss, biscuits etc. I do also use fries and cookies but only specifically for thinly cut hot chips and choc chip cookies (and similar).
Yeah you're right, ground suggests something mucher finer
@@Henrik46 No it's not
Honestly I find it really strange that Americans call mince meat "ground", because you don't grind it, even if you call the machine a grinder in America, it still just chops/minces the meat, grinding is the sort of process that you do with something like a mortar and pestle, which is more pressure and twisting
I tend to agree. Could it be down to a historically poor understanding of the English language, or just a case of wanting to be different for the hell of it? In the US you often hear "I could care less" which is grammatically the wrong way of saying "I couldn't care less". So many US phrases are grammatically wrong but used so frequently they become right, or at least in the US they do.
@@martine6007 ground beef over here is literally a beef ground to a paste... minced beef is something different...
@@iainansell5930 I agree. Ground coffee for example. You wouldn't have minced coffee beans. I guess a brit butcher might say they are using a grinder perhaps but the result is still mince not ground beef. In any case, I prefer minced steak not minced beef 😋
Exactly.
I used to think they were saying it was ground beef, as in not air beef or ocean beef
Chilli con carne is Spanish 😂😂 literally translates to chilli with meat
Carne, where the word carnivore comes from
And the root of the word 'carnival' a festival with meat. Vale meaning good bye to meat at the start of Christian lent
In the UK a courgette is a vegetable that can be used as an alternative to a penis. In the US a courgette is a sports car that can be used as an alternative to a penis.
It [the dish] actually originated in North Mexico/South Texas, not Spain.
@@matthewb604 not really... Carnivorous comes from the latin "carnivoros"
If someone says something's been "ground", it suggests to me that it's pulverized into fine grains; like grinding peppercorns into _ground_ pepper, grinding grain to make flour, or grinding coffee into coffee powder. Mincing beef/lamb/etc isn't the same; the machine pushes the meat through little holes to produce tube-shaped morsels.
I would agree with you. Everytime I hear ground beef, I'm just reminded of cheap frozen meals with gritty, tiny bits of meat in them.
Same here. Ground suggests it’s been reduced to a powder with a mortar and pestle.
same for me. ground always implies a dry food and minced is meant for anything else
Sounds like a paste, yuk!
And what they call a grinder, we call a mincer.
As others have said we use a lot of French words such as courgette, aubergine, profiteroles. But "chilli con carne" is Spanish - "chilli with meat"
Yep, and afaik eating chili with no meat is chili sin carne, though I've only heard it verbally so I'm not sure of the exact spelling.
@@zefyrisd69 It's also sometimes called "chilli non carne", probably because it rhymes with the original. "Chilli sin carne" ("sin" meaning "without") makes more sense grammatically.
I found it funny that Americans laugh at Brits for using a French word , Courgette, while they use an Italian word (zucchine in Italian).
"chilli con carne" literally means chilli with meat in Spanish. Most vegetables in the UK are called by their French names, where as Americans refer to them by the Italian names.
To be fair, even our meats are from the French. Whereas the animals are the old English names. Thanks Norman Invasion.
@@dianeferguson3555 except for fish because poisson was too close to the word poison
The puffs are called profiteroles because that's what they were originally called when the were invented in the French royal court in around 1530. The chef who invented them was Italian. ''Puffs'' rather takes all that away from them. :-)
Americans like self-explanatory words, hence horseback riding and sidewalks. 😜
We call them profiteroles because that's what they were called by the man who invented them.
You also get Nun's Farts which are basically the same thing. The Dutch has something called a Bossche Bol, which is like a large profiterole
In Denmark the dough/choux/puff pastery is called Vandbakkelse but if we use the word Profiteroles it's for the tiny balls that you ex fill with ice cream and drizzle with chocolate sauce or the ones you use in a crouque en bouche.
I thought it was strange that they are called puffs when they aren't puffy. They aren't made with puff pastry they are made with choux pastry. Which makes me wonder whether they are talking about the thing or whether there is something else that is puffy but looks very similar.
Brit here. My American cousin was visiting with her 5 year old. They were at our place for lunch one day and I asked her little girl how many fish fingers she wanted and she just gave me a puzzled look and said "fish don't have fingers". 🤣🤣🤣
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Here's a fun fact about Yorkshire puddings. They are eaten today mainly with the main course of roast Sunday dinner. But during the war when meat and vegetables were rationed they'd be served as a starter with lashings of onion gravy to fill you up before the main course. My nan would also eat any left over yorkshires with jam cold.
One thing that baffles me is why "pickle" has come to refer specifically to pickled gherkins in the USA, when many other foodstuffs can be pickled - onions, cabbage, walnuts, ginger, eggs, beet(root), fish, etc.
Oh pickled onions are addictive. I can manage a jar in about 2 hours
@@martynnotman3467 Same here :)
@@martynnotman3467 And the onion vinegar on chips YES!
@@martynnotman3467 If one likes pickled onions, one's partner has to as well, as things might get a bit frosty later, the same goes with garlic.
@@tonys1636 You as well eh ? lol
If they threw in 'bread rolls', the video would have been four days long just to go through the different names in the UK
Bap
@@helenagreenwood2305 cob, batch,roll etc....
Muffin
'Bread Cake' in East Yorkshire, (as opposed to 'Bread Roll' in the rest of Yorkshire or 'Barm Cake' around the Lancashire border) or just 'Roll' or 'Bap' if they're particularly small ones!
I've even heard certain types of roll having the same name as their larger loaf equivalents: like 'bloomer' or 'fadge' or 'stottie'.
Yes - fish stick/finger sandwich is a thing in the UK. Ketchup and cheap white bread. Lettuce? Sounds a bit gourmet!
Yes but only for children, right? I mean it's a way of getting kids to eat fish, isn't it? It's not a sensible thing to do if you're a grown up, right?
I mean a proper grown up would have chips and ketchup and fish fingers and tartar sauce piled on the bread, wouldn't they?
@@margaretnicol3423 Actually they are selling fish finger sandwiches in most restaurants now by using a better type of bread with flavoured mayo and salad.
@@tinastanley3552 Yes they are but that's just a mean way of ruining a great guilty pleasure. :-)
Yeah where did the Lettuce come from 🤣 fish finger and wither ketchup, or if you're feeling a bit posh, tartar.
😆 my reaction too 🇬🇧 rabbit food/ green stuff would totally put kids off
Here in the Uk we’d say Minced Beef went through a Mincer not a grinder!
Hello dear 👋.
Yep, Grinder is an app for the LGBTQ+ community! 😉
There’s a tendency in the UK to use the French derived word (courgette). In the US the Italian is more common - zucchini.
That explains it very simply. There are probably many more examples just like those.
@@manmaje3596 Cookies (biscuits), rutabaga (swede/turnip) and cilantro (coriander) spring to mind. Those aren't Italian words, but reflect a Dutch, Swedish and Spanish influence on American English that was never present in Britain.
Well, show graphically does make sense because we are close to each other.
I thought Zucchini played for AC Milan in the 70's 😁
@@frankderossi795 It's more to do with the fact that the USA historically saw a larger number of Spanish/Italian settlers than the UK, so their terms for certain foods tended to predominate.
"Courgette" only came into the (British) English language in the 1930s, when it started appearing in French cookery/recipe books.
We have a yearly festival in Wales called "Eisteddfod" celebrating Welsh culture, music, language etc
You have just brought back a ton of memories for me. I grew up in West Sussex, yet one of the schools I attended had Eisteddfod, every year. We had loads of events and competitions for a week (maybe two) I have no idea why a school in the south of England would have a Welsh festival though. Maybe the head teacher was Welsh.
I love going to the eglwysbach show in North Wales
We also have them in Australia 😁
@@countrycrossstitcher3573 Duw! There's lovely!
Beetroot is purple inside and when roasted, is quite sweet and earthy in flavour.
Radishes, on the other hand, are about an inch in diameter, and while reddish purple on the outside, are white inside, eaten raw, are crunchy like an apple but not sweet, they have a rather peppery flavour, an acquired taste.
Not all beets are purple inside. The widely commercially available ones are, but there are many varieties of them. Much the same as how all carrots are not all orange. I've got some 'Watermelon' beets growing right now that are alternating bands of white and pink inside, with a purple exterior, which funny enough you can ALSO get "watermelon" radishes...white and pink alternating bands inside with a slightly reddish exterior! ...don't confuse the two, biting into a raw beet sucks! :)
I love the fact that you concluded that 'ground meat made 'more sense' because it goes through a 'grinder'. It didn't even occur to you that 'grinder' may have a different name too. It does and it's called a 'mincer'. If you talk about 'Grinder', in the UK, people will probably think you're talking about a gay pickup app. :)
Scrolling through the reactions....Can't believe not a single Whovian's there : Shout out to the Fish Fingers and Custard!!
I'm with you, buddie!
My brother tried it and he said it's not bad
Yes!
"Shrimps" and "prawns" have a number of differences, one of which is they're smaller.
Agreed. And the size between a prawn and a lobster (or crayfish) is a langoustine. So shrimp, prawn, langoustine, lobster/crayfish, in increasing size.
@@annetjievz Langoustines also known (here) as "Dublin Bay prawns", "scampi" (although I've always thought of "scampi" in its deep-fried, breadcrumb-coated form), and, apparently, "Norway lobster".
There was, I believe, something of a scandal, years ago, in the UK in which "scampi" was being sold that was actually monkfish and it led to the term being regulated.
@@GaryHayward I also know scampi as a crumbed, deep-fried prawn. In South Africa and in Mozambique I've only seen them with the tail bit still on... suppose it's to avoid confusion and makes for a great little handle as a bonus :)
The big ones live by the sewerage outlet in tropical waters and the small ones live in Morecambe bay 😛 Bon appetite 😁
Here in Denmark they dont have more than one saying fir things. So only prawns for things like that. Shrimps dont exist. Same with turtle. No tortoise. Also no monkey.. They're all apes and thats just wrong. Ifs its got a tail it aint a ape to me. Also squid dont exist only octopus and thats bollocks too. Also every bloody animal is poisonous, but thats so wrong. Very few snakes are poisonous. They're venomous. It works completely different but still gets called poisonous even when they're not. You can drink venom as long as you dont have any open cuts. But that will kill you with a poison. So you're always reading about a poisonous cobra even though that's not a thing.. So im more into the English system here.
chives is something entirely differen than spring onions tho... or am i crazy? are they related?
They're completely different
Actually, they're the same family of 'Allium' plants, all with some really good health benefits so it's brilliant that they taste good and go with so many things. You should see a pattern:
Onions, Shallots, Leeks, Garlic, Chives and spring onions=)
They are from the Allium family as are spring onions, and onions and leeks.
@@petervaughan6854 , Yes because we Brits class chives as a herb!
@@Fallopia5150 Herb is a culinary definition, though, not a botanical one.
Got to say I'm loving your channel. It is great seeing all of these comparisons. I love getting your take on things. Xx
Always lovely to see Mr and Mrs Innocent American doing a video together. You will have to make notes, so finding things will be easy for you both, when you visit. Cheerio lovelies ❤
We do have annual fairs. My closest one is Loughborough Fair, which recently celebrated its 800th year
I used to go to it back in the 80's when I lived in Whitwick, also the goose fair in Nottingham
Where I’m from, Oxford, we have an annual fair held in the centre of the city every September. Fairground rides, food stalls, win prizes, candy floss & fried doughnuts. But yeah, even if a town or city doesn’t hold a fair, a neighbouring place in the county will usually have one.
Having lived in Canada and the UK, I would argue that minced beef is different than ground beef. Ground beef is cut smaller, while minced beef is more "worm like." But they are used pretty much for the same purposes in the end, but I do find an burgers have a slightly different feel/flavour at least partly due to the process. (how they are fed and hormones and steroids and stuff like that are bound to make a difference too)
As I understand it Gyro is Greek, while Doner Kebabs are of Turkish origin.
Chili con carne is not french, it is Spanish and means Chili with meat, as opposed to vegetarian Chili.
Yes we do have County Fairs, although not so much the past couple of years for obvious reasons.
All true
Corn in British english is a more generic term for the kernel of a cereal crop. By default it is usually wheat as that is the most common cereal we grow, but barley corn is also common. This meaning predates European settlement of the Americas by several centuries. We use the term sweet corn to differentiate it from other types of corn.
We call the thing that minces mince a mincer. In the UK grinding would be like grinding flour or spices
Technically you mince meat not mince. ;)
Fairs have been around for centuries. It was when the farmers and other producers would bring their products to town to sell. They still have them now.
Also "harvest festival" which was kind of a big deal when I was in school. The school would collect tins of food from us to donate to charities and we would all make artwork and paintings about the harvest, then there would be the fair that was held with some games and stalls of locally baked goods and fresh produce. Good times
There were also hiring fairs that were called Mop fairs and some areas (including where I grew up) since have them every year. Though no one gets hired there now - the tradition of having the Mop still persists
Not just harvest festivals. There also were spring festivals, kings' birthdays, saints' days, random anniversities and plenty of other excuses to have a party.
Enjoyed the post. The man was very funny and calling his wife...wife. I like your wife's input to the post, you are a good team. It doesn't matter what words are different, there's no right and no wrong, just different. Like listening to your posts.
Great fun! There are still arguments echoing and reverberating here on the onion topic. Green onion, shallot, chives, what makes what what...
Thanks for this!
Yorkshire puddings are good enough to eat on their own. But stick one (or more) on a roast dinner with a generous helping of gravy.
I have to agree with Ron Swanson on skimmed milk - it's water that's lying about being milk.
😂 😂 😂 🥛
I always swore I wouldn't entertain Skimmed Milk in the house...however, as my wife and I have grown old and very much health limited, skimmed milk has sneaked in - how else could we whiten our tea when full cream or even semi-skimmed is out of the picture? Sometimes I long for the old days of Channel Islands Gold Top poured over Frosties...but alas...
Red milk, you mean? I generally have green milk but I'll often buy a pint of blue milk to drink straight.
@@billyhills9933 The milk isn't coloured, only the bottle tops, so it's red top, green top, blue top. In the days when the bottles were glass and had foil tops there was gold top (full cream), silver top (standard) and once a year, for about a week in spring, blue striped top.
@@cogidubnus1953 Skimmed milk is a waste of time, just drink your tea black!
Minced meat seems more logical to me as a Brit, as it goes through a mincer. If someone said ground meat I'd assume they'd crushed it in a pestle and mortar tbh...
You have to remember that French cuisine strongly influenced cooking for the British aristocracy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, hence our borrowing of the French words for courgette, aubergine etc. At one time, the more upmarket restaurants in Britain would have menus written in French…
The British are not afraid of borrowing words from other languages, too, so we take “chilli con carne” literally from the Mexican Spanish for “chilli with meat”, “carne” meaning meat in Spanish.
The whole western world was affected by France and their "fine dining" during the 1700s. For England, it kind of started early (and brutal), with the French speaking Normans invading Britain in 1066. Still, most of Europe are just as affected by French culture as Britain is, perhaps even more.
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I disagree that French cuisine affected other western European countries as much as England. For instance, the German for courgette is "Zucchini", i.e. the Italian word, and Italian cuisine is distinctly different from French, as is German and central European cuisine.
@@jerry2357 I wrote French culture though, not just cuisine, and I belvie it's a matter of perspective. Sure, I'm no expert on English food, but I must say that I could recognise more French attributes in my native Swedish (or even German) cuisine and culture than in the English. At least if we are speaking about relatively modern French culture, again, from the 1700s and onwards. As I wrote, England was affected early on, close to the Viking ages, when French culture was pretty different. And later influences came with German speaking royalties as well.
I see Italian food culture as much closer to French than to English, btw. But it's true that the Slavs and Balkans largely got their own traditions.
(My language calls that vegetable squash, for some reason. But they came in a lot later than the 1700s, when French culture affected Europe the most.)
In the UK, from the Norman conquest onwards, the common names for our animals didn't really change, but the words used for them when prepared as food, typically come from the French.
@@jonisilk The reason for that was that after the Conquest, the people who had to look after the animals were the Anglo-Saxons, so we kept “cow”, “sheep” and “swine”, while the people who ate the animals were the Norman nobles who spoke French, so the meat was “boeuf”, “mouton”, or “porc”. (The word “pig” is more recent, and IIRC no-one knows exactly where it came from).
Yes we do fair ground rides, in the U.K. in autumn/Winter from November to January almost every town city had one called winter wonderland & next town over usual has summer fair grounds rids for around two 2 weeks but my city usually has one every few years the summer one down mumbles in Swansea. Town next to Swansea is Neath Port Talbot to east of Swansea whilst there’s a larger town on west side of Swansea called Carmarthenshire but most people call it Carmarthen & they also now have a winter wonderland.
Only been to Swansea Winterwonderland twice. Most of the fairs I see are stuck in an empty lot rusting away during the off season like the one in Gorseinon behind the social.
We have them twice a year both in the summer months in South of England
We have a travelling fair that comes to Newcastle once a year. We call it the Hoppings or just the Moor (because it is held on the Town Moor). I loved going there as a kid
Or the toon moor
Can confirm youd find lots of people eating Donna kebab on a Friday night in Grimsby. ONLY ALLOWED TO BE EATEN WHEN YOUR HAMMERED
Our “state fairs” are a lot more localised and called “village fêtes” we do sometimes have larger events, called county shows, but they’re generally more farming-oriented
Jelly describes what it is...Jell-O is a brand name. Chilli on its own is too ambiguous it could refer to chilli powder, peppers etc... Chilli con carne is taken from the Italian meaning "Chilli with meat" which describes it specifically.
Spanish, but yes
We do have county shows which sound like your county fairs, but they're quite agriculturally focused
Oh wow all parts of the UK?
@@gillmonsta Dunno, but I attended the "South of England Show" at Ardingly, Sussex this year...it's pretty huge, but you don't see so much in the way of funfair attractions though...lots and lots of Agricultural Animals, Equestrian Eventing, Country Pursuits, Sheepdog Displays, Rabbit Shows (there was a surprise!), Agricultural Machinery, (Combines, Tractors etc), Historical Agricultural Displays, plus peripheral stuff...the main emphases were animals and farm machinery I'd guess. It was a very good day out, and even spending the day there you couldn't really get round to everything...
@@gillmonsta most parts North to South.
@@cogidubnus1953 Me, I love a good tractor pull.
There are county shows that show off livestock and local produce and then there are travelling fairgrounds that come to each town annually. Also local towns have fairs, my home town holds a 'goose fair' which originally was solely for trading of geese but now has a fairground, market stalls of all varieties
Sadly AJ not AGAIN this year thanks to Nottingham City Council. As you know Goose Fair is over 800 years old
and I think it a shame that kids cannot enjoy what we did in years past. All the best from an old Meadows lad.
In Scotland at least, our version of a “state fair” is (in keeping with the video theme) called the “X Gala Day”. Like “Leith Gala Day” etc.
Gala is a word for a festival organised by a community. There’s usually a set day once a year for the gala to happen and all of the community’s aspects come out and have a big mixed cultural and ethnic parade, followed by a market with stalls, music and dancing and usually a temporary mini theme park with portable rollercoasters etc.
There was actually one a few weeks before you came to Edinburgh! It’s a shame you missed it!
In the UK there are fairs like the Suffolk show that has a heavy focus on agriculture like best in breed competitions with more influence from local arts and crafts over time, as well as amusement things for kids. The problem with the Suffolk show is that ticket prices have become over priced for what it is and i've heard that prices for exhibitors are turning them away as well.
The whole of the country have Fayres.. We in the North have loads of agricultural shows. Never heard of the Great Yorkshire show..? Or do you think the south is the only place that does them..😂
@@Ionabrodie69 Of course they are all over the country its just I've only ever been to the Suffolk show, so can only talk about the Suffolk show. I never have heard of the Great Yorkshire show before, but I am not surprised it exists.
Us Brits often have a fish finger sandwich ( fish fingers, and ketchup no lettuce and it has to be white bread) usually when we get home at 3 in the morning from a night out and had a few lol.
It's a classic, but I'd go for a chip butty
@@unholywolf1945 True it's hard to choose between them.
We have quite a tradition of fairs in Germany. The one in my home city of Bremen is held annually in October. The “Freimarkt” dates back to the year 1035. Nowadays it’s mostly a large fun fair.
In my county (Northumberland) we have a county fair every year, where we have things like beer tents, sheep shearing competitions, animal shows (showing prize cows, sheep etc.) as well as face painting and stalls.
We have a summer music festival in my village where we have the more typical fairground rides and food.
Most counties have annual agricultural shows which are fun: sheepdog trials, ploughing with horses, flower and vegetable competitions, family dog competitions, livestock competitions, agricultural equipment and of course food and drink.
There's no chopping in mince. It goes through a mincer! A machine with different hole sizes for fine to coarse.
I think when it comes to Fruit and Vegetables, in the UK we get the name for a lot of them from the French word, where in the US its the Italian or Spanish words that are taken for things. I guess we have the french word because of our proximity to France. So for example Courgette, Aubergine (which we call and egg plant)
When he was describing Yorkshire Puddings (made of basically equal parts plain flour/eggs/milk, essentially pancake batter) he used the word 'meal' when he ought to have said 'part of a meal' no one eats them on their own with nothing else! Okay, maybe the odd eccetric might, but you understand.
Usually they are with a Roast, typically a Sunday Roast and often as part of a Christmas Dinner. Essentially some roast meats with roasted and boiled vegetables with perhaps gravy and other sweet or savoury sauces. This ends up looking much like your traitional Thanks Giving dinner I think.
Traditionally they served as a starter. I always eat mine separately with gravy.
@@davidjackson7814 Honestly, I've never known that, okay!
@@davidjackson7814 Yes my Grandad always had his before our Sunday roast but we always have them with the roast. Some left over ones wh hae afterwards with treacle poured into the middle
They are nice on their own with jam
I think the nearest thing we have in the UK to your County Shows are the regional agricultural shows. In Builth Wells, Mid Wales we have a 3 day show called the Royal Welsh Show. Mainly based around showing farm animals competitively including sheep dog trials (herding sheep with collie dogs, the only judges are there to find the best herding dog and shepherd, no crimes involved!). They also have displays of carriage riding, farm machinery, trade stalls and usually a military or police display. One year there was even a visit by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). We also have smaller more local affairs usually a day long.
"Is it technically minced? It goes through a mincer..."?
I was literally about to comment this. It's goes through a mincer so it's minced
the Swiss roll has other terms, in uk if we have a chocolate one, we may have it at Christmas and call it a Yule log. we do this at Christmas but we sometimes call them Yule logs any time of year, other flavours like the one in the picture is Swiss roll as its not chocolate, therefor not the colour of a log
Swiss roll is vanilla sponge and jam. They showed a chocolate Swiss roll which is not correct. I agree with you.
We do have fairs which can be broken down into three main types:
1) If someone says they're going to the fair they usually mean a traveling funfair with rides, amusements and prize stalls such as hoopla, coin drops and shooting galleries, etc.
2) Then they're are County Shows. These are principally for the farming community to show off their wares e.g. farm animals and produce with awards/prizes given to the best examples. However they will often have stalls, amusements and displays, etc as well.
3) Village fetes. Theses are small scale local fairs full of stalls and featuring lots of silly races and contests such as a donkey derby, sack races, egg and spoon races, three-legged races, etc. The money raised from the stalls often goes to a good cause such as repairing a local monument/church or a local charity.
I love the way the picture of the queen randomly seems to change location on your map :)
When we refer to American style chocolate chip-cookies, we call them cookies, not biscuits. Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits or cookies, mostly for tax reasons.
Now redundant as the tax laws changed and both cakes and biscuits are liable for tax.
@@ianz9916 That's totally untrue
We think chilli is mexican and con carne is Spanish for 'with meat'
which contributed to the end of a fasting period, when you could eat meat again - called CARN ival !
Don't they speak Spanish in Mexico?
@@cliffsinclair4900 No. Carnival is the *end* of meat eating. Originally it referred to Shrove Tuesday (pancake day in the UK), the day before lent begins. In French its called Mardi Gras (= Grease Tuesday), the day when the last of the meat products were consumed before lent. The restart of meat eating is at the end of lent, Easter.
There is the Kent County Fayre where I live, but it is nothing compared to the scale of your State Fair's. I went to the Minnesota State Fair back in the early 2000's and it was seriously immense! And you could get almost anything on a stick! I'd love to go back and visit another fair one day!
Chili is a type of beans, " con carne" means " with meat" in Spanish, not in French. But " Courgette" ( zuchini) and " Aubergine" ( eggplant ) are French words.
Mincemeat is a dried fruit mixture, minced meat is what you call ground beef.
Yes, although originally, the sweet mincemeat was actually savoury minced meat (hence why they traditionally also contain suet). At some point it became fashionable for them to be made with dried fruit (I think it was something to do with the availability of certain food items), and thus sweet instead of savoury. But the term “mince pies” and therefore “mincemeat” stuck.
That looked more like an Iceberg lettuce than a cos!
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We have county shows, Royal Norfolk show, which was an agricultural show but now has everything. We have festivals, in fact a mixture of events, brings in the punters.
There are a number of town fairs in England that have been held every year since the 1200s, most famous is Nottingham Goose Fair. We also have many great annual county agricultural shows
One that I’ve never heard mention is that we call “sugar-snap peas” what the US calls “snow peas”.
Or 'Mange Tout'.
@@casparvonsader4505 No they’re different.. flat
shrimps and prawns are two completly different things. fact.
Just a quick comment about presentation. Lost in pond are one of the very few RUclipsrs that get this simple tip right and that is they don't talk to the thousands of viewers instead they talk directly to "you" . Prime example at 15.21 and then compare it to your own comments immediately after. It's a subtle but very smart thing to do that increases the connect to the viewers. See what you think. I hope you don't take this criticism to harshly it's meant to be helpful, you two are still my fav youtubers 😉
In Australia we have a festival every year at roughly the same time only they're called shows (Brisbane show, Melbourne show etc..) and usually go for 3 days Fri-Sun.
You, young man, have really got to get yourself into the kitchen more often. Sweetheart - don't spoil him too much! :-D
Regarding fairs, we have regional fairs that can go down to the town level, or if the venue is too small they will be in the nearest big town or city. I remember the fair came by every year and they would set up all of the attractions and food trucks in a big coach park in town (It's like a parking lot for what you'd call like Greyhounds and things). Anyway yeah there were a lot of different rides (attractions) like a ghost train, swinging pirate ship, waltzer, bumper cars and of course we would eat candy floss or roasted chestnuts. Another thing was the skill games like hoopla (what you might call ring toss?) and you would win prizes like teddy bears and other toys. Maybe you guys could do a video actually on the difference between what we call certain rides and attractions at say a fair or carnival?
I live in a small town called Ilkeston, it's in Derbyshire, England. We have an annual fair in October. This year will be the 770th fair, the Royal Charter being granted in 1252 by King Henry 3rd. It's one of the oldest fairs in England. I love your channel, particularly the visit to our wonderful country.
To add to the controversy about mince or ground meats we also have the annual treat of mincemeat pies at Christmas time, a mixture of several different dried fruits and candied fruit peels, finely shredded or chopped animal fats (usually beef or sometimes lamb) gathered from the fat surrounding the kidneys, sugar or honey and alcohol (brandy or rum), placed in various types of pastry and frequently served heated up with either a sweetened thick cream, or a white sauce or custard, or with a type of butter containing alcohol. The earliest recipes for these actually did have diced up pieces of lamb or beef included hence the name of the dish.
My town had it’s charter fair last Saturday, it’s like a street fair with basic rides (if any) & a market etc.
We have a yearly fun fair as well which is the equivalent of your carnivals if I’m not mistaken.
You guys are trying to get it, and more than most, so kudos for that. :o)
Love your post, have a great new year celebration,
Where I am (rural Hampshire) we don't have too many fairs or festivals like how you're thinking. Our festivals are mostly either music festivals which is where bands and artists perform on a range of stages live to crowds, with various tents selling and offering other goods, and is often paired with camping. Then we have food festivals which is a range of stalls across a field or street selling food and drink from local suppliers. We have fairgrounds but these act like circuses in that they move often but tend to be seasonal. We also have permanent fairgrounds which are along most seaside towns. In rural areas and some primary schools, we also have fetes which are normally a day event with game, food and drink stalls raising money for the school or organisation.
Personally I've only bought candyfloss from a theme park, supermarket or a seaside stall.
Where I'm from in the south of England we have festivals like beer and cider festival, harvest, village fête, Christmas market, heritage, food and wine, music, The Hat Fair (outdoor performing arts), weekly markets etc ...
We do have fayres. I live in the countryside and we have village fetes (pronounced fates) and we also have the travelling fairgrounds come twice a year plus my town hosts an annual folk festival. There’s also the Bath & West Show which is held annually and that is more of an agricultural show but it’s a big thing here.
We have Hull Fair, when the largest travelling funfair/carnival comes here for a week, every October, although it was cancelled last year, for obvious reasons.
There is also the Freedom Festival in early September (just finished), an International arts Festival, and the Humber Street Sesh, celebrating local musicians.
And don't forget its been going since 1278
Here's the wiki link to Hull Fair which will run from 8-17th October this year en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Fair?wprov=sfla1
Its is also interesting that when The Normans (from France) conquered Britain in 1066, the old English (Anglo Saxon) terms for cow, calf, hen, swine, sheep and deer etc were replaced by the French terms boeuf (beef), veau (veal) , poulet (poultry), porc, mouton (mutton) and venaison, which remain to this day
Not sure if we have many events on the scale of your State Fairs, but there are regular county fairs of various different forms.
For example, in my county of Worcestershire we have the Three Counties Show, which is mainly an agricultural festival (with other attractions too) for the combined counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire.
As an English person who moved to Iowa like a year and a half ago, food/ingredient names has been one of the most difficult parts of adjusting. It took me literally months to work out black treacle was molasses when I wanted to make gingerbread. For a while, going grocery shopping was an overwhelming experience that left me exhausted because the supermarket is arranged differently, so food isn't always in the place I'd usually look for it, and all the brands are different, so it's a big mass of unrecognisable colour I had to work hard to interpret. And that was without the difference in names, and the way a lot of food isn't as fresh as I could get it in the UK (before I moved here I NEVER found that potatoes were moldy before I even got them home from the supermarket). Probably my learning difficulties had some effect on how overwhelming it was for me, but yeah. It was the least expected most confusing thing.
Over here a Carnival is usually a (mainly Caribbean) street festival/parade where you dress up in colourful costumes and dance through the street. Nottinghill Carnival being the biggest in Europe. A funfair is what we would call your carnivals and some towns do have an annual one on the summer.
Ah, The Great Yorkshire Show! Usually in mid July. It's a big agricultural show, but they also have food stalls, Army demonstrations and er....... Beer tents! Oh, and there is showjumping too!
Here in Sweden we use "Äggplanta" and "Aubergine", both words are used here. Äggplanta=Eggplant. We also say "Zucchini" in Sweden. The thing with Chili with meat, we use the british "Chilli con carne" which means Chili with meat in Spanish. Beets is called "Rödbetor" here in Sweden which will be "Red beets". 😀 Even Swedish has some common food related words with the English language. Btw, we learned both british and american english at school, because some teachers were more used to british while some other teachers was more used with the american english. Sorry for my bad english, but I hope you got my point. 😀 Thanks for a wonderful video.
We do have annual county fairs and they're big affairs. They tend to be rural events with farm animals prepared for show as the main event.
We have agricultural shows where there is a variety of farm machinery, animals, craftsmen like blacksmiths, weavers and other country crafts. Lots of food stalls selling home made/ farm made produce. Sometimes there is a fair too
‘The Hoppings’ is Europe’s biggest travelling funfair, soooo much fun and you should definitely check out some videos on them if there is any 😊
In Australia, we had eclairs, profiteroles and cream puffs.
Eclairs were long, chocolate covered and filled with either custard or cream (bakeries would usually specify).
Profiteroles were small, round, chocolate covered and filled with custard.
Cream puffs were larger, round, dusted with icing sugar and filled with whipped cream.
Our equivalent of state fairs are county shows or agricultural shows - lots of tents and pavilions from local crafts and businesses, food stalls, farm shows, activities and displays like equestrian, stunts, falconry etc.
I love how the inclusion of foreign language into British words just completely resets you guy. Chili congarne??? You guys are great. Keep it up
If my understanding of a State Fair is correct, I'm not sure we have a precise equivalent here. Here in Scotland, we have a number of events that might replicate parts of a State Fair. An Agricultural Show, such as the one closest to where I grew up, the Doune and Dunblane Show, is a competitive show for livestock including cattle, sheep and horses. A Highland Games is a different event that celebrates Scottish culture with competitions for piping and drumming, Highland dancing, and 'heavy athletic' events such as tossing the caber, hammer throw and tug of war. Both an Agricultural Show and a Highland Games are likely to include craft and food stalls. Today, there might be a few fairground rides at these events, but they probably aren't the focus. A larger fun-fair may operate along side an event but actually be a separate thing, like at the Highland Games in another place near where I grew up, Bridge of Allan. But travelling fun-fairs that are completely separate to either an Agricultural Show or a Highland Games also happen. My understanding of a State Fair is that they are perhaps an Agricultural Show, a 'Highland Games' type thing but with local sports and a fun-fair rolled into one.
Yes we have fairs and in the area I grew up in we also had mops. Which were hiring fairs dating back to the 13th century. They close down Stratford on Avon centre for a few days - rides, amusements and so on.
The Kent Showground, formerly (and still colloquially) known as the Kent County Showground is an area of land in Detling, Kent, England, north of the county town of Maidstone. Stretching along the north side of the A249 from the top of Detling Hill on land that formerly comprised RAF Detling, it is home to the Kent County Agricultural Society which hosts the venue's best-known event, the Kent County Show, each July. However the venue also hosts many other fairs, conferences and events throughout the year. The site covers over 200 acres (0.81 km2) and has been an event site for over 50 years.
Rural areas have county shows..largely agricultural, lots of weird produce stalls and stuff for the kids to do. Most towns have regular fairs turn up with rides at least once a year. Ours is literally NEXT to my house and is very loud.
We tend to use the French words for food eg Courgette for Zucchini, Rocket for Arugala etc. You use the Italian version due to the huge Italian immigration to the States.
We call Beets Beetroot as you can also eat the Beet tops..they are delicious.
We do have carnivals - in some places they're called gala's - where I live (Whitby in North Yorkshire) we're on the east coast and have a yearly 3 day Regatta in August where there are rowing races on the water - a greasy pole which is pushed out over the water and people try to walk across without falling into the water below - most years the Red Arrows do a flypast and on the third day there's a fair on the pier and lots of market stalls and at the end of the third day a huge fireworks display -
We have Carnivals and Travelling fairs. There is one in my local park this week.
If you want to see how much confusion the word "mince" can cause, look up the episode of Friends where Rachel makes a trifle for Thanksgiving Dinner. She has an English cookery magazine and starts off the trifle. Unfortunately two pages are stuck together and the next page is Cottage Pie (which involves ground/minced beef with onions and peas).
Minced beef is a standard winter warmer over here. My mum's recipe:- softly fry a chopped onion till it's golden and just beginning to colour more at the edges but not burning. Slice thickly one large carrot or two small ones. Large slices should be quartered or halved depending on size. Add to the onion and cook for a minute or so. Add 500 grams of minced beer (17.7 oz) and brown the meat. (I use 5% fat meat rather than the cheaper 12% fat or 20% fat.) Do you have stock cubes? I make up three quarter pints of stock with one beef stock cube, one tsp of Marigold Bouiilon instead of a second stock cube, a pinch of sugar and a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce. Add the stock to the meat and simmer for half and hour. Season to taste but it's usually ok as is. Thicken the stock. We have a gravy thickener called Bisto but you probably don't have it or anything like it with you. I suppose you might use corn starch. Not too much though. Eat the mince with potatoes done any way you want (except roast) and a green vegetable - usually peas. Let me know if you make it. Let me know if you make it and enjoy it!
Regarding fairs, we have an annual one in Newcastle which is one of the largest travelling fairs in Europe, its called the Hoppings to locals and can be guaranteed to bring a month or two's worth of rain whilst it's here for a week in Summer (more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoppings)
We traditionally had annual farm shows. My local one being the Orsett Show. Which now includes heavy horses, vintage cars and steam traction engines etc. With competition for all sorts of farm animals and produce,
Chili Con Carne is a spicy beef stew.
It's sweet corn because it is a mutation of maize with a high sugar content.